Month: September 2020

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Spices

Garlic

#Garlic

I don’t know about you, but I love to use garlic cloves in a whole lot of my recipes. And I do not want to find that I do not have any in my house, when I am creating a recipe or making an old tried and true recipe from many years before.

This will be a little tip for always having garlic cloves on hand. I have been doing this for many years now. Just buy yourself a big bag of garlic and start breaking the garlic bulbs into single cloves. One bulb of garlic, makes many cloves.

Store this in a good freezer bag like glad or ziplock as they are heavy duty and will not let the garlic scent escape into everything in your freezer. When you need some, just get out the amount that you need and cut off the root end. Slice in half and peel the garlic paper shell off or use a large heavy knife and smash each one. They will peel easy. Just mince up tiny and use in your recipe.

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Spices

Bay Leaves

Bay leaves repel bugs and ants.

This is an old time method, comes from way back in the older days of food preserving. When people stored food they would just drop a handful of bay leaves onto the top of the food in the container that they used for their food, that they needed to keep.

I used just take a walk in the woods and pick my own bay leaves, straight from the trees. You could find the trees around good little fishing holes (or a bay). The impassible bay on 441 North in North Florida, and on the way into Georgia, had such a sweet spot to fish in and while there I would gather me some bay leaves. I sure wish I had a photo. Just as you were about to drive over a wooden bridge, it was on your left side of the dirt road.

Or heck, just walk out into the yard and into the woods line, when I lived out in the country, which I had always spent my time, living in until now. City life is different. There are no long trails of thorny black-berry bushes to be picked. And to make the first blackberry cobbler of the year with.Also there is not a beautiful fig tree to pick from and enjoy the rich sweetness and awesome flavor.

Now I am reminiscing about the good old days! Let me get back to the bay leaves. You can find these in the spice isle in the grocery store. Just look for bay leaves on the package. I use these in my buckets of sugar-potatoes and rice, along with an absorber that I have titled, make your own absorber on this blog of mine.

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Preppers September 2020

Prepping Food Storage

Good morning everyone on the glorious Saturday morning. I hope you are doing well and that your spirit lives with joyful hope. I know that I do and pray for all of you.

Ok, today I want to discuss with you, how easy it is do do a little prepping with storing food or purchasing food that can last for 30 years, if need be.

I am not USDA or anyone highly trained. I just study a lot of things, in this life. I always have, that is the very reason for this blog of mine. I enjoy learning, even at a young 61. So that I can hopefully teach others to take care of themselves and their family also.

This is a very cheap food to prep for storing and it will fill up the tummy, if you happen to be really hungry, sometime in the future. You never know what is coming next in these days and times! If some of us pass through it, there will be many sad stories for our future generations.

#prepping #food #storage

Well, this post went haywire and now I am repairing it! These 3 boxes of instant potato flakes will fill up a 2 -gallon food storage bucket. Then you add about 8 bay leaves on the top of the flakes.

Last of all you put your moisture absorber on the top and close up the bucket. Make sure to write the item and the date on the bucket. You can buy your absorbers or make your own, either way. I use the cat litter (CLEAN) mini crystal unscented. I just put some in a coffee filter and staple it shut or 1/2 of an envelope and staple it shut. This will keep moisture out of your food. But do not add this to salt or sugar as they will harden like a rock. Just put bay leaves only on top of those in the bucket or jar, etc. This is just the way I do it, and I am no USDA professional. I just love to study many things about life. Thanks for visiting and please do come back. While you are already here please feel free to look towards the bottom of my page for more posts, or the archives so that my little blog can grow. I post on Tue-Wed and Saturdays.

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September 2020 Vegetable

Ham Hocks with Zipper Peas.

This is a great old recipe that I cooked in an old steel pot. I cook a whole lot of things in that pot.

I have been wanting peas for quite a long time now. I used to go to the fields and pick all types of them and bring back home to sit on the porch and shell. Those were the day’s. But as they is only myself now, I have not wanted to make them for just me for quite a few years now.

I decided what the heck, I want some peas. So I bought the hamhocks and peas at the store and came home and put this pot of peas together. I am glad that I did. They lasted me for many days.

#peas #recipes

The recipe is: A frozen bag of peas–zipper-white acre-pink eye etc. etc.

A package of ham hocks.

Cover the ham hocks with water after you wash them off. Boil on high heat for one hour. Then add in the peas and cook on medium for one hour. Make sure the water covers the ham hocks. About thirty minutes before done add in four tablespoons of bacon grease and maybe a teaspoon of salt or less. Enjoy over rice.

This is the old country ways of cooking and eating. Add this to meat and bread and you have a fine meal. I only cook in small amounts so I am sorry that the whole dinner is not there.

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September 2020

Heal a blood blister.

Good morning everybody! Hope you are all doing well on this rainy looking day, here in north Florida. I happen to find rainy days calming to my soul, so to me it is a beautiful day.

I was starting out on a cool idea the other day, but I had to stop and put a hold on it for a few days. I was really excited to get this recipe started out as it takes six months to be completed.

The recipe is for a very strong coconut extract that does take it,s time to absorb the flavor of real coconut. I can only imagine a coconut pie, with some of this extract, poured into that pie!

Later when the time comes and it is done, I will post about it and show you a photo, if you are still with me, at that time. I do hope you are!

On to the reason that this recipe is on hold, now. This recipe calls for un-sweet coconut so of course I purchased a real coconut in the shell at the grocery store.

Well this is how the story goes. I needed to crack open the coconut to get the coconut meat out, along with the juice also. And then I needed to peel the dark brown skin off of it.

The coconut was scored with a slight line around the middle of it. So I took my little charlie brown hammer outside, along with said coconut, onto the porch concrete floor. And everytime I hit that coconut, it would bounce off the floor. It was bouncing about half a foot high. so I had to really hold it down with one hand and crack it with that charlie brown little hammer, with the other hand.

Well this is what that coconut did to me! It cracked apart just about an inch, just enough to grab the skin on my pointing finger. And it closed back up with my finger in it, Hurt!! Yeah it hurt!

I had to pry it back open with both hands to get my finger out! It was finally opened up now. There,s where the blood blister comes in. It was half the width of my finger and throbbing with plenty of pain.

So I put an ice cube on my finger and repeated this again, so the pain would stop. I do knot know why, but the blood blister went away and I did not have to deal with pain or infection with it for days, until it healed up. So that is the story on how to heal a blood blister. It worked for me.

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