Long as we don't start fartin' rainbows.

JJ,

You know a lady never farts, we poot politley

poot that's a new one for the books jan . how bout poot n toot....

Fart?     

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
      Thou art thyself, though not a FART.
      What's "Fart"? it is nor poot, nor toot,
      Nor passin' gas, nor any other part
      belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
      What's in a name? that which we call a rose
      By any other name would smell as sweet..."

(My apologies to Bill Shakespere.)

What's happen since I been in the swamp, the subject matter has gone down a bit. Lets start planning our Holiday treats and meals. Who  cares if it has high octane in it.

LOL, I agree.  Who is having what for the holidays?

Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, corn, baked beans, dressing and gravy along with other things. We get to host the family dinner this year. We will have about 30 people here.

Christmas Eve, we're gonna have seafood gumbo. Shrimp, crab and oyster. Baked sweet potatoes for a side dish and Pecan pie for desert.

Don't ya just love "Pie" charts...

Seriuosly though,  we're having Smoked ham,  tater salad, marinated veggies and rolls.  Linda doesn't want to have to cook anything on Christmas day.  It'll all be ready and in the fridge waiting for dinner time.

yum everyone...Robert, I think I'll make some gumbo next weekend

Miss Jan are ya'll able to buy roux over there?

Buy roux?

Excuse the ignorant redneck, but don't you make roux with butter and flour, or am I thinking of something else?

Yep, thats how you make roux. I live not far from Savoies Sausage Company and they make ready made roux. The owner is my neighbor and friend and she also has a camp next to mine. Oh, also very rich. So thats how I make roux.lol

Nope can't buy it here Robert.  It's hang around the stove and keep it moving until you get that rick beautiful color.  If you use only real butter you get that rich beautiful taste and texture also

Robert,

Are the using the dripping from the sausage for that Ruox?  That sounds YUMMY and sinfully rich

About the only thing I haven't made and covered or drowned in roux is ice cream. Always good to use about equal piles of flour and butter, and even better if you let the butter "clarify" first by boiling off the water (maybe 30-40% of Texas butter).

The leftover grease from cooking almost any meat, including the slower roadkills can be poured off leaving some for roux. When the pan is a little dry, add and clarify some butter. I prefer the lard from a pan of well browned pork chops, and lots of rice to pile under the roux. My doctor disagrees.

That sounds mighty good, Andy.  Ask your doctor over for dinner.  He'll change his tune.

Andy,

A man after my own heart.  A good roux makes about anything you can make better

Andy, eating all that rice and roux, you must have a little Cajun in you...lol

Blackeyes, rice and cornbread for dinner tonight

White beans and sausage on rice with a little fried deer meat for dinner tonight. Sure could use some cornbread.

That  sounds really good, Robert, Jan. Either of those menu's would work for me.

Whoops, I forgot about the ice cream...lol

All we did tonight was check out Christmas lights and get a dozen Krispy Kreem doughnuts.

Had me some cornbread when I got home.

I hope everyone is buying a few knives for friends a family for Chirstmas. I do every year and it feels good both ways.  Ya'll check it out, a good way to buy those less expensives knives you were wondering about.

I know we bought 4 rough riders for different folks.  They will all be excited about them, that always makes us feel good

JJ

You still eating them donuts?

GONE,  Gone,  gone.

Miss Jan I bought some Colt knives this year for preszents and was surprised by the quality better than Rough Rider. I ended up keeping a Moose pattern [how did that happen] they did a good job. We have a change of Menu for Chirstmas day, tell you later.

Robert,

Please dont go tellin me your eating a moose for christmas dinner LOL

Ha, no but I ate moose one  time. Nope Chirstmas dinner is gonna be Turtle Sauce Piquante, Broiled Shirmp and Veggies with seafood cornbread and apple pie for deesert. That's a Cajun dinner!

Merry Chirstmas everyone here at the Dinner, I hope you have a good safe Holiday with friends and family.

Traditional Christmas dinner for us

All of that sure looks and sounds great.

 Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night

My Christmas wish list...

I want people who are sick to be healed
I want children with no families to be adopted
I want people to never have to worry about food and shelter and heat.
Most of all I want people to care for one another year round

Amen, Miss Jan.

boy that looks like one heck of a christmas dinner jan.it makes my mouth water just looking at it...

Steohen, You just pack up the Mrs and come to dinner!!

What's for dinner now...leftovers,,,leftovers

NO MORE LEFTOVERS!!!  Maybe some Nachos with fresh jalepenos?

Well tonight was rueban sandwiches.  Now tomorrow I will be making sure we have greens and blackeyes with cornbread for the new years day celebration.  Thats a southern tradition, any other New Years traditions

you got to have winneies and beannies and sauerkraut for new years and budlight......

Steak, tossed salad and taters at my sister-in-laws house.  Fireworks afterward with my girls and my neices and nephew.

Tomorrow, porkchops,  greens and blackeyed peas with cornbread also.  (Yep, it's a tradition.)

Stephen,

now I want some beenie weenies

The recent rains got the bayous rising and the catfish on the move, so guess what's for dinner now days? Yum  Yum

sweet fried catfish with hushpuppies and coleslaw....I am in

This morning started with some wonderful beef soup bones.  Added to that is some butter beans, okra, jalepenos, tomatoes, white corn, blakeyes, navy beans, green peas, fresh flat green beans, every color bellpepper I could find and anything alse that looks good through out the day.  Add to that a loaf of fresh made sourdough bread.  Cold weather brings out some really good cookin at my house, how about yours?

We had a mess of fried chicken, rice and gravy, corn on the cob and a pasta salad, last night. So after church, today, we went out for mexican.

Waiting for some cold weather to make my bean soup.