BarredBuff's Homesteading Shenanigans

[Wifezilla]

I had a master gardener-type grandma. Her garden was always amazing. She was the world's worst cook, but if you got to the stuff before she put it on the stove it was delicious

I used to lay on the cut grass mulch in the pea patch and stuff myself while looking up at the clouds. Or I would climb as high as I could in to her apple trees to get the "best ones". For some strange reason I got banned from the raspberry patch...

* looks innocent *

 

[lorihadams]

My great-grandma was like that. Cooked on a woodstove till the day she died in 1992. Could make biscuits that would make you slap your mama they were so good. I actually had a cousin that sat at the table and cried one time cause he couldn't eat anymore.

They grew tobacco and corn, had dairy cows...great grandpa hand milked for a long time but finally had enough milk cows he had to get automatic milkers and a big tank, had bees, chickens (grandma loved her birds), grape arbors, pear and cherry trees, a garden. It's all gone now in the name of "development". I still have some of great grandpa's old tobacco sticks, got a quilt hanging on one I found that has a big knot hole in one end that looks like needle!

I wish I had paid more attention to her when I was a teenager....she died when I was 16.

My granny said that one of the nicest things great grandpa ever did for her was to make her a double seated outhouse!!! With 5 kids they needed it!

 

[abifae]

Could make biscuits that would make you slap your mama they were so good.

Did you really slap her?!?

I'm envious. I never had many relatives growing up. Lived in suburbs and no gardens anywhere. No plants inside. My mom couldn't cook and my dad (who can) avoided the house until the mom finally left. Oooooo did I scold him when I found out he was a good cook and we were stuck eating the mom's food!!!!

He's where I learned to cook though I learned basic cooking or I wouldn't have eaten much growing up. But herbs and how things fit together and timing more than one dish to come out together was my dad.

His brother cooks too. Really good at it.

The mom's mom was just.... We tried to not visit often and her cooking showed that my mom's was a vast improvement. (Her husband has taught her to cook better!! I like her meals now.)

The dad's family... I think I would have liked his mom but she died shortly before he got me. I never really bonded with the rest of them.

*shrugs*

It's good to know my dad's entire family are foodies though His brother gets the same stuck up foodie mags I do!! Saveur and Cooks Illustrated.

 

[savingdogs]

This grandparent thing is very interesting....are we taking over your thread, BB?

We could start a grandparents thread. Wouldn't it be nice to bring up traditions and tricks we know our grandparents used? Or just the values they gave us...I think I'll start one.

 

[BarredBuff]

SD, I dont care I thnk its great!!!

 

[savingdogs]

Well I want to hear all about your Granny there!

She sounds like a real keeper!

 

[Wannabefree]

Well I want to hear all about your Granny there!

She sounds like a real keeper!

HEY now!! I done called dibs on the granny like 15 or so pages back!!! hands OFF!

 

[BarredBuff]

Well I want to hear all about your Granny there!

She sounds like a real keeper!

HEY now!! I done called dibs on the granny like 15 or so pages back!!! hands OFF!

 

[savingdogs]

I'm enjoying the thread already....also that we are honoring our grandparents. Not enough of that in our society, respecting what they learned and are trying to pass on....

 

[BarredBuff]

I'm enjoying the thread already....also that we are honoring our grandparents. Not enough of that in our society, respecting what they learned and are trying to pass on....

I agree!!