Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

[abifae]

i have to go to sam's club soon. i'm sure i'll get a giant stock pot.

but i NEEEED one.

 

[txhomegrown]

Hey OFG! Whatup?

I'm freeeeeeezing my bunz off here! 19 degrees???? Tonight it is supposed to be a big old whopping 16 degrees!! Now that realtor told me that the weather around the Sound is supposed to be mild. MILD??? This has been one big fat wild weather year of a year! Last winter we had the big old 20 year snow storm, a summer with the three hottest days on record (over 103, and I don't have an air conditioner, left that back in TX) a very wet November and a hellova "cold snap" currently. :/


BTW, the Mexicans in TX used pig heads (and goat heads) to make their tamales. The ladies used to deliver them to my front door. I miss those tamales! I tried to buy some ala cart here this weekend and they wanted $4 bucks a piece for them! I told them to forget about it, I'll have my mom send some from south TX.

I just found this thread and have been holding off making any posts until I got closer to the present. But I have to chime in here. My ex wife and I used to make tamales after the pigs got sent to sleep in freezerland. My job was to boil the heads and strip all the meat off to add to the shoulder meat we were using. We used the broth to add to the masa and meat and started wrapping. They were the best tamales I have ever eaten.
It was a little unnerving to take the top off of the big pot and see something staring back at you.

 

[bibliophile birds]

the stockpot of my dreams

http://www.lecreuset.com/en-us/Products/Enamel-on-Steel/Stockpots/Stockpot-20-qt/

of course, it's $140, but it's beautiful and perfect...

 

[savingdogs]

I have a great tamale recipe if you ever find those heads!

 

[booker81]

the stockpot of my dreams

http://www.lecreuset.com/en-us/Products/Enamel-on-Steel/Stockpots/Stockpot-20-qt/

of course, it's $140, but it's beautiful and perfect...

Want.

 

[Farmfresh]

It was a little unnerving to take the top off of the big pot and see something staring back at you.

I make Scrapple from pig heads. One day several years ago my hubby (who works outside most days) had spent the day working in the cold and snow. A fellow worker had brought ham and bean soup to work for lunch and that started hubby thinking about bean soup. As the day went on he got hungrier and hungrier. When he finally got home he smelled the delicious smells of pork coming from my big stock pot.

When he popped open the lid and saw the pig head I was working on ... well unnerved would sort of describe it!

 

[FarmerChick]

cool stuff you bought

big pots are always needed!


BUT DON'T tell me that is a cat on the counter in the pic?
please tell me that is a furry type hand towel or something?

 

[Javamama]

Thanks for the Wasserstrom uppdate! I can't believe I live so close and have never gone there. It's on my list now
Batten down, Ohio folks - here comes the snow again. I just got back from taking daughter to school for an early meeting - the road is coated already.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

Java - they even bothered to OPEN your schools? i think ours just gave up when they saw the radar. yikes. its starting here

SD - DANG that reminds me! what did i do with those stupid pig heads!!!!?!!?

BBH & txhomegrown (btw, hi THG!!!! welcome and pitch in anytime!)

so tamales.. they are those doohickies wrapped in some kinda corn husk thing??? what do you do with the wrapper? eat it? dont eat it? when i lived in civilization i'd see them - for at least $4 ha - and didnt understand them at all... yikes!

booker, Bib, and Abi - yes you must get a huge stockpot. the bigger the better. whooot! bib - you know there are le cruset outlet stores, right??

FF - folks are afraid to open the fridges around here for that very reason. the first morning after we dressed our first turkeys i nearly scared myself silly. i hadnt taken off the 'trotters' off and when i opened the fridge it was like some horrible monster was in there!!!

FC - HA! YES THERE ARE CATS ON THE COUNTERS! ha ha ha ha ha did you fall over? i gave up that fight a while ago, now i just hose everything off before i start cooking. cats, they are everywhere... just give it time. you'll be stirring your supper in one hand and holding that little rat dog in the other. ha!

Snow Fest 2011 is here baby! my plan is to go and sit in front of the fire and curse the snow. the entire day. whooot!

 

[Javamama]

Our school district has 13,000 kids in it. They don't cancel unless the parking lots and sidewalks are a mess or it's icy. But seriously, I'm not getting all these schools calling off before it even starts I grew up in the country and we went to school unless roads were impassable.