Let’s see how far we get, shall we? There are four pages of posts from February 2019. Looks like a lot of good stuff. But Poor Tiger. February 2019 was not good to Tiger, as we’ll see. From February 1, four years ago. Welcome to Volume 92, Issue 05 of local news– where I endeavor
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This is an excellent old cookbook, by the way. “Many recipes for this popular dish call for round steak and for considerably longer cooking than this one. This is truly a gourmet dish, a perfect choice for a party.” —Casserole Treasury from Lousene Rousseau Brunner (1964) “Serve with fluffy hot rice or plain boiled wild
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It’s mine. This was the cracked wheat bread I am / was / we’ll see what happens making. And since I believe in being honest, I will tell you that I messed up four ways from Sunday on this. The key to the recipe is “Whole wheat flour (as needed),” and my not paying attention
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I was looking for a bread recipe that calls for cracked wheat and stumbled upon this (which does not). It looks interesting. And this is perfect weather for this sort of thing–cold, gray, nasty, and drizzly. I’m not inclined to commit to it though, but I thought I’d share. “Instead of using just all-purpose flour,
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To begin, I note that the spring peeper has apparently been reclassified. In the Animal Encyclopedia and in the Complete Field Guide to American Wildlife (Harper and Row, 1959) it is Hydra crucifer. That infallible source says it is Pseudacris crucifer. Hydra is the tree frog genus, Pseudacris is chorus frogs. The two are differentiated
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“Who wouldn’t be happy to walk through the door on a chilly evening to find beef stroganoff on the table? Savory, evocative of simpler time, this dinner is sure to be a big hit.”—The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from a Southern Revival by Alexe van Beuren with recipes by Dixie Grimes DIXIE’S
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Saw the first daffodil today and heard the first peepers! Of course, we all know that the peepers are an exuberant bunch. There’s a good chance that the first batch of little peeper eggs, embryos, and tadpoles will freeze to death at the edge of a puddle. Long live the peepers! I just searched and
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This looks interesting and good. And it is venison time of year. “As has been mentioned, deer is butchered in the same cuts as beef. This includes grinding the meat also, with the marked difference that ground venison is virtually all lean.… The remaining recipe is Ozark-Style Venison Stroganoff, and as might be expected, the
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Continuing along! If you don’t see the recipe, let me know. I’m getting an error message, and yet can see it in Preview. I want to make sure everyone gets this recipe. Originally published January 2019 This is the third beef stroganoff dish we’ve made in our quest to try each of the 50+ beef
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Wow. This looks good. Originally posted early 2019 as part of our cook our way through 50+ stroganoff recipes. Enjoy! Yesterday was Thursday Stroganoff Dinner! You may recall that upon coming to realize there are 50+ beef beef stroganoff recipes in The Big Food Manual and Survivalist Flourish Guide, Mr. Big Food suggested we begin
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As we continue our journey through early 2019 and the land of stroganoffs, here is some history and some funny stuff. For the record, I cannot believe I turned the recipes below into PDFs so y’all could download them. But I did. Originally published early February 2019. SueK’s comment on the 50+ stroganoff recipes post?
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This is going to be fun. It appears we toughed the ‘let’s eat stroganoff once a week’ for quite a while before we threw in the towel. So probably a whole week’s worth on content already written and ready to copy. This is good, as I am trying to finish a short story. Added: If
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I had forgotten all about this. I’ll have to look and see how far we made it until we tired of beef stroganoff. I’ll report back. Stay tuned. (Link to the recipe is at the end.) Originally published on January 10, 2019 The other day, Mr. Big Food announced that Beef Stroganoff was far & away
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Click on over to Miss Missy’s School to download the short story, “Missy’s Epic Novel.” Discover why and how Missy came write write her best-selling Epic Novel. (You’ll have some sympathy for Rocky before it’s over.) Use coupon epic! at checkout to take 20% off–that’s only $1.99!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I saw the blog odometer roll over to 6999 the other day, took a screen shot, and then forgot about it until I was cleaning up my screen shots just now. ‘They’ say most blogs don’t last more than three month. And without wasting time to figure out if
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures
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The week in Pictures
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Today’s random repost of something someone was looking at today. From the distant past–January 2019. To be honest, I had forgotten I had this crappy old book. It is shelved behind glass in the treasure chest bookshelf. Had you asked, I would easily pointed to all of Aunt Margaret’s books in the treasure chest. I’d
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I am writing a short story about people who frequent a blog and comment there. The main character has an interest in fairly tales, and especially in the collected works of Andrew Lang. If you’ve heard of The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, and the rest of the color books, you know Andrew
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We have really been enjoying the savory bread recipes in Best Bread Machine Recipes (Better Homes and Gardens Books, 1997). My only complaint about this cookbook is that the serving sizes are way off. I do 1 1/2 pound loaves and I supposed if I got the meat slicer out and sliced the loaf pretty
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