Ole Miss– That School Up North– is not living up to expectations on the field. Office of the ChancellorUniversity, MS 38677-1848Dear Ole Miss Family and Friends, As you know, Ole Miss is dedicated to excellence in everything we do. Recently, our football team has not lived up to that expectation. With much thought and consideration,
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The first contestant is our Fall/Winter soup contest is… BEER CHEESE BROCCOLI SOUP Serves 6 1 ¼ C thick cheese sauce (see recipes in Basics section) Large can evaporated milk 3 oz cream cheese, cut into small chunks 10 oz box frozen chopped broccoli, thawed ¼ tsp black pepper ¼ tsp ground cayenne ¼ tsp
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First one, ergo, #1. You can imagine how this went. I had a bowl of beer&cheese&broccoli soup and a roll. I proclaimed that it was the best Fall/Winter soup I’d ever had. And since I like winter squash a lot and had had a good harvest of winter squash, and since Mr. Big Food has
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As I mentioned, the girls are coming. So I thought I could whup up a few simple posts now, and schedule them to post later. But I got side-tracked. MAIN TRACK: Daughter K arrives by air at the Memphis Airport (MEM) at 6pm Tuesday. K & I were negotiating about Tuesday’s supper. Mr. Big Food
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I need to clean the windshield. You thought I was done talking about cotton, didn’t you? So you don’t need to click to enlarge I’m not positive, but I think the green contraption is the same type of contraption I posted about here. Photo from Cotton Farming. Citation information at the above linked post. There
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As has been noted on the World Wide Web recently, we in The South– especially The Rural South– are a well-mannered bunch. There’s the farmer wave, the “hey” to strangers, the “yes, sirs” and ” no ma’ams,” the hierarchical door opening/holding, and of course, the civilized behavior at 4-way stops. It’s all very pleasant. (Sure,
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I’ve been working on a post about manners and The South, and listening to the food preferences of my children who will all be here at the Farm at the same time for the first time ever. Lord. Thankfully, the SEC intervened. The first three quarters were punctuated by Big Food: Beer battered fries, little
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We enjoyed an especially Big evening yesterday. Mr. Big Food had something in the slow cooker so supper preparations were minimal. He loaded up some tunes from the Redneck Collection and sauteed some mushrooms for a little appetizer. I fixed us a cocktail and grabbed a crappy old book I’d been meaning to spend some
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youth deer hunting season begins in Mississippi. If there are any girls or boys out there under the age of 16 who would like to grab their deer rifles and don “500 square inches of unbroken hunter orange”* please give me a call. Peas Please excuse the weeds. Eaten peas *Shouldn’t this be “500 unbroken
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Today we traveled to That School Up North to attend a public lecture on implicit racism. As always, we got a kick out of being in Oxford– that’s Oxford, Mississippi– which I’ve poked good natured fun at several times: Oxford the food desert; Oxford of Oxford Town, Oxford Town; and Oxford that turns a Jersey
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Retold by Alan Benjamin; Illustrated by Jeffrey Severn; Published by Western Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin Those of a certain age may remember this little story of two friends who live in very different worlds. “A city mouse was once invited to visit a friend who lived in the country.” The city mouse was curious about
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Two lovely rutabagas I must admit, I am not a big fan of this nutritious vegetable. But I am a Big fan of Mr. Big Food, and he loves rutabagas so I grow them occasionally. Rutabagas, or Swedes, are a cross between cabbage and turnips. Have you seen a rutabaga in a garden? Just exactly
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The Art of Social Letter Writing: Twelve Charming Studies by Josephine Turck Baker, copyright 1909, new edition 1925, published by– this is rich— Correct English Publishing Company in Chicago. $1.00 The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules by Josephine Turck Baker, copyright 1907, new edition 1923, published by Correct English Publishing Company in Chicago. $1.00
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Before baking After baking Veggie pot pie (recipe from memory) Mix a bag of thawed mixed veggie (be creative) with a can of cream soup, 1/2 cup milk and some salt & pepper. Line the pie pan with crust. Toss in the veggie mixture. Top with crust. Use knife to create scary face. Bake 45
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The popular science publication, New Scientist, has just published a series of articles and editorials addressing “The decline and fall of science in America.” What is being called into question is the rejection– by knuckle dragging, God fearing, gun-tottin’ morons, imbeciles, and idiots– of settled science. I love science– which I will loosely define as
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Looks yummy “Exotic flavor! Great with alcoholic beverages and spiced tea.”—Winifred Green Cheney, The Southern Hospitality Cookbook (1976) CATHERINE MOORE’S POUND CAKE WITH LEMON GLAZE Makes a 10 inch tube cake—18 to 20 servings 2 sticks (1 C) butter, softened 1 2/3 C sugar, sifted 5 large eggs, at room temperature 2 C flour, spooned
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From North Mississippi Commentor: Fresh Greens on the marketThe greens are really at their Fall peak right now, and between the various local farmers I found a lot this morning: From Woodson Ridge Farms, I got carrot, radish, beet, and turnip tops, along with arugula. I missed their lettuce. From the Bost Farms at MidTown
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Rocky’s a digger! It’s important that the gardens be tilled up at the end of the growing season. Our tiller is in the shop, so Rocky is doing his part. We do a fairly deep tilling in the fall. Although the garden soil is much improved after two years of adding compost and rotted manure,
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Baby lima beans One’s goal in flower gardening is to create something beautiful– and not just visually beautiful. A perfect flower garden will appeal to one’s sense of smell and touch, too. Flower gardens can be nearly perfect. The same cannot be said of vegetable gardens. There is always something wrong in the vegetable garden,
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