Recipe: Curried Chicken and Grape Salad

Published on August 31, 2016 by Marica

A HUGE hit! Served with Tomato sambal and toasted pita. CURRIED CHICKEN AND GRAPE SALAD serves 6 3 cups diced cooked chicken 1 1/2 cup thinly sliced celery 1 cup green grapes 2 Tbsp. lemon juice 1 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. black pepper 1 1/2 tsp. curry powder (use the best sweet curry you can

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About Last Night…

Published on June 22, 2016 by Marica

Mr. Big Food had a radical– and brilliant!– idea to beat the heat the other week: Cook up a big ol’ pot of soup outside on the turkey fryer. As you know, here on Farther Along Farm we love soup. Brilliant! That is Lentil Soup Barracho just getting started at about 5:45. This is a

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Recipe: Cold Glazed Ham

Published on June 21, 2016 by Marica

This was spectacular! I changed up the recipe– from Serve it Cold! A Cookbook of Delicious Cold Dishes (1968)– a bit and I’ll make note. The recipe makes extensive reference to fat– trimming it, skimming it. We just bought a half fully cooked smoked ham, like a Jeno turkey ham but real ham. It had

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Marica Cooks Monday: Baby It’s Cold Inside!

Published on June 20, 2016 by Marica

To celebrate the arrival of that Southern Season known as Summer (as contrasted with Almost Summer which is almost over, and Still Summer which will not begin until September), I have chosen to prepare a cold supper for Marica Cooks Monday. We will begin with Bloody Mary Soup served in “well-chilled, salt-rimmed low high boy

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100%

Published on August 11, 2015 by Marica

Here’s another little tidbit about the Heat Index (HI). There are temperature and relative humidity levels beneath which the Heat Index cannot be calculated. The lowest temperature for which one can calculate HI is 80°; humidity, 40%. Thus… is a freaking lie. I can promise you that with a relative humidity level of 100% it does

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ninety-seven

Published on June 22, 2015 by Marica

“Marica? Pardon me. Do you have a moment or are you otherwise engaged on your clicketyclack machine?” “Ruff?” “Oh, Missy, I always have a moment for you!” “rrruuuuffff!!!” “My Dear Friend, do you mind??” “ruff.” “What’s on your mind, Missy?” “Well, I was wondering about this heat. Does it seem hotter to you than usual

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Marica

May 6, 2015 Status

Garden Update.

I didn’t get it all in, but I got enough of it in.

I’m excited for molasses.

Haha. This is the first you’ve realized molasses comes plants, isn’t it?

You should pay more attention.

Copperheads & Tomatillos: Today’s Garden UPDATE!

Published on May 2, 2015 by Marica

I have no photos, though Miss M does have photos of the copperhead that got mangled in the tines of the tiller. I asked her if she wanted to come take some as it was finally just hanging there– hours later– wrapped dead around a tine and she said, “No.” (We are really hoping something

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Why Does Every Disagreement Have to Be a War? Apples and Oranges

Published on July 7, 2013 by Marica

I’m sure y’all have heard about the war on women, and the war on men, and the battle between the sexes. Now, via Instapundit.com I see there are the grill wars. It’s a beautiful day. The family’s in attendance, side dishes and beer in tow. Your sister-in-law brought a trunk full of Super Soakers. It’s BBQ

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I Spy…

Published on June 11, 2013 by Marica

a Rocky! a Missy! a posy! a birdie! a four-leaf clover!

I feel so isolated out here on the Farm

Published on August 8, 2012 by Marica

where it’s raining like crazy. I swear, they just make this stuff up as they go along. None of the four weather forecasting sites I look at– for fun more than forecast– were predicting rain today. Some still aren’t! Barring something utterly predictable, what they ought to forecast for Mississippi in early August is, Hot.

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Fewer than 20 minutes

Published on August 1, 2012 by Marica

Must have been something interesting! They are slowing down a lot faster than they were when it didn’t feel like 94° at 8:30am.

Important Stuff

Published on July 19, 2012 by Marica

Rocky Missy And now… doggy nap time.

Brined Chicken: Continually Updated

Published on July 1, 2012 by Marica

I was wrong. It’s not brined BBQed chicken, it’s brined smoked chicken. “Stephen Pyles’ Smoked Chicken” to be exact. From a bon Appetite (sp?) feature on Stephen Pyles as he was first becoming famous at the Routh Street Cafe, before Star Canyon. I’m waiting for supper to finish– the chicken has come off the grill-turned-smoker

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Recipes on the Grill / I Saw It Happen

Published on June 30, 2012 by Marica

“Georgia Boy Sausages” slathered in chili sauce. Baby Round Zucchini brushed with honey butter while it was grilling. And Ranch Style Beans heated on the grill. big food. (That’s a joke. Ranch Style Beans is a ConAg product.) See. If all you’d grown this year was one measly Baby Round Zucchini plant, and one night

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The Puddle Formerly Known as the Pond

Published on June 29, 2012 by Marica

Taken with my Droid this morning You may remember way back when (3/2) when Rocky drug the raft to shore. More than one month later She doesn’t know it yet, but she could walk across this puddle. See? Stay cool, y’all!

Squash Night: Also Known as Veggie Night

Published on June 26, 2012 by Marica

Zucchini Rounds fried in butter. Recipe tomorrow. We also made Ed’s Hot Squash (it’s not that hot) and baked a loaf of zucchini bread from a recipe we hadn’t tried before. It has sesame seeds on the top. Speaking of hot… Yesterday. It was warmer today. New label: summer.

“Oh the humanity.” UPDATED with link.

Published on June 24, 2012 by Marica

In a reckless example of the latest uber-dangerous summer fad, four lawless yoots drove past an innocent girl and her younger brother standing on a street corner, dousing the two with a searing stream of chlorinated dihydrogen monoxide. Or, as thesmokinggun.com details, “Four Pennsylvanians who fired water guns loaded with chlorinated water on a teen

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