10-14-2024 Monday Live Chat

[7Critter]

This is what I remember about car wash fund raisers. Sometimes cars got cleaned.

Oh, and pretty girls, too

 

[Stevedog]

my wife make potato chips and tortilla chips often. mmmmmmm..sooo good, especially the tortilla chips. love them

My kids love homemade chips, potato and tortilla.

My daughters boyfriend is a first generation immigrant, his parents came to the US from Mexico. His father likes to make "spicy" food and give it to my daughter to see if it's too hot for her. To date none of it has phased her. The dad jokes that my daughter is more Mexican than his son. When I heard all this a few weeks ago I told my daughter that we could play the same game and the two of us made our own salsa for her boyfriends family. The recipe calls for 6 tomatoes, 6 cloves of garlic and 6 peppers (2 each jalapeño, Serrano and habanero). My daughter is planning to take a jar of homemade salsa and tell her boyfriends family that this is the minimum level she considers "spicy".

That said, this homemade salsa is actually really good with the homemade chips. I've made a few bathes of it and am now looking into methods for preserving salsa in jars.

 

[Duke]

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I'll add one fall activity not listed, making apple butter. This is a long standing tradition in my wife's family, and is remarkably dull. You basically have to cook down dozens of apples outdoors in a massive copper cauldron, stirring it near continuously with a boat oar. Smells good, but it's worse than watching paint dry.

 

[Debi]

I'll add one fall activity not listed, making apple butter. This is a long standing tradition in my wife's family, and is remarkably dull. You basically have to cook down dozens of apples outdoors in a massive copper cauldron, stirring it near continuously with a boat oar. Smells good, but it's worse than watching paint dry.

I have, in the past, made apple butter....by the dang bushel load but I used crackpots! Borrowed enough to have 6 crockpots going at once then jarred them all. I kept two jars. The rest were part of a fundraiser for the residents of the nursing home located in the hospital where I worked. The apples were all donated by an orchard but the work was all me...lol Raised enough money every year to get Xmas presents for those without family. Totally worth it, but boy, a lot of work.

 

[Paulm]

My kids love homemade chips, potato and tortilla.

My daughters boyfriend is a first generation immigrant, his parents came to the US from Mexico. His father likes to make "spicy" food and give it to my daughter to see if it's too hot for her. To date none of it has phased her. The dad jokes that my daughter is more Mexican than his son. When I heard all this a few weeks ago I told my daughter that we could play the same game and the two of us made our own salsa for her boyfriends family. The recipe calls for 6 tomatoes, 6 cloves of garlic and 6 peppers (2 each jalapeño, Serrano and habanero). My daughter is planning to take a jar of homemade salsa and tell her boyfriends family that this is the minimum level she considers "spicy".

That said, this homemade salsa is actually really good with the homemade chips. I've made a few bathes of it and am now looking into methods for preserving salsa in jars.

when i used to do the festival scene regularly we became friends with a couple who followed the same festivals as us, they made salsa. another couple raised bee's and had a honey operation. those two things were always guaranteed to sell. with both pulling in $2000. + per weekend. the honey would do much more at a good venue.

 

[Paulm]

I'll add one fall activity not listed, making apple butter. This is a long standing tradition in my wife's family, and is remarkably dull. You basically have to cook down dozens of apples outdoors in a massive copper cauldron, stirring it near continuously with a boat oar. Smells good, but it's worse than watching paint dry.

is that more of a northern tradition. i remember that when living in virginia and north of there?... not that i want to try it, even though your description sounds compelling...lol,..

 

[Paulm]

I have, in the past, made apple butter....by the dang bushel load but I used crockpots! Borrowed enough to have 6 crackpots going at once then jarred them all. I kept two jars. The rest were part of a fundraiser for the residents of the nursing home located in the hospital where I worked. The apples were all donated by an orchard but the work was all me...lol Raised enough money every year to get Xmas presents for those without family. Totally worth it, but boy, a lot of work.

hiya Debi. hope you are doing well today

 

[Paintman]

I'll add one fall activity not listed, making apple butter. This is a long standing tradition in my wife's family, and is remarkably dull. You basically have to cook down dozens of apples outdoors in a massive copper cauldron, stirring it near continuously with a boat oar. Smells good, but it's worse than watching paint dry.

I resemble that remarck..

 

[Debi]

hiya Debi. hope you are doing well today

Hanging in there, Paul! Battling a minor keyboard issue, so a bit slow on the typing. Son promises to fix soon.

 

[Duke]

is that more of a northern tradition. i remember that when living in virginia and north of there?... not that i want to try it, even though your description sounds compelling...lol,..

The family originally came from the Tidewater VA area, but were in southern Ohio on the WV border when I made apple butter wirh them.