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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (17512)	2/10/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Well now, I gots to say that is a big stack of things you can do, and some mighty useful ones too. As I stack that stack on top of that other stack I have to admit you sure enough done got me outdone. I really like that part where you love to cook, I think some of the finest people I know takes pleasure in the art of cooking, it is a fun thing. I'm not real good at it but I can get by and I do enjoy it. Year before last I got into a kick of making home made bread, & I mean to told you it was sure enough good, but after I gained about 10 lbs I had to back off. Jambalalyaa is one of my specialist, ( but I cheat some and use the Oak Grove mix,) the one what is made there in Prairieville. I perk it up some with more fresh diced onion, bell pepper and celery, and use a little fresh sausage as a base, even if it is a seafood one. Jambalayaaa is so neat as you can use almost any kind of left over meat in it so it can be different most any time you fix it. It's even good with turkey meat, and lucky for me too; as I still have left over turkey meat from the 4 turkeys I roosted back for Xmas. ------------------------------ Crawfish are fine but I'm a bit picky about them and only eat them when I have the time to catch my own. ( I got to know they are purged the way my Cajun friend showed me how ) I also have a secrete place where I catches them , ( mostly in the spring on a full moon , and after a good rain ). I'm afraid this winter has been so warm they might not bury up & come spring they might not bust out hungry. Catching them and catching crabs is also a lots of fun. ------------------------ Growing some stuff to eat in a garden, even if it's a very small one is something I think most people today under rate. There is a special thing about seeing them grow, as well as knowing what you get out of that garden you can't hardly buy no where, nothing takes the place of something home grown and fresh picked, but then if a person has never done it they wouldn't know what I mean. There is no way any kind of shipped vegetable can have the same flavor as a fresh picked one. I had some tomatoes last year ( but the heat didn't let them live very long ) my okra was the only thing that did really good it sure is a hardy plant , and easy to grow too. I still have some in the freezer ( froze my own special way to where it almost taste like it was just picked ) you has to quick freeze it to lock in the home grown flavor, I set up a big pot of water with a good dab of sugar devolved in it and put that into the freezer first, getting it a tad colder than ice water, then when I bring in what I want to freeze they get dunked good in that cold sugar brine then drained and slap in the freezer fast. When I later open the pack they tumble out individually ( sort of like ice cubes )and as if they were each and every one had done been froze separate. Tahts also the way I freeze shrimp. I use to catch all my own shrimp ( I made a living catching them in my younger years ) taht was after I got myself out of the trap that had snared me , and I had escape out here to Texas. ----------------------- Back to that big stack of things you leaned to do, now I know all to well I don't know you well enough to "have your number" but I'll gamble just a tad and trust you will take in good spirit. Look at that list, and after a bit figure out something that's not on it, as long as what it is something you always kinda hankered to do but never found the time. As I got this notion you are most happy learning something new. I sure wish I would have gone ahead and learned to fly an airplane before my health got to where it's at now, ( I'm sure I couldn't now pass the physical so that has slipped by me.) Jim Ps. Taht OAK Grove brand mix is better than the Zatarain's ( which is good but a tad too spicy to serve to people with a tender stomach, or who are not use to Cajun food )