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Post by Kathy_SD on Aug 20, 2016 8:47:16 GMT -5
Forgot to comment on the mincemeat....I gag at the thought, lol.
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Post by plantdoctor on Aug 20, 2016 8:48:50 GMT -5
Leslie...funny that yours are not blooming because lack of rain and I fell mine aren't blooming because too much rain....huge vines, but no blooms. I am about ready to give up on vines. I think the mincemeat is a German thing....am I right Melissa. We have a lot of people in our area from Czechoslovakia(call themselves Bohemian)...they make Blood Pudding and something called Head-cheese. It doesn't appeal to me since it has nothing to do with cheese at all. You start by boiling a pigs head.....how appetizing is this?  |
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Post by Kathy_SD on Aug 20, 2016 8:51:32 GMT -5
Charlene I double the gag on that, lol!
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Post by plantdoctor on Aug 20, 2016 8:52:53 GMT -5
Kathy...I wouldn't move those bushes if I were you. They take about 3 years to get established well...if you move them you will be waiting another 3 years for lots of blooms. They probably aren't doing as well this year from lack of moisture since you've gotten very little rain. Mine in part sun are doing just as well as the full sun bushes. JMO Charlene
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Post by tasty on Aug 20, 2016 8:56:20 GMT -5
Good Saturday morning all.
Playing on here while I watch the final round of the ladies Olympic golf.
I shall be making mincemeat too, Melissa, in the next few days. Needless to say the recipe I use is a little different to yours. No tomatoes in it. Basically all dried fruit (currants, sultanas, raisins and mixed peel) mixed with apples spices etc. Rather than suet we plan on using butter. That's what we did last year and the customers loved the vegetarian mincemeat. I will probably make a small batch for home too. The big batch this week goes to our Festival of Trees bake sale in November.
I am hoping to make so e pepper garlic jelly this afternoon if I have the time and maybe red onion jelly. I have everything I need, just need the 'get-up-and-go'.
The transplants from the other day all seem to be doing well so far. They still have to be watered today.
Have a great day!
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Post by tasty on Aug 20, 2016 9:04:24 GMT -5
I have always assumed that mincemeat was a British thing but then I also know that one should never 'assume' anything (zzz) .
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Post by mnwildflowers on Aug 20, 2016 9:06:48 GMT -5
Kathy-apples and raisins make you gag? How odd! Lol! The beef suet has no flavor and is used as a binder. The green tomatoes just add to the tartness but with 4lbs of sugar its pretty sweet. To each there own.
Charlene- yes, its German. My great grandma, moms dads mom, was German. I don't think head cheese would appeal to me!
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Post by luvmyb_b on Aug 20, 2016 9:13:36 GMT -5
Good morning. I understand that today is to be our last hot and humid day before the forecast calls for a very pleasant week ahead - low humidity and high temps in the 70s. I am really looking forward to that! We may get some rain later today and mid week, but other than that we aren't expecting much precipitation.
I don't have any real plans for the day, but I am sure I won't be bored. I never am. I think I will try and send out some emails that have been waiting in my draft folder for far too long. That sounds like something that will take up a lot of my day given the way I take forever on something like that. ;) It will also keep me busy indoors while I wait for the better weather. I hope to be outside most of the rest of the week once we cool off.
Larry, you have had plenty of rain this summer, haven't you? Turning off everything during an electrical storm is a very good idea. We've lost appliances that have been struck by lightning.
If you were having a hot flash, Melissa, I feel terrible for you. I didn't have them in the daytime, but my night sweats were sometimes intense. Hopefully you can nap sometime today. I actually slept pretty well - finally. Wishing you well on the greenhouse trip!
Sandy, your sunset description sounds so inviting! I love a good sunrise and sunset. You have the patience of Job with your lawnmower, I swear! I think I might have taken to whoopin' on the darn thing by now. :D I hope this next time everything is taken care of properly for you.
Try and relax a bit this weekend, Wendy. Busy work weeks call for nice break at the end of them. Have a good visit with you parents. It is nice that you were able to be with your mom when the doctor and nurse came to the house.
Molly, I'm happy to hear that your weather is better today. Happy mowing!
It sounds like you have been a busy lady, Leslie. I like the idea of the videos you made for your church. It would take the pressure off you to have to be there all the time if someone else could just use the video to lead. Your household skills continue to amaze me! If you are wanting red cypress vine seed, I can hook you up with some. When you mentioned you have white, I hadn't thought about that before so I went to check it out on Swallowtail. They do have a mixed color seed that they sell. I may have to check that out!
Bette, I love how you decided to compromise with your flowers and life. Putting the pots in larger containers with bricks under them sounds like a great idea! You're right. Why use the potting soil this late in the season? You've found a way to make it all work out fine. When life hands you lemons ...
Have fun at your family reunion, Robin! I need to contact a cousin about what we want to do about ours this year. I think we were supposed to have it earlier in the year. Oops!
Charlene, my cypress vines have done fairly well this year. They've bloomed just fine, but they are turning brown way earlier than I thought they should. I LOVE your hot dish vs. casserole reference! I'm always interested in the variations we have throughout the country for how we refer to things, not to mention the food differences like Melissa and Leslie are talking about.
Well, my battery is dying so I better get going. Have a super Saturday, folks!
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Post by plantdoctor on Aug 20, 2016 9:28:07 GMT -5
I was just thinking about the minced meat thing. My Grandma T. used to make it and it wasn't very good, but truthfully she was an awful baker. She always used old lard in everything she baked and that is what it all tasted like...rancid lard. Perhaps she used that same rancid lard in her minced meat and that is why I say I do not like it. I should try it again.
Tasty...I recall reference to minced meat in a couple of Old children's poems re: the queen. Perhaps your recipe is the British version. Just a thought. Charlene
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Post by wilderness on Aug 20, 2016 10:04:50 GMT -5
I believe the recipe that my Mom used for mincemeat was English. It was my paternal GM's recipe and they were English. No German in the family that I know of and no German families living here.
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Post by tasty on Aug 20, 2016 10:39:50 GMT -5
I was just thinking about the minced meat thing. My Grandma T. used to make it and it wasn't very good, but truthfully she was an awful baker. She always used old lard in everything she baked and that is what it all tasted like...rancid lard. Perhaps she used that same rancid lard in her minced meat and that is why I say I do not like it. I should try it again. Tasty...I recall reference to minced meat in a couple of Old children's poems re: the queen. Perhaps your recipe is the British version. Just a thought. Charlene Definitely a British recipe that I use - it comes from the British Good Housekeeping recipe book from about 1968! |
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Post by marnee on Aug 20, 2016 11:00:36 GMT -5
Good morning everyone, it looks like it's going to be another hot weather day here. It was 68° at 5 A.M. this morning and it's already 74° and it's just 9 A.M. now. Yesterday Portland and Seaside both reached 100°, that's the highest temps I think Seaside has ever seen. When we were at Seaside the first week in July temps were in the 60's.
My garden show is just starting so I'll have to check back later.
Charlene, I was so happy this morning to see another bloom on the lupine from the seeds you sent me, and this time it's pink.
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Post by Kathy_SD on Aug 20, 2016 11:07:11 GMT -5
Melissa it is the thought of green tomatoes and beef suet that make me gag.
Both my mom and dad were full German and my ex is full German but I don't remember anyone in either family ever making this.
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Post by novajoy on Aug 20, 2016 11:17:46 GMT -5
Concerning mincemeat, I always wondered if there was actually meat in it. I don't recall my Mom making it although she did make mincemeat pie. She bought the mincemeat in a jar from the grocery store. I liked it and around Thanksgiving time Marie Callender' has a frozen mincemeat pie that isn't bad. I usually buy one. My paternal side of the family came from Austria/Germany/Luxembourg area and I also thought this was a German thing. I've only eaten it in pies and tarts. Is it used for anything else?
Joyce
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Post by Gayle on Aug 20, 2016 12:10:36 GMT -5
Good afternoon everybody . Today is a little cooler. It was 80ºnat 9:30 this morning.
I planned on cutting the front yard this morning but the mower needed charging so I finished cleaning up all the beds out there instead & I'm doing laundry. Next mini project is to get the AC unit out of my BR window so I can take it back to my friend next week.
I have to go to a memorial service at 3 so don't want to get involved in any major projects. I was hoping to get my hair cut but doesn't look like that is happening today.
Leslie, my Mom used to make Mince Meant pies every Christmas . I have no idea what was in them as nobody ever ate them but her & my Dad. (She was from Pa. by the way & German descent) I don't remember her actually making the mince meat so I can't tell you what was in it. She bought prepared filling.
Stella, must be Bat day. Sharon (Sassonet) was on FB & she had one under her pillow last night !!! She ran into another room & George (her DH) opened the windows & went back to bed.
Another poster says the way to get them out is to turn off all the lights except for the room they are in. They will go to the next dark room, turn on those lights & keep going room to room til you chase them out a door or an open window.
Kathy, I moved a B'fly bush last year that used to be beautiful & then all the trees in the back got big & it stopped blooming. I also figured it was too much shade so I moved it last Fall to the very front of my d'way bed & it bloomed this year. Granted not as much as when it was brand new. But I cut it way back when I moved it so it is still kind of small. Looking for more blooms next year.
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