On 2/1/2011 10:51 AM, gloria.p wrote:
> On 1/31/2011 7:42 AM, George Shirley wrote:
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>> George, enjoying the warmth of our southern early spring, supposed to be
>> 71F today. Eat your hearts out Yankees!
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> You really know how to twist the knife, George. After 70deg. last
> Friday, we woke to -12 today with no hopes of reaching positive numbers.
>
> Your lunch sounds terrific even though I am not crazy about pickles.
>
> gloria p

We woke up to 39F this morning at 0600, right now it's 1915 and it is
36F with a light rain falling. Weather heads said freezing rain this
evening but no sign of it yet. Has been overcast all day so I don't
expect the temperature to drop much more. We've had a Blue Norther
blowing through for a couple of days now. People in the west understand
Blue Norther's, temps can drop 25 to 40 degrees F in just a few minutes.
Generally they just blow on by leaving us cold, this one is hanging on.

Lunch today was tuna melts with homemade tuna salad and smoked cheddar
on top. Dinner tonight was seafood gumbo, shrimp, oysters, and crab
meat, pretty decent even if I did make it myself. I had to use
previously frozen sweet chiles and the cold finally got our Gypsy sweet
chiles. Green onions from the garden and a bunch of dehydrated leaf
celery, frozen okra from the garden, couple of bay leaves and some baked
roux, red pepper and black pepper plus I added a little smoked paprika
to the mix this time. Served over steamed brown rice. Enough for meals
for tomorrow and Saturday, I don't how to make a little bit of anything,
my kids are in their late forties and I'm still cooking for people that
left home at eighteen. Go figure.