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Hank Rogers[_2_]

wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 14:33:33 -0700 (PDT), "
> > wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 3:56:54 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> I was reminded of another cheese of the past..... flavoured
>>> cream cheese, like pineapple and orange. I have not seen it in a long
>>> time, but is could be in that part of the dairy section that I just
>>> bother with.
>>>
>> In small jars that doubled as juice glasses once empty.
>
> I don't remember flavored creamcheese, perhaps I never noticed it. I
> do rememer all the different flavored cottage cheeses, I remember
> pineapple, not orange... then garden salad with minced veggies.
> I still remember whan there was only plain yogurt, now umpteen flavors
> and a dozen types of yogurt... and the containers shrunk to baby food
> size and with ridiculously high prices. I remember buying Dannon
> plain yogurt in quart containers for under a dollar... and was the
> best yogurt, far better than any produced today. I think Yoplait is
> garbage.... I rather eat low fat cottage cheese, and I add my own
> fruits/veggies. I like large curd cottage cheese with chopped green
> onyuns, chopped curly parsley, and black pepper, sometimes with a big
> blob of sour cream. I don't like the word 'dollop', sounds stingy...
> big blob is sexier... as in Big Blob Bra. Better than cottage cheese
> is pot cheese, larger curds and creamier. When I can find it I prefer
> it to ricotta for lasagna. My grand mother would buy Crowleys pot
> cheese in gallon tins, served for breakfast on homemade Russian black
> bread with her homemade jams from her own fruit trees. When I spent
> summers there breakfast was the biggest meal of the day, not that
> dinner was skimpy, lunch was a snack. My grand parents owned a B & B
> in the Catskills, in those days it was called a tourist home. They
> immigrated from Riga during WWI, went through Ellis Island, became US
> citizens, LEGALLY, worked very hard all their lives, lived into their
> mid 90s. My father arrived at fourteen, he was a world class gymnast.
> At Ellis Island Elushka became Ely, prounounced the same as Eli. In
> Riga my grand parents were wealthy furriers, they arrived in America
> penniless. They worked hard and and did well. Anyone who is willing
> to work hard in America and obey the law can do well. My father
> enlisted in the Navy and became Admiral Halsy's body guard. Serving in
> the South Pacific he came home all shot up, but still did well, never
> collected food stamps, my father would never take charity, for my
> father and mother charity was not an option.
>

OK, sounds good Popeye.

What is yoose granma's recipe for pimento chese?

Was she also a sailor like yoose?