How is everyone today? This is from our e-magination. LOL

That would be cool Judith. I would go with you and see the land of my birth. But for now lets mosey on up this hill they call a mountain and see what flowers and neat plants we can see. Ohhh look at that beautiful orchid in that tree!! It is so pretty with its ruffles of pink and its center of purple! And look at that gorgeous red bird! I have never ever seen such a pretty bird. A cardinal I saw back east pales in comparison!

Maybe we'll see some of those "dog parrots" like on the brug forum! Oh, everything is soooo lush and colorful! Just beautiful! Like no other place on earth, I bet. And the sky is so blue. Almost feels like you can touch it! Oooooh! Look at the yellow orchids over there!

There's a different kind of hosta I believe! Do you have one of those?

You bring any fudge with you up here?

I've got some fudge right here in the saddle bag. I don't go much of anywhere without my famous fudge.

I don't have that plant if it is a hosta. I think it would be against the law to dig a part of it too. Wish we could though because it is gorgeous with its red stalks and red flowers. I have never seen a hosta with red flowers.

Anyone want some of this famous Popeye's chicken I brought? It sure is yummy stuff!

i want the fudge - your fudge!!!!! no chicken, no fruit, no veggies.... FUDGE!!!!! [maybe a strawberry daiquiri with whipped cream as a side dish!]

I want fudge first! Then the chicken. I've never had Popeye's chicken. Is it better than KFC Crispy??? I love the wings. Lots of breading, fat up to whoooee, but this is emagination, so I can indulge. You got 4, no 5 wings? Who brought strawberry daiquiris? Was it you, Hand? You're all women after my heart. It doesn't get any better than no-cal fudge, fried chicken, and daiquiris!

Well, some fried okra, fried tomatoes, squash and corn fritters, mild sausage, biscuits, ham, grits with fresh-churned butter, fresh corn-on-the-cob, and good ol' fried Southern cornbread, with greens, taters, maters.......oh, man, I could just go on and on. You can bring me to emagination cyber world, but you can't get the Southern out of me! And no calories, no cholesterol, NO PROBLEM!!!!!

Burp!

Oh, and fried Vidalia onion rings! And fresh fried home-cooked greasy french fries! None of them fried frozen Mickey D's stuff! & a Shoney's Big Boy. Mmmmm!

If I'm gonna be here, I'm gonna eat everything I love! Cheesecake with cherry and blueberry topping, coconut custard pie, lemon chiffon pie, heck, any chiffon pie, red velvet cake, chocolate layer cake, burnt sugar caramel layer cake, fresh homemade divinity with nuts. I might toss in a fresh garden salad between courses. Then there's Italian--spaghetti w/ tomato meat sauce & parmesan, garlic-buttered Italian bread, aaaaah, lasagna, homemade, with just the right ingredients and herbs, chicken & dumplin's, filet mignon, more lobstah, shrimp, battered and fried, steamed, scampi, garlic & butter-fried, tortellina with white alfredo sauce, lots of cheese, pepperoni, green sweet peppers, onions up to chooey.

OMG, I think Imma gonna be sick! Wait, I can't get sick in emagination!

Watermelon, home-churned peach ice-cream, those peanut-butter cookies you used to could buy in sugar-wafer molded crust. MMMmmmmmmmmmmmm! Wonder why they don't make those any more. I used to watch the noon 1-hour circus and eat those 'til they came out my ears, with coke float, or 7Up. Big dill pickles, really thin slices of cheddar cheese.

Oh my! I've done died and gone to heaven! Forget the weeds in the garden! We don't have weeds here!

Yeeeeeeeeeeee-haaaaaaaaaaw!!!!!!!
Country done come t' town!

Judith,
Popeye's chicken is a lot better than KFC it is spicy chicken, and very good.
Lani, chicken and fudge in your saddlebag...I am impressed! Were you a Girl Scout?
Not only are there no calories in the food, we also never get full, or sick...so we can eat all we want.

Absolutely! And we can each have the food we loved and would just love to taste again! Those tiny peas, butterbeans, everything picked early so it's delish and not all fat with age. (OK, so I'm fat with age, but not on this thread!)

Spicy chicken! What kind of spices?
I can eat this here and not worry about my over-acid-producing tummy!
I'm game. Bring it on!

Judith,
It always gives me heartburn, but I love it so much, I have to get it once in a blue moon...(oh! I just missed my chance, as the moon was blue...) One of the spices used is Paprika, I am not sure about the other ones....Do you have Grandy's where you are? They are popular here in Texas, and they have good chicken, too. But I think the very best was the chicken that my Mom used to fry...I wish I had gotten her 'recipt' but since it is our emagination, she can be there with her chicken, and potato salad, and chili, and short ribs, and ....she was the best cook, ever...
And I can hardly boil water...my attention span is so limited...Mom could spend hours making a dish that we demolished, in a few minutes. Her short ribs were an example, they were marinated in Kahula, sounds odd, but it was real good.

MMMmmmmmm! ribs marinated in Kaluha!

My mom was a "devout Baptist," so no liquer or spirits allowed in the house. Of course, no card playing, no dancing (I was 39 before I learned to dance). Now I can't because of my back. Think of all those wasted years. And no Solitaire? How would I get to sleep every night, if I couldn't bore my self to sleep with Solitaire?

My dad didn't like fried chicken, so mom never cooked it. I had to learn how after I was all grown up. And it took me quite a while to be able to get it done all the way through without burning the outside. It's not as easy as it might sound.

Anyhow, we can bring your mom back here, so she can share her fabulous recipes with us.

Come to think of it, mom never cooked ribs either. Dad didn't like them either!

But we could bring my granma back, just so I could get her fantastic recipe for cornbread. It was delish! I really wish I had asked her for the recipe before she died, just never thought of it. She would have laughed. She made it every day, never failed. Served it with home-churned butter, unsalted. Nothing better, not to me, anyway.

So many things we ate and enjoyed when we were young, that we never thought to consider asking how they were cooked to be so good!

Yes, I know what you mean...there are a lot of things I wish I had gotten recipes for...I don't know why I thought I had unlimited time to do such things, but I did, and now .....So we'll have my Mother there, and your Grandmother, and we'll get those recipes...
My father, was Baptist too, but Mom wasn't...besides, when you cook with alcoholic things, the alcohol burns off and just leaves the flavor...


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My mom never believed that. Plus, where would she have gotten the alcohol? The church members kept a very close watch on who stopped off at the liquor store!

Obviously two teetotaler parents didn't rub off on either myself or my brother! Not that we're alcoholics or anything. We just enjoy our evening "toddies." Moderation in all things, the good book says. God allowed it to be possible, gave us free will. How we choose to use it is up to us. Hey, Jesus turned water into wine for the wedding feast in Cana.

i remember my mom and my aunt trying to write down my gramma's recipes. since she 'measured' ingredients with her hands and fingers it was interesting to see the translation! for some reason everyone's 2 favorites weren't gotten - black/white spiral cookies and cinnamon/raisin rolls. man oh man - i can taste them just thinking about it -

That was how Mom measured things too...and I do the same thing, drives my husband nuts.! He will ask me, 'did you put the salt in? how much? and when I tell him it was using the palm of my hand to measure, he tells me, it can't be done like that...I answer back...how come? It worked for my mother and grandmother, why not me?

Hey everybody, I must have fallen off the earth. You know here it can be flat like columbus said if we want. Yuck how boring, just like texas.
How far is denton from houston?
Somehow I got kicked off watching this thread? Go figure. I thought I would check tonight and here everybody is. Welcome back hand.
Wow horses. I just caught up on my appaloosa horse. Ain't she a beut!!! I need a smoothie and some fudge please. Can I have a double shot of Jack Daniels? I have been in the real world too long. I need to relax fast. My neck is so tight you could bounce a golf ball of of it.
Sure glad to be back. And all of us so gorgeous and all. The world can have there breast implants.....my boobs don't hang to my knees here......eat your heart out world.
I can't believe the beauty of this place. Wow look at that sunset.
What are we doing tonight girls?
I didn't get my moms recipes either. Macaroni and cheese to die for.

I think Denton is close to 200 miles from Houston, we used to make the drive most every weekend, about 10 years ago, Phil's Father lived there, and when he was real sick...we were there for him....He can be in Hawaii too, he was a really nice man, nicer to me, than my father..
It sure is nice to be able to ride horses without paying for it later, us being so gorgeous and all...And yes, your Appie is gorgeous!! And yes, to the Jack Daniels, as much as you like. We can feel the whiskey here, but have none of the side effects (what a deal!)
Macaroni and cheese is one of my favorites, and here it doesn't cool so darn fast, and become like glue, in our emagination, it stays the perfect temperature, and consistency....
See you later...I am going back to bed for awhile...

Denton is 278 miles from Houston...It is a bit more than I thought.

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Oh my that far. Good thing here we all can spend all the time with each other.
The real world can be such an awful place to be in..
Get some more sleep as I may too. I was up for over 48 hrs this past weekend and didn't go to bed till 3 this morning. I sure hope I make it to church tonight. I need it.

YeeeeeeeeHah look at this appie run. we are freel as the wind.
Love you all

Interesting that all your Mom's were the cooks in your family. In my family my Dad was the better cook. He used to say that when Mom cooked "she turns the stove into an old testiment altar because she sacrifices so much to the gods." LOL She burned something with almost every meal I remember her ever making because she would flit off to do something else and forget that she had something cooking on the stove. I learned to cook from him and my best friend's Mom. Her Mom was a great cook and I was smart enough to gather many of her recipes. One of my favorites is called a pasty. That is a Welch dish of basically pie crust wrapped around potatoes, vegies and meat cooked fully in the oven and served with or without gravy on it. The Welch miners who moved to the mines of Montana brought this recipe with them since it was a favorite dish to take into the mines for their dinner. We used to make tons of the things for fund raisers so I have the recipe almost memorized. Then there is her marinated elk steak, deer roast, roast wild goose, roast wild duck, among other recipes. Then there is my grandma's Orange peel candy, family fudge, carmel corn, popcorn balls that are decedently soft yet wonderfully good, mint candies, red velvet cake, wacky cake, homemade cinnamon rolls with lots of cinnamon so you can actually taste it (what a concept!) and more. Hey here in our emagination I can bring Mom Keyes and my best friend back to life so they will be here fixing my favorite recipes. oh YUMMMMM

Oh my!!!!!!!! Look at that beautiful waterfall!!!!!!! I have always wanted to have a great body and take a shower under one of those like you see in the movies. Here I go!!!!!!!!!

Me too! I'll join you!

What's wacky cake?

That pasty sounds like a version of the empanada, which I've been learning about in the recipe forum lately. It's South American, and I wouldn't care for some of the stuff in it. But it sounds like you could make one with the sort of things you're talking about. If I could still cook, I think I'd try making some. I don't think DH would be too interested in doing it though.

These are really beautiful horses, and so easy to ride here.

That shower was sure refreshing!

Macaroni & cheese! Yum, yum! I'm getting hungry again, talking about all this good food.

Pass along some of that Jack Daniels!

Great of Jack to come along. Here have some more. Hey the massuse is on the way. I need a massage right about now. While we are waiting on them to get here I am going under the water fall and shower. I wonder if there may be a cave of diamonds under there. Shall we find out?

Well girls, they don't call it Diamond Head for nothing!!!!! I think we have found the secret entrance into the sacred diamond cave of folk lore. Let me turn on my flashlight.

WOW!!!!!!! Did you ever see anything like THAT?

Wow, know I have never seen anything like this before. Diamonds as big as our fists. Or could it be quartz?
Beautiful either way.

Look over there!!!!!! OMG!!!!

OMG Judith that is the most gorgeous stone I have ever seen!!!!!!! It looks like the fabled red diamond. Anyone have a diamond that I can use to try to scratch it? It won't harm your diamond to do just a tiny check of it. Wowsers that is gorgeous!

Yup, it is a RED diamond. And look over there at the green diamond and over there are some yellow ones!!! We have an entire jewelry store here!!! In fact it is enough to be a whole chain of jewelry stores. How much fun is this?

Look over here at the gorgeous blue flower. Doesn't it look like a blue brugmansia? If it is a blue brug we can go into business selling those. I have been searching far and wide for a business I can do from home and it looks like we have just been handed two of them. Yippppeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

Ooh! That is a blue brug! That's gorgeous! It's a soft sky blue! I wonder if there are any more here?

How're we gonna get these huge stones out of here? I mean, we don't own this property. And people would see us for sure if we tried to take them out of here. I mean, you can't just stuff 'em in your purse, or your bra!

No, no! Not even one on each side! There is a limit you know! Look how much attention Dolly Parton gets, and these would be waaaaaaaay bigger than that!

We need to go stake a claim. I know that we can do that and not tell anyone anything till we have all of these in a safe place. If not already owned by an individual it is ours and everything here. Lets leave it all here so noone sees a piece off it and follows us next time.

Sandy

I just hope we can find it when we come back.

I hope all of us aren't as directionally-challenged as I am!

Not here . We have the brains of einstein, remember it it e-great memory of an elephant. And who could forget this place. Hurry lets go so we can get there before they close and we can't stake our claim today. Look at all those beautiful parrots and macaws.
I just want to say I have never had more fun with friends than I have with all of you. And I am sure there is alot more to come. Boy am I hungry. Race you back. YeeHaw Come on girl lets go (as she easily kicks the appys sides and yells giddy up. And the others are surprised to see they are left in the dust.

Well, c'mon the rest of us "einsteins," let's move it! I'm starving too!
Giddyup, baby!
Wonder what's to eat tonight?

Where is everyone? I already finished my nap before dinner. Lets catch a plane and go to one of the smaller islands tomorrow. Now get up you sleepy heads. LOL

I'm up! Sounds like a plan.

C'mon all ya'll!!!!!!! The adventures continue!

Not a plane...let's take a heliocopter...that way we can really see everything, and even buzz the dormant (I hope) volcanos...
I think we need to have some prawns for dinner, prepared all kinds of ways...

The prawns sound great! And I'd like the helicopter too. I've never ridden in one of those before. Here it probably won't even be noisy! I'm with you on the "dormant" volcanoes!!!

I will go for all of the above. Even the prawns but what are they?
Helicopter sounds devine. Wow volcanoes.......

From what I understand, and for here, prawns are really big shrimp...I don't want to mess around with the little guys...I want big, honking shrimp! Preferably coconut ones....prawns prepared in garlic butter would be okay too...
http://www.asiafood.org/glossary_2.cfm?wordid=2863

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I want to try a taste of all the kinds that guy talked about constantly on "Forrest Gump!"

Ohhhhh Prawns!!!!!!! I absolutely LOVE prawns. They are huge shrimp almost the size of a small lobster. Very tasty and tender. What a life we can have here. I think I am just going to buy some of this great land and live here from now on. I know my Godmother would love it if I would move "home" Wouldn't ya Geri?

See you gals? Geri is getting very excited with the idea that I want to move here to live here again. She is even going to help me buy the land. I am so excited now and all of you can come to visit anytime you want and we can continue our adventures after these are done. What a life!!!!!!!!!

Hey! Here is the heliport. Everyone climb onboard. This is going to be such fun and so beautiful. He said he will swoop us down right over that gorgeous waterfall that we used to see on the show "Fantasy Island". And we can end our flight in Kawaii for a good old-fashioned Hawaiian Party. Dancers and poi and everything for dinner that you can imagine. Why they even have New York style pizza for those who don't like the Hawaiian delicacies. OK We are OFF!!!!!!

HANG ON!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoooooooooooooooooooooaaaah!!!!

Oh my, it's beautiful up here!
I'm so excited!!!!!!! (there I go again!) ; ~O
I've never been flying in a helicopter before!
And I was right! It is very quiet up here in e-magination!

Pond, can I rent some of that land from you and put me a house on it for me & my DH, and all my kitties, and my little dachshund, Max???
And DDs can come for a visit, but not to stay!

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I was thinking they same thing. An acre or 2 for me and DH would be great. I would love a gardener to take care of all of it. Life is good here with my friends. WOW did you see that water fall? How about that coast line?
Here in e-magination I can still have my 2 grandaughters every other weekend.
JudithI I bet my 2 14 yr old daschunds would love Max. Mine are Vienna and Linky.
I am having a great time with great friends. ""sniff"" ""sniff"" did anyone bring kleenex. I am getting a little sentimental.