I'm so sorry you are so cold. Maybe you will get sunshine today. My grandmother lived in Lake Wales Florida and we would go at Christmas. I had no idea it could get so cold in Florida, but I remember my grandmother having to warm up quilts in front of the oven so we could get in the bed. Gosh, many memories. Spring where are you. I have to keep remembering, without the seasons there would not be any new life in the spring.
Winters here!But having Spring Memories!!
Debbie...I am laughing so hard here!! You must also reaffirm the belief that dem Cajuns will eat ANYTHING!!!!...That skunk ape will have its' honorary place on the bbq pit!!!
Rofl!!
Debbie, we need to move to the real Tropics...only one season, summer all year round!!!
But, seasons like this allow us to rejuvenate our bodies and sometimes spirits!
Not preaching...but in all things, I do give thanks!
Well they say you can smell the skunk ape quite a while before you can see or hear him!!!
So I think you better dig a pit and get the coals good and hot!!!LOL
Oh man and haven to dress him out to cook!Whoa!!!!Wouldn't want that job!!!
Hopping all over the place trying to keep up with y'all!!!
Tman, that vision of 'dressing'....there's no expletive to describe it!!! Lolol!!!
No Jaye, I don't want summer all year. I remember August and September just a few months back, and I was digging and planting and I would have to get a wet cloth to put on my head so I could breath. LOL and I don't envy Braveheartsmom her weeds on steriods. I'm so new at this gardening, that I would probably think the weeds were new plants. DUH
Oh my, now we are having cooked skunk??? LOL
YUK TM, we don't allow anything in our cajun pits but pigs. Jaye, how do you say pig roast again? Coshodelait? We will eat pigs that are split and go round and round on the chain as it cooks, all the while looking at us and dig in ditches for our delacacies , but we draw the line when it comes to apes. No apes in cajun country. We would probably give him a peroux and a hat and send him down the bayou. He wouldn't have a chance when the cajuns got thru with him.
No, Misty, skunk ape. LOL As if there is such a thing. TM has been on the snow plow too long I think. :)
LOL!
You might be right!!!
But I just got some palm seeds in the mail,neovcitchia storckii,and there as big as walnuts,don't know whether to eat them or plant them!!!LOL
Didn't know they were going to be this big,going to have to get some gallon potds judt tp plant these babies up!!!!LOL
A new species-tropicanman palm! LOL
Thank goodness for no cooked skunk!
Well don't know if its new but it has a black crownshaft trunk,looks neat!
Gotta get my dremel tool out and nick them and soak them a couple days!!!
Thanks for the idea on the dremmel! I have some cycad palm seeds I been wondering how to deal with, now I know! LOL
Cochon-de-lait! That's an all night and following day affair! A big annual event in St. Martinville too, besides Mansura. They don't skin the pigs Tman, just scrape them so the meat stay moist. The Cajuns are quite innovative, making home-made rotisseries and the fun part of course is the company!!! Just make sure there are other delectables to snack on, while the pigs are cooking..about 6-12 hours depending on the size!!
Sometimes the heads are boiled down to make hog's head cheese. Not too fond of it...me I prefer the 'black' boudin or blood sausage.
Shari, I'm sure the islanders cook their suckling pigs similar too, but inground?
Tammy, I learnt too that canna seeds can use some help from a dremmel tool.
--------->> Off to say hello to my froggie! :=D
Everytime I leave home ya'll get into something. We all KNOW Sasquatch isn't a skunk. My 41 year old son has been quite sure he is real for all of his life. Even named a dog Sasq. once because she had such big feet. Never, ever did we contemplate cooking Big Foot. I know food is our second most favorite topic, other than gardening, but to cook Sasquatch? You should be ashamed. (heheheheh) Yesterday we were cooking Tman's pet catfish. Is there nothing sacred?
Yeah...is nothing sacred???? Not EVEN my fried cheerios!!! Geesh!
LOL,I've been off 4 weeks now from work,and I think I've put on 15 pounds!!!!
Just from you all talking food making me hungry all the time!!!LOL
I won't be able to bend over when I go back to work on the 7th of January!!!
Get that torch out and have someone burn it off...hahaaha.!!! I am a meanie..huh????
OOOOOOOOH kool cause I still have some Canna seeds! Now to go find DH's dremmel tool, shhhhhhhhhhhhh! LOL
I'm beginning to think not Christi...these gals sound like we should take care in the sun...too much "roasting", and they would eat US! Ha ha.
So funny, I was reading all this to catch up from yesterday, and I'm thinking, "well pig-roasts aren't strictly cajun...we do them too", and then lo and behold you mention them! Best eating ever! Pig wrapped in taro leaves and coconut fronds and roasted in a pit for hours and hours and hours...oooohhhhh! Yum!!!
Hey you guys, I lived in Colorado for over 10 years and I never heard of a Skunkape in Colorado Springs!!!! Thought good ole bigfoot was strictly a Northwestern phenomenon?
Shari you've been away too long the new show I watched called monster quest talked about the hundreds of sightings from Denver south to the New Mexico border,about a large ape looking creature,the skunk ape was from the east Texas to the gulf coast to Florida swamps,then they were talking about a black leopard roaming around the country now! A fellow from easr Texas got a video of him,looked like one to me!There just to be leopards from Mexico to Montana in the late 1800's but they shot them all ,because they eating the livestocks!
Guess I must have! Wowzers!
Wonder if we would get in trouble if Mike cooked a pig in a pit?
Forgot the name, what is it, Shari, Jennie? Like at a luau. He cooks a mean pork roast on the smoker and fixes shredded pork sandwiches Georgia style with vinegar slaw. What thread is this anyway? They always seem to be about food. Could be because the garden is totally dormant and I can't even get outside. Cold and blustery.
Marcus finally brought the smoker home. Well, what shall it be, a pit in the ground or the smoker?
Whoa Christi what a rig!!! I'd smoke it!
Think I'll suggest that. He has never cooked a whole piglet, discussed it a lot but never done it yet.
Next door neighbor is from Monterrey, Mexico. He has suggested barbacoa...Mike declined.
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Wow what a smoker!!! Are you thinking of Kalua Pig, Christi? I misspoke about the leaves...not taro - ti and banana. Truly heaven!
Be right there when it's ready Christi!
Marcy..drop your fried Cheerios, this is something to die for! I can smell it already.
Heck. All of the banana leaves are so pitiful. Hanging shredded and brown. Been frozen a few too many times. How do you cook Kalua pig? I thought that was a coffee liquour.
The smoker is some 16 years old, custom built from rolled steel, not a converted lp tank. Should have seen my face when he brought it home and told me it wouldn't cook a steak or a hot dog...what??? Only smokes...but, oh, what great ribs and briskets. After all this time, it is perfectly cured.
Ymmmmmmmmmmmm brisket!!!!!
Kalua Pig is what the pig buried in the ground covered with the leaves is called. No relation to the liquour.
Now, you know Christi, that's an idea for the party:) Will that smoker travel to Dallas? I'm sure the hotel wouldn't mind a pig roast in the parking lot LOL. (private joke)
Tell you what shari, cook us one and let us know when to show up. We cajuns don't mind if you wrap the pig with leaves, we will eat just about anything. Jaye, you want me to pick you up on the way. Where is the Marshall Islands anyway? I need to get myself a map and pin it above my computer.
Debbie
Oh Wow! Debbie, Marshall Islands are closer to Australia and Japan than to us. Never mind that, I AM GOING THERE SOMEDAY TO SEE SHARI.
Hotels can be really picky about their own catering service. Mike has done some catering but never at a hotel.
For sure we would anything as long as it doesn't eat us back!! Lolol!!
Oh boy...I think I have a couple of sarongs too Debbie!
Oh awesome. I'm not quite sure what a sarong is, but if it is something to wear, it better be big :))
Debbie
Debbie, you are reading my mind about the map. Mike traveled for his company for years and we did the business thingy with a map and push pins for where his customers were located. I need to know where my friends are. I think they sell large maps at Office Depot. We did buy a globe so I could find Marshall Islands and the Cayman Islands. Our friend, carriblue is in West Cayman.
---waving hands---doing the tropical islands dance----
Isn't it a small world we live in. I just love meeting all of my new friends. That's a good idea Christi about the map and push pins. My DH is going to think I have totally lost my mind when I start tracking ya'll on a map. LOL
How ya do the tropical dance? ☺
Better watch it Jaye, your DH is going to think you are nuts too:)
Christi, I was just kidding about roasting a pig in the parking lot LOL
Not as nutty as Macy and her fried Cheerios!!
Tammy, first you borrow Christi's grass skirt.........
HMMMMMM, think I might look a bit funny in a grass skirt! LOL