Don't look to me for gardening advice. I don't know diddly squat. What works for me might not work for you. I am a lazy gardener. Don't want to be, didn't start out to be but us old 'uns' have got to learn to take it easier since we can't agonize over every little thing. We've just made mistakes and hopefully we have learned from them and then we are like magnets letting all the new stuff stick to us and still have to see if it works.
As far as the cooking is concerned, I am a plain cook. I don't put sauces and peppers and stuff on my cooking "just because". I cook stuff plain and then if it needs something I add it. Of course I have been cooking for about 65 years so maybe that counts for something. I remember the first time I told Jim that the salad to go w/dinner one night was orange and onion w/homemade French dressing. I thought he was going to come unglued! Until he tried it.....Now it's one of his favorites. Or the time I cooked what my mother called corn pudding which is cream corn, milk, egg, a bit of sugar, salt and pepper. We were just dating and when he came to dinner there it was in individual little casseroles. He had never tasted squash (honestly!) and he looked at it and thought "OMG, squash! I hope I can keep it down." But he was too polite to say anything and went ahead and ate it, realized that it was corn
and liked it. It was only much later that he told me about all this. Up in Green Bay they had really plain food - the basics like potatoes, carrots, onions, turnips, etc. - no squash. His father was one of those people who didn't know if he would like squash and wasn't an adventurous eater so his garden didn't include squash and his mother wouldn't have known what to do w/it anyway. Now Jim adores any kind of squash, summer or winter types.
If you like fancy foods, sauced foods a la French types, etc. and all that you won't like my food. Just plain ol' stuff that I learned to make from my mother and the cookbooks I had at my disposal and the stuff I have learned since. I guess I am just what they call a "common sense cook".
And no crock pot stuff for me.
See y'all at the RU(s).
Ann
