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Ham and beans with cornbread again. Just love that simple tasty hearty combo on a nasty late winter Sunday. I always cook an onion, a good big handful of celery and same with carrots with the beans after they are mostly done. Also there's three or four bay leaves in the soup as it cooks all that delicious flavor from that smoked hock into the beans. The cornbread is nothing more than Jiffy - the gold standard for cornbread if you ask me - with something often added for more flavor - candied jalapenos are a favorite, but today it will be the last of a cherry berry jalapeno compote we brought back from Michigan. I get a cast iron skillet good and hot, pour the batter into it, make a ring of the compote in the batter and then pop it in the oven. The hot skillet makes for a great crispy crust on the bottom. As I've said before about this meal, poor folks has got poor ways. But don't feel too sorry for me, I can handle it.

Fish don't have the brains to have feelings like panic or fear.

Fresh creamed peas with pearl onions are one of those things the angels have for dinner when they've done something particularly pleasing to the one they serve.

It's something they have to do - NFL requires it. I get not liking losing. I don't get acting like a whipped kid in front of the world.

Nope, it wasn't sweet, didn't have the additional tomatoes and the sausage was loose. Just real simple three ingredients and it was very good.

What a great presser. An amazing physical specimen who is no dummy with the mental maturity of a 12 year old. I'm surprised he wasn't coached up better for that. Rivera gets some of the credit for this one for not prepping him better for what everyone knew was coming.

Easily. Carolina won the game everywhere except on the scoreboard. Don't see how anyone who watched the whole game could call it boring. Denver defense really did win. Denver was ONE for seventeen on third down conversions and is the first Super Bowl winner ever with under 200 yards total offense.

I won a fitted KC Chiefs on-field hat, six pullets and $3.25 cold hard cash. #winning! Loved every minute of that game too. Just smothering defense. Which is actually what won me the pullets. I had the under on 47! Not even close, could not believe I got that.

Tonight it's eggplant parm ala Rick. Which means I add a slice of hard salami on every piece of eggplant. Side of pasta and some olive salad from the KC City Market Italian Deli, can't remember their name. But the place smells like it's supposed to.

We were at a party that was Mexican theme pot luck. Three kinds of guac, taco bar with all and I mean all of the fixings, multi salsas, an enchilada casserole, multi types of layered dips, a taco salad with homemade catalina dressing, taco won-ton cups, wings, a potato casserole that was way good, another cold dish that had chicken, some yellowish wonderful tasting dressing and tortilla chips in it - and the sleeper winner for the day - kraut, a can of rotel and sausage, in the crockpot. Way way better than it sounds!

If stupid is still a high compliment, those things are idiotic.

You have the memory of an elephant.

What are those books for? They don't look like the kind that have many pictures.

Nice hat Ham.

85 pound blue from the Missouri River. On a throw line. Several spoonbill close to that.

Its weird how a person who seems to otherwise be a pretty admirable guy (fostered something like 51 kids over the years!) winds up taking such a radical position as what he did.

I try to float all the popular rivers on weekdays. Agree on when its best - spring being my preference.

http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/49393-may-20-21-and-22-on-the-river/ I love NFOW and Current River. They are beautiful Ozarks rivers and fish very well. But to me, the crown jewel is the Eleven Point. Its just not to be missed. It is best fished from a boat.

Without trying to be too much of a smart aleck, I'm grateful that so far, only one of those yahoos felt like dying to prove his point. I sincerely hope he's the only one and the rest of those guys go to jail peacefully. But should they choose otherwise, I'm also grateful that the FBI has a bunch of guys who are really good shots.

I was a BPS Saturday. Bought Nano, Invisx and Maxima to give me something to do one of these warm days heading our way.

The opening battle and the bear mauling scene were both really something. The movie was very well made but I do not think it was a very good depiction of how the early trappers lived. Nobody would have lived through the wet cold that was nearly constant in that movie. For me that part was actually a bit of a spoiler in that it kept me from suspending disbelief - one of the critical aspects to really getting into a story.

You're trying to get in somebody's panties. I bet it worked.

Check your electric bill for the answer to that one.

Chicken Cacciatore: 3 boneless chicken breasts sliced lengthwise into thirds, seasoned, dredged in flour and browned in EVOO in the dutch, then set aside. One bell pepper and one Vidalia sliced into rings and melted in the dutch. Tablespoon of Italian seasoning. Salt and pepper to taste. Cup of good pinot grigio to deglaze and then reduced by half. One can of diced tomatoes (not drained), about two tablespoons of capers and a dozen or so kalamata olives sliced coarse. Five cloves of garlic run through the slicer side of the press. Chicken back on top of that mess, lid on the dutch and into the oven for an hour or so at 300. I'll serve it on angel hair with a romaine and spinach salad. The salad will include some more kalamatas, cherub tomatoes sliced in half, and slices of English cucumber (way better this time of the year than regular cukes).

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