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Roast pork stuffed with my stuffing handed down from 3 generations!! garlic potatoes and green beans! have to make my stuffing with GF breadcrumbs so hope it turns out alright? i dont know what americans call stuffing mum says you call it "dressing" she lived in Chicago. making apple cider gravy here we eat alot of apple with pork! actually thats apple AND cider gravy not to be confused with applecider vinegar. I just throw some real cider and a few apples into the gravy from the roast YUMMY!!
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Tomorrow I am making fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, steamed green beans, lettuce and tomato salad, iced tea, and for dessert ice cream....come on over....marymember
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After a late breakfast I realized this was the day our local upscale supermarket was featuring samples from local suppliers. I stopped over there and was greeted with a whole ear of roast corn and butter before I even stepped foot in the store. Then awesome samples of everything from appetizers to desserts. I'm stuffed. Just got an email that Barb is bringing her daughter (my granddaughter) home for dinner, so I guess I better figure out what I will feed them. I can't imagine eating until midnight myself!

Kaz, we call the bread-based side dish "stuffing" or "dressing." Maybe it depends on the part of the country, but here in Minnesota both are used interchangeably. It would be more logical to call it stuffing if it is actually cooked in the meat, and dressing if it is cooked separately, but logic has little to do with naming conventions. I recently took a cooking class where I learned a stuffing recipe for pork tenderloin that was mostly dried fruits. Good!
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Oldest bro's coworker has an avocado tree. When these trees produce fruit, it is a Lot of fruit. I remember when we used to have one. It produced so much that we couldn't eat it daily and still not waste the excess. So, we always gave out to mom's siblings. Bro's coworker is doing the same. He's giving it out to his coworkers rather than have it wasted. I just looooove avocados!

My breakfast salami sandwich was jazzed up with avocado. I cut a slice, used a fork to mash it down, added a little bit of low sodium soy sauce, sprinkled chunky black pepper on it, put tabasco on the salami.. and ate it like that. Yum!!! 11:15am. Time to start making my spam meal for lunch/dinner.
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Bookluvr, this has probably been covered, but it is not in your profile. Are you in Hawaii? Spam (made not far from here) is much more popular there and anywhere else in the US, so I wonder. Also, do you eat rice everyday?

I too love avocados. I envy anyone with a tree! (They wouldn't do so well in Minnesota!)
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In our culture, rice is our main staple. We eat rice with everything - fried rice, rice pudding, rice in the soup, etc... My people like the spicy spam or the tabasco spam. I prefer the low sodium one - and rarely eat it - unless it's in stew style. That helps to not taste the saltiness. But also due to my cholest. I 'cheat' once in a while.

I've asked oldest bro if there's any way of transplanting an avocado tree to our yard. We have 3 different kinds of mango trees. I'm allergic to mangos. I said that I miss having an avocado tree. Bro knocked down all of our banana trees. We had 2 kinds of banana trees - the one for cooking and the Manila bananas. Dad doesn't know that bro got rid of it. We still have several papaya trees which are too near the house and keep falling after every storm. Bro uprooted the oldtimer ones that withstood the time of storms/typhoons.
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There is a Spam museum in Austin Minnesota, where the company is headquartered. I took a 5-day guided bus tour through that part of the state and Iowa with an alumni group, guided by a geography professor. We stopped at the museum. What a riot! Thousands of people see that museum, but not many are lead by a college professor.
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marymember! thanks for the invite BUT lets hold the ice tea!! we will all bring wine and beer!! Fried chicken (homer simpson droooooooool)
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kaz , your pork / apple stuffing sounds good . something similar is one of my favorite recipes also . pork chops layered in a bread pan with apple dressing . a can of corn in the dressing doesnt hurt a thing .
its breakfast time right now tho -- coffee and tobacco ..
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I cant believe people are still eating SPAM? havnt seen that since i was a kid never liked it UGH smells like babies cream for nappie rash!! I guess we were brought up here on meat and veg we didnt have processed food until the late 70s and mum never bought processed food everything we had was fresh! times sure have changed now i never eat processed food i have to know exactly whats in it as ive a dodgy stomach so i have to be careful!
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america helped feed the island peoples using spam on our hops towards tokyo in ww11 . many of these countries still eat the greasy , salty gruel . in the usa most people wouldnt touch the stuff . not that were picky , the stuff just blows .
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Ha cap and good morning to you! am off out to lunch with a friend so having mexican at this new place!
Am off coffee so tea and ciggy for me! bank holiday here and i should be doing something exciting but another boring wkend here!
Leftover pork tonight i guess then im gonna lay off meat for awhile! did you know pork makes you fart?????
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eh , im going to see my aunt for a few and back to my wood cutting . in answer to your question about what were doing with all the firewood kaz , m is clearing a little bit of forest to make more pasture space . the wood will heat his house , my house , some will be stored in barns for later but even at that there is excess for a while here . we'll sell some too .. m asked me to work the wood till the stone job is ready cause he thought it would be therapeudic for me . elders / death / hepc tx , etc .. m is a damn nice man and helps people around him ..
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Good for him! I find hoovering theraputic but theres only so much you can hoover unless i start hoovering the attic? well at least it keeps you outta trouble and fit!!! i am going to try really hard this week to start my yoga dvd?? im not lazy it just means decluttering the front room so i have room to excersise? i am sitting here looking at a huge mess clutter boxes with crap in too much furniture yeh crap everywhere! i just need a small space but can see its not going to happen and i may have to pay for classes! this cluttering is enough to send anyone to the funny farm!!
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" hoovering "
that term caused a little tingle in my groin this morning . since your already hoovering over here in my corner -- eh . theres something wrong with my head .
we vaccum the floors here in the usa ..
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AHA! thats why FF was laughing at me last week!!!!! So what does hoovering mean over there? wasnt the guy that invented the "vaccum" called hoover?? you see there is method in our irish "madness"!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
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Have a good day Capn! am off to stuff my face on fish tacos and am so excited ive never had a fish taco hope this new place is good! Who says caregivers get fat from comfort eating???????????? what the hell else is there to do? OK ill jog all the way to the taco place!!
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Burnt leftovers put oven on and came on here!!!!!!!!! burnt my dinner!! dont mind wasnt that hungry anyway had big mexican lunch!
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Over here, hoover is not a verb. Herbert Hoover was a US president. We have a big dam named after him. :) On the same tour that visited the Spam museum, we toured the birthplace tribute to this president (in Iowa.) I was really impressed with this humanitarian statesman that I knew little about.

William Henry Hoover (no relation) founded what became a huge floor-care equipment company. He did not invent the equipment, but he bought the patent. In the US, even people whose equipment was made by the Hoover company "vacuum" with the equipment, we do not "hoover" with it. :)
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I've got chicken curry in the crockpot, and a bag of nann bread from Costco on the counter. Took a little effort this morning, but dinner will be easy!
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Sorry JB i knew someone would get me on that one BUT youre too late i answered this on my whine "thread"!!!! yeh hoover was the brand name thats why we here call it hoover!
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JB i love curries but had to stay off them as a bit hard on the stomach! In india they drink a milk drink "lassi" with thier food which is clever as it lines the stomach for all the spicey food! It does work but i cant drink milk? I like curries really hot! we grew up on them as mum was very cultured and loved trying foreign dishes! Once had a dry south african curry that blew my head off!! but was nice!
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We are going to the "Touch of Italy", I hope they are not out of Chianti.
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Pam lucky you! I love italian wines! When i had money i would treat myself to the "barollo" i think i spelt that right! used to be about 25dollars a bottle here but worth every drop!! I lived in Milan for 2yrs not the best place to eat when youre wheat intolerant BUT the food was to die for! I love tirimasu i hope you have this tonight for dessert!!
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just lunch meat sandwiches with bbq chips on em and a couple of beers for me tonight . i learned up at my sons house that zans arent necessarily made for getting pie faced and working on but are much more useful for making you sleep well at night . tried it last night . i dont remember ever feeling this good in my life . sawed and split firewood for a full 7 hours today , by myself as always , and still feel like a million bucks . of course the hepc virus is no more . if i get my s*it together now my life could get right productive again . its nice to work without fatigue and muscle burn ..
hope everybody is having a pleasant weekend . i like to work on the weekends so i feel justified in taking a couple or three days off during the week ..
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I had a Hawaiian boyfriend who loved Spam - go figure . I told my Mums when I moved in not to call the hummingbirds "hummers" anymore. When I told her why she just laughed - kinda the same thing as a hoover. So tonight we are having pot pies and cobbler. Comfort food anyone?? My mums moves to AL next week so I am giving her all the comfort she wants.
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Oh hadenough thats sweet but you can still call around and cook for her OR do they not have this facility? Mum hated the food in the NH i often wondered if she does end up there would i be able to bring her in good food? maybe not! i have to say the food there was pretty awful?
Maybe if the food was good she would go in again?

You wont know yourself next week it will be hard but you get to be a daughter again and sleep at night hopefully!!

I didnt think americans had cobbler but then i guess you have everything european as so many emigrated there!

You would love beef stew and dumplings then its a suet topping light and fluffy!! with beef stew underneath and carrots but a real comfort winter food!!
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Am hungry now! theres a bit of pork left!! this thread makes you fat!!
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You all are missing out when the locals make their Spam dishes. I'm not good at it because I've always thought it's so salty. So I avoid it as much as possible - except in a Spam stew/soup. But some people can make spam salad that has real lemon juice, onions, real grated coconuts with freshly picked hot red peppers. Yum! And some can make a mean Spicy Spam fried rice. You all just have to eat it when the experts make it. Then ask how they make it - so that you can do it at home.

Today's dinner - we had only 2 slices of luncheon meat. One for sis, one for me. Since that's not enough food for dinner, I took one of dad's hard boiled egg (he eats daily one egg for breakfast), some leftover brocolli, leftover corn, a slice or 2 of avocado and one Mezzetta yellow chili pepper with rice. It was filling enough. If I still get hungry, I can always eat oatmeal.
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LOL, Book. Spam brought back memories. The canned deviled variety was my Dad's favorite snack. He would take saltines and twirl them into the spam can, just the perfect size for dipping the cracker this way. Oh and with a bottle of RC Cola! Probably a carry over from his days in the army. He passed over 45 years ago now.
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