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Dear lord....

butter (lima) beans and ham hock is where it's at...

I use ham chips, but the same difference...

you better not be dear lording me due to my admission of not knowing what a ham hock is

Place the ham in the pan and let it cook for a few minutes, then add three cups of chicken broth, two cups of water, a small diced onion and let that boil for thirty minutes, then you add two pounds of shelled butter beans and let them simmer for a couple of hours...

I like the turkey carcass soup better than the turkey. You can add whatever you want to it, or nothing at all, it's still good...

I hate white beans. Or Navy beans.

But I still eat them.

We have a debate in my house about butter beans and lima beans. I call the small, green beans butter beans and the larger, light green beans lima beans. My wife says it's the other way around. I think it's a regional thing since she grew up in Calif. and Ark. but Lidl didn't help my case by selling cans of large, light green beans with "Butter beans" on the label.

I always thought lima was the smaller ones

I'm surprised you're not a fan of the turkey carcass soup. I would think that would appeal to your greed to get every ounce of substance for your grocery dollar...

That was directed at Stu...

I would hurt people for one more chance to sit at my grandmother's table and eat one of her fresh from the garden, home cooked meals.

Don't worry, you do that just by showing up...

eCat wrote:I always thought lima was the smaller ones

Yankee

hedge wrote:I'm surprised you're not a fan of the turkey carcass soup. I would think that would appeal to your greed to get every ounce of substance for your grocery dollar...

There's nothing but cartilage and bone left on my turkey carcass. I guess you could make a soup from it but all the meat has been chewed off.

You think it has, but it hasn't, even though you've picked it with tweezers. Plus, the marrow and cartilage (and skin) provide tasty flavor and good nutrition. Not that you're interested in the latter, of course, but, if you were just going to throw it away, by making soup you get essentially free calories and I would think you'd love that. Greedy!

Saint wrote:

eCat wrote:I always thought lima was the smaller ones

Yankee

google says they are the same thing

DooKSucks wrote:I would hurt people for one more chance to sit at my grandmother's table and eat one of her fresh from the garden, home cooked meals.

my grandmother sucked at cooking and to be honest, my mom ain't that great at it.

I remember everyone always talking about mom's fried chicken and how good it was, shit, they were just hungry.

I think alot of food is good when I'm hungry, I'll even eat that hard ass cheap peanut butter that tears the bread up when you try to spread it

Few things are worse than cold cheap ass off brand peanut butter. They try to fool you and name it like something close to the brand names, like "Jippys". Its like trying to spread hotel soap.

Nope. Granny DS was amazing. Everyone loved her cooking. The only thing I didn't like was her "turkey hash." I hated going to her house the Sunday after Thanksgiving or Christmas. She had turkey hash, and it was terrible.

I had this weird moment earlier today. I could literally taste Granny's fried chicken in my mind. That little woman could cook, and those little biscuits were amazing. She used lard and buttermilk to make the most amazing biscuits, and her cakes and pies were amazing too.

I have one of her cast iron skillets at the house. My greedy ass uncles plundered the house as soon as we put her in the nursing home.

Every morning she had an egg, grits or a small thing of raisin bran and a piece of homemade, link country sausage, country ham or bacon. Vegetables were garden raised and seasoned with ham. Chicken was fried, and ham was cured in the smoke house.

She died one month short of 99, and she cut her own yard (1.25 acres) on a Snapper lawnmower until she was 90. She started allowing me to cut her 4' deep side ditches with the pushmower when she was 85...

"They try to fool you and name it like something close to the brand names, like "Jippys"."

You got gypped!

usually has something like a no descript kangaroo or a clown on the label

in line with my grandmother couldn't cook, I remember she'd pre-mix a jar of jelly and peanut butter together for my grandfather to make a sandwich - like his 70 year old ass was so busy plinking around in the garden all day he didn't have time - she needed to streamline that shit for maximum efficiency.

nasty stuff

My grandmother used to make what she called toasted cheese for breakfast when I came over. It was just cheese melted in an iron skillet, but the bottom would get hard and kinda crusty and the result was a chewy cheese taffy. It took a little work to get it scraped out of the skillet, but it was worth it...