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starwomyn 70F
5469 posts
11/5/2017 11:31 pm

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18th Century Recipes & Liberal Chickens for FOSSIL!!!

Sunday was a productive day. I went to the Greenbrier Valley Religious Society of Friends for our First Day commune with a Divine Power. Last Sunday, we had our monthly Pot Luck. My plan was to make stuffed pumpkin but the night before I went to Food Lion. Alas - no pumpkins. I brought spaghetti squash instead. Quakers have the BEST potluck.

So this Friday, we are having a John Adams Marathon Celebration. I have been watching You Tube looking up 18th Century Recipes. I drove to Wal-Mart after the meeting and much to my delight - I FOUND pie pumpkins for only ONE DOLLAR!!!!
I also found an 18 Century Recipe for Stuff Pumpkins and Pears!!! Yee Haw!!! You Tube demonstrates them being cooked on an open campfire. I don't think I will cook them like that but the pumpkins that didn't get served at the Quaker Potluck will get served at the John Adams Marathon Celebration. It's all good.

After leaving Wal-Mart, I drove to my step-'s place of employment and purchased some eggs from him. He and his wife purchased several chicken who are suddenly producing lots of eggs.

NOW ABOUT FOSSIL AND THE LIBERAL CHICKENS!!!!

I REALLY have issues with store bought eggs and the cruelty of hens with the mass egg laying production. I used to buy cage free eggs at a higher price until a gentleman from our Quaker Meeting started selling the eggs from his farm. Now that my step- is selling local eggs, I can buy them from him. He talked about how they were in crates when he bought them but now they are happy with a runway. He does have to keep them cooped for their own safety.

I can't fix everything about the crazy unkindness of the world but I CAN fix a few things even if it's just supporting local ventures and businesses. Maybe it will snowball and blow a few sunflower seeds for growing in Fossil's yard. It's all good.


footnote: I am following ET's lead.


Abracadabra


starwomyn 70F
8871 posts
11/5/2017 11:32 pm



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MrsJoe 76F
17309 posts
11/6/2017 5:01 am

Ah, the memories this has inspired. Back in the olden days when I was a kid, very little was bought at the grocery store. Our freezer was full of meat and veggies that my parents and grandparents produced and eggs were brought in from the chicken pen. Apples, cherries, and pears were picked from the trees in the back yard and berries from the bushes behind the house.
When my kids were little, it was much the same way, except we didn't butcher our own meat, we raised it and too it to the slaughter house to be processed. But eggs? No way was I going to raise chickens.... I hate those little buggers! I guess I got pecked too often as a kid and flogged by the old rooster.


Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


Abelle2 83F
31211 posts
11/6/2017 5:22 am

Ahhh, kid memories!

We lived in a small town in central Illinois when I was a kid. Dad grew all our fresh vegetables and we had 2 grape arbors. Mom made jelly out of the grapes and canned some of the veggies, the rest we ate raw. Nothing like raw veggies fresh out of the garden!

I don't remember anyone I knew that grew pumpkins, possibly the farmers in the country.

I used to make rhubarb jam --- yum! Too hot here to grow rhubarb. I made pickles occasionally.

Now all my jams and veggies come from Kroger or Wal Mart. THEY do a good job for me


Abelle2 83F
31211 posts
11/6/2017 5:27 am

I used to also make strawberry jam...........hmmm, I think I may make some


Rocketship 79F
18531 posts
11/6/2017 7:40 am

Sounds yummy Starwomyn!!


starwomyn 70F
8871 posts
11/6/2017 12:25 pm

    Quoting  :

Urban Chickens might not work too well in some areas in Washington DC although it is being done in addition to community gardens that are being built through the William Penn House work camp projects, I was buying Eggland Cage Free eggs before I started buying them locally. My step-son and his wife are struggling financially and the eggs are a way to help them supplement so I am glad to buy from them.

Abracadabra


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
11/6/2017 2:53 pm

Those eggs and pumpkins look wonderful......I buy my eggs from a karma stand at the end of a friend's driveway.....sometimes at the Farmer's Market.....My son gives me all the sugar pumpkins and winter squash I can eat. I like them baked with apples. onions and sausage from the same farm as the eggs.......