What do you get when you mix PMS with GPS?
Answer:
A crazy b*tch who WILL find you.
Ok you guys... my Superbowl Party is going to be Cajun themed as my husband is hoping the Saints win. This Gumbo will be on my menu Sunday. Some of the best Gumbo you will ever put across your lips!
1 lb of boneless stew beef ( you can also use pork, chicken, or seafood) I will be making mine out of chicken and shrimp for the Superbowl
3 T plain flour
4 T bacon grease
1 lb fresh okra cut in chunks about 1 inch long (you can also use frozen okra - about 12 oz - thawed and drained well)
2 large tomatoes sliced in chunks (you can also use 16 oz can of whole tomoatoes - but drain off tomato liquid, I prefer the fresh tomato)
1 large onion chopped in large pieces
1 green pepper cut in large chunks(nickle sized)
1 clove garlic minced
1 t. file powder (herb made from sassafras leaves)
1/2 t salt (or to taste)
1 T hot sauce (any brand is fine - Louisana Hot Sauce is our favorite)
rice (cooked with the gumbo poured over when done)
Cut the meat in chunks about one inch.
Roll the meat chunks around in the flour until it's covered.
Heat the bacon grease in a large sacue pan
Add the flour coated meat chunks and cook until browned. Stir so that all sides of the meat gets browned.
Use a slotted spatula or spoon and dip the meat out of the bacon grease and put in a bowl for later.
Add the okra and stir around until it's browned. This prevents the okra from tasting slimy.
Once the okra is browned, add the meat back to the sauce pan.
Add the tomatoes, green pepper, onion and garlic.
Add enough water to cover the ingredients in the sauce pan. Don't overdo it. Just add water to go above the items placed in the pot.
Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce the heat. Put a cover on the pot and let the mixture simmer for around 2 hours or until the meat is tender. If you use meat or seafood other than beef, then reduce the time. Beef takes longer to get tender. The mix should look like thick soup when done. It the gumbo mix is getting too dry (or thick) before the meat is tender, you can add a little more water.
Add the file powder, salt and hot sauce and simmer another 30 minutes with the lid off or tilted. Taste the mixture now and then. You may want to add more seasonings, but do not go overboard. Folks can add file and hot sauce after the gumbo is served if they want more zip.
While the seasonings are simmering, cook your rice. Some people like more and some less on the rice. Around six cups is a good ballpark figure. That's six cups cooked and not six cups of raw rice cooked. Six cups of raw rice would make enough to feed an army.
Do offer file (if you can find it) and hot sauce so that family members and/or guests can customize the gumbo to taste.
Notes:
File powder thickens the gumbo and also adds flavor. It's the secret to gumbo in the Deep South. File which does have an accent mark over the e is pronounced like FEE-lay. It may also be sold as "gumbo file."
It may be hard to find file powder outside the Deep South. It is sold online. It's a good herb to add to your rack. If you do not have file and decide to make gumbo, use some thyme and savory (around 1/2 tsp each and then taste and adjust as you wish). You may need to cook the mixture a bit longer if not using the traditional file in the gumbo - to thicken and to get the make-do flavors incorporated.
RECEVD TIS FROM SOME LADY ON LINE
WARNING IF THIS RECIPE SUCKS DON'T BLAME ME
I AM BUT OF A MEGGENGER.......... IT'S A TEXAS HO DOWN
This cake is a Orlando Sheath Cake, however, it comes to us via some good ole Hershey PA chocolate, so it's the best of two great States.
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups plain flour
(set aside the sugar and flour)
In a saucepan:
½ cup Crisco solid vegetable shortening (I use Crisco Sticks)
4 TBLS Hershey's cocoa powder
1 stick margarine or butter
1 cup water
Bring the above to a rapid boil. After it comes to a rapid boil, pour it over the sugar and flour mixture. Mix well, then add:
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking soda
½ cup buttermilk
2 eggs
Pour into a greased oblong baking pan. Bake at 350 oven for 30 minutes, or until it is done. You can stick a tootpick inside the cake, if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
The icing is my son's absolute favorite, as it is similar to fudge:
4 TBLS Hershey's cocoa powder
6 TBLS milk
1 stick butter
1 box powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
Chopped pecans or walnuts
Place first cocoa, milk & butter into a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Then add the confectioner's powdered sugar, vanilla, and nuts.
Frost when the cake is cool.
If you love chocolate and cinnamon, you'll love, love, love this Texas Sheath Cake. It is very good with a nice cup of coffee or hot tea!
receive this from a friend via e-mail sounds pretty good wonder where she found this one.......
My chow mix puppy "Lady" in her hoody takes a nap
Cat gets jury summons - News source: http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=11791095
A Boston family is trying to figure out how their pet cat was summonsed for jury duty.
"I said, Sal, what's this? You know, I don't believe it I was shocked," said Guy Esposito, Sal's owner.
Sal's owners, Guy and Anna Esposito, think they may know the source of the mix up: Sal really is a member of the family, so on the last Census form, Anna Esposito listed him under "pets".
"I just wrote 'Sal Esposito', scratched out the 'dog,' and wrote, 'cat,'" said Anna.
Anna filed for Sal's disqualification of service.
However, the jury commissioner was unmoved and denied the request.
Sal's service date at Suffolk Superior Court is set for March 23.
Anna said that if the issue isn't cleared up by then, she will simply have to bring the cat to court.
This is picture one of two...our pool deck at 10 AM this morning during our Florida "wintry mix".
OKLAHOMA MAY JUST BE THE PLACE TO LIVE! An Oklahoma law passed by 37 to 9, with a few liberals in the mix, an amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol. The feds in D.C., along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake. Oklqhoma is a conservative state, based on Christian values. HB 1330 Guess what, Oklahoma did it anyway. Pelosi said it was unconstitutional. SB1102 Guess what, Oklahoma did it anyway. Several weeks ago, Oklahoma passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign state, not under the Federal Government directives. Joining Texas, Montana and Utah as the first states to do so. More states are likely to follow. Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, both of the Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi, Florida. Save your confederate money, it appears the South is about to rise up once again. HJR 1003 But guess what, Oklahoma did it anyway. Oklahoma has voted for and passed a law that ALL driver's license exams will be printed in English, and only English, and no other language. They have been called racist for doing this, but the fact is that ALL of their road signs are in English. If you want to drive in Oklahoma, you must read and write English. It is really quite simple.
Guess what. Oklahoma did it anyway.
Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate ALL illegal immigrants, and ship them back to where they came from unless they want to get a green card and become an American citizen. They all scattered. HB 1804. This too was against the advice of the Federal Government, and OF COURSE the ACLU, they once again said it would be a mistake.
Recently Oklahoma passed a law to include DNA samples from ANY and ALL illegal aliens to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative purposes.
The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns. Oklahoma passed a law confirming people in their state have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles. I'm sure that was a real setback for the criminals (and the Obamaites). Liberals didn't like it.
By the way, Obama does not like any of this.
Guess what, who cares,Oklahoma is doing it anyway.
To Verify:
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-state-capitol-to-display-ten-commandments/article/3370730
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-09-immigcover_N.htm
BLIND MAN'S TEXAS STYLE FRENCH TOAST RECIPE
INBREEDIENTS
HAND SOAP
DOZEN OF EGGS
TEXAS STYLE FRENCH TOAST BREAD FLOWN IN FROM TEXAS
GLINNAMON SPRINKLES
A GIRDLE SO YOU MAY COOK SEVERAL ALL AT ONE
A TEXAS STYLE LARGE BOWL TO MESINATE YOUR TOAST
REAL 2% MILK
BANILLA
A POUND OF BUTTER
AND YOU FAVORITE FRUIT TOPPINGS XLICED OF COURSE
CLENSE YOUR GIRDLE THEN PREHEAT IT TO FULL
MIX IN A TEXAS BOWEL THE FOLLOWING
A DOZEN EGGS BANILLA USE THE BLENDER TO WHIP THE SNOTT OUT IT
THEN LET STAND 5 MINUTES SO THE SNOTTS FALL TO THE BOTTON
THEN PLACE YOU TEXAS BREAD IN THE BOWEL AND ALLOW TO
MESINATE FOR 20 MINUTES FEW FREE TO ADD YOUR FAVORITE
SHOT DRINK FOR EXTRA FLAVORING I USE BLUEBERRIES SNOTTS
THAT'S THE BEST SOAKING UP ALL THE JUICE IN THE BOWEL
THEN PLACE IN THE BOWEL A POUND OF BYTTER AND ALLOW TO MELT
OH ALMOST FORGOT TURN THE SMOKE DETECTORS OFF THEY WILL SURELY
START TO MAKE THAT PESKY NOISE THEY ALWAYS MAKE
THEN REMOVE THE SOGGY SLAPPY BREAD FROM THE BOWEL
AND PLACE THEM ON THE GIRDLE REALLY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER
AND BURN THEN FOR EXTRA FLAVOR SAVERING EM YUMMIE
COOK ON HIGH ON BOTH SIDES SO THAT THEY ARE EVENLY BURNT
THEN BE SURE TO USE MRS. OBAMA BUTTERWORTH SYURP YOU KNOW THE ONE THAT HAS THAT HANKY ON HER HEAD SO NOT TO GET ANY HAIR IN THE BOWELS
Wispy mix of clouds in West Melbourne