How many of you guys here really, really enjoy cooking and planning meals?

RobertN · Mar 13, 2015

I'm only 20 minutes away and you did not invite me over to taste test this!

downsizingnow48 said:
My wife is out of town and so I revert to one-pan (or one-pot) meals. Sacramento has some great Mexican grocery stores. This is Guatemalan red beans, pork feet, dried chiles, onion, garlic, Mexican oregano.

OldMcDonald · Mar 13, 2015

DFB said:
Wow you really are a McDonald

OldMcDonald do you have any squash favorites now considering your current location...some of my most favorite squashes I like to grow have deep Mediterranean roots!

Yes I am, there are quite a lot of us. Before coming to PortugaL I was on the Black Isle in northern Scotland and owned Hazza Farm.

For the kitchen any of the butternuts. For stock feed Queensland Blue, because they store a long time and I have problems growing swedes here - summers too hot. I grow a few bigger summer squashes too for stock.

2LaneCruzer " Interpretation please?" Jack o' Lantern and (as previously posted) one of the words used for swede. Bagie was the most common where I was brought up, snaggie less so, and swede if you were being polite.

RobertN "Pumpkins, like tomatoes, were a New World fruit/veggie". Yes, but it is not THAT long ago that I was in my 20s!!!!

downsizingnow48 · Mar 13, 2015

RobertN said:
I'm only 20 minutes away and you did not invite me over to taste test this!

now that would be good!

:drink:

2LaneCruzer · Mar 13, 2015

OldMcDonald said:
Yes I am, there are quite a lot of us. Before coming to PortugaL I was on the Black Isle in northern Scotland and owned Hazza Farm.

For the kitchen any of the butternuts. For stock feed Queensland Blue, because they store a long time and I have problems growing swedes here - summers too hot. I grow a few bigger summer squashes too for stock.

2LaneCruzer " Interpretation please?" Jack o' Lantern and (as previously posted) one of the words used for swede. Bagie was the most common where I was brought up, snaggie less so, and swede if you were being polite.

RobertN "Pumpkins, like tomatoes, were a New World fruit/veggie". Yes, but it is not THAT long ago that I was in my 20s!!!!

Are you saying that since pumpkins weren't available, you made Jack o' Lanterns out of a similar vegetable called by various names...baggie, snaggie and Swede?

DFB · Mar 13, 2015

2LaneCruzer said:
Are you saying that since pumpkins weren't available, you made Jack o' Lanterns out of a similar vegetable called by various names...baggie, snaggie and Swede?

2LaneCruzer check out that Wiki link I attached in post #173

OldMcDonald · Mar 13, 2015

2LaneCruzer said:
Are you saying that since pumpkins weren't available, you made Jack o' Lanterns out of a similar vegetable called by various names...baggie, snaggie and Swede?

Yes, except they are not similar to pumpkins. As 2Lane says, the link he gave is quite good (not perfect, but quite good) and shows a Jack Shine the Miggy towards the end. It also gives a suggestion that we called them bagies because of the "baga" bit on the end of the Swedish word. I note it also says pumpkins became readily available in the 1980s. That is probably right, but I was farming in Australia then, and I noticed when I returned to the UK in 1992 that pumpkins were in the shops and Hallow'een had become yet another excuse for shops to sell tat. Hallow'een was not celebrated before I left for Australia in 1979. I think it may have been in the south of England and parts of Scotland, but it seems universal now.

DFB · Mar 13, 2015

OldMcDonald said:
the link he gave is quite good (not perfect, but quite good) and shows a Jack Shine the Miggy towards the end. It also gives a suggestion that we called them bagies because of the "baga" bit on the end of the Swedish word. I note it also says pumpkins became readily available in the 1980s. That is probably right, but I was farming in Australia then, and I noticed when I returned to the UK in 1992 that pumpkins were in the shops and Hallow'een had become yet another excuse for shops to sell tat. Hallow'een was not celebrated before I left for Australia in 1979. I think it may have been in the south of England and parts of Scotland, but it seems universal now.

McDonald you do know you can add to or edit a Wiki article. Share your own experiences and especially if there is something you see that may need correction.

tcreeley · Mar 13, 2015

Pumpkin carving, jack o lanterns, and halloween were always a part of New England! -Even tales of the headless horseman!
-- jelly beans- don't know where those came from! But witches... we had witches!
Only thing worse than cleaning out a pumpkin...is having to do two - 1 for each kid!

downsizingnow48 · Mar 13, 2015

tcreeley said:
1 for each kid!

Oh yes. Well I remember "Let's carve pumpkins, yay!" My wife says, "oh that will be so much fun". OK as soon as knife touches pumpkin everyone looks to me. One year we had to have about a dozen small ones on the front porch all with different faces.

DFB · Mar 13, 2015

2LaneCruzer said:
I love fried eggplant! Only problem is I don't get it very often, since der frau doesn't care for it...fried squash is her thing. I even like fried green tomatoes!

Hey one my friends has Zucchini Fritter recipe (a prior recorded podcast) on her webpage.

Listen to Radio Show

And another does some awesome Mediterranean food recipes. She recently took a trip to Portugal too geez she could have visited OldMcDonald

http://www.mediterraneanliving.com/recipe-items/greek-potato-salad-patata-salata/