Good morning!!!!

[PILOON]

Well April fooled me.

Thought spring was here but I had to scrape the snow off of my car windows and the lake is all frozen over again.
Making it worst they predict up to 30" over Tuesday/Wed so I topped up the tractor fuel.

Someone talked of horseradish.
I got some when a friend was demolishing a building. The owner had planted some for the foliage which is actually quite nice.

Well I needed an axe to get some root.
Gosh that stuff grows like a weed. Any little tiny bit or chunk I dropped has taken root and the garden is getting overgrown.
Gotta mash some and make horseradish as we do love it. ('nother project)

 

[Ed of all trades]

Jay, congrats on the dog. One of my favorite side dishes is Horseradish Bread and Butter Pickles. :thumbsup:That is only Horseradish in our house.


Good Morning All.

I like dog too, never tried it with horseradish and pickles though. Ed

 

[sodamo]

LS, don’t really have a set schedule for the water, probably should have.
We filter going into the tanks as well as coming in out. From time to
time I’ll remove the caps on the first flush pipes and rinse out, I have three custom filters between first flush and the tanks consisting of nylon mesh filter and panty hose. I’ll replace those every couple of months. The after pump portion I described earlier is more yearly but not always with the complete disinfecting. And we test periodically.

 

[jbrumberg]

I like dog too, never tried it with horseradish and pickles though. Ed

Reads to be nice balance of "heat" and "sour cool" with nice textural components.

I highly suspect that I ate dog at a Chinese restaurant years ago. It definitely was not lamb. Whatever it was it went well with the Sichuan hot pepper sauce.

Ron- Thanks. I like Boar's Head products. I have not yet tried those pickles. After many years of consuming "Kosher Dill" pickles only, I have slowly broadened my tastes to include Bread and butter pickles. Thanks for the link.

 

[sodamo]

Think of myself more of a beer drinker than the hard stuff. About the only time I have one of the watered down American types is when visiting someone else. As for home, I have a 2 tank kegerator tap with local brews, usual a dark and light ale. Unfortunately, part of my weight plan these past couple weeks has been no beer
Living in Europe 6 years not only refined my bier tastes but spoiled our wine as is was so easy and cheap to drink good stuff. When we host our potlucks I always include that we will be serving vintage box wine. Actually it’s what we usually have if having a glass with a meal - usually Chillable Red or White Zin.
Parents vacillated between CC and ginger ale and Bacardi and coke, so that was my later growing years. First wife had a taste for scotch, Dewars preferred, so I’ve my share of that. Sampled a number of bourbons and scotch thru the years but nothing that really stuck. A few years back we started hanging out with an older couple mostly into vodka, usually straight vodka on the rocks. Guess that somewhat stuck as a couple times a week that will be our choice for a single drink.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Box wine

Cardboardeaux.

Have drank plenty of it myself.

Easter Service was great. Church had 3 services with an hour break between each. 1st break was all you can eat breakfast (just ate 1 plate with a small piece of sausage patty). 2nd break was for the kids' easter egg hunt.

Just put a large pressure cooker pot full of fresh green beans and new potatoes on. Once it rattles, it only takes 2.5 minutes of rattling. Cut your potatoes in 3/4" chunks for them to be tender too. I sprinkle some Nature's Seasons on them.

Patiently waiting for time to eat.

 

[jbrumberg]

PILOON- Sooner or later Spring will reach your parts of Canada.

I made the mistake of planting horseradish in the garden. Major blunder. +30 years later I am still removing shoots there. I gave some to a friend. He did not listen to my planting advise. Which ultimately led to his moving the garden to another location. The horseradish patch became his bonfire site. That kind of works at management.

 

[Bird]

Seltzer water is an "acquired taste." I like it. It mixes well. I think it really changes the taste of scotch especially the "good stuff."

In the days before I drank any alcoholic drinks, an older friend told me that scotch was an acquired taste; that no one likes it at first. Well, he was wrong. The first time I ever tasted scotch (Johnny Walker Red Label), I knew that scotch would be my preference of the whiskeys.

And seltzer water changes the taste of scotch? It sure did, and one taste was enough for me.:laughing:

 

[Bird]

I've not had much experience with horseradish EXCEPT . . . I've always liked Arby's original sandwich with their "horsey sauce". I'm also quite fond of shrimp cocktails and a lot of years ago, one night I found that I had shrimp on hand, but no cocktail sauce. So I mixed about 50/50 ketchup and horseradish sauce and I liked it so much that I still do that instead of using genuine cocktail sauce.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

With the upcoming surgery on Wednesday, all this talk about liquor has made me think of an alternative plan if they don't give me any pain killers...(you know...there's a prescription pain killer abuse epidemic going on). I ussually don't drink at all except maybe on a special occasion, so even 1 shot will probably help considerably. My plan will be to just sample all the scotch, whiskey, bourbon,vodka, and rum in the closet (most of it is at least 20 years old...hope it's still good):shocked::licking:

I wish you the best of luck for your procedure, and your post-op pain relief plan. When I cleaned out my mother's house after she passed, I found a cabinet full of old bottles up over the refrigerator. Not the best place for 'em, as the heat from the 'fridge caused some of them to spoil, and increased the evaporation rate through the caps of others. In a few cases it outright destroyed the corks, turning them into dust the second they were touched. I think the only survivor was a bottle of Jim Beam I'd left there several years before; none of the really old stuff was good for anything. And some of it was reeeealy old, perhaps twenty years!:confused2:

 

[jbrumberg]

Bird- The only difference between your cocktail sauce and the prepared stuff is some lemon juice, worcester sauce, and a dash of hot sauce and your sauce is probably hotter which is wifey and I prefer. I really like/liked that Arby's "horsey sauce." I make a wasabi mayonnaise which is made by mixing wasabi powder which is really food colored dried/powdered horseradish and mayonnaise which is really "close" taste-wise to the horsey sauce. Finding that wasabi powder is not easy, but 1 tin lasts forever.

Kyle- "Cardboardeaux" I rarely if ever drink it anymore. It brings up some rather "unpleasant memories."

 

[sodamo]

One of my worst memories of my youth was the morning after a night with one of the bottles of Chianti that came in a basket type wrap. Don’t think I’ve had Chianti since.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Kyle- "Cardboardeaux" I rarely if ever drink it anymore. It brings up some rather "unpleasant memories."

I have similar memories related to Seagram's 7. It was a double header dose of food poisoning headlined by a pizza from a place called Theresa's. I still like pizza, but I'll never mix whiskey and cola again!

 

[Thomas]

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Comfortable chair mostly outside when sun setting. :thumbsup:

 

[RoyJackson]

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Comfortable chair mostly outside when sun setting. :thumbsup:

Yep...on the deck (Adirondack chair) puffing on a cigar (we don't smoke in the house) sipping on Cutty Sark, enjoying the late afternoon and evening...can't beat it!
Cutty Sark probably isn't the best scotch available (I'm not a connoisseur) but has a nice smoky aftertaste that goes well with a good cigar.

 

[Bird]

All this talk about different drinks and no one has mentioned Thunderbird or MD 20-20.:laughing: In the mid '60s, Thunderbird was the wine of choice of the street people in Dallas, but then it was replaced by MD 20-20. I guess I was always a bit surprised by the change from a white wine to a red one. I tried the Thunderbird once; horrible stuff, and I always wanted to taste MD 20-20 but not enough to buy a bottle, so I've never tasted it.:laughing:

 

[RoyJackson]

All this talk about different drinks and no one has mentioned Thunderbird

What's the word?
THUNDERBIRD!!
Who drinks the most?
(remainder is politically incorrect and somewhat racist)

Then there was Ripple Wine...the wine that destroyed Norfolk Virginia!!

 

[jbrumberg]

Bali Hi(sp?) and Arribas(sp?) were another common street wines and like all of them, often "fortified" with psychoactive chemicals. More unpleasant memories and not of the additives.

A well equipped wino's wine cellar and more unpleasant memories. Must be served at ambient temperature, in the original container, and in a paper bag.

 

[daugen]

Enjoyed an early Easter dinner with a little something special, my own salad and pak choy. It was time to pick, and my cheap Amazon veggie knife worked great, long handle means I don't have to bend as much and it slid through like butter with a slight sawing motion. I left an inch of lettuce on the bottom, pretty sure it will grow back.
After slicing the cabbage into smaller pieces I sauteed it with some bits of ham and a leftover sausage, some ginger, Worcestershire, garlic and East Carolina vinegar and pepper sauce.
Chinese cabbage has lots of flavor and not bitter at all if picked this young. Really no way of cutting that off high enough to let it grow back, so what's there is it. Plenty...

So my basemark for early will now be, am I eating something I grew by Easter. I'm sure folks in Texas are.

And for every success, there are failures. Repeated ones... cucumbers got way too windblown the day I put them out, just beat them to death. Plus I didn't harden them enough.
Which reminds me I need to bring in the seedling trays on the back porch where they are prepping for their big day. Soil temp was 70 when I left it, dropping to about 50 at night.
Hopefully some warm days ahead will germinate the beans. Before it gets cold again...up down up down.
This week I plant the melons which will go outside in two weeks.

Hope you all have had a wonderful day with family.

 

[Thomas]

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Do you have problem w/deer and hogs etc. enjoying your garden also?