Here lately I have been morphing into a form of Suzy Homemaker. And honestly, I don't know what to make of it. Nor does BB. I find myself sitting down every Sunday with cook books searching for different recipes so that I can create my weekly menu for supper. I have also coined Sunday as my official baking day.
So far I have made Pretzel Salad. Which I'm not really sure why it's called a pretzel salad. Having the word salad in the title would give you the indication that it was some type of salad with lettuce, carrots and stuff a normal salad has. Right? Nope, not at all. But it was really, really good. I have also made a Banana Split cake which was scrumdillicious as well as chocolate turtle ooeey gooeey brownies which were simply divine. I also attempted a chess cake. The chess cake didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. It was good but it wasn't like Grandmom's (step-mom). She makes the bomb of a chess cake. Or, as Bb & Lou would say "It's beast"
As part of my transformation I made the decision to put out a garden. That's right. A garden. A garden with real live growing food. The determined location has been plowed, disced, tilled and ready to grow some grub. Therefore, a visit to Anderson County Farm Service to buy our garden grocery list was a necessity.
I love, simply love Anderson County Farm Service. They house and sell feed to farmers and it has a distinct smell that could never be duplicated. When you walk inside the wooden-floor store you literally step back in time.
Picture this.......3 old men in their bibbed overalls accessorized with farmer caps, sitting around a permanent wood burning stove using their pocket knives to peel a slice from the centrally located block of cheese discussing the hopeful outcome of this years crops.
I couldn't help but stare and marvel over them and their surroundings. So, I'm sure I was tagged as "weirdo-of-the-day".
Once we made our selection of enough silver queen corn to produce 3 rows, enough peas for a single row, the same for the green beans, and a variety of other vegetables we then went home and placed them in the ground. Fashioned with my gardening gloves of course.
GOAL - Get everything to grow and keep everything alive until harvest season approaches. By the way, did I mention I plan on canning?
CHALLENGE - Deer and rabbits. Be forewarned Bambi and Thumper. Game on and gloves off if I catch you in my garden.
Until next time - Rose Baggs
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