Weather.

[Thomas]

Bird,
And if you should find such a place let me me know a.s.a.p. for I would be out of here. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif


Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[ERNIEB]

Allen,
<font color=blue>As is, it works for me, gives a touch of reality to what I see on the tube.</font color=blue>
I couldn't have said it better. Maybe someone (Thomas?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif) could start a new Thread every week. I don't think anyone would mind if Muhammad sent the older one to the recycle bin.
Thomas, to go with them coffee and donuts, make sure you have some black eyed peas for New Years, so you'll have good luck in the coming year./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie
"I deem it necessary for Texas to be ready to meat an army of eight or ten thousand strong in May next." Eli Mercer (in a letter to Henry Smith Dec,1835)

 

[jimmoore]

Earnie, Thats "hog jowls and black eyed peas" for A LUCKY NEW YEAR. You have to eat both or it won't work. They both go rather well with a pan of Margies' "cornpone" baked in the old iron skillet!! jim

 

[ERNIEB]

Jim, never heard that you had to have hog jowls with them. I'll be having mine with pork tamales, that are made from pigs head. That should be close enough.

Ernie
"I deem it necessary for Texas to be ready to meat an army of eight or ten thousand strong in May next." Eli Mercer (in a letter to Henry Smith Dec,1835)

 

[Bird]

Jim, I never miss having the blackeyed peas and cornbread baked in the cast iron skillet, but didn't know you had to have the hog jowls with it; we've just been using chunks of ham. Maybe that's the reason my luck's been so bad./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

And ErnieB, I know the hog's head was the traditional meat for tamales, but the last 11 years we lived in town, our next door neighbors were a Mexican couple originally from Kansas City. They make their tamales a little different from Tex-Mex, using bigger cubes of pork roast instead of ground or shredded meat, and make the tamales about 4 times as big as what we were accustomed to making. AND TOMORROW WE'RE GOING TO THEIR HOUSE FOR A TAMALE MAKING PARTY!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

 

[ERNIEB]

Bird, I've been envolved in the making of tamales a couple of times. Never could get the hang of it. We get ours from a gal who works with my wife. The homemade ones are best. I've had about every kind thats ever been made, still like the hogs head best. She does make some with refried beans and jalapenos,that are pretty good. My wife ,a city girl from California, likes the pollo (chicken). I like getting them for Christmas, that way I have a lot of presents to unwrap./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie
"I deem it necessary for Texas to be ready to meat an army of eight or ten thousand strong in May next." Eli Mercer (in a letter to Henry Smith Dec,1835)

 

[Thomas]

ERIEB,
How about this for thread in the coming spring.
1.Mud and Ruts
2.Black flies and there cousin the Mosquito.

Thats sound good..black eye peas also w/ venison tender loins mash potatoes w/ real butter,just what I need more rear ballast on the Kubota. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Thomas]

ERNIEB,
Okay I know I from upper north and in a 75% hibernating stage,/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gifbut could you explain what tamales means. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[ERNIEB]

Well, Thomas I'll try. Lets see, you need three things to make tamales. Corn shucks, masa, and the filling. Masa is corn meal mixed with hog lard, or these days a lot of people use vegetable oil or Crisco, and spices. It ends up like a paste. The filling is made with pork, chicken, whatever, and is cooked up with peppers and spices until very tender. You take a corn shuck, spread the masa on it and spoon on the filling. Then comes the real trick, folding the thing up so that the filling is surrounded by masa, and the whole thing is wrapped up nice and neat in the corn shuck. I have never mastered that part. Usually, they are cooked by steaming, to keep them moist. Then it's just unwrap the shuck and enjoy. In this part of the country, there as much a part of Christmas as Santa and a tree. Once, on a visit Gerald Ford was given tamales. He amused the locals by trying to eat one with the shuck still on. I guess he had never heard of tamales either. If anyone ever hands you a tamale, just make sure you remove the shuck before biting into it./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Hey, to Birds list of talents We can now add tamale making, along with pancake flipping/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie
"I deem it necessary for Texas to be ready to meat an army of eight or ten thousand strong in May next." Eli Mercer (in a letter to Henry Smith Dec,1835)

 

[gordon]

Well they are forcasting a pretty good storm for this area tonight and tomorrow. Depending on what model you go by anywhere from 6-18 inchs of the white stuff. Six inches and I'll make a few bucks. But if we get eighteen inches I'll have a sore neck but make quite a few bucks.

Forward--backup--forward--backup--forward--backup--man my neck is sore.

Here are a couple of good weather links. The first has all the models that you can access. http://www.millenniumweather.com/winter/index.html

http://www.wunderground.com/ This one even has local home weather station links.

Let it snow Let it snow Let it snow!!!!
Gordon