Couples Cooking with New Stove
Both A and B strongly prefer a gas stove over electric. In our case, propane is used. Most gas stoves come prepped for natural gas. Once upon a time, the conversion from NG to propane was simple. Unbolt a connection, turn it in the opposite direction, screw it on, you are done.
Well, not so in today's higher tech world. A and B happen to have a good friend who worked for a firm that sold appliances, and the friend had tools, time, and wanted to help.
Now, A is the sous chef on most days, so B is doing the christening cook. B comes excitedly to the porch, where A is enjoying beer, glad not to be cooking, and says, "It is level! The stove is level! I drained off the ground chuck fat all over the pan, not just one side! It is Other Worldly!" The stove top has a griddle. A cleaned it before First Use, and B will inaugurate the use of it by heating and blackening tortillas. A did purchase a brand of salsa not yet tried, and will likely get 120% credit for the meal's success just for that sharp eye grab.
A bakes and eats cornbread occasionally, while B stares and wonders wtf? Why? Ewww.
A will now have cornbread that is no longer 1/2 in.on the back side, 1 1/2 in. on the front side, because---level! B can just turn a blind eye. A don't give a shit!
A and B anticipate the oven temperature will be accurate and even, not 30 degrees hotter than set. Back side same temperature as front side...Other Worldly!
Now, ANYBODY coming for my stove will be met with fists, curse words, or worse, because A and B can't influence much, can't control much, except a fucking stove. If you do not protect a stove, all is lost!
We will stand our ground for The Stove.
The first tortilla is on the griddle. Exploring a new world.
Please give A and B your good will and best wishes!
A wants to share that Lowe's had the Samsung on sale. We saved $200.00.
I hope everyone has the kitchen equipment the need, and hope even more the kitchen equipment you want. I am not unmindful that members face hard times, challenges, and A and B wish we could feed you all.
Love to all!
Bon appetit!
Comments
Exquisite timing you two
good movie clip!
My Dad was a drop out, never attended high school. He became a train jumping hobo, worked here and there, sent $ home so his parents could feed his siblings. He told stories about all the Depression Hobos, everyone dumped whatever they had into the soup pot. That is all they had, morning, noon, and night.
After he got discharged from the Army in 1948, he would gag at soup.
That is, until he turned 80 or so, when I started bringing he and Mom soup. The last meal Mom ate was a bowl of soup I made her, and Dad was expecting me to make his soup dinner the day he died.
Poverty truly is the all about the food we ever ate.
The tacos were great! Stove is AWESOME!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Without food where would we be
Without the sacrifices of your father you might not be enjoying tacos ; ).
There's little that is more satisfying than enjoying a meal together.
Janice b,
my parents, g'parents, older aunts and older uncles went through The Great Depression, and WWII.
They were farmers, ranchers, mule skinners (loggers with mule teams), and I heard first hand stories throughout my youth and early adulthood.
Kitchen stoves were a new thing to them in the 50s. Before that, wood stoves.
My parents never wanted me and my brother to experience making a little food go a long way in a soup pot.
A mix of Depression era thinking, and Southern hospitality, food, especially for others, is just how we live. Just this week, a neighbor cooked a bunch of pork ribs in his commercial grade smoker. He brought me enough to the office for my lunches for 3 days, and that is just how we do it around here.
Sharing food, togetherness, is our version of No Child Left Behind.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It's similar here in the deep, deep South ; )
This little community feeds each other.
Hell, every country has a South,
even if they don't ha ve a version of Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
; )))
B did the hard cookin',
so I washed the dishes.
My Mom once or twice went out into the yard, picked some leaves from weeds. She cooked a pot of them, something like collard greens. Not many here actually ever ate, much less enjoyed, back yard weeds, as some of us down south did.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Collard Greens, yum
A favourite of the cabbage family. I even grew them last season.
I could listen to Tony Joe White, but couldn't see anything on the black screen.
Hmmm...
I can't fix it. Not sure what happened. At least you got the music.
Poor folks ate poke. I have eaten it, and it is good. I am that last generation to know food in the weeds, in the wild. We didn't eat it as salad greens, but boiled it with pork, ate it with cornbread.
My tastes have changed over my life, but I never lost the taste for greens and cornbread. Same for my brother.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I'm glad you enjoyed
a nourishing upbringing. Left with the taste of wild cabbage greens and corn probably can't be beat.
Guten appetit!
Since I do not have children
it is the stopping place for my teaching. Everything I know from my family, or that I experienced, ends when I do, which is coming sooner, rather than later. I am 1000 years old in dog years. At least that is my reason for being late to court occasionally.
Maybe those coming into the world in the future might read books and figure out what music lyrics were all about.
Not everybody knows about, or has experienced southern hospitality.
I hope they get a dose of it. It is like expanding your family circle.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Our second gas stove was a real chore to switch over
from natural gas to propane. It's a
Bosch. The manifold had to be modified,
then the jets replaced. Of course you had to
disassemble the case to get to the components
works with the power out and roast peppers are
divine, the tortillas bake up nicely with the dry round cast iron griddle.
Cookin' with fire is the way to go!
question everything
The conversion
required purchasing a hose, a connection, and what the guy called "dope" to seal the connections. It was quite a chore!
Years ago, my brother installed appliances, and the conversion took a couple of minutes. However, they were not as energy efficient or durable as the newer models.
Warming up or lightly browning tortillas on an electric stove sucks! Our griddle is 5 in. by 36 in. 4 tortillas fit on it nicely.
I have an electric stove at my office. It is sort of a pain in the ass to use.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
So is that like if you're 10 minutes late
it's more like a day late? ; )
Lol!
To TPTB, not I.
Flowers are blooming, weather is warm, butterflies coming, a GREAT time of year for B to do the cooking while A lends him moral support!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
You *can't* eat poke as salad greens
It's too toxic for that. (No, it won't kill you, but it will leave you vomiting up your toenails and wishing you were dead.)
Boiled - and in several changes of water at that - is the only safe way to eat it.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
That's the reason my family
got such a kick out of the song.
For generations, we properly boiled poke salad leaves.
edit: For clarity, and for regional (southern) names...We always called the weed poke salad. It was never used to make salad.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The new stove
connects to the internet.
I might help it join c99. User name: Hottie Stove.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
be very careful of connected appliances
ou local electrical service has been begging me to make
my thermostat 'smart' ie: connected to their controls
why stop there? connect the reefer, toaster, micro and stove
whenever they figure out how to make a smart toilet, we be in deep shit
oops, it's already here
but does it use robots to wipe your ass efficiently?
no thanks
question everything
We do not connect
appliances, thermostats, and TPTB can kiss our asses. Ridiculous innovations. An internet provider in charge of ass cleanliness?
I call them out as ass wipes!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I can say,
B lent moral support, A roasted a 1 1/2 lb roast beef to perfection in that new, and LEVEL, and TRUE TEMPERATURE oven tonight.
Hope everyone has properly installed, properly working appliances in their kitchens!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981