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Skriven 2008-02-06 14:45:30 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: roots
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Hey Ruth!
-> 
-> -> that I had my first lamb and mint jelly (major disappointment, the
-> -> latter) at her house.  She also made a green bean dish that I always
-> -> liked, finally got the recipe (such as it is) from my aunt about 10
-> 
->  hn> One of my favorite memories from my early childhood is
->  hn> visiting my great grandfather (Paternal) Daniel's farm.
->  hn> He grew peanuts and roasted them on a pot bellied
->  hn> stove in the (I think) living room. What a GREAT smell!
->  hn> and he'd give us warm roasted peanuts by filling our gloves
->  hn> with them...how cool! I remember very little else about him
->  hn> but that memory is very vivid..and so is the smell of roasting
->  hn> peanuts!
-> 
-> I can smell them here!  Something about fresh roasted peanuts.....
-> 
Yep, takes me back to my childhood in a wink!

-> ->  hn> Nothing says home like home cookin!
-> 
-> -> No, and you base a lot of your choices as an adult on memories of what
-> 
->  hn> Yep, Pulled pork BBQ, huspuppies, not sweet cornbread, Sorghum
->  hn> biscuits, biscuits and tomatoes with a slap of fresh churned butter!
-> 
-> Sounds good in my book! When we first got married, one of the ladies we
-> knew in NC "drilled" in me to never make corn bread with any kind of
-> sugar; I still do it that way. (G)
-> 
And boy o boy is it so much better than that stuff they sell!!

->  hn> (yep as a kid I DID get to churn butter sometimes!)
-> 
-> I "churned" it in the mixing bowl or blender in the years we got the raw
-> milk from a local farmer.
-> 
I got to do it on the back porch of my grandparent's house and it
was only fun for the first 10 seconds! 

-> ->  hn> Ahh, Walt Disney...the best show of the weekend, and the sure 
sign
-> ->  hn> that the weekend was over! The best and the worst in the same
-> ->  hn> package (grin)!
-> 
-> -> Yes, it meant school the next day.  They had some pretty good multi 
part
-> -> stories back then.
-> 
->  hn> Oh YES!!
-> 
-> HMMMMMMMMMM, wonder if any are out on DVD now. Speaking of, "The
-> Aristocats" comes out today and I'm going to get it.
-> 
We have a bunch of disney stuff...Anne often takes them 
to school for a treat for the kids when they have a chance for
something like free time! Usually it's a rainy day recess thing.
chat with you soon
hap 
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