I Heard on John Tesh's Radio Show Tonight...

[chubbyalaskagriz]

...that in this economy sources report SO many changes and adaptations in our American habits in just a short time. More of us are brown-bagging it at work, more are cooking at home rather than dining-out or ordering-in, we're camping and fishing rather than taking expensive vacations, we're reverting back to ironing our own clothes rather than dropping them by the Cleaners, more folks are buying percolators and brewing coffee at home than ever before... I thought it was interesting that most of these were food related- or at least related somehow to homemaking. It's amazing just how deeply into LUXURY our enjoyment of cuisine takes us as we prosper more and more in society. I take this as a clear sign that we who love the art of cooking are in it for all the right reasons!

 

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Kevin I couldn't agree with you more not only are we into cooking for all the right reasons, we are one step ahead of the game. I think we are in for the time of our lives!!! Since my extended family has arrived we have planned the new garden spot out, picked fresh figs for a reduction sauce to go with fish for supper on Tues night. And have begun planning for all those wonderful fall vegetables we will have on the table for this Thanksgiving. I am so happy!!!! We will grow most of it, and not only will it be chock full of good nutrition it will taste better than anything you can buy at a store that is good Lord knows how old!
Another example of how some hard times in life can turn to good!

 

[cookie]

I like John Tesh's Radio Show, I listen & learn and I believe his facts! Cookie

 

[Keziah]

The meaning of brown bagging it.. is that a packed lunch?

I always took a packed lunch to work, an my husband still does. I would never dream of taking my ironing to a dry cleaners or to the laundry.

I have always brewed my own coffee in a perc. I've tried a filter machine but the coffee was tepid. Not nice.

I know it is a small town but we do have these facilities here, but I would never use them ordinarily. I worked in a dry cleaners as a teenager and they are nothing but crooks.

Most of the stuff that is labled dry clean only can be washed with a tinsy little bit of washing up liquid and cold water at home.

Curtains are never pressed in the dry cleaners, they come out of the large machine warm, they are quickly folded and left.

It's a swizz.

 

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Yes Keziah "Brown-bagging" is a term for a lunch you put into a brown bag and carry. I have always carried my lunch to work - namely left-overs! They are so good and nicer to eat than a cold sandwich or such. When I was a child our lunches were in little brown-bags that had our names scribbled on them. I like p-nut butter and jelly, but the jelly always made the bread too moist and yucky, bologna and cheese was my favorite, and liverwurst> FORGET IT I would get sick to my stomache, I do not know why she even put that into my lunch---liver has always made me sick!) I understand that this bad economy is making it necessary for folks to "Brown-bag" their lunches, but I think that is not a bad thing or a big deal at all! Except for all the restaurants that are loosing all the revenue they would normally get!!!

 

[Keziah]

I think it is a good thing to brown bag it, ( packed lunch it). At least you know what you are eating. Nothing added, and nothing taken away. Also keeps your money in your own pocket and not someone elses.

I wonder if your liverwurst is our haslet? Its a very strong, spicy, kind of smooth, faggot loaf that can be sliced. I don't know how else to explain it. It seems to have gone out of fashion in the UK I have not seen it at the deli counter for long time.

I think sometimes it is not just the ecconomy it's just people coming to their senses. What's the point of waisting money when you can save it up and have a holiday, or something nice for ourselves.

 

[Keziah]

Cook Chatty Cathy

What is bologna?

 

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

The best way I know hot to explain bologna is like this= a huge long and wide hotdog that you can slice into 1/8 inch lunch meat. Slap in onto 2 slices of bread with a little mayonnaise and mustard and a piece of sliced American cheese and ***VioLa*** you have the favorite lunch box sandwich a kid could want to eat Room temp, hot, cold it doesn't matter that bologna is so tasy even fried you'd love it!!!

 

[Keziah]

Bologna.....Sounds a bit like what we would call Spam. I like Spam, but I have not had it for a long time, my husband likes if fried, yuk. He's not allowed he's getting to that age.

What I call bologna is sort a very thick italian sauce, I had visions of you trying to keep that in between two slices of bread.