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How neat Kevin!!! Have you ever had or been to a taffy pull, it is something I have always wanted to do, and never got around to it! Now I will have to make an effort as I do think it would be so neat!!!
 
Let's see - when you head out to the garden with all your big baskets you first begin to enjoy your labors!

Grab a good-sized mater and chomp on it - make sure it is good - you don't want to feed your family anything that doesn't taste good - no salt needed.

A couple green ones are good for batter/breading.

The cukes and zucchini - there is so much you can do with them!

Peppers - now those could also be taste-tested - you know - just in case your seeds were "bad" - LOL!

Grab a handful of dill for making pickles.

Corn - fresh right off the stalk - sooooo good!

Radishes get a rinse with the garden hose - ditto carrots.

Lettuce - well - just gotta wash it first.
 
Mamma,

All I can say is thank goodness we're not neighbors. We'd stay in hot water w/everyone! And us being such sweet innocent ladies & such, well imagine that!!!

But gosh we would have fun & that'd be that!
 
>sweet innocent ladies & such,<

Ladies? It goes without saying.
Sweet? I'll buy into that.
Innocent? Depondent sayeth not. :D
 
Excuse me - YES, WE ARE LADIES!

Maybe a tad silly at times, maybe even down right NUTS at times - but heck - you only come around once - stuffed shirts are not for me. Don't get me wrong - I've gone to my fair share of $1500/plate dinners.

And I've got news for you - those people are daffy-er than you think!

I just like down to earth people - stuff my pasta instead! LOL
 
This "Candy Day" making the Stained Glass Cany is the closest I've come to a taffy-pull, Cathy... Though I've always heard of them- and I love me some taffy, for sure! My niece loves banana-flavored "Laffy Taffy". I get her a big thing of it from Sam's Club everytime I go...
 
Here you CAG - call us when it's ready!

2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup white corn syrup
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon glycerin (can be purchased at a ********)
Flavoring extract:
* 1 teaspoon peppermint oil extract = Peppermint Taffy
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract = Vanilla Taffy
* 1 teaspoon banana extract = Banana Taffy
7 drops food coloring
2 tablespoons butter



* Mix sugar, water, corn syrup, salt, and glycerin in a heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook to a temperature of 258 degrees F.
* Remove from heat and let stand for two to three minutes. Then add flavor extract, color and butter and stir vigorously until butter is melted. Pour into buttered cookie sheet.
* Cool until lukewarm taffy can be handled.
* Begin to stretch and fold over and over until taffy turns paler in color, about 10 minutes. You may find this easier to do with a small amount of butter or oil on your hands.
* Roll taffy into long rope. Cut into individual pieces and wrap in wax paper.
 
Yum- I love taffy! Thank ya, mama!

I'd re-share the funny Johnny Carson joke about the taffy-pulling contest to be held at the Church of St. Peter... but something tells me it wouldn't make it past the newly inspired and re-invigorated nasty-word police... So, following KYH's lead from yesterday: "#144!!!" Ha!
 
144!

Too early for that one, Chubbs. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

But did you hear about the traveling salesman in 278? ;)
 
Mama thank you so much for posting the Taffy recipe! While I am on vacation I am going to do this with my granddaughter and fiance! This may become an annual vacation time tradition!!!
 
I'm actually not Catholic, Cathy... so my catechism tale was just that- a made-up tale, but I did get to hear Arturo's stories about growing up in the faith. I was raised loosely as a Methodist- in a farm-town of Mennonites. I liked the Methodists 'cause their basement potlucks were better- not to mention their politcs! Hee-Hee! Actually, neither Mom nor Dad were that religious in those days- they mainly just liked sending us to any church that would pick us up in the bus and haul us away Sunday morning so they could do whatever it was that married couples would do on Sunday mornings when their kids weren't underfoot! Ha!
 
:D Every Methodist I have ever know tells me their parents made them get on the church bus every Sun. Morning! I think those Methodist parents had some kind of a secret pact that awarded their children Frequent Rider Miles for going on that church bus every Sun Morning :D Then the parents got to cash in those Miles Rewards for really neat stuff unbeknownst to their Sun morning bus riding kiddies :D And that is my theory on the Methodist Kids getting to have all that Sun morning fun riding buses while we were in catechism classes!!!:D
 
Garrison Keillor, the author/radio-show host of NPR's "Prairie Home Companion" says that Methodists are lucky- they don't have to wear starched shirts! (he was a Lutheran from small-town Minnesota, donchaknow? And talk about KINGS of the church-basement POTLUCK!)
 
Love Garrison Keller & Prarie Home Companion, I Had Been Meaning To Let You Know That And It Kept Slipping My Mind. I Also Love Paul Harvey And...
Now You; Kevin..... Know The Rest Of The Story!!!

Love Story Telling In All It's Forms!
 
Vegetables fresh from the garden are like manna from Heaven for me...lol..love em ! Right now my Tomatoes are getting ripe and I'll eat those anyway you fix em ! I am getting a few eggplant too and last night I sliced one and drizzled it with olive oil and cooked it on the grill. Then I put a slice of tomatoe on top and Mozzarella cheese , put it in the oven and melted the cheese, sprinkled chopped garlic over and MmmMMM Good !
 
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