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Flaming Sword posted on Recipes I'm harvesting green beans like crazy. I need some new recipes for them. As a single, small batch recipes are even better. And nothing with vinaigrette please. One of the few things I don't much care for. I also would love some tomato ideas, other than fresh sliced. Oh yeah, and yellow squash.
Wednesday at 14:05 EST .
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Ynaught Yum, fresh green beans! This is my favorite recipe for them:
Green Beans Caesar
1 1/2 lb fresh green beans cut in 1 in pieces
2 tbs salad oil
1 tbs red wine vinegar
1 tbs instant minced onion
1/4 tsp salt
1 clove garlic, crushed
1/4 tsp pepper
2 tbs dry bread crumbs (or crushed pork rinds )
2 tbs parmesean cheese
1 tbs butter
paprika to taste
Mix together and bake, covered, in 350 oven for 45 minutes
Wednesday at 21:40 EST .
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Flaming Sword Thank you,
I have all ingredients on hand and will try this tomorrow if I don't have to work late. If I do, it will be a grilled cheese and glass of milk:- )
Wednesday at 22:07 EST .
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Flaming Sword posted on Main Page The Lobby Surf's OK. Thank you God. So many more to keep praying for.
May 20 at 20:26 EST .
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Gram77 Great, some good news.
May 20 at 20:46 EST .
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Balogreene Magdalene, so glad you too are well. I prayed, but thought of you as the woman with the same name as my late cat. I told God, He knew who I meant.
May 20 at 22:59 EST .
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Flaming Sword posted on Household Hints I found a really good trigger sprayer.
Under $4.00.
I own several of these. One for Windex, one for Daconil, one for my insecticide spray.
The spray volume is 3 times normal so now I don't wear out my finger.
Adjustable stream/spray of course.
These are only sold at Walmart. In the grocery dept., cleaning supplies aisle.
I'm really happy with mine.
The Bottle Crew 3x High Output Adjustable Formula Sprayer, 32 oz.
You can Google that and Walmart will come up with a pic of what you're looking for.
May 19 at 16:39 EST .
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BirdsNest I always buy mine from Dollar Tree but they do not last very long, I will try one of these.
Wednesday at 08:16 EST .
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Flaming Sword posted on Gardening & Landscaping To avoid the news, I've been spending more time with my Earthboxes. I now have 12.
Has anyone tried the new grafted Mighty Matoes they are selling? I bought a Black Krim and a Mortgage lifter and they are both now about 7 feet tall and loaded with tomatoes and new blooms.
Absolutely loaded. I'm picking ripe tomatoes now . I picked a Krim the other day that weighed 14 oz. and the average is said to be 8oz. There's one I'm waiting for. Green as can be but clearly much bigger than that 14 ouncer.
Also picking green beans,yellow squash and and bell peppers like crazy. Still waiting for the corn and the okra.
May 19 at 16:17 EST .
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BirdsNest Wow!! You are WAY ahead of us. Right now we are enjoying lettuces, spinach, and radishes. Peas are blooming, beets are 6" high, onions are ready to eat,strawberries are ripening,picked Swiss Chard for dinner tonight. Beans are up but not growing all that fast.
May 19 at 18:35 EST .
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Carmen Green with envy! Just yesterday I got my tomatoes and peppers planted. Then in the afternoon with had a wonderful rainstorm to water everything in. The asparagus tastes wonderful right now but we will be sick of it in a couple of months. No blossoms on the peas yet but should be able to pick lettuce and radishes by the end of the weed. Iris and Peonies are about ready to bloom and everything looks wonderfully green.
I love this time of year!
May 20 at 08:15 EST .
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BirdsNest We have not yet set out tomatoes or peppers. I am a bit gun shy, the temps are still wobbly. Still have to plant squash and watermelon seed and waiting for a bit warmer ground temps for okra seed to go in. Still have about 15 strings to attach to the pole bean trellis and it will be complete. I will get Hagar to snap a pic when it gets completed and once the beans start running up. Those better be darn good beans, there is a tremendous amount of sweat equity in that rig.
May 20 at 09:09 EST .
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Balogreene I haven't even weeded last year's pots, let alone thought about buying anything to put them in the pots.
May 20 at 21:12 EST .
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BirdsNest Today's torture was finishing the 4x8 raised bed-filling it with soil and compost, all of which had to be sifted. And I weeded the spinach bed, Have I mentioned I HATE to weed? Picked a few strawberries and 2 red onions for dinner along with some Swiss chard for tonight. Tomorrow's torture is more weeding and spot planting the beans that did not come up.
May 21 at 20:35 EST .
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Flaming Sword I have a new Earthbox gardening tip.
Do not continue to harvest your yellow squash if you separate the leaves and find a fledgling robin sitting deep in there.
I don't know who was more startled. He just sat there for a bit staring at me. As I tried to gently move away he flew to the ground and started screaming. Then I saw Momma. She was not amused. Love it !
May 21 at 20:55 EST .
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Flaming Sword posted on Main Page The Lobby Bad day,bad week,bad year? I'm feeling so depressed about what's happening to my country. Illegals, abortionists ,homosexuals and their demands running rampant,crooks in office, monetary decline, the trashing of Christians and our churches. I need somewhere to go to fight. But there are so many issues, I'm feeling that we have lost to the "heathens"?
I can't get much more despondent.
Am I alone? I'm feeling tonight that I need to give it up and just let them win. I'm trying to fight a battle of right, and I'm outnumbered by the Godless.
Is it just me?
May 2 at 23:18 EST .
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Montanabound No, you are not alone. I am currently watching the memorial service for George Jones on dvr, and hearing the country stars singing the great gospel songs is making me feel better. The scriptures prophesied all that is happening, and God is still in charge. Times are tough and going to get tougher, but it all ends well for us.
May 2 at 23:32 EST .
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Flaming Sword "but it all ends well for us"
Thanks. It's getting really hard to remember. Every day on the internet websites I see hundreds more showing the collapse of our values. I am truly frightened.
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May 2 at 23:44 EST .
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Ole buzzard We are not outnumbered by the Godless. It is just that they scream so loudly and so incessantly that they drown out all else. The day is fast approaching that the Godly rise up and silence them.
Keep the Faith.
May 3 at 07:11 EST .
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BirdsNest FS, right back 'atcha. It has been pretty much nightmarish since Nov. Every day some new hell is posted online that causes us to scream at the computer screen. One foot in front of the other. Every day.
May 3 at 07:42 EST .
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Ynaught When Bill Clinton won his re-election I went into the most incredible funk that I thought I was going to have to seek professional help. I just knew the country could not survive four more years of him. But we did and BO ain't no BC! We can survive this pretender as long as we don't give up hope!
May 3 at 10:01 EST .
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Clover We can and we will survive this administration. Our next president must be a person who truly loves and respects our military, the rule of law and our right to life as each individual understands it.
There is one universal solvent: truth. This administration has lied to us from the beginning. In the future, we can expect the same!
May 3 at 10:30 EST .
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Fireball27 Hey Flaming Sword, you are not alone at all! My way to fight back at least a little, is to tell the informed how our college students are getting hosed by having to pay out of state tuition, while illegals get the cheaper in state rate. I also point out almost all illegals are guilty of identity theft. Then I ask if they want their SSN used by an illegal. We don't tell them what to think, we make them think.
May 3 at 12:31 EST .
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Labrador Heaven sometimes, you have to ride out to meet it -the evil- and confront it with the full love of God emanating from within you. Ride out to meet it, knowing consequences.
That's how much we're facing. High Noon for human souls, our longstanding way of life before invasion and illegitimate leaders and rule breaking, and what good remains in the world that was cherished by generations and our families past.
May 6 at 22:08 EST .
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Flaming Sword posted on Gardening & Landscaping Oh no. I just saw my first stinkbug. On my window. And I haven't even planted anything yet. They destroyed everything last summer.
March 15 at 14:41 EST .
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Surfhut We have had 2 winters here in OKC with very little extended freeze. I'm sure the bugs are going to be a problem this Spring & Summer. I nearly had to do battle last year to keep the crickets and grasshoppers from coming in when I opened my door.
March 15 at 20:56 EST .
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Escaped commieny going to have to go to the computer wall, every time I try to use the spell check with Firefox, it deletes the whole comment, back to IE. Anyway, I tried to write that Attercliffe put me on the food grade diatomaceous earth for bug control( http://www.earthworkshealth.com/ ) It is safe around pets, but it tears up the bugs with skeletons. I use a puff Pest pistol in the house and a regular garden sprayer outside. It is so fine, you should always wear a mask, it is already in your grocery store (flours ) products to prevent weevils etc, so you are already eating it. It is inexpensive but costly for shipping. I think $12/50lb bag and 24$ for UPS
It goes along ways and I haven't had any bugs, without a heavy freeze Florida has bugs big enough to tame & name.
March 15 at 21:14 EST .
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Flaming Sword EC, diatomaceous earth was one of my first thoughts last year. I still have 10 pounds left. I used it heavily and constantly. It has absolutley no effect on stinkbugs. I even put 3 bugs in a closed gallon jar and and dumped in about 1/4 cup of DE, just to see if it would work About 5-6 days later they were alive and well.
March 15 at 21:52 EST .
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Wrightwinger I will mention that last fall, as the weather was changing, I brought in two towels that were hanging on the porch, and between the two halves of the towels there were about 50-75 of the critters. The towels were light colored, I think, and were in the shade on the porch...
March 15 at 22:44 EST .
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Escaped commieny I remember when I was kid, stink bugs on the potato plants, but I don't remember them being a terrible problem, I wonder if it is because DDT was erroneously banned, we were notified last week that giant sized mosquitos are going to infest Florida. Have you seen the reports of swarming locust in Egypt on their way to invading Israel? One wonders.......
March 15 at 22:51 EST .
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Flaming Sword EC, these are not the harmless stink bugs from our childhood.They are the brown marmorated stinkbug. Much larger. Came into PA from Asia about 1998. 37 million in crop damage one year, and this year is supposed to be the worst yet.
They are impervious to any insecticide that can be used on food crops. They're in 36 states so far.
http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets
/brown-marmorated-stink-bug
March 16 at 09:30 EST .
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Escaped commieny Wow, you're right,read the whole thing, nothing like what we had back then. I have a link to the Florida Ag/garden site, I'm going to email them and see what they say about a Florida infestation and if there is anything I can do. Waiting until our March cold spell is over before using the Earthboxes and brother and I want to start a garden, I can just see all the work being ate up. I have Floridian and Cuban lizards on the screen room that eat any bugs, I wonder if they will feed on stink bugs.
March 16 at 10:23 EST .
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Flaming Sword Yes, they're in Florida. No known natural predators. Google some more and you'll really get sick. You can soak one in spray insecticide and they just fly away. Neem oil, insecticidal soap spray, straight vinegar, soak them in it and then they just fly away. It's unreal.
March 16 at 10:33 EST .
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Flaming Sword The stink bug's ability to emit an odor through holes in its abdomen is a defense mechanism meant to prevent it from being eaten by birds and lizards
March 16 at 10:38 EST .
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Flaming Sword posted on Gardening & Landscaping Burpee has a new tomato this year that blew me away. The call it the Super Sauce. It's a giant paste tomato, supposed to weigh up to 2 lbs each. It says one tomato can fill a jar.
I am sooo tempted . Think I'll get one. If I don't I'll wonder all year what it was like.
http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/tomatoes/paste/tomato-super
sauce-hybrid-prod003154.html
March 10 at 16:44 EST .
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Escaped commieny They picture it on the cover of the catalog and say it's actual size, yikes 5 x 5 " WOW
March 11 at 10:33 EST .
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Flaming Sword wouldn't those be a doozy for throwing at politicians?
March 11 at 11:01 EST .
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Hagar Caution: One should never use good produce to throw at politicians, it is much better to throw rotten tomatoes!!
March 12 at 05:30 EST .
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StarFire Can I wait until the tomatoes have passed through the digestive system of the neighbor's pig?
March 12 at 20:03 EST .
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Flaming Sword posted on Recipes this is really good-Maple Pumpkin Custard
8 egg yolks
2 cups whipping cream
1 cup canned pumpkin (not pie filling )
1/2 cup pure maple syrup (not pancake syrup )
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
Pinch of salt
Whipped cream for serving (optional )
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, combine yolks, cream, pumpkin, syrup, brown sugar, vanilla, spices and salt. Whisk until smooth. Divide mixture evenly among eight 6-ounce custard cups or ramekins.
Place the cups in a large roasting pan. Fill pan halfway up the sides of the ramekins with boiling water. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until the edges of the custard are just set (the center will remain slightly jiggly ). Carefully remove the ramekins from the water. Cool. Cover and chill 4 to 8 hours.
Remove custards from refrigerator 20 to 30 minutes before serving.
Garnish with whipped cream, if desired.
PER SERVING: 351 calories; 4 g protein; 25 g carbohydrates; 1 g fiber; 27.g fat (15 g saturated ); 267 mg cholesterol; 73 mg sodium
March 10 at 16:36 EST .
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Balogreene I have never made custard in the oven. Mom's 1948 cookbook does it stovetop. It took me the longest time to learn how to make it properly. But, now that's how we do it. Pour it into individual serving dishes, and often serve it warm with cream.
March 10 at 19:19 EST .
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Balogreene I forgot to say, I want to try this recipe, sounds good. Love Maple.
March 10 at 19:19 EST .
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Escaped commieny Flaming, made the mini meatloafs with stovetop Savry dressing and brown gravy, pretty darn good, Foodsavered them and froze for the rig
March 11 at 10:24 EST .
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Flaming Sword EC, glad you liked them. I agree, pretty darned good for something so fast and easy. And they freeze well. A two-fer !
March 11 at 14:44 EST .
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Flaming Sword Another thought. Those Foodsaver bags can get pricey. I found a place to get generic bags. 50 foot roll. So far they seen to work well. Good price. Let me know if you want the URL and I'll see if I can find it.
March 11 at 14:47 EST .
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Escaped commieny please do, I use a lot because the vacuum keeps the food fresh for him on the road. Zip bags just don't do it.
March 12 at 07:28 EST .
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Balogreene Flaming, please the URL. EC is right. We just started using the Food Saver I bought last year (it takes the autistic sister a while to try something new, but now she loves it ). Once we started using them, we ran out of my original order.
My Sam's had some the last time I was there, but sister and mom usually go, so that was some time back.
March 12 at 18:40 EST .
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Flaming Sword I got mine from Amazon. Some are eligible for Amazon free shipping, some aren’t. Do an Amazon search for ‘weston vacuum sealer bags’
That will bring up all of them ,cut and rolls.
I’ve used them about 10 times so far and they seem to be pretty good. Maybe not as thick as the Foodsaver branded bags, but they seem to work just fine.
Per foot, they are considerably cheaper. I bought a 50 ft. roll.
March 13 at 10:42 EST .
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