Meme

[dreamflower]

Taken from mews1945:

1. It's 2AM and you are not home. You are more than likely:
 If I'm not home at 2AM, there's a serious problem-- maybe I'm at the ER?

2. What’s the last thing you spent more than $100 on? 
 "You" as in me personally?  Groceries.  "You" as in a couple? A new lawn mower 

3. What do your bank checks look like? 
 Plain vanilla bank issue.

4. Where did the shirt you are currently wearing come from? 
Church. It's the tee-shirt from last year's Vacation Bible School that all the chidren and helpers got. 

5. Name something that is on your Christmas wish list: 
A new sewing machine with embroidery capability 

6. What color is your toothbrush? 
White. 

7. Name something you collect...
 Unicorns.  I've collected them since about 1970.

8. Last restaurant you ate at. 
The Steer Inn-- a locally owned steakhouse 

9. Last person you bought a birthday card for: 
 My son 

10. What is your worst bad habit? 
Procrastination

11. Name a magazine you subscribe?
None currently

12. Your favorite pizza toppings? 
ground beef, mushrooms, bacon-- and if I am making it myself chopped hot dogs.
Yeah. I know. Very Bad for Me!

13. Whose number were you looking up the last time you used a phone book?
 Uh, I usually use Google any more.  I did use the church directory the other day to look up someone's number. But I know where our phone book is!

14. Who is the person that you love most?
my husband

15. What is the last thing you cooked?
 Hamhock and field peas, pork chops, and rice-and-tomatoes

16. Name something you wouldn’t want to buy used?
underwear?

17. Which shoe do you put on first?
right

18. What is the last thing you remember losing? 
my work shoes (but I found them) 

19. What is the ugliest piece of furniture in your house? 
 A zip-up  cloth-covered portable closet 

20. Last thing you bought and ended up returning?
Weed-eater string.  I got the wrong kind and needed to exchange it.  Oh and a can of stewed tomatoes.  I thought I'd bought diced tomatoes. That was an exchange as well.

21. What perfume/cologne do you wear? 
None 

22. Your favorite board game?
Rummikube.  Haven't played in a long time, though. 

23. Last board game you played? 
Some game of my son's that had all these cute little action figures.  I don't remember the name of the game, but it was kind of fun. We played it with him not long after he came down to stay with us last fall. 

24. Where did your vehicle come from?
 Butch Oustalet Ford in Gulfport, MS.  We always bought all our cars from them for about 25 years.

25. If a movie was made about your life what would the theme song be?
 Amazing Grace

26. You're sad, who can cheer you up easily? 
My flist

27. What was the color of the bridesmaid dresses of the last wedding you went to? 
Pale blue, I think.  

28. What house cleaning chore do you hate to do the most? 
Anything that involves a lot of bending or stooping, like cleaning out a lower cupboard or cleaning behind the toilet 

29. What is your favorite way to eat chicken? 
Southern fried 

30. It is your birthday. You hope the cake is? 
A pie-- either lemon or coconut

Comments

[shirebound]

If I'm not home at 2AM, there's a serious problem-- maybe I'm at the ER?

Ditto!

Goodness, I seem to be the only one who puts on her left shoe first.

[dreamflower]

My left foot is harder to reach than my right, LOL! And since my left foot swells up frequently, it's harder to get my foot in.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

I just did this meme and I said "usually my right foot" but now that I'm thinking about it, I think I might often put my left foot in first actually! :D

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Coconut pie is lovely!

[shirebound]

Foot twins!

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

I've never had coconut pie. I would want to try that. :)

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

Southern fried

I am very curious, but how is that chicken made then?

[dreamflower]

I do love pie! Lemon is my fave, but coconut runs a very close second. And strawberry's right up there too...

[dreamflower]

This isn't the exact recipe I use but it's close:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/coconut-cream-pie-recipe/index.html

[dreamflower]

Oh my! There are a lot of variations, but here's how *I* do it:

I use a cut up fryer (young chickens are sold here as either "fryers" which are slightly smaller, and "roasters" which are slightly larger). It's less expensive to cut up your own fryer, but only slightly so. I buy it already cut into frying pieces. Chicken is often sold frozen here, but even if it's not, I keep it in the freezer section of my fridge after I buy it, so the first step is to thaw it, which I do in a large bowl of cold salted water. Best is to thaw it in the refrigerator.

When it's thawed, I take it out and pat it dry with clean paper towels, and then marinate it in a bowl of buttermilk seasoned with salt and pepper for an hour or so. When I'm ready to cook it, I dredge it in flour that has also been seasoned with salt, pepper, paprika, and a lemon-herb seasoning that I buy. I lay the pieces out on a large sheet of waxed paper, while I heat about an inch of canola oil in a large deep-sided skillet. The oil needs to get very hot. I start it off at medium high and then turn down to medium when it begins to get hot.

I also heat the oven up at a low temperature to keep the cooked pieces hot as they get done-- about 200 degrees F. (I don't know what that is in Celsius.) I put a large oven proof platter in there, lined with absorbent paper towels.

When the oil is hot enough, I begin to fry the chicken. It's tricky with the timing-- I always start with the largest pieces like the breast and the thighs first. A breast, for example, may take anywhere from 12 to 20 minutes to cook all the way through, and you just keep an eye on it. The smaller pieces like wings, and the liver and gizzard, don't take very long at all. You try to get the crust to be a nice golden brown, and yet you want it cooked all the way through. When done, place on the platter in the oven to keep warm.

After all the chicken is done, drain the oil out of the skillet and make white gravy. That's done by sprinkling flour into the drippings in the skillet-- about 2 tablespoons-- and then slowly adding milk. Most folks just use regular milk, but I add canned evaporated milk, as it gives a richer flavor. I like my white gravy somewhat thick.

Southern fried chicken is usually served with mashed potatoes and the gravy, biscuits (American biscuits which are sort of a shortbread similar to scones, and not the flat sweet things that we call "cookies") sliced tomatoes and other veggies.

Or at a picnic outdoors, it's often served with potato salad, cole slaw and baked beans.

[illyria-novia.livejournal.com]

What's a weed-eater string?

[illyria-novia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yum! I should try this! Thanks for the recipe and tips.

[dreamflower]

http://www.amazon.com/Eater-952-701663-String-Trimmer-065-Inch/dp/B00002N8JB

A "Weed-eater" is a gas or electric device for trimming the edges of a lawn and cutting grass or weeds that a lawn mower can't get to. Actually, Weed-eater is a trademark for a particular brand, but most folks call all such devices weed-eaters, since they were the first. They use sturdy nylon string on a special spool that whirls around and does the cutting.

I simply picked up the wrong size when I went to Wal-mart.

[dreamflower]

It's really delicious when prepared right!

[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

I could so go for a coconut pie right now! With a tall glass of milk.