Hey guys…how are ya? We hope all is well, and things are looking good for you all. Be thankful for the many blessing God provides for us, and stop and take a look around. If you’re like Deb and I, we don’t have to look far to see how fortunate we really are.
So, if you haven’t done so lately, why don’t you take a couple minutes, look around, and see for yourself just how fortunate you are.
Anyway, we have had some beautiful weather lately, and the okra is still doing really well. I looked today in our storage room, and we had 181 pints of pickled okra. We’ve had to have given 50-60 pints away easily.
From Saturday before last, until this past Saturday, we pickled 72 pints…last week. Again, up until we get a hard frost the okra will keep on putting out. That suits me just fine!
Our mustards are doing well too. We’ve had 6-8 small salads out of them, and they’re fixing to be doing very well. Once those things start coming in, we’ll be able to put up quite a few quarts of them also.
Man, I love em, and my Mom makes a chili sauce that we serve over them that’ll knock your socks off, which most times you see me during “green season,” I’m barefooted…they knocked my shoes AND socks off!
I’ve asked and asked for her recipe but the woman hasn’t let me have it yet! She’s my Mama too for goodness sakes!
Both today’s recipes came from the cookbook, Best Kept Secrets of the South’s Greatest Cooks.” It is from the editors of Southern Living.
I’ve enjoyed going through it, though Deb hollers at me from time to time. She claims while I’m going through it, many times she catches me literally… “foamin at the mouth!” I just tell her that shoot, at my age, food is one of the few things that still…excite me! Dad-gummit!
Well, before we fire off a cook stove in Miz Judi’s Kitchen this morning, let’s tell a joke. This is from Roger in Virginia once more…
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
