Re: Holiday Food

Really! And you live in Florida - you can pick fresh citrus right of the
tree! My Nana's people were PA Dutch but I can't stomach cabbage,
especially cooked - revolting stuff. Now scrapple on the other hand -
major yum. Haven't had it in over 20 years and can still taste it.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:52:35 -0500

>Why you old sauerpuss!  Why would anyone drink brine for breakfast?  I'll
>stick with rosehips fro Vitamin C, thanks.
>Kitty
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 5:11 PM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] Holiday Food
>
>
>> They ferment it in brine [kosher or rock salt and it's own juice]. Did
>> you know that you can buy the "juice" in little bottles [one assumes]
>> for breakfast? Personally, I like sauerkraut, but none of my wives have
>> [maybe that's why the marriages sauered?]. And it is high in vitamin C.
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, December 28, 2003, at 10:01 PM, Kitty wrote:
>>
>> > I like cabbage in soup where it's more dilute as opposed to cabbage
>> > the way
>> > it is served w/corned beef.  But whatever it is they do to make it into
>> > sauerkraut is just, well, distasteful.  I suppose there's a Rosen's in
>> > Indy,
>> > but I'm not that desperate for good rye to go that far.
>> >
>> > Wonderful that Bill brought you the bouquet, very thoughtful.
>> >
>> > Kitty
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
>> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> > Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 9:27 PM
>> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] Holiday Food
>> >
>> >
>> >> Kitty, Bill's family (German heritage through and through) fixed
>> >> corned
>> > beef
>> >> and cabbage, rather than sauerkraut.  Is that more appetizing?
>> >> Personally
>> > I
>> >> only like the corned beef and can do without the sauerkraut or the
>> >> boiled
>> >> cabbage.  But, if it makes Bill happy...it's such an easy thing to do
>> >> anyway, I will do it for him.  (I forgot to mention he bought a
>> >> Christmas
>> >> bouquet with pink roses and alstromeria and cedar boughs.  He's always
>> > doing
>> >> something nice for me, so I don't have any problems doing things he
>> >> likes
>> >> too.)
>> >>
>> >> Kitty, is there a Rosens left in Indy?  All the Rosens in Indy that I
>> >> remember have all been closed or are something else now.  Did they go
>> >> out
>> > of
>> >> business?  They had great iclairs, too!
>> >>
>> >> Blessings,
>> >> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5) Missing some of my Hoosier roots.... :>)
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> > Behalf
>> >> Of Kitty
>> >> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 3:10 PM
>> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Holiday Food
>> >>
>> >> Around here I have heard of eating Corned Beef as a New Year's dish,
>> >> which
>> >> would be fine by me except that since this is a very German area, they
>> > also
>> >> insist on sauerkraut being served with it. Yuk and Peeeee--yewwwwwww.
>> > Also,
>> >> you can no longer get a garlic-cured corned beef brisket here.  They
>> >> put a
>> >> few seeds and spices in a sealed packet rather than allow it to
>> >> marinate.
>> >>
>> >> Kitty, who yearns for real rip-your-teeth-out Rosen's Rye Bread!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
>> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> >> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 2:37 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Holiday Food
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> In a message dated 12/26/2003 7:55:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> >>> Zemuly@aol.com writes:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Our New Year's good luck meal is black-eyed peas cooked with hog
>> >>>> jowls
>> >>>> (jawbones) for luck, collard greens with ham hocks (for money),
>> >>>> potato
>> >>>> salad, corn
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> All that sounds great to me, but in our household the tale was that
>> >>> the
>> >> more
>> >>> black-eyed peas you ate on New Year's, the more money you would have
>> >>> in
>> >> the
>> >>> coming year.  Ergo, the only dish served was a large pot of b-e
>> >>> peas.  I
>> >> still
>> >>> make them every year - guess I don't eat enough, though.  Auralie
>> >>>
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>> Island Jim
>> Southwest Florida
>> Zone 10
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