Yes folks, I had a great big bowl of wilted lettuce for lunch! Went outside to see if I could find some flowers to replace the Iris I threw out and came back from the garden with a big pile of leaf lettuce, green onions and radishes ! Plus a strawberry or two and a big long seed stalk off the Elephant garlic ...and an asparagus spear or two...Bacon.....hmnn.....YES ! Cooked a whole package of bacon....only swiping one piece, so doing good.... I washed all the veggies good and chopped them up..radish leaves and all since they grew so fast...AND because I remember Mama saying Daddy liked the spiciness of the leaves....I poured all the grease in the cooking jar except maybe a teaspoonful or two and dumped in water, vinegar, sugar and seasoned salt.....Then flour to thicken it...Hubby was on his computer till I mentioned wilted lettuce then he was off in a hurry....My oh my, first wilted lettuce we'd had in a long time.... I can remember Mama fixing it for Daddy when I was about 7 years old , while he was busy getting the fields ready to plant. Folks back then were starved for something fresh and green in the Spring after a winter of eating dried beans and canned stuff from last years truck gardens...When we told him Mama was making him some wilted lettuce he didn't waste any time turning the horses into the feed lot...We always stood around and watched them roll in the dust....they seemed so awkward and we would laugh if they couldn't roll all the way over....By the time this innocent amusement lost it's savor and the horses were drinking at the little pond Daddy was already well on his way to the house... Sometimes in the Spring Mama would have white beans cooked long and slow on the back of the old wood cook stove and a big pone of cornbread, of course....If we were lucky she would've made a pot of English peas and dumplings, and of course ripe tomato relish to go with the beans...After eating all he could hold Daddy would go out under the shade tree and turn a straight backed chair over so he'd have a back rest...He'd lay there talking to us kids till the horses had rested, then he would go off down the woods road, walking to the field instead of riding ...I never saw him ride the horses to or from a field....There would be no replacing them if one got broke down, you see......us kids would return to our everyday pursuits, full of beans and happy to be alive....Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4dd0c8b0162571e00fm06duc

Yummmm. I had tossed cabbage, noodles and sausage, for dinner. Your wilted lettuce, not quite so abundant, no garden here, but a pretty full crisper, may well be on menu tomorrow. Hugs, Elaine Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well with brie. Hello Askgranny On Monday, May 16, 2011, you wrote > Yes folks, I had a great big bowl of wilted lettuce for lunch! Went > outside to see if I could find some flowers to > replace the Iris I threw > out and came back from the garden with a big > pile of leaf lettuce, green > onions and radishes ! Plus a strawberry or two > and a big long seed stalk > off the Elephant garlic ...and an asparagus spear or > two...Bacon.....hmnn.....YES ! Cooked a whole > package of bacon....only > swiping one piece, so doing good.... > > I washed all the veggies good and chopped them > up..radish leaves and all > since they grew so fast...AND because I > remember Mama saying Daddy liked > the spiciness of the leaves....I poured all the > grease in the cooking jar > except maybe a teaspoonful or two and dumped in > water, vinegar, sugar and > seasoned salt.....Then flour to thicken > it...Hubby was on his computer > till I mentioned wilted lettuce then he was off in a hurry....My oh my, > first wilted lettuce we'd had in a long time.... > > I can remember Mama fixing it for Daddy when I > was about 7 years old , > while he was busy getting the fields ready to > plant. Folks back then were > starved for something fresh and green in the > Spring after a winter of > eating dried beans and canned stuff from last > years truck gardens...When > we told him Mama was making him some wilted > lettuce he didn't waste any > time turning the horses into the feed lot...We always stood around and > watched them roll in the dust....they seemed so awkward and we would > laugh if they couldn't roll all the way > over....By the time this innocent > amusement lost it's savor and the horses were > drinking at the little pond > Daddy was already well on his way to the house... > > Sometimes in the Spring Mama would have white > beans cooked long and slow > on the back of the old wood cook stove and a > big pone of cornbread, of > course....If we were lucky she would've made a pot of English peas and > dumplings, and of course ripe tomato relish to > go with the beans...After > eating all he could hold Daddy would go out > under the shade tree and turn > a straight backed chair over so he'd have a > back rest...He'd lay there > talking to us kids till the horses had rested, > then he would go off down > the woods road, walking to the field instead of > riding ...I never saw him > ride the horses to or from a field....There > would be no replacing them if > one got broke down, you see......us kids would return to our everyday > pursuits, full of beans and happy to be alive....Jeannie T > >

What did you use the long seed stalk off the Elephant garlic for ? I never knew they were useful. Yes, we have had the wilted lettuce too this year . So good ! Asparagus is over for the year. Didn't get as much as usual. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:45 AM, <askgranny@juno.com> wrote: > Yes folks, I had a great big bowl of wilted lettuce for lunch! Went > outside to see if I could find some flowers to replace the Iris I threw > out and came back from the garden with a big pile of leaf lettuce, green > onions and radishes ! Plus a strawberry or two and a big long seed stalk > off the Elephant garlic ...and an asparagus spear or > two...Bacon.....hmnn.....YES ! Cooked a whole package of bacon....only > swiping one piece, so doing good.... > > > > > > >