Well, I am at one with the universe. I have the first of my Mama's homegrown tomatoes, a fresh blackberry cobbler and cornbread! (Not that yankee stuff, either!) Oh..and a large pitcher of iced tea..no not sweet tea but iced tea with lemon and mint. All I need now are turnip greens, black eyed peas....and ketchup!!! I can't even LOOK at fried okra but my neighbor brought me some last week..all made..told me to at least try it..was made exactly like you said..fried in lil round thingys with corn meal..wasn't too bad. She also taught me how to make garlic turnips. Man..THOSE are GOOD! You just chop up the turnips, put it in a pan with some olive oil and FRESH garlic..cook it for about 30 min..mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...good eatin'. Mari :) At 11:00 PM 7/18/00 -0700, you wrote: >TNCHAT-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 47 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [TNCHAT] Gravy ["Anna O. Jackson" <jsjackson@apex.] > #2 [TNCHAT] Re: TNCHAT-D Digest V00 # [Mari Byers <lyric@bna.bellsouth.ne] > #3 Re: [TNCHAT] Re: TNCHAT-D Digest V [Cheryl & Mark Zelek <zelek@mindspr] > #4 Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchu ["Leslie Moore" <lmoore@ecsis.net>] > #5 Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchu [Morom01@aol.com] > #6 [TNCHAT] Quote of the Week [Ladye Hunter <ladyejane@InfoAve.Ne] > #7 Re: [TNCHAT] Quote of the Week [Morom01@aol.com] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from TNCHAT-D, send a message to > > TNCHAT-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. >Complete rules for TnChat may be found at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/tnchat > > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:54:01 -0500 >From: "Anna O. Jackson" <jsjackson@apex.net> >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <397499B9.D4529084@apex.net> >Subject: [TNCHAT] Gravy >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Now don't put down gravy. I'm talking about that almost burnt flour >milk gravy, not that white paste you get in restaurants up here in >Kentucky. My husband, Sam, retired from the fire department with the >rank of Captain ... the Captains do the cooking ... he learned early >that if you mess up anything, just make a skillet of milk gravy and pour >it over! He does look a little skeptical at my putting milk gravy on my >sliced tomatoes, though. > >Ann > >-- > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:43:35 -0500 >From: Mari Byers <lyric@bna.bellsouth.net> >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000718134333.0069d0c4@bna.bellsouth.net> >Subject: [TNCHAT] Re: TNCHAT-D Digest V00 #46 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >She got sick looking at an egg with the yellow runny? I wouldn't eat them >any other way!!! Shoot, any harder and they become hard boiled eggs <G>. >My brother has always eaten eggs with ketchup..Of course this is the same >brother who ran behind the bug spray truck in Mississippi!!! >Mari :) > >At 09:00 AM 7/18/00 -0700, you wrote: >>TNCHAT-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 46 >> >>Today's Topics: >> #1 Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchu [Morom01@aol.com] >> #2 Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchu [Morom01@aol.com] >> >>Administrivia: >>To unsubscribe from TNCHAT-D, send a message to >> >> TNCHAT-D-request@rootsweb.com >> >>that contains in the body of the message the command >> >> unsubscribe >> >>and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >>requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. >>Complete rules for TnChat may be found at: >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/tnchat >> >> >>______________________________X-Message: #1 >>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:34:41 EDT >>From: Morom01@aol.com >>To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >>Message-ID: <72.13aa185.26a52a51@aol.com> >>Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchup >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >>In a message dated 7/14/00 1:12:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >>lyric@bna.bellsouth.net writes: >> >><< Ok, I was raised down in Mississippi eating turnip greens and black eyed >> peas with RED ketchup on them. However, when I do this in Tennessee ppl >> look at me funny. What's the deal? >> >> >>I saw a lady at the Cracker Barrell (restaurant) with an up north accent get >>physically ill when she ordered fried eggs and the yellow was still runny. >>She started screaming that her eggs weren't done. The waitress explained >>that's how we eat them around here. The lady made a very bad remark about >>Tennessee people to the waitress. I started to get mad, but then I started >to >>feel sorry for her. It must be really bad to go through life and not know >how >>to order eggs. <g> Maybe she should have just poured ketchup over them. She >>was already sick or I would have suggested it. Shoot ketchup makes >everything >>better! >> >>Chip >> >>______________________________X-Message: #2 >>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:30:09 EDT >>From: Morom01@aol.com >>To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >>Message-ID: <46.83e6abc.26a5a7d1@aol.com> >>Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchup >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >>In a message dated 7/18/00 12:47:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, BeArdent >writes: >> >><< Chip, I sometimes put ketchup on my mac and cheese and I love mashed >>potatoes with stewed tomatoes instead of gravy. >> >> >>In the South we believe that ketchup or Tobasco Sauce (not that Texas Pete >>sissy tomato juice) poured on anything makes it better. As far as stewed >>tomatoes and mashed taters, well to quote the Reeces Corporation. Two great >>tastes that taste great together. >> >>One of my pet peeves is those cooking shows. They make ten gallons of >>something and add two shakes of Tobasco sauce. Two shakes? You can't even >>taste that! I swear to you and I'll take a picture of it if nobody believes >>me but I have a quart of the stuff in my fridge. >> >>Due to your suggestion that I add tomatoes to my taters, you have just been >>made an honorary citizen of Union County Tennessee. On certain years if the >>right candidate is running that even gets you voting rights.<g> >> >>Chip >> > >______________________________X-Message: #3 >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:15:57 -0400 >From: Cheryl & Mark Zelek <zelek@mindspring.com> >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <3974ACEC.4D363DC6@mindspring.com> >Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] Re: TNCHAT-D Digest V00 #46 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I like eggs and ketchup. I also like eggs and Open Pit BBQ sauce (ok, I guess >that is a little weird) but it has to be Open Pit. The yolks have got to be >runny, too! Mark hates eggs in every way, shape or form so when I start eating >them that way he has to leave the table. Hard to find Open Pit down here, too. >I used to buy in in Detroit for 89 cents a bottle - here is is over $3.00 a >bottle if and when I can find it. > >I only put tabasco sauce on greens. What's the difference between Tabasco Brand, >Frank's Hot sauce and Texas Pete. In Raleigh, if you ask for hot sauce they >usually bring you Texas Pete. Chip, ya gotta watch Emeril- he never uses a >couple drops! (Bam! Kick it up to notches unknown!) > >Also, I have a craving for fried okra, you know, the recipe where you slice the >okra into little weels and they are coated in cornmeal. The last time I did >this, the cornmeal did not stick to the okra. What am I doing wrong? > >Cheryl > >Mari Byers wrote: > >> She got sick looking at an egg with the yellow runny? I wouldn't eat them >> any other way!!! Shoot, any harder and they become hard boiled eggs <G>. >> My brother has always eaten eggs with ketchup..Of course this is the same >> brother who ran behind the bug spray truck in Mississippi!!! >> Mari :) >> >> At 09:00 AM 7/18/00 -0700, you wrote: >> >TNCHAT-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 46 >> > >> >Today's Topics: >> > #1 Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchu [Morom01@aol.com] >> > #2 Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchu [Morom01@aol.com] >> > >> >Administrivia: >> >To unsubscribe from TNCHAT-D, send a message to >> > >> > TNCHAT-D-request@rootsweb.com >> > >> >that contains in the body of the message the command >> > >> > unsubscribe >> > >> >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >> >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. >> >Complete rules for TnChat may be found at: >> >http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/tnchat >> > >> > >> >______________________________X-Message: #1 >> >Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:34:41 EDT >> >From: Morom01@aol.com >> >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >> >Message-ID: <72.13aa185.26a52a51@aol.com> >> >Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchup >> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> > >> >In a message dated 7/14/00 1:12:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >> >lyric@bna.bellsouth.net writes: >> > >> ><< Ok, I was raised down in Mississippi eating turnip greens and black eyed >> > peas with RED ketchup on them. However, when I do this in Tennessee ppl >> > look at me funny. What's the deal? >> >> > >> >I saw a lady at the Cracker Barrell (restaurant) with an up north accent get >> >physically ill when she ordered fried eggs and the yellow was still runny. >> >She started screaming that her eggs weren't done. The waitress explained >> >that's how we eat them around here. The lady made a very bad remark about >> >Tennessee people to the waitress. I started to get mad, but then I started >> to >> >feel sorry for her. It must be really bad to go through life and not know >> how >> >to order eggs. <g> Maybe she should have just poured ketchup over them. She >> >was already sick or I would have suggested it. Shoot ketchup makes >> everything >> >better! >> > >> >Chip >> > >> >______________________________X-Message: #2 >> >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:30:09 EDT >> >From: Morom01@aol.com >> >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >> >Message-ID: <46.83e6abc.26a5a7d1@aol.com> >> >Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchup >> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> > >> >In a message dated 7/18/00 12:47:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, BeArdent >> writes: >> > >> ><< Chip, I sometimes put ketchup on my mac and cheese and I love mashed >> >potatoes with stewed tomatoes instead of gravy. >> >> > >> >In the South we believe that ketchup or Tobasco Sauce (not that Texas Pete >> >sissy tomato juice) poured on anything makes it better. As far as stewed >> >tomatoes and mashed taters, well to quote the Reeces Corporation. Two great >> >tastes that taste great together. >> > >> >One of my pet peeves is those cooking shows. They make ten gallons of >> >something and add two shakes of Tobasco sauce. Two shakes? You can't even >> >taste that! I swear to you and I'll take a picture of it if nobody believes >> >me but I have a quart of the stuff in my fridge. >> > >> >Due to your suggestion that I add tomatoes to my taters, you have just been >> >made an honorary citizen of Union County Tennessee. On certain years if the >> >right candidate is running that even gets you voting rights.<g> >> > >> >Chip >> > >> >> ==== TNCHAT Mailing List ==== >> To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list please visit: >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/tnchat >> This list is generously donated by Rootsweb for our use. >> Complete rules for TnChat may be found at: >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/tnchat > >______________________________X-Message: #4 >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:05:22 -0500 >From: "Leslie Moore" <lmoore@ecsis.net> >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <002501bff11d$6ae80780$880c9ace@lesliefaye> >Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchup >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >> >> I saw a lady at the Cracker Barrell (restaurant) with an up north accent >get >> physically ill when she ordered fried eggs and the yellow was still runny > >Chip I had a similar experience at a Cracker Barrel. I had biscuits and >gravy and two people sitting at a table next to me talking in "Northern >tones" kept staring at my plate. Finally the woman leaned over and pecked >on my arm and asked what in the world was I eating. I told her gravy and >biscuits. She said, "Gravy is dark brown - what in &#** was that white >stuff made out of!?!?" When I told her she kept yelling how terrible that >sounded. > >Poor thing - never had good cooking. > >______________________________X-Message: #5 >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:32:04 EDT >From: Morom01@aol.com >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <f.6c27717.26a65f14@aol.com> >Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] re: Greens and ketchup >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >In a message dated 7/18/00 9:07:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lmoore@ecsis.net >writes: > ><< Poor thing - never had good cooking. >> > >I really feel sorry for people having to live outside the south. If it >weren't for biscuits and gravy I would only weigh 50 pounds. > >Nothing like sausage grease and flower to get your day started right I always >say. I once went on an overnight class trip in school where we all stopped at >a Cracker Barrell for lunch. Most all of the Beta Club had a bowl of beans >and an onion, (anyone that's been to Cracker Barrell knows they're famous for >their beans and onions). Then we all piled back on the bus for the rest of >the four hour journey to our destination. I won't be crude, but lets just say >there was as much gas inside the bus as there was in the fuel tank. > >Chip > >Chip > >______________________________X-Message: #6 >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:55:35 -0500 >From: Ladye Hunter <ladyejane@InfoAve.Net> >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-id: <39750A97.FCFCEC40@infoave.net> >Subject: [TNCHAT] Quote of the Week >Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > >Hear ye, hear ye, > >I make a motion to place the following quote at the top of the list for >Quote of the Week. > >"Shoot, ketchup makes everything better!" > >Said by The Chip Brown on TNCHAT-L in this year of our Lord 2000 in the >month of the birth of our United States of America. > >Ladye > >______________________________X-Message: #7 >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:08:52 EDT >From: Morom01@aol.com >To: TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <e1.739db16.26a667b4@aol.com> >Subject: Re: [TNCHAT] Quote of the Week >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >In a message dated 7/18/00 9:49:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >ladyejane@InfoAve.Net writes: > ><< "Shoot, ketchup makes everything better!" >> > >Well, first I'd like to thank the academy, and the little people. And I'd >like to thank the lunch lady at my elementary school, her cooking abilities >helped me develop my taste for ketchup...lots of ketchup. > >I always figured I'd be famous one day, I never thought it would be for my >commentary on ketchup though. <g> I always figured my fifteen minutes of fame >would come on one of those World's Worst something or other shows on Fox. >That or that Cops show. > >Chip >