Radiance Wedgwood

By Barbara Barry

*available everywhere Wedgwood is sold. 

Do you think that this was her inspiration? 

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My Favorite Comfort Food - Chicken Paprikash

Every country household had a yard full of chickens. Chicken dishes that could be slow cooked on the stove for supper were plentiful and cheap to make. Paprikas was a weekly dish for supper. A pot of potato dumplings, and perhaps a platter of pickled hungarian peppers and a loaf of crusty home baked bread was all that was need for ones well being. Every meal was eaten with gusto.

Regards, June Meyer.

This is my favorite comfort food.

And I need some.

If you do too, try this.

YUMMO!!!!

• 2 onions chopped
• 4 Tbsp. shortening, corn oil or lard
• 3 Tbsp. Hungarian paprika
• 1/8 Tsp. black pepper or whole pepper corns
• 2 Tsp. salt
• 4 to 5 lbs. chicken disjointed, use legs, thighs, breast and back for best flavor
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1/2 pt. sour cream

Brown onions in shortening. Add seasonings and chicken, brown 10 minutes. Add water, cover and let simmer slowly until it is tender. It will smell wonderful!
Remove chicken, add sour cream to drippings in pan and mix well. To thicken gravy, mix into a paste 1 Tbl. soft butter with 1 Tbl.of flour and stir into drippings.
Add dumplings and arrange chicken on top. Heat through,but do not boil, and serve.
* here is my secret: 
more sour cream, and I serve it on wide egg noodles.
mmmm mmmm mmmm  THE BEST!!!

Have you ever had Chicken Paprikash ???

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Stone Crabs For Andi

The pink dot on the right

 is where I come from. Boca Raton, Florida.

The pink dot on the left is where we went to.

Everglades City.

For Andi's birthday her boyfriend flew in from Sweden.

And her father, myself and some other family friends headed over to Everglades City for some stone crabs,conch fritters, soft shell crabs, and key lime pie.

This is where the stone crabs come from for the famous 

'Joe's Stone Crab' on Miami Beach!

We have to drive across the state through this.

Doesn't it look pretty from the air?

On the ground .....

But this is what it really looks like.

If you like weeds , snakes and gators.....

this is your kind of place.

Pythons and gators galore and fighting for turf.

Have you heard about all the 'loonie birds' 

that have let their pythons go free in the Everglades?

Talk about irresponsible....

Well, it is a real mess.

But this is no mess.

This is the gold of Florida.

Our state prize.

Maine has Lobster, and we have stone crabs.

Don't freak out.

But, can you tell me what this is?

I will give you a hint.....it tastes like chicken.

That's my girl!

She loves her stone crabs!!

Not the stuff that 'tastes like chicken.'

I surprised her with a birthday cake.

Okay peeps,

what do you think?

Is he cute?

They met while being counselors at summer camp last year.

They are going back again this summer.

  He is in college in Sweden, and studying law.

I like that.

*But let me get back to where we were......

FLORIDA'S LAST FRONTIER "EVERGLADES CITY and CHOKOLOSKEE, at the entrance to the Western Everglades, were two frontier outposts until 1923 when Barron Collier made Everglades City the seat of Collier County and supply depot for the construction of the Tamiami Trail. Prior to the boom, this isolated region was Florida's last outpost for fur trappers, plumage hunters, Cuban fishermen, and people with a disdain for modern civilization."

There is all kinds of history about this area. 

Great stories.

The towns people actually killed the town bully.

The people that were 'wanted by the law' could safely live here. 

It took law enforcement about 2 days to get out here.

A real city of outlaws in a lawless environment.

The man in the black and white picture....

this is a wax model of him

Note the fly swatter.

This place is uninhabitable from the spring months to fall.

There are mosquito's, nats , 'no-see-ums' (these are really bad), 

I just don't know how they did it for an entire lifetime.

I had enough of the glades in this short visit.

I love nature, but not 'Everglades' nature.

To me is it scary.

Imagine being lost out there.

*Snakes, gators, panthers, and yes, we have panthers.

We took a few last pictures and packed up and headed home.

Hope you enjoyed our day trip.

Would you 

drive through the everglades for stone crabs ?

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How 'Green' Can I Be?.

I saw this galvanized sink

in a post on Millie's Blog,

'The Laurel Hedge' last night.

I really, really like the look. I have always been drawn to industrial touches.

In addition, the sink made me think of

a time when I was a wee little kid

still living in Texas at my grandmother's house.

She had a washtub or a rotating washing machine

Out in the shed in the backyard.

The thing I remember is being fascinated by 

' THE WRINGER'.

Those 2 rubber rolls that you put the fabric into.

You would then crank the handle and the fabric would come out the other side completely squeezed out.

So wrung out that it was amazing to me.

Sort of like magic to a little kid.

But I remember the warning.......

don't get your fingers caught in the wringer.

OUCH....

hence the saying;

'He's been through the wringer!'

I think I did something just like this .....

1907 - 1920 

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

Doesn't she just look glamorous with her modern machine ?

The Wringer

You can buy a new wringer here.

And strap it onto your fabulous new tub.

Here are some alternatives to the shiny silver sinks.

I think these are so adorable. There are a 'bazzillion' designs.
Check it out.

Are you ready to go green again?

Things were uncomplicated.

I wondered when I would see this in movies.

How did they ever do this????

It looked to me that they were clothes lines on pulleys.

What do you think?

Were they?

I think a cute new tub hooked up like the first image, 

with a brand new wringer would be great for hand washed items.

...But the whole load?

How far are you willing to go to be 'green.'

All I can handle is a bit of hand wash.

Many of the images in the post were from people's sites who want to live 'off the grid.'

The term off-the-grid (OTG) or off-grid 

refers to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on one or more public utilities.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I am perfectly happy 

living 'on the grid.'

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