Oklahoma Recipes (property, appointed, company)

[karibear]

I had a cousin - some kind of relative, anyway - who had a farm with a herd of dairy cows. He did the planting and heavy stuff, she [my cousin] did all the milking. By hand! Anywhere from 40-60 cows, or maybe the other way around. The older she got, the fewer the cows got. And she separated most of the milk, they drank a lot of milk and poured cream on just about everything. You haven't lived until you've had fresh sun-warmed watermelon with equally fresh sweet cream slathered all over it.

But the popcorn, yes, it was always stale, salted and buttered. We had a roomer from Texas when I was a teenager who always managed to hide a bowl for breakfast whenever someone made it. Then when I lived in Alaska, one of the bars had a big popcorn machine. I was working at another bar. There was a spate of 6 packing going on, and one of our favorite customers had just returned to Vietnam, so one of the waitresses decided to include him and got the remains from the popcorn machine at the other end of the mall and we used popcorn to package a bottle of his favorite wine and 6 glasses. There were a bunch of guys watching who were from OK who all contributed to the cost, IF they could have a bowl of the popcorn for breakfast! The guy in Vietnam wrote back and said to forget about the wine next time and just send the popcorn. He got a lot more mileage out of trading stale popcorn - laundry services, a cook, etc.

The cheese on apple pie is a New England thing. When the scallopers first came to AK to fish, a lot of them wanted cheese on apple pie.

And mayonnaise goes with everything. Pickles, smooshed hard-boiled eggs, bananas, and crushed potato chips. Just like peanut butter. That was one of the fun things about living in AK. Almost everyone came from somewhere else, and they had some odd ideas about what tasted like home. I tried most of it, but I never could quite get my mind wrapped around fried fish for breakfast. Any other time, okay, just not breakfast. I didn't much care for bean sandwiches, either, not any time of day.

And when I was little, back in the midwest, we ate a LOT of cold rice and milk for breakfast. Looking back now, I think it was leftover Depression eating.

[Synopsis]

I'm making SOS for dinner tonight. Of course, when I picked out the sausage it was none other than Oklahoma's own J.C. Potter sausage! Potters packs the flavor!

They only started selling the stuff down here in the last year or two. I had thought it had gone out of business or something until I heard the Troy Aikman commercials.

Yum!

[peggydavis]

Their bacon is good too.

Good old SOS. I've made many a batch of that.

[Synopsis]

I've never made it, but fell in love with the stuff in the Army. I'm making it for the first time tonight from a recipe I found off the Internet. I'm looking forward to it. It's been at least 25 years since I've had the stuff. I'll bet that you make a mean batch peggy.

[karibear]

Originally Posted by peggydavis

Their bacon is good too.

Good old SOS. I've made many a batch of that.

I've eaten my share, but I make it with bacon. Sausage is better for things like egg mcmuffins, only made at home with bagels. Yum!

[karibear]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

I'm making SOS for dinner tonight. Of course, when I picked out the sausage it was none other than Oklahoma's own J.C. Potter sausage! Potters packs the flavor!

They only started selling the stuff down here in the last year or two. I had thought it had gone out of business or something until I heard the Troy Aikman commercials.

Yum!

Good thing I'm bringing a freezer with me, I can stock up on all those breakfast ready-mades and try them out.

[karibear]

And speaking of sausage, I've got a 1 lb chunk of salmon chorizo I've been staring at for quite awhile. I've never been successful at doing anything of any kind with chorizo. Anyone have any ideas for the salmon one? I'll either have to use it or throw it away, it's too hot for my dog - and I ;purely hate the idea of throwing food away.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by karibear

Good thing I'm bringing a freezer with me, I can stock up on all those breakfast ready-mades and try them out.

Potter's products are great. They really do have a good quality product. I love their breakfast sausage.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by karibear

And speaking of sausage, I've got a 1 lb chunk of salmon chorizo I've been staring at for quite awhile. I've never been successful at doing anything of any kind with chorizo. Anyone have any ideas for the salmon one? I'll either have to use it or throw it away, it's too hot for my dog - and I ;purely hate the idea of throwing food away.

I've never heard of chorizo sausage karibear. How does it taste? I do love salmon; one of the few fish products I'm a big fan of, mostly because I'm allergic to about any type of fish.

[mkfarnam]

Man, mkf, you had it made! All that milk! You must've been a stout boy. I suppose you had plenty of chores to go with being raised on a dairy farm.

Chores we had plenty of and using milking machines didn't lessen them. You still have to strip the cow when it's done.

Sugar on tomatoes, yes. I always did like that. But never learned of it until I got to Ca.
The closest to theater pop corn I've found is Pop Secret and other microwave pop corn. I have one every nigth while I watch TV.