Let's visit on the Porch II (Troy: low crime, manufactured, pier)

[Reziac]

Earliest snow on record in the Carolinas. Siberia also has atypically early snow cover. Guess whose used air we'll get in a few weeks. I don't know why they can't heat it up before they throw it out.

[ElkHunter]

Thought this would be a good day to sleep in. I never use an alarm clock, usually wake up around 5. I don't go to bed until midnight. Old Navy days, we stood Port and Starboard, 6 on, 6 off, I got used to 6 hours of sleep. Anyhow, woke up and looked at my watch, 5:10. So I turned on the TV to an old western, raised up the head of my bed and dozed back off again. Woke up again and my watch read 7.

Now I've got to ask what the hell good the DST setting is? I thought I t should automatically change the time, when we fall back or spring ahead???? Nope. So I slept in until 6am. Boy howdy do I feel rested. hahaha

[Reziac]

You musta got my extra hour of sleep by mistake. I had strenuous dreams (the kind where you run all over and accomplish nothing) and woke up exhausted!

[Muck Boots Lady]

Ahhh! Dinner's and dishes are done, kitchen clean, time to sit back and relax....

Have become addicted to knitting Just finished a tight fitting cap, skull cap?, for Dufus and he really likes it. Says its almost like his Navy watch cap only mine has a ribbed edge he can leave flat or fold up. Never knew I would go nuts with something so mundane as knitting but now already I can't wait to dive into the next challenge.

Thanks Rez for getting back, you know I do worry about you guys. So much for long term food storage? Have been dabbling around with it myself but have no idea what I'm doing outside of spending a lot of money for dehydrated stuff nobody will eat. Now talk about dog food, I got some powdered eggs. Makes my stomach cringe just looking at it in the pantry. It came in a #10 can and I'd put it in canning jars and used the vacuum sealer to seal it up, so there it sits, yuck ugly mustard yellow staring at me every time I walk in there.

[Reziac]

I suppose powdered eggs are like powdered buttermilk, good enough if you don't have cold storage, or need to pack it around with less weight involved.

Why on earth did you take it out of the sealed tin can and put it in jars?? It'd probably keep forever in the can! and you wouldn't have to look at it.

Awful expensive stuff, tho... best price I see is about $25 for 80 eggs worth, or about a pound.

(And when did dry milk get so durn expensive?? I used to get it bulk and throw it on the dog food. Not anymore!!)

[ElkHunter]

As far as I am concerned, there is absolutely no need for powders anything in my house. Having spent 18 years in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club, I have no need for powdered. When a ship deployed, you run out of eggs_ milk, and potatoes about 10 days out. I told my ex, that when she made mashed potatoes, leave lumps so I know their not powdered. I also told her that if I ever found powdered in the pantry, she could pack her bags. I understand powdered, when you are 3000 miles from a grocery store, but there are too many starving farmers to not by their products.

Every Sunday the ships cook made omelette to order. I wouldn't eat them because even import he used powdered eggs to make omelette. To this day, even in a restaurant, the only way I eat eggs is sunny side up. I won't eat mashed potatoes, anywhere, unless I see them make it with real potatoes.

[Reziac]

If you ate a Navy omelet since about 1970, and it was made from the Navy cookbook, it used one of my friend Scratch's recipes. He makes dandy omelets. Officers noticed.

As to powdered stuff -- it's made from the very same potatoes and milk and eggs as the fresh stuff -- some farmer still had to grow it, and they still got paid for it. In fact it prevents waste and lost profits, since we not only produce more food than we can use fresh, it's a place for all the ugly potatoes that don't sell in today's consumer market, and a far better paying market for surplus milk than pig food. So powdered products are a market for farmers' goods that otherwise they couldn't sell at all, because it's either not up to consumer expectations for appearance, or there's just too much of it at certain times of the year (like with milk). I'd guess if powdered food products suddenly went away entirely, so would a lot of farmers who couldn't make it on the fresh market alone. Same principle as canned goods, really. An awful lot of ugly, grocery-unsalable tomatoes become perfectly good canned tomato sauce.

[jimj]

Rez, now that you mention the Navy cookbook(s) I happen to have the web link to the military database of cooking (recipes). If anyone wants it I can post it once I get my laptop back from my wife.

[Reziac]

Heh, that sounds interesting. "Start with 500 pounds of powdered eggs..."

[jimj]

Ya know, I thoght that as well. when I actually read the recipes I was surprised to see that they pretty much all contain fresh ingredients.