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The one thing you have the most?
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Cook Chatty Cathy
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WOW Can Man you made me stop and think how we tend to overlook the really simple and yet most important ingredient of all that we do!!! Lol Thanks, Cathy
chubbyalaskagriz
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I'm currently reading cover-to-cover (and enjoying the heck out of) "Screen Doors & Sweet Tea" by Martha Hall Foose. It's a fantastic book of recipes and tales from the Mississippi Delta.
This surpirsed me but her recipe for sweet tea calls for seeping the tea-bags a half hour in a pitcher of cool water, then adding a boiled and cooled simple syrup, then topping off w/ cool water and ice. Because I'd only ever been exposed to tea brewed on the stove-top or sun-tea style outside on hot days in a jar, I presumed tea needed heat, but evidently my thoughts are a bit off.
This surpirsed me but her recipe for sweet tea calls for seeping the tea-bags a half hour in a pitcher of cool water, then adding a boiled and cooled simple syrup, then topping off w/ cool water and ice. Because I'd only ever been exposed to tea brewed on the stove-top or sun-tea style outside on hot days in a jar, I presumed tea needed heat, but evidently my thoughts are a bit off.
Mama Mangia
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CAG - With our long winters and snowy days - we don't get "sun" for sun tea like other areas. So I've resorted to placing the bag(s) (orange pekoe, black, green, whatever) in a glass gallon with cold water and let it set a couple hours and I have my "sun" tea. Just as good.
chubbyalaskagriz
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mama- may I ask?... where r u located?
I too am always somewhere where the days are chilly and the winters long. I worked in Alaska for 13 years up until March, and when I wasn't in AK I was usually home here in Illinois. Of course Illinois winters aren't nearly as long as those in AK, but they're some years every bit as tough, for sure! (many remote, but largely unpopulated regions of Alaska experience terrible conditions, but those areas where people actually live have much milder conditions, considering...) I enjoy any place where the year is divided four ways- I don't enjoy any season enuf to deal with it exclusively for a whole year!
I too am always somewhere where the days are chilly and the winters long. I worked in Alaska for 13 years up until March, and when I wasn't in AK I was usually home here in Illinois. Of course Illinois winters aren't nearly as long as those in AK, but they're some years every bit as tough, for sure! (many remote, but largely unpopulated regions of Alaska experience terrible conditions, but those areas where people actually live have much milder conditions, considering...) I enjoy any place where the year is divided four ways- I don't enjoy any season enuf to deal with it exclusively for a whole year!
Mama Mangia
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New York State - with all the lake effect! We get buried.
chubbyalaskagriz
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Dang! BBBBRRRRRRRRR!
K
KYHeirloomer
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You know, Chubby, I've lived and traveled in a lot of places. But in none of them were the winters as deep as they were in Northern Illinois.
I used to tell people we had ten months of winter and two months pretty late in the fall. Until we spent three weeks in Swedish Lapland, about 200 klicks north of the Arctic Circle, and one of our hosts topped that. "It's like here," he said. "Ten months of winter and two months of bad snowmobiling."
What I could never get used to, and can't explain, about Northern Illinois was one thing. How could it be below zero, and yet still be damp---bone chilling damp at that. There's no place else on earth where that happens.
One of the many reasons I left.
I used to tell people we had ten months of winter and two months pretty late in the fall. Until we spent three weeks in Swedish Lapland, about 200 klicks north of the Arctic Circle, and one of our hosts topped that. "It's like here," he said. "Ten months of winter and two months of bad snowmobiling."
What I could never get used to, and can't explain, about Northern Illinois was one thing. How could it be below zero, and yet still be damp---bone chilling damp at that. There's no place else on earth where that happens.
One of the many reasons I left.