Lemon-Coconut Cake, and Buttered Rum Pound Cake with Bananas Foster Sauce:

Posted on November 13, 2011 by admin

Hey guys…how are ya? We hope all is well, and things are looking good for you all. Be thankful for the many blessing God provides for us, and stop and take a look around. If you’re like Deb and I, we don’t have to look far to see how fortunate we really are.

So, if you haven’t done so lately, why don’t you take a couple minutes, look around, and see for yourself just how fortunate you are.

Anyway, we have had some beautiful weather lately, and the okra is still doing really well. I looked today in our storage room, and we had 181 pints of pickled okra. We’ve had to have given 50-60 pints away easily.

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AP and His Family, Dale and His Eatin, Buttocks, and the “Game of the Century:”

Posted on November 11, 2011 by admin

Good morning, and welcome back to Ridin Out the Recession. We hope everyone is doing just fine.

Yesterday, Deb and I went down to Port St. Lucie to visit with our ole buddy AP, his wife Heide, and their daughter-in-law, “Flip.”

AP writes the column Evolution/Revolution that you see on our site every so often. AP is 91 and will be 92 this coming month, I believe. What a character this guy is!

AP and I met through a mutual friend, and began corresponding back and forth. This went on for over a year and a half. We’ve been going to meet for a while now, but something always came up, whether it be on our end or his. It seems the older you get…the more Doctor appointments you have. Imagine that!

We took down a meatloaf, some barbequed chicken, cream 40 peas, rice, cornbread, squash pickles, and Mom’s chili sauce. Heide had baked a brisket, smothered with onions, and bread. Good Lord did we have a good lunch.

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Baked Ham With Bourbon Glaze, Pork Medallions with Blackberry Sauce, and Bourbon-Chocolate Pecan Pie:

Posted on November 9, 2011 by admin

Good morning folks. How’s everybody today? We’re glad you guys stopped back by to visit this morning, and we hope everyone is doing just fine! Why don’t you all pull up a chair, prop your feet up, and just as soon as I finish “bumpin my gums” this morning we’ll probably fire off a cook stove.

We had a little warm snap, which I could probably better describe as actually, we’ve had a couple cool snaps, then it warms back up again. Whichever, but since the nights have gotten back up in the 60’s, and the days in the 80’s, the grass has started growing a little again, and the okra is really putting out once more.

We’ll have okra until the first frost, so we could still get quite a bit more off them. We planted them back in August from seed, so we were getting kinda a late start, but the production we’ve gotten off it already was more than worth the time and effort, and actually everything else we get from it we consider to be a bonus!

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The Hog Trap/Pen is Complete:

Posted on November 6, 2011 by admin

Good morning to all our friends this morning! Thanks for droppin back in to visit!

As you know we started building a hog trap/pen a few days back on account of the dern pigs rooting up our pasture. We can’t let this continue, so…we have built the pen.

For you folks who aren’t familiar with the damage these guys can do to a place, let me just say that it is considerable. A good size group of hogs can literally ruin a place in just a matter of days!

Wild hogs are really becoming a problem here in Florida. They’ve been around down here basically forever, but they seem to be really becoming more and more troublesome as well. Like I say, they can ruin a place in a flash.

Florida’s wild pig population is second only to Texas. That says a mouthful when you consider how big Texas actually is.

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LSU-Bama Game… “Bama” Crab (or crabby) Cakes, LSU “Tiger” Shrimp Gumbo, AND Tiger-Tide Apple Cake:

Posted on November 6, 2011 by admin

Hey guys! What’s cookin in Miz Judi’s Kitchen today?? Pull up a chair, have a seat, and let’s see what’s goin on the cook stove today!

Before we actually get going this morning, let me share a thought or two on the BIG game last evening. LSU-Bama. For all the Bama fans out there…OUCH! Four missed field goals?? I tell you what, your kicking game can make or break you many times, and to win championships, special teams today play a big role.

The athletes are so big, so fast, and so strong anymore, the deciding factor may very well be your kicking game, and last night this was the difference. To all the Bama fans, you’ve got a great team, and you guys will still have a great season. Take em one game at a time, a couple breaks, and you can be right back in the championship hunt!

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Those Dern Pigs Have Gone and Done It Now!

Posted on November 5, 2011 by admin

Good morning, and welcome back to Ridin Out the Recession. We hope you all are doing well, and thanks for stopping back in to visit with us today.

I’ve shown video’s before of pigs out here on the place. These pigs are the piney wood rooters, and are native to Florida and many other states.

I haven’t seen the first spotted, or part domesticated hog out here yet, they’re all the ole black wild hogs. Here in Central Florida where we’re at, the dern things are heavily populated, and getting worse.
I stated in a prior video that we’d had some coming up in the evenings and were eating what the turkeys weren’t cleaning up during the day. Most times they’ll clean it up pretty good, but every so often they don’t get it all.

What they don’t get the doves, or other birds will get. There’s a pair of sand hill cranes that have figured out the oak under which we feed the turkeys is a feed station, so now they too visit with us daily. It’s funny from time to time to watch them and the turkeys counteract. Sometimes the cranes run the turkeys off, and other times the turkeys will put the cranes in high gear.

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REVOLUTION…..NOVEMBER 2011

Posted on November 5, 2011 by admin

‘”I AM A FIRM BELIEVER IN THE PEOPLE. IF GIVEN THE TRUTH, THEY CAN BR DEPENDED UPON TO MEET ANY NATIONAL CRISES. THE GREAT POINT IS TO BRING THEM THE FACTS”…….……..Abraham Lincoln

Where to begin, one of our readers is a blue blooded REDNECK, (my buddy “Speedy” considers ME…a redneck. Can you believe that? Him an his “ole Carpet baggin self! LOL!)and better not use it as slang word, they are a very special tribe, generally located below the Mason-Dixon line…”any who”, he has a nick name for me, “SPEEDY AP”, because it takes me so long to respond and or understand what the hell he is talking about, always ask that he repeat and talk slower……which is nearly impossible for him, and impossible for me at this point in my life….so here goes , and I’m on the clock…..

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Maintaining Our Equipment, The Garden’s “Still Kickin!”and My Take on Giveaways:

Posted on November 4, 2011 by admin

Good morning to you all, and welcome back to Ridin Out the Recession.

We haven’t posted in a few days now, but we have been busier than normal lately, and this is from our business slowing down some. So how does that work? We’ve slowed down work wise, yet we’ve been busier than usual??

This is simply because we utilize down time by performing preventive maintenance on our equipment. For those that don’t know already, we’re in the paving business. In the housing crash of 08, we didn’t work for nearly two years…no exaggeration.

We weathered that go round, and we hope we don’t see that again! The last year and a half though, we’ve held our own.

BUT, from the very initial slowdown, this is when Deb and I realized our need to “simplify” our lives some. Back to growing gardens, and producing enough food from our place to be more self-sufficient in our lives. We went back to canning, food savering, and freezing more vegetables, meats, stews, etc.

We installed the old style hand-pitcher pumps for water if we had a power outage. We picked up some cows, and we’ve built a chicken coop, but as of yet, we haven’t built their run, so the bottom line in regards to our chickens is…we ain’t got none yet!! LOL!

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Hey Mississippi…That Was Some GREAT…Fried Okra!:

Posted on October 31, 2011 by admin

Good morning guys, and welcome back to Ridin out the recession in Miz Judi’s Kitchen. We hope all are well today.

First off this morning, I have to tell you all that Deb is doing just great. Looks good (one of the reason I married her!), she feels good (another reason…aw, forget it), and is steady “upbeat.” She is truly one heck of an inspiration to me!

Now, about ole Mississippi. For those that don’t know, Mississippi, is actually Sandra. Sandra lives in Mississippi, which happens to be why I call her “Louie.” Just kiddin Mississippi.
Sandra has been in her own battle with cancer, since 1998 I believe. If I’m wrong Sandra, just give us a shout.

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Creamed Chicken on Cornbread, Grannie’s Mac ‘N’ Cheese, and Mamma’s Strawberry Pudding Cake:

Posted on October 29, 2011 by admin

Good morning and welcome back to Miz Judi’s Kitchen. We hope everyone is doing well this morning.
We’ve been getting a little rain the last couple days and we’ll take it. Our okra is still pumpin em out, and we just fertilized it and our mustards. Matter of fact we pickled 17 pints of okra last night. Man, that is so good.

We planted a row of cabbage and broccoli to see if it just might come in before it gets too cold. Down here you just never know. Dale asked to plant a row or two of collards and we told him to plant whatever he liked.

He’d told us earlier that he didn’t particularly care for mustards. I replied, “Really…that’s the main reason for planting them…cause you don’t like them!” He just laughed and said that sounded just like me!

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