Raining, what the heck.

[starmac]

Man you guys complained so much about a little cool weather down south, we warmed up to 25 degrees and it rained this evening.
What a freaking mess, the next thing you know, the café will be trying to serve grits.

[sandhills]

Well you just gotta find that bright side don't ya  :D 

[sawguy21]

We are only too happy to share the wealth. :D About the same here with snow and freezing rain, there won't be much off highway hauling going on.

[thecfarm]

WE just went through a bunch of rain and about 2 feet of snow melt and temps in the high 40's.

[tgalbraith]

With all the crazy weather all over the world, I'm starting to think somebody is trying to tell us something! :embarassed: :'( :-\

[Magicman]

11° this morning here in the Deep South, but a forecast for 68° Sunday.  We got a couple of inches of Snow yesterday so everything is White.  My only planned activity for today is to bring some more wood in for the fireplace insert.   

[samandothers]

Mmm grits and a cold morning! Snowing here in Charlotte and expect a couple inches.

[Magicman]

Pat is making a pot of Hambone Soup, but I guess that belongs in the Food Board.   ;D

[starmac]

Well that rained turned to snow after it totally slicked everything up, and we woke up to 6 or 8 inches of fresh southern style snow.
I checked, but the pantry was fresh out of grits, we do have the makings for that hambone soup though. hmmm

[WV Sawmiller]

Starmac,

   I thought all cafe's in Alaska served grits. My BIL lives there in Anchorage and his favorite breakfast hangout there certainly serves them.

   We drove around AK for about 2 weeks a couple years ago and I saw at a minimum it was settled by rednecks. We saw many high end homes all over the country with a couple of cars and loads of equipment and maybe a mower or two lost in the waist high grass and brush in the yard. I felt right at home. They obviously never throw anything away. :D

[starmac]

I do not know of any of the local eateries that have grits on the menu.
As far as rednecks, yup there are plenty of us here. You can buy most any kind of food stuffs, one thing I do miss is you can not buy fresh okra here.

[tree-farmer]

No okra! No grits! You poor buggers, I cannot even imagine such deprivation. Maybe some of the southern breathern can send a aid package. :laugh:

[starmac]

I reckon them grits would probably survive the shipping in tact, but finding a use for them once received would be challenging to say the least.

Fresh okra, would not be so fresh by the time I got it, I can buy frozen okra locally, but that stuff just doesn't cut it, it is better to go without.
We have started getting packages of okra in some stores that iirc are called okra bits, they look like pods of okra that someone has stomped on for a while, not sure what they are for, maybe gumbo seasoning or something of the sort.

[thecfarm]

No okra! No grits! You poor buggers, I cannot even imagine such deprivation. Maybe some of the southern breathern can send a aid package. :laugh:

I imagine it and see it every day of my life on Gordon Hill in Chesterville Maine.  ;D
No known address.

[starmac]

Cfarm

I worked with a crew out of Oregon and Washington that had never eat fried okra, fried squash, or even catfish, if you can imagine that. When I mentioned hushpuppies, things got real quiet, till I explained what we were having.
We stayed in travel trailer parks, and before the season was over they would bring all the picnic tables to my trailer, where my 2 fish fryers and two barbque pits were set up and eat supper at my place every night. If I was not extremely careful when I finished cooking I would not even get any squash or okra, it would be GONE.

[petefrom bearswamp]

Isnt okra that green slimy stuff?

[Andries]

Its raining on my okra here in Manitoba too.
Really.

[starmac]

Some folks boil it (maybe a yank thing) I like it slice, rolled in cornmeal and fried. Others like it boiled (slimy) or pickled (nasty).