Break New Ground....Build More Beds.....Get More Pots Growing

[Bill Rose]

Oh. I have sympathy for the man Charlie. Growing up in the shadow of Yorba Linda, birthplace of Tricky Dick and home to his library, can twist a man's mind. Instead of the armpit of Los Angles, I "grew up" (if thats the right way to put it) behind the orange curtain (Orange County) surrounded by alfalfa, and lima bean fields. Not far from the Seal Beach Navel Weapons Station (as it was known then). I cant believe it now but I would roam the fields, when I was 5 yr. old, with a .22 rifle. Its all housing tracts now. In high school they would bus us out to Anaheim (I think), if we wanted to listen to Fred Schwartz, a virulent anti-communist. Since we weren't being monitored, we went and ditched. Great fun.

Your right, Jimmy Carter is anathema to all that is Republican. But I dont really like the Democratic Party either.

Santa Ana Register is the only newspaper I've ever seen that starts its' editorial page with a benediction. Marina del Rey was a restricted community, no Jews allowed. This is the area that B-1 Bob used to represent in Congress. Any connection between the mountain lake and La Puente is purely illusionary. Southern California, its all pose and posture.

When I finally saw Sausalito, I went home, packed my bags, and never looked back. Nice beaches in southern California but thats about it.

Im gonna go pull some weeds before it gets too hot.

[Persephone]

Duh....this must be my dim day. I don't see how higher water content would make them "crispier when they were fried" Straight question.

Of course, I eat oven fries now. Usually large fries, rubbed with

Omelet-- not *every* morning, surely?

P.

[Jan Flora]

Hmmm. I want an old Aston Martin DB6 GT, but I drive an '86 Ford F150 4WD.

Spent all day delivering composted cow manure to friends who garden but don't have pickups, and delivering eggs to my customers.

Still have the last few rows of praties to plant and another couple of broccoli plants, and the rugosas and red currants someone gave me.

Someone asked me tonight if I was "planted out." I laughed, because I thought she was kidding. I'll be planted out when they plant me.

Oh, also brought home a Norland apple and a Yellow Transparant apple, to be planted tomorrow.

We finished building a new greenhouse yesterday. It's housing my tomatoes this summer and will be a propagation house early next spring, while we build a BIG hoophouse. I'm going to start growing heirloom Russian tomato seedlings and pickling cukes for sale to the neighbors. The Russian Old Believers in the village next door to our ranch buy ~2000 'mater starts and 2000 cuke starts every spring in town. The business that's been selling them starts is retiring...

Jan in Alaska

[Mister Fixit]

We had two versions of this where i grew up in the Adirondacks of Northern New York.

Home Fries are potatoes that have been boiled and then cubed into 1/2 inch chunks. They are then fried in butter and/or oil with minced onions and seasoned with salt and pepper.

Hash Browns are raw potatoes that are shredded and fried in oil, seasoned at the table.

Sometimes for supper we had fried potatoes. Mom would pare out the eyes of several poatoes and slice them thin (skin on) with a mandoline. They were then fried in a small ammount of oil with minced onion.

All were fried until the potatoes were brown and crisp on the outside. Variations on a theme. We also occasionally had potato pankcakes as above.

[Charlie]

Common theme...ya' gotta have the onions with, eh?

When you are saying potato pancakes, are you talkin' bout what we have, which is mashed potatoes, with onion mixed in of course, and patted out thin and fried?

Oh, man....some good lovin' with all the above.

Charlie

[Billy Rose]

Nearly every morning and don't call me Shirley. Of course I use egg substitute, low fat cheese, smoked, olives and salsa, with the frites fried in canola oil with garlic. That's if I have time. If not it is usually last-night's salad stuffed in a tortilla (meat, cheese optional) with salsa.

The water causes the cells to distend and when they fry they are crunchier. The water left when the neighborhood went to 212 F (100 C).

[Billy Rose]

I don't know. I think he just wanted to sell widgets to the Chinese. We backed Chiang Kai-shek, who represented the capitalists against Mao Zedong and the landless peasants. So we had to find a diplomatic way out while supporting our client, Taiwan. I met Nixon once. I wasn't impressed. Just an average politican, who jumped on the anti-communist bandwagon.

I'll go have a glass of mint and lemon water in your honor.

Later,