Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Great memories with you and your Dad Lurk—like Baz, I enjoy sharing the memories of how we were raised.

One of my Dad’s favorite sayings—he would look at me and say “Bud, always remember-can’t nobody steal your memories”……

Thank goodness for that!

 

I remember a lot of things my Dad used to say.

When some knucklehead said something really dumb, he'd always reply with "Consider the source."

Zing!

 

Trying to stay with the spirit of the football weekend—

So we’re going to go with chili cheese dogs tonight.

Best I can remember ice cold longnecks and chilled wine go well with that.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Tonight we’re going to go with grilling hamburger steaks with baked potatoes on the top rack with a fresh Romaine salad topped with vine ripe tomatoes.

Well the thermometer says a high of 88* today but the humidity has it feeling like 98*— it’s better for us to sit out the middle of the day.

The back porch will be open for business this afternoon/evening and adult libations are available.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

I was up late last night (as is always the case on Saturday nights during football season) and checked before hitting the sack and the outside temp was still 80! And of course you know the humidity was at least that or more so we're not out of it yet, folks.....

The saving grace is when we get a little breeze.

Today I made pan fried cod fillets with House Autry coating. This time I used the Walmart Great Value brand Pacific skinless fillets, which were half the price of the Sam's Alaskan Cod loins I used last time, and they tasted as good or better! So easy to make - I used a gallon size baggie to coat the fillets in. Very little mess and even less clean up. And I have leftovers for tomorrow and will bring one of the fillets to Mom along with her provisions this week to get her take.

I have some Alexander palm seedlings to pot up this afternoon and then will go for a walk or bike ride on the beach while enjoying some tunes on one of my Creative Zen MP3 players.

It's a good day to take in the bounty before us all......Go Gators and God Bless!

 

My brother, a graduate of UF's Dental School got me a great present - a large tin of Charles Chips.

 

Oh so true Lurk—great memories. Our Charles Chips were delivered to our house by a panel truck that was painted just like the cans. My Mama learned that if your chips were delivered on the back side of the driver’s route the chances of broken chips was greater. She learned our route driver’s favorite drink was Orange Crush (in the brown glass bottle). From that point our chips were delivered on the front side of his route.

We also had the glass jugs of milk delivered-good times.

 

Tonight I’ll be grilling chicken halves seasoned with coarse black pepper and Everglades seasoning-and yep, Pat’s Homade on the last two turns.

Inside we will have a pot of fresh pinkeye peas w/snaps and fresh picked cow horn peppers on the side. We will also have a pot of teriyaki rice.

Afternoon thunderstorms today-breaking up the heat, and the yards and plants need the rain. Afternoon/evening back porch ice cold longnecks and chilled wine will be available.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Wanted to chime in as well with the Charles Chips comments.

Growing up in Norfolk in the 60's we were huge Charles Chips fans. My Dad being the driving force.

Those big cans of chips and also the cookies once in a while. We had delivery set up by the big truck when it visited our neighborhood - Fairlawn Estates.

Since my father died in '68, memories like this are very special.

Somewhere, and I will post a pic when I find it, I have one of those miniature CC containers.

 

There's a catalog company Vermont Country Store (my wife likes their hand soap) that sells Charles Chips in 1 pound tins

Charles Chips Potato Chips at The Vermont Country Store

 

I went through a little phase earlier this year when I was determined to resolve the issue of so many broken chips leftover in a bag.

Buying in a can (ala Pringles) is not an option, due to the massive differences in taste and texture.

Ultimately I determined buying them in the smallest bags feasible was the way to go, especially if you could get a quantity sent to you in a large box.

I also decided the Publix brand dip chip for the most part is just as good as any other brand of dip chip, and a much better buy, which helped mitigate any loss of value from broken chips. For some reason they also didn't seem to have as many broken chips.

I never did contact Frito Lay which was something I originally thought I would do. Kinda worked things out on my own.....