Fannie's Venison Stew.... and a nice place fer a summer nap...

Well Sir...I ran across Miss Fanny & Vera's Camp Cookbook sometime back and I immediately liked the contents of the recipe's....and somethin else...most a the meals were cooked usin a good old Cast Iron Dutch Oven over an open fire...and I love cookin in Cast Iron.....

...and I also liked the open fire part cause every now and agin I camp out with the boys while doin some huntin or fishin in the Adirondack Mountains or Canada.....

...but...if'n y'all just wanna stick with yur kitchen...but use the Cast Iron on yur stove...these recipe's are great as well...

So...here y'all go...Miss Fanny's Venison Stew......

Fannie's Venison Stew

Miss Fannie lives way out in the boonies and is fortunate to have many neighbors who are avid hunters and gatherers. She relishes her frequent gifts of game and fish, and shares this bounty with her reenacting friends. This one-pot meal is designed to make game meats taste as tender, savory and mild as the supermarket beef most folks are accustomed to.

· 1/2 pound bacon, sliced into 1/4 inch bits, cooked and drained (save 3 tablespoons)
· 1 to 2 pounds venison, moose, elk, antelope or buffalo cut into 1 inch cubes (also good with goat, lamb, ostrich, emu, beef or other lean red meat)
· 4 to 6 potatoes cut in large chunks (or turnips or parsnips)
· 6 carrots cut in large chunks
· 1 onion diced
· 3-4 cloves garlic minced
· 1/2 cup red wine (optional)

In a large bowl or bag, toss venison pieces in a mixture of:
· 1/2 cup flour
· 3 teaspoons granulated garlic
· 2 teaspoons pepper
· 2 teaspoons salt
· 2 teaspoons savory
· 1 teaspoon basil

In a large Dutch oven, add 3 tablespoons bacon drippings or vegetable oil. Heat oil and add garlic and venison cubes coated with flour mixture. Stir and scrape bottom of pan frequently. Cook until browned on all sides. Add wine (or 1/2 cup water) and stir, scraping bottom of pan. Add bacon bits and enough water to cover meat and simmer on low heat until meat is tender (about 1 to 2 hours).

Add potatoes, carrots and onion. Cook until veggies are tender (about 1/2 hour).

Serve with fresh, hot biscuits.

...ahhh...to be young, carefree & innocent agin.... Cookie......

I think my "puter" is an Anti-Semite....

Well Sir...Y'all see this here picture....fer some months now I been a tryin to paste this thing inta my template...but no matter how or where I tried to get it inta my html...it would just totally distort my entire blog...

So's...I tried several other variations that are out and about in the blogoshere...agin...no luck! I even had a few folks who know alot more than I do regardin "html" try to get it in....no luck. After all....ain't had no problems gettin other things inta my template...why's this here Israeli flag givin me such a hard time?

Now...today I did have some limited success gettin an Israeli flag inta the side bar...but I couldn't get in the words..."I Proudly Support Israel"...so I had to be satisfied with what success I had and left it at that......

That's when it hit me that this here "puter" might just be an Anti-Semite...yupper...just might be...

Now Sir...I then began checkin around the back a this here puter...and sure nuff...there it was on a manufacturing label on the back a the puter...MADE IN SYRIA...and parts supplied by Iran.

AH HA !!! Problem solved!

Israel....this here Cookie supports y'all and now....GO KICK ASS!...the Cookie Man....

ADDENDUM...Oy Vay!

I was just perusin around through all my blog-buddies readin their posts and when I got over to Born Again Redneck... I saw that my buddy Patrick had up a post regardin his unqualified support fer Israel...and...he had a logo that I had never seen afore...nor tried in my template...so...I naturly copied the logo...and you guessed it....just take a look in my sidebar in with the Submarine logo's....finally! A good ol Cookshack Hat-Tip thanks to you Mr. Patrick. I guess this logo whipped some Hezbolah ass in my puter.......

...And I strongly Second that sentiment....

A message to the Guys & Gals on the ground

Michelle Malkin has a message for our military:

"Dear American Marines, sailors, soldiers, and airmen: The complainers and critics may have neglected to show proper gratitude to you for helping to evacuate them from Lebanon. But there are many of us here at home who appreciate all you do.

THANK YOU."

...and a good ol Cookshack Hat-Tip to Hillbilly White Trash regardin this here post......

Road Sign's, Redneck Winders... and some Blasphemy...

Well Sir...Me and my "better-half" (had to say that) was drivin down Interstate Route 81 yesterday and as I approached my exit...I saw that the State of New York had adapted it's road signs to reflect the risen high price of gasolene........

Now mam....I don't care how y'all wanna cut it but there ain't no dowt in this here Cookie's mind...at least what's left of it...that the major gas companies are just a gougin the hell outta us...and its just gonna keep on happenin till someone figures out just what in tarnashin we all can be doin about it...

BTW...afore I retired from Law Enforcement...that's what I used to say to slimeballs and scumbags as I was placin em under arrest...."Assume the Position Asshole...."...sorry if'n I offended any a ya...but that's real life...

Oh...and BTW...I didn't do to the perp what this here sign is a doin...just thought I'd say that afore any smart-ass's out there ( like Buster...the Kansas Terror) said it first....

OK...movin on....y'all gotta understand that I live in a very rural section of New York State...on the border of two RR# counties...RR stands fer "Real Rural"...and we got our share a good old Redneck's & pick-em-up trucks here abouts....

Sooo...it seems good old Microsoft came up with a new Windows XP...which I sampled yesterday thanks to that beautiful woman, Liz, over at White Trash Republican....and here be a sample of the kind of computer warnin's this here program gives ya...now remember...this here version is called Winders fer Rednecks....

OK...movin on...as I said in the beginnin of this here post...I was drivin on Rt. 81 through good old RR Oswego County NY when I happened t'see a sign on one a the off roads that kinda cawt my attenshun...so's...I got off the interstate and drove down to this here country church called the "First South Baptist Church of Perpetual Pain & Sufferin Pentacostal Emaculate Conception Resurection of Our Lord...Irving."

Now Sir....as I was a sayin...y'all gotta remember that these here Counties are so rural that folks really got very little t'do...so's they find other ways to entertain themselves...and sometimes the results get a might overwhelmin...so's this here church found a way to kinda solve that resultin problem of folks entertainin themselves to excess......

Oh ya...afore I furget...I checked out with the Reverand/Pastor/Priest/Rabbi/Father/Mullah, Jim Jones, why they called their Lord...Irving...and he told me the followin account.....

...Now WARNIN...if'n yur a real religious folk type person...y'all stop readin here...cause this here story might be considered by some t'be offensive...so...y'all been warned....

It seems that these here church folks believe that when the Lord was born in the manger...a small, low ceiling'd, but sturdy structure...that when the three wise-men were a visitin with their gifts, as they each entered the manger individually...they had to bend down to keep frum hittin their heads on the ceiling cross-beam's....

Now it seems that the first two wisemen ducked their heads as they entered the manger...but when the last..not so "Wiseman"..entered the manger he whacked his head real hard on the cross-beam and immediately exclaimed "Jesus Christ!!!". Mary sat there holding her baby and said..."hmmm...that's better than Irving".....

Gotta do a Larry the Cable Guy at this point..."I'm sorry Lord...that was wrong...please help all the starvin little Pigmies down in Africa and all...."

Be seein y'all tomorrow....Cookie.....

A Kansas BBQ spit and Huli-Huli Chicken.....

Well Sir...this just proves the point agin that Necessity is the Mother of Invention....

...a good ol Cookshack Hat-Tip to John's Place fer sendin me this photo of a recent BBQ out in 105 degree Kansas....

...Now Sir...I was over visitin an Israeli website of a friend a mine, Greg at Hear O Israel when one a his regular commentors, Freedomnow, told me about a site he's been a visitin and the blogger, a guy named Guyk was my spittin twin (poor Guyk)...includin our humor and website type...

.....so's I paid a visit over at his place...Charming, Just Charming.. and sure enuff...he does look like this old Cookie and his humor...which I enjoyed by the by.... be a might like mine as well...so's..if'n y'all gets a chance...go pay him and Freedom Now a visit....

Now Sir...whatcha all been waitin fer...some Hawaiian Huli-Huli Chicken....mmmm mmm....

...Well Sir...I got this here recipe frum an old bubblehead (Submariner) friend a mine named Bothenook who's got a website called A Geezer's Corner....and Bothe...like this here old bubblehead, also just loves to cook...and eat our own cookin (we gotta make sure its fit fer our guests t'eat right?)....

Now Sir...accordin to Bothe...he had to beg.. borrow.. cry and steal t'get this here recipe...and I know that just frum lookin at it that I'm a gonna be servin it up at an event I got comin up that I'll be a cookin at....and by the by...this recipe' be a rated as a Five Star recipe'.....so's...y'all enjoy cookin and eatin it.....

huli huli chicken mmmmmmmm good
one of the many things i remember about being stationed in hawaii was the huli huli chicken road side fund raisers. i'd get in my car, drive around with the top down, and sniff the air until i found one. one what? one huge ass trailer bbq full of mesquite coals and rotiseries full of chicken. pure heaven. schools and civic organizations rent the trailer/bbq, buy all their chicken from the same company, who also makes the marinade, and volunteers man the fires. if you've lived in hawaii, you know what i'm talking about. if you haven't, you can try my huli huli chicken recipe for a taste of the islands. i went begging for this recipe, and it tastes exactly they way i remember the roadside stands. mmmmmmm.

couple of chickens cut up for the grill, or 3 or 4 lbs of chicken breasts.
1/2 cup of frozen pineapple concentrate (really, and using regular juice doesn't cut it)
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup catsup ( yeah, catsup. hawaii IS part of the U.S. ya know)
1 knob/finger of fresh ginger grated fine
couple of cloves of garlic, crushed. (to taste..my recipe card says 1, i use 3)
3 tablespoons of brown sugar

non food items:
· mesquite charcoal, or better yet, mesquite chunks soaked for at least an hour in water before use. toss them on when coals are ready. the hawaiians have a different name for mesquite, but that's the wood they use to bbq this stuff with. honest.
· bbq mop or a big paint brush. big. 4 inches or so big

mix all the ingredients up and marinade the chicken for at least 1/2 hour before cooking. i use ziploc bags. wonderful invention.
get the coals fired up. when you are ready to cook, toss on the mesquite chunks, and drop the chicken on the grill.
huli huli means turn over turn over (really). so here's how you cook this gem. once the chicken is on the grill, you mop it with the marinade, let it sit 5 minutes, then turn it over, and mop again. continue until the chicken is done, or you run out of marinade. if you run out of marinade first, keep turning the chicken every 5 minutes until done, or the brown sugar will burn.

this stuff is killer.

you can also do this in an electric rotiserie. every 10 minutes or so, baste the

....Now Sir...if'n that don't sound great...I don't know what does! Y'all take care now and continue t'have a safe and happy Summer....Cookie.....

BESTED... and some payback be due matey's.....

...it all started when I sent a friend in Kansas the attached photo with the caption..."George...do we always have to dress like this to fullfill your fantasy?"...and she responded on her hubby's website with this post....The true Batman revealed...

...Oh...there will be payback...you betcha....

Some Good ol Humorous Wisdom...

Good Ol' Jimbo and Me

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself ~~"Lillian, you should have remained a virgin." ~Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.~Mark Twain

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.~George Burns

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.~Victor Borge

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.~Socrates

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. ~~Groucho Marx

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. ~Jimmy Durante

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. ~Alex Levine

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.~Rodney Dangerfield

Money can't buy you happiness .. but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.~Spike Milligan

I am opposed to millionaires... but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP. – Joe Namath

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon .Then it's time for my nap. – Bob Hope

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. ~W.C. Fields

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.~Will Rogers

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. . as you grow older, it will avoid you.~Winston Churchill

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty ... but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. ~Phyllis Diller

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.~Billy Crystal

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out....If you have a problem with Jews, stay out of big cities, don't go into banking, and don't spend too much time under the sun, as you might need a doctor~Stevin at IONETIC