HAPPY NEW YEAR.....

Well Sir...I guess this is either a late CHRISTmas gift or an early New Years wish...either way...I gotta thank Fish over at More Ramblin's who I stole this here great photygraff frum....

I can just hear that great background music now.....

...oooeeeooooeeeoooo..

Wounded Hero....

Well Folks....Earlier I was turned on to this blog called "Lumberjack in a Desert" written by one of our brave military hero's in Iraq. He's recently been severely wounded in action having lost his right arm below the elbow (along with other severe injuries), and has just arrived at Walter Reed Hospital.

Here's the URL for his blog...maybe y'all might wanna pay him a visit and leave a nice inspirational comment or two.....

www.jrsalzman.com/weblog/

ATTENTION ON DECK !!!

Well Sir...fer all you old "Bubbleheads" out there (or folks who have an interest in Submarines), get yurselves on over to Ultraquiet No More and watch the great video he has put together...THATS AN ORDER MISTER !!!

Just some nonsense.....

Well Sir...way back...when Carnation Evaporated Milk first began to hit the markets (early 1900's), like most companies of that time, they offered a contest with a nice prize to the person who came up with the best poetic slogan about Carnation canned milk. This poem below didn't publically win, but the judges loved it so much they gave the person who submitted it $2000.00 bucks caused they loved it so much.....

S'gone......

Well Sir...after a few months of being a white haired Santa Claus type...I grabbed the old scissors t'day...and now the big old white beard s'gone.....

First thing I did on the blog is t'put one of my old Gabby Hayes photygraph's back up...ah yes...feel much better. No more sittin in my daughter's beauty shop wearin blue gunk on my head and face...and..NO MORE TURNIN PINK!!!

So..Look out...OLD COOKIE( aka Gabby) IS BACK!

After Holiday's slowdown.....

Well Sir...now that all the intense holiday cookin is done..y'all can sorta sit back and take it a might easier in the kitchen cause of all the left overs yur gonna have.....

So Mam...here be a recipe fer left over turkey bird submitted to me by AMY KATTREIN of Cicero, NY....and I've made it and its good.....


Turkey Tettrazzini

½ cup sliced mushrooms
¼ cup butter or margarine
¼ cup unsifted flour
2 cups milk
1 pimento diced
2 cups diced cooked turkey
Salt and pepper to taste ¼ lb. spaghetti, broken into pieces, cooked and drained
½ cup Parmesan cheese

In saucepan, sauté mushrooms in 2 tbs. butter until brown, set aside. In large saucepan, melt remaining butter and blend in flour. Remove from heat and gradually blend in milk. Cook and stir until thickened. Add mushrooms, pimento and turkey. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir in cooked spaghetti, pour into greased 11/2 qt caaerole. Sprinkle with cheese. If desired, decorate top with strips of green pepper and pimento, chopped ripe olives or slivered almonds. Bake in 350 oven for 20 minutes. Enjoy!

This recipe is great if you have leftover spaghetti!


Now Sir...if'n ya be a hunter...and y'all got some Pheasant in the freezer that ya wanna cook up...here's another good recipe....

This next recipe was submitted by John Kohler of N. Tonawanda New York. It sounds great!

Pheasant Delmonico

Wash and cut your pheasant into serving pieces. Dry pieces with a paper towel and brush with melted butter.

Season with Salt & Pepper. Place one cup of Bisquick in a paper bag, add Pheasant pieces and shake to thoroughly coat. Remove pieces and put in a roaster pan.

Pour ½ cup of melted butter over the pieces, cover and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Remove from oven, uncover and place squares of cheese over each piece. Reduce oven temperature to 250 degrees and return Pheasant pieces to oven, un-covered and bake until cheese turns slightly brown. Mmmmm Mmmmmm!


...and fer some nice homemade bread fer snackin or desert...here's a recipe my good buddy Sue Gertson in Eagle Lake Texas sent me....it's a might late in gettin posted...but just go to the store and get some Zuch's in the veggie department....

Oh...BTW...I made this awhile back and it is good....


End of the Season Zucchini Bread

3 eggs
2 cups grated zucchini
1 c. oil
1 Tbsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
1 cups sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 Tbsp. cinnamon
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Preheat over to 325-degrees F.

Grease and flour a 9-inch bread pan (and, if you'd like to use the extra batter, line the cups of 13 mini muffin cups).

Beat eggs in a large bowl. Add in all the other ingredients, except the nuts, and mix until just combined. Fold in nuts. Scoop batter into pans and bake mini muffins for approximately 18 minutes; the loaf for 80 to 90 minutes.

OK...Y'all take care now and God Bless ya......Cookie

A Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy New Year to ALL...

Sig done tagged my butt.....

Well Sir....it seems that my past wurk companion and my good buddy Sig over at Signal94 tagged me with the 3 things I definately want fer CHRISTmas and the 3 things I definately don't want...well sir...here they be...

The 3 things I WANT....

1) I definately want a multi-colored tie that won't go with anything...

2) I also want some new underware that fits too tight...

3) ...and I most definately want some of Aunt Tillie's fruitcake to go along with all the others from the past 23 years.....

OK...The 3 things I DON'T want....

1) A Ferrari..

2) A Gift Certificate to actually a fly a WWII Fighter (oops..already got that)

3) World peace....

...er...wait a minute...furget World Peace...make that a Rolex that I don't want...

Now Sir...lets see if "reverse psychology" wurks on Santy Claws.....

OK...now to tag....(drum roll please)......Dave over at The Doubting Thomas...