June 13, 2005

Amen, and pass the biscuits!

What do you mean, "even if" we soak it in grease and gravy? That's half the fun! I love homemade greasy-as-hell fried chicken, fried catfish, and fries. Maybe even all in one meal.

Jesus Christ that sounds good. I'm going outside to check my 'mater plants right now!

My Dad and I are in a 'mater growing contest. Thanks to Miracle Grow I seem to be winning, but that only makes the vines grow tall. What do you use to make the fruit grow large? Lime?

Oh, Lord yes! My Grandma used to make breakfast like that, and especially when you were heading out into the cold woods to be terminally rude to Bambi, it would keep you going all morning. And into the afteroon.

Oh yeah! I love it when Rube provides me with that outstanding stuff for Sunday morning breakfast! That's one fine pampering ;)

Rob - Many years ago, I attended flight school in Vero Beach, FL and stayed for 5 weeks at a quirky little hotel called the Driftwood Inn. (I hope it's still there). It was there that I discovered the "Southern breakfast". You're right ... there is nothing finer. It's where I found the "Joy of grits". I'd grown up with eggs and bacon, the occasional biscuit, and sometimes a slab of ham, but until you bring grits into the combination, you just haven't lived. Damn, I think I have to go find a Waffle House or an IHOP. Best, Terry

It's corn bread cooked on a hoe blade over an open fire.

Jeez, not all Yankees eat raw fish for breakfast.

Dammit, I may be a yankee, but the only time I boil food is when I'm making stock, pasta, or brats (boiled in beer, onions and butter).

Okay, sometimes I forget and I boil chicken breasts when I'm making something with chicken, but I usually pan roast those, unless I'm feeling lazy that day...

Ed,

You are probably using TOO much Miracle Grow. If fed too much nitrogen, tomato plants will be tall and leafy with only a few small fruit.

I put a 2 inch deep layer of dehydrated cow manure around each plant right after planting. This is enough to fertilize through the whole season.

And I will put my Jersey tomatoes up against ANYTHING you Southerners CALL a tomato any day of the week. I have been to EVERY state in this great land, save Alaska and Hawaii. Never sampled a 'mater as glorious as a Jersey.

MY, My ! Some strong words there Jersey Boy! We southerners won't part with the good 'maters. Especially to a Yankee. Just Damn!

You forgot to mention that the ONLY way to eat eggs&grits is eggs sunnyside up (or over Very easy) then mix with grits and douse all profusely with tobasco sauce, soaking the remains up with the biscuits.

Check this out, losers: http://www.hogonice.com/archives/001649.html

I had sausage, sausage gravy, buscits and fried apples for breakfast this morning. MMMMmmmmmmmmm.......

Ed, right on about too damn much of the fertilizer. You can also overwater. I plant my 'maters in a fifty percent mixture of cow shit and top soil-hell, you can buy the stuff at home depot for about a buck a 40# bag. I don't fertilize until mid season. Don't water until the soil is dry about two inches down.

A lot has to do with the plant. Some tomato plants have big tomaotos and some do not.This year I have the Florida Beef Stake Variety and they are a little bigger than a baseball. Not as sweet as some others but large and the plants are unusually strong and resist pests such as aphids.

If you want big tomatoes, pull off the "suckers
" as the plant is growing, You get fewer tomatoes, but you get BIG ones, the size of soft balls. Those little sucker vines prouduce fruit , but they make all your tomatos smaller.

I believe I'd kill for a blood red beefsteak tomato right now.

This is probably one of the VERY few topics we can all agree on here (even with ED and Acidbrain). A damn good southern breakfast definitely can't be beat by ANYONE, ANYWHERE. Grits, gravy, homeade drop bisquits, sausage, bacon, ham and eggs are just the beginning. If you want to do it right, you got to add a little corn beef hash, and here in Texas, we add a Tex Mex twist with flour tortillas, refried beans and homeade Pico de Gallo. We grow big ole maters, onions, and jalepenos that do just the trick.

I hail from New England and what is this I hear about "boiled food"? I think you are confusing NEW England with MERRY ole England (as in across the pond)

Only time I boil food is when I make spaghetti, or hard boil some eggs....(and of course once a year we have the obligatory Corned Beef and Cabbage)

Thanks for the "'mater" tips guys. I'll ease up on the Miricle Grow and pinch the suckers. I did use a lot of manure when I planted them.

I believe you use a little too much manure when you post your comments on here too ED. Might want to cut back on that for better results.

PJ

You really ought to see the sunshine sometime PJ, but then again, with your head up your ass you don't see much of anything!

That one was clever the first hundred times you used that line ED. Perhaps you should try putting some of that Miracle Gro on your brain and see if it helps you produce some new material.