Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes

Slice the tomatoes, dip in buttermilk, dredge in cornmeal then fry in hot oil a few at a time. When fried put onto a paper towel in the preheated oven to keep warm.

Are they worth doing? Not really, but they are a good conversational thing to know about.

Raw cubed green tomatoes with a little chopped onion, some vinegar, a drop of hot sauce and some salad oil make a nice condiment or an addition to a hamburger. When I worked at Sequoia National Park one summer, one of the janitors I worked with had been a cook with a circus and this was his recipe.

If you grow dill, you should harvest the seeds by hanging the heads that form, in a paper bag to catch the seeds. They can be used in your cooking as a flavoring, but go lightly as they are pretty strong and some people, like your mother, don’t like the flavor.

Purple salvia is a very pleasant little flower to grow as an edging along the sides of your lawn or even along the edges of your garden. The aren’t something to eat, just a hardy little color.

Here are some other flowers you might like to try as they are all eay to grow and are pleasant to see.

Margarite daisies

Coneflowers

Hydrangeas

To quick peel tomatoes, score with a knife from top to bottom on four sides, then dip into boiling water for a moment, plunge into cold water, then peel. They improve any salad.

From Hunger With Love

My wife has a book that belonged to her grandmother when she was a girl that has an interesting idea, “Now that grain is selling at ten cents a bushel there will no longer be any reason for hunger.

In 1974 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State at the World Conference in Rome stated “No child will go hungry to bed within ten years.”

Thirty-five years latter the UN Food Summit in Rome said that one billion people will go to bed hungry. What happened to the grain crop?

Seventy percent of people with dementia suffer from Alzheimer a type of dementia, fifty five percent of people over fifty five have dementia. Where do you stand? Me? I am against it.

They have found that high levels of Homocysteine usually lead to Alzheimer.

Economic Equality and Multiculturalism

The Left Wings two dreams, Economic Equality and Multiculturalism. The premise demands that human expression and lifestyles must be treated equally and should be considered value free.

For example; Mayan science was as good as European science and that we should all share in the wealth equally, no matter how much we each contribute.

This is a great idea if you haven’t accomplished anything.

Stocks

Do you ever ask yourself the question, “which stocks should I buy?” If this is a concern, let me make a suggestion.

Start with the purchase of ten shares of one of the seventeen most purchased stocks and put them into a Dividend Reinvestment Plan, usually referred to as a DRIP plan.

My first pick was Standard OIL of New Jersey, now called Exxon/Mobil. My first purchase was of ten shares.

It grows over the years with the drip plan.

Why You Need to Vote

In a recent poll, likely voters responded to the question,  What do you see as the biggest threat to the US  economy?

Big government. 53%

Big business. 31%

Big labor. 11%

I don’t know, or there is nothing wrong with the economy. 5%

I personally believe that the economy can be repaired, once we vote out the main threat, President Obama.

Denmark 1949

In the year 1948, just before Christmas, I was rushing through the Administration Building on the way to our car and I glanced at one of the signs posted on the bulletin board. I don’t think I was really too interested, but when I got home I asked Barbara how she would like to go to Switzerland to school. She told she would love to. We talked about it and the following Monday I went back to school and found that the sign was Scandinavia, not Switzerland. When I told her, she said, great lets go to Denmark. So the following summer we did, and what a wonderful year we had attending the Universities at Copenhagen and Aarhus and it was an unforgettable year for us.

My purpose in telling you this is that if you have the chance to travel while you are young,  do it, it will change your whole perspective on the world and your life. Best of all, you will love it and you will find things about you that you didn’t dream you were capable of doing.

Save the Birds

California legislators pass a law to force companies to get twenty percent of their power from renewable sources by the end of this year and reduce them by one third by the year 2020.

Environmentalists say windmills kill birds and should not be built, that means solar power only. I wonder where the politicians get most of their funds, could it be solar power firms?

Global Warming

Obama’s new proposal to solve global warming is called, “Cap and Trade.” This is just about as dumb as you can get and does nothing to solve global warming, but gives the Demoncraps a whole new way to get donations.

The idea is that you can pollute as much as you desire as long as you buy credits from non-polluting companies.

I hope to set up a company that doesn’t pollute, doesn’t do anything and then sell my non-pollution credits to polluters. My only questions are how do I set up this company and how much will you invest?

Government Help

Can the government solve our problems?

I suppose it is possible, but what will be the costs?

It costs the government (us) 1.14 cents to produce a penny, that is hardly a bargain.

Panama Canal

We just back from out trip through the Panama Canal and beyond, what a great trip this was. Our daughter Jen and her husband Tim came with us and this made it special for us. They had a cabin next to ours which made it very convenient. This made it possible to have two methods of communication, knock on the bulkhead or use the telephone. They took care of all of the details, arranged and supervised every event and saw that we had nothing to worry about, which made it very relaxing.

The Panama Canal was a great experience and one that I had looked forward to for many years, I was not disappointed. It is spectacular and you really can see it from the ship.

All of the trip was a wonderful experience and to top it off we met a lot of very nice people, which of course meant we enjoyed our meals. Most of our dinners were spent with Fred and Mary from Ohio, a very nice couple.