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Will you please stop putting sliced potato in your moussaka and replace it with more aubergine? I will gladly pay the few extra pence this will cost you.

Yours in anticipation, Harbal.

Whenever I go to the Asian market I try to get some bananas from Thailand.
They are short 'finger size' and have a thin skin. Typically, it's best to keep them in plastic and wait for the skin to split to indicate they are ripe.
Last night I see the local Publix grocery has finger bananas from Colombia that look like dwarfed bananas of the variety normally sold here that sell anywhere between 65 cents to 80 cents per pound. When fully ripened, the Manzanos are sweeter than normal bananas but cost prohibitive at $2 a pound.




The ones in the store are slightly distress and look nothing like the ones on Chiquita's website.

Some years ago, when I was working as a building labourer, I was parked up in the pickup on the outskirts of the village where we were working, eating my lunchtime sandwich. On the stone wall right next to me a robin was coming and going and bobbing about looking for food. I pinched off a piece of bread from my sandwich and held it out in offering to the robin and, to my sheer delight, it hopped onto my hand and took it. The incident was over in less than a second but that one little event absolutely made my day.

I still think of that little robin from time to time, even though it must be ten years or more since it happened. The bird is probably long dead now, but, before it died, I wonder if it thought of me, once in a while.

I recently got back from a friend's house.
They invited me to a BBQ pool party this afternoon.
Good food, and lots of fun.

On the way back home I stopped by Walmart
and got several things, including some sherbet.

It is NOT pina coloda, as my blog title may have indicated.
It is "Margarita". Not bad. A lemon & lime flavor.
So, if you wanted pina coloda, you're s.o.l.
However, I do have plenty of extra Margarita sherbet, if you hurry.

Saturday, 12/27/14 @4:05pm
Wouldn't ya just know it????

PINTOS:
Soaked the Pintos overnight, spent most of the day cooking them to just the right tenderness and the juice, just the perfect thickness…. mixed with just the right touch of my homemade “special blended” seasoning, and 2 beef bouillon cubes and last but not least, a quartered onion. *perfect*

COLESLAW:
Coleslaw (cabbage shredded last night), made today with mayo, diced Roma tomatoes, salt/pepper to taste!

CREAMED POTATOES:
Mashed potatoes, with authentic lumps. Mixed with mayo, butter, dash of milk. Salt/pepper to taste!

DEVILED EGGS:
With relish, mayo, mustard, salt/pepper to taste, sprinkled with paprika !

MEAT:
Undecided just yet….
Gravy, either beef/brown, or mushroom, or chicken… depending on meat.

SIDES:
Small tossed salad...
Quartered onions, sliced tomatoes...
Fried Okra would have been nice..but didn't this time...

QUESTION: Rolls, Biscuits, or Corn bread ?

AND GUESS WHAT?
I'M NO LONGER HUNGRY, OH WELL….
“Wouldn't ya just know it”? There is always tomorrow… ~JOHN~

“Have one”, my host said. “It tastes like biltong.” I have wanted to taste them for some time and the mention of biltong was the perfect encouragement. I happen to love biltong. I had a few opportunities to sample it before but every time I put it off until ‘next time'.

The year was 1989 and the venue was a game farm in the north of our country. It was getting dark and there was a bosvark (wild hog) sizzling on a spit braai (giant rotisserie). I was into my second brandy and feeling brave. My two friends who came with me from Cape Town looked at me in anticipation. The bowl in the middle of the table was supposed to be a hors d'oeuvre of some sort .

I took the spoon and scratched in the bowl that my host put on the table. It was the dried variety (I saw when they went in the pot) and it looked delicious; done in a sauce laced with onion, tomato, garlic and chilies. I scooped the smallest one and dumped it on my plate. From there it went into my mouth and I chewed on it.

It was tough enough to be biltong, but that was where the resemblance ended. I chewed and I chewed. At first it tasted good; it was a great sauce… and then the real taste came. It was a musty taste, almost like the odor you get when you dig a hole in the ground.

I chewed and I chewed and I chewed. I did not like it. I wanted to swallow it, but it was still too large. I could not spit it out because I was the one boasting that I eat anything. I went on chewing.

At last I could swallow it. I looked at my host across the table. He was busy with his second and his wife was also chewing one. “How was it? You want another?” he asked.

“Delicious!” I lied. “But no thank you.” At least that was the truth. I’d never want to eat another in my life. In my silence I decided to change my boast to ‘eating almost anything’.

I took the bowl again and fished the two largest worms out there and placed them on the platters of my two friends. A deal is a deal. I have completed my side of the bargain. It was their turn.

Although Cadburys has ruined it for me, have you tasted the creme egg lately?

Pumpkins were marked down to $1 on Sunday so we picked a big one, sliced it into small pieces to refrigerate. Collecting the seeds and putting them in the oven to dry, I've got that for a snack tonight.
Making pumpkin bread is next on the list of baking projects this weekend.

During the college basketball game between Loyola Chicago and Duquesne, an Uber Eats food delivery guy casually walked on the court in the middle of the game.

We have all probably eaten pies containing bits of human, now Scientists are combining human and pie DNA.

A Dr.Gregg has managed to not only combine human and pie DNA but has used his knowledge of genome and computer programming to upload human female DNA into a chicken and mushroom pasty, Her name is Annie and she had exhibited some PMS symptoms that Dr.Gregg has solved by being nice and pouring real gravy over her, she is calm and her skin is not flaking much now.

NASA’s Mars project will be manned by a Pieanaut who is a human/sausage roll hybrid named Carlos, he is currently undergoing extensive training and will soon be frozen and sent to Mars to form a new colony.

Here on Earth it won’t be long before we see pie/human babies growing up amongst us.
Naturally there has been some outrage:-

Sister Bidet-loo from the Holy something or other shouted with anger at the news before walking back into traffic and washing windscreens with her habit.

A Mr. Trump issued an executive order banning all pies from entering his Country. (although pies are welcome in California)

The EU issued a statement saying that Pies will now be given the same rights as cakes, Antelopes and Mobile phone companies.

The world is changing, are you ready?