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Does anyone on here have a delicious pumpkin pie recipe? If so, would you please share it on here? For Thanksgiving on Thursday, I have been designated by one of my daughters to make homemade pumpkin pies! I told her I would buy a couple of pies but she was insistent that I make them from scratch! I can cook and bake but have never tried to make pumpkin pie.

Thanks for your help!

Sunday morning and I'm trying to organize this weeks work.
We have a special event this week, 200 guests.
It's a meal for single people. Chinese menu.
The problem is we have to make 200 fortune cookies. Means 200 diferent fortune cookie messages.
I need help. I've been checking internet and found some but still need plenty more.

- Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.
- Confusius says lovers in triangle not on square.
- It's easier to resist at the beginning that at the end.
- Flattery will go far tonight.
- Some men dream of fortune, others of dream of cookies.
- A tub and a rub will change your day.
- Never forget a friend , especially if he owes you.

Need so many more, any ideas?
Help please.

Who wants coconut? :)



One of my favorite drink ^_^

So yesterday, somewhere around 10am I woke up to the sound of turkey clucking. Little bastards. Still in my underwear I slipped on some flip-flops, walked to the front door and grabbed the loaded shotgun (Stevens 311 (1940s vintage) I had placed there just for them.

I went out and with a single shot convinced the flock survivors waking me wasn't their smartest move. Returning inside I unloaded the gun, found some pants and logged onto VA;'s Dept of Game and checked the new acquisition into their system.

I then texted my 'step daughter' as she had asked to be notified when I got a turkey. In a little while she called back. She wanted to know how to clean it and also wanted me to bring it by so she could cook it for me. She was at classes right then, but suggested if I could be at her BF's place around 5ish that would be perfect.

Next I found a good video about how to field dress a Wild Turkey in about 3 minutes. I texted this to her.





bless you youtube.

So I checked my email and oh golly there was a work assignment in it. Visit a foreclosed upon property 20 miles away, see if the former owner had snuck back in, check for any signs of vandalism if he hadn't (notifying the local sheriff dept as the bank's contracted representative if either one was found), and confirm that the realtor had placed a for sale sign up as he said he had.

So after a slow leisurely breakfast I go outside with a plastic bag and place the turkey hen in it (letting the cats out in the process) and secure the bag in a place the cats can't get to while I was gone. Then I putter around on the PC a bit. I check FB and watch a friends Halloween video (nicely done, ), print off the information needed for work assignment, pictures, address, directions, phone numbers, etc., then around noonish I let the cats back in and depart for the work.

Yes, the for sale sign was there. A lovely $4,000 sq. foot home stuck 20 miles further back into the rurals. Eighty acres of private woods around it. Similar properties all around, each with their own forest. Gravel road to it in decent shape. A gravel driveway to an immaculate palace. The usual real estate combo padlock on the door. I call the realtor and tell him who I am then open the padlock and get the key and do my walk through. The whole backside of the place is spectacular mountain view as the property is high up that mountain. I wish I had brought my binoculars. I confirm the electricity is still on and the faucets all work and are off. I check the heat pump and the hot water system for signs of sabotage or vandalism. Nothing found. The place is gorgeous. A swimming pool in back. Paved walkways. A pool house, a 4 car detached combination garage (the house has an attached 2 car as well) and garden tools shed, etc., etc. I didn't ask the Realtor, nor did the bank paperwork specify, but I am guessing somewhere around 2 million. Money comes & money goes. Nothing amiss found I lock up and thank the realtor and depart for home. A quick and easy $75 thus made.

I stop off at Sheetz and grab a large steak and cheese sub with fixings, then sit on their patio and attempt a chat with the woman at the next table. It starts, but then her ride shows up and with a wave she departs. Seemed like a nice lady. Ah well...

So I get back home around 3ish. The cats are waiting for me at the front door. I let them in, log onto my PC then fill out my online report and submit it to my handlers with time/date stamped photos attached.

Then after making sure the cat food bowls are full I grab the plastic trash bag full of turkey and depart for MD. I arrive there just about 5 and she bids me enter.

when you are browsing around the local shop and come across the chockie counter.

Are you into those wonderful BIG slabs of chocolate or are you a mouse and go for the nibble size?

Actually, a fruit salad.

Well, mostly grapes.

OK, all grapes.

Fermented grapes.

Wine.

I've got wine for dinner.







(not my own - thanks to Elephant Food on Facebook)

In S.A. we make a delicacy, called Biltong:-

My dad, and granddad would use mainly beef strips from the back around the spine, cut into around 30cm x 8cm strips.

These strips then get marinaded in ur own special recipe, which varies from person to person, for a while.

U then put a hook at the one end of strip of marinated raw beef meat, and hang it up in a well ventilated room, up high.

Now depending on ur taste, these strips are taken down at varying degrees of dryness (it shrinks during the drying process) and cut up as u like, with a special tool and eaten.

It has a rubbery tangy texture, depending on the marinade used.

Will u eat it?

Jamaican Rice and peas

Ingredient:

2lbs rice
1/2 pint kidney beans or Gungo peas
1 large coconut or tin coconut or powder coconut
1 glove garlic
5 stalk escallion
3 sprigs thyme
2 table spoon sugar (optional )
Salt to taste
1 green pepper
pieces of ginger to add taste


Preparation and cooking:

1. Cook peas and garlic to an almost tender state.
2. Grate coconut and extract the milk through a sieve (strainer).
3. Add this prepared milk cream to peas
4. Allow to boil for 10 minutes
5. Add pepper, thyme, salt, sugar, ginger, escallion
6. Boil for three minutes
7. Taste your pot, does it need more salt, set desired taste
8. Then you add rice
9. Allows to boil for 3 minutes high heat
10. Now min the heat
11. Allow to steam for twenty minutes or until rice is tender
12. Alright rice is done!