Out For A Sunday Drive, Corsicana, Texas

 

Hubby wanted to go to Gander Mountain in Corsicana to

check prices on sausage casings.

I was like, yeah, OK, sure.

 

 

The ride in was on the interstate, lots of cars going way too fast!

 

 

When we got finished at the Gander,

we headed into town proper to hit the local Walmart.

 

 

My suggestion for the ride back was to take the back roads.

Out came The Roads of Texas Atlas.

(I love that atlas).

 

These photos were taken on FM 1126, just outside of Emhouse.

A beautiful drive back home, wouldn't you agree?

 

How was your Sunday?

 

Till next time,

Bonjour

Food and Knowledge...These are a few of my favorite things...

YUMMY GOODNESS

SO....

The goodies have finally arrived.

No more onions from the BIG BOX PEOPLE,

small box delivered right to my mail box!

(My, that's a lot of boxes for one sentence)

I didn't know there were short day, intermediate and long day onions, or that some were better for storing than others, or that you leave them to dry in the garden after you pick them.

Seems I knew nothing at all about onions.

After some research I now know that in Texas, we need short day onions.

And there's a local supplier in east Texas. Brown's Omaha Plant Farms Inc.

I like to shop local when I can.

We are now the proud parents of,

TX 1015 - Y Supersweet

Red Burgandy Hamburger

My husband's choices!

The snow has melted so maybe tomorrow we can get them in the ground.

I'm still doing research to understand which ones store better. 

OTHER BREAKING NEWS!!!

KNOWLEDGE

We subscribe to Backwoods Home Magazine and they had a few books we've been coveting.

I finally loosened the purse strings and ordered one for me and one for Steve, the third one was free.

My choice was,

Jackie Clay's canning book.

This is not your run of the mill canning book, this is the SUPREMEO CANNING BOOK!!! (I'm sure that's a word)

I have several canning manuals but not one covers the range of foods to can as this one does.

Canned cheese, meat, milk who knew?

There's tips on growing a wide range of foods, recipes and even info on raising animals.

I can't wait to put this book to use.

I love knowledge.

Steve got,

 Butchering Smoking Curing and Sausage Making.

I haven't looked at that one yet so I have no opinion to share.

The third one is,

 Recession Proof Your Pantry

It starts out listing everything you'll need in your pantry to survive for one year, just in case you can't get to the market.

You never know what will happen, flood, hurricane, snow, ????

Great info on how to store different types of foods.

It lists the requirements for most veggie, how cold, how much humidity etc.

Also gives you ideas on where to store if you don't have a root cellar. (NOT)

I haven't finished reading it yet but so far I'm learning alot.

We do ok in respect to canning but I feel that we need to take it to the next level.

In addition to what you grow why not take advantage of the market sales, buy it on sale, can for later use.

That's one of the goals I have for 2011

Self reliance is a good thing!!

 Till next time,

Bonjour