Newbrassky

[Silver Creek Slim]

Did Delmonico get that pasta maker AnnieLee's been wanting? Enquiring minds wanna know.

Isn't that called "the kids"? 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Did Delmonico get that pasta maker AnnieLee's been wanting? Enquiring minds wanna know.

Isn't that called "the kids"? 

Naw, the kids make "paste", not "pasta," though they do eat it!



AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

No it ain't no pasta machine.   Much better.   It will be here sometime next week.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Hmmmmm.... not a pasta machine... not a wok, I just saw one of those brought in... can't be a bread machine, Del would have a conniption fit... can't be a new dutch oven, he's already got 342,321,678 of those...

Dang it, Del, what is it?? I know you are busting to tell us, so tell us!


AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

Nope, i'll be here Wndsday or Thursday.   Gonna get in Today at North Platte and it's gonna take a few days fer the wagons to haul here.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Hmmm.... it's taking wagons days to haul it! Oh, I know, I know, it's a Pizza Oven!!!

[Delmonico]

Noooope, I can do pizza in dutch ovens and it's good.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"Hrm. Perhaps it is something for those hogs you have, the ones that nobody seems to feed or take care of or anything like that? Did you get a smoker?"

[Delmonico]

When slim get back on Monday let's have him just take that herd a pigs and drive them to market.   He could take them to Oggeylaaala, bet that would suprise them, Slim and his herd a pigs riddn' in ta town.

[gophergrease]

If ya mackin the pizza order the good chez from acrosed the big pond. Have someone spit up a bunch of ceder and abit of Osage, need the fire reel hot.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

< A brief interruption>

Hey, Del and GopherGrease, there's a newbie over on the Frontier spot who could use your help: http://www.frontierspot.org/viewtopic.php?t=25243

AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

While we are sendin' fer the water buffalo milk cheese in olive oil can we get a couple or three cans of them little bitty fish fillets that are kinda salty.      I loves them on my pizzza and they be period correct.

Fact is that pizzza oven ain't a bad ideaer, lets get Slim to stop by Yankee hill or Endicot and get us some brick.  Ya want yaller brick or red brick.

Sorry Annie we gots to wait about 20 years for the pasta machine to be of any use ta us.

[gophergrease]

Del, red or yaller dont matter much as long as you have him get one of the yaller ones 2" thick and 3' square. We can build a little sod house, with the oven as one wall. Should make for a danddy place to hang some of them hogs.    As for the pasta, you was born with the best thing going, HANDS.

[Delmonico]

The FFg's gonna have ta whop ya with yer hat, we could build a pasta machine from the plans that Thomas Jefferson made of the one he had smuggled over the Alps.  But we ain't gonna get no durum wheat (Triticum durum) to make the semolina till early in the next century.   I would think you would remember that.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Okie, smarty pants Delmonico, then how do you explain how macaroni and cheese was popular during that so called "Civil" war, hmmmmm?

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim comes riding into camp on top of a wagon. The wagon has all of the items that Del and Gophergrease wanted, cuz Del telegraphed the list to Slim when he was in Wiscooooooooooooooonsin. "Here's the stuff ya ordered, guys."
"I'll eat some breakfast. Then, if Duke wants ta help, we will drive the pigs to Oggeylaaala."

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Duke, who would rather be out running around and chasing after hogs with Slim than eating anchovies, perks up his ears and springs to his feet, ready to go.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim grabs some breakfast and grub for a couple days in case there is a need for it. "Okay, Duke, lets drive dem hawgs." Slim opens the pig sty gate and mounts his horse. "Duke, get dem hawgs outta the sty!"

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

There is a small hesitation as Duke takes in the aromoa... nae, the STENCH of the sty, then he blinks away the tears in his eyes and leaps on in. Dodging feet and snouts, he runs around the inside edge of the sty, barking and nipping at porcine heels until all the hogs are driven out the gate.

[Delmonico]

Well Miss FFg, the macaroni was imported from Italy.  Thats why it was considered a luxury dish.  Not cause mac and cheese is so great to eat, but cause it was expensive.   

Remember, first rule of gooooorment cookin', "if it's hard to get and it's expensive, it's goooooment."