Ok, I don't want to spell it all out, but it's Flints birthday on Monday!! Hope you have a great day, Mr. C Man!!! The B-I-G 40!!!!
40? Now the creaks start. :laugh: Let the sparks fly for your special day!
Happy birthday, Charlie. Only 40? Seems longer than that since you were a little kid running around Moline.
Many Happy Returns.
Happy Birthday, Flint.
Happy Happy birthday...
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Hope you had many many more.
and you get cake or pie or ice cream or .......well ... whatever you want for you special day. :)
Quote from: Teresa on August 24, 2008, 02:41:36 PM
Happy Happy birthday...
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Hope you had many many more.
and you get cake or pie or ice cream or .......well ... whatever you want for you special day. :)
Well, let's see:
Pan Fried Chicken
Mashed Potatoes
Cracklin Gravy
Deviled Eggs
Corn on the Cob
Fresh from the oven Beer Bread
Betty Crocker Milk Chocolate Cake (with 1/4 inch slab of chocolate butter cream frosting)
And Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Now that you're all hungry, that's not what I got this year. >:( But it is what I remember my birthday meal being, whether it was Mother Joan, aunt Bonnie Bynum, aunt Metta Barnes, or great aunt Ruth Nay doing the hosting and major preparation. I was very blessed to have these (and other) fine cooks in my family. :angel:
And luckily, not too long after these fine women were called home, or stricken while awaiting that call, :'( I met another very fine cook - my wife Angela. :-* :-*
The problem this year was timing of work shifts. :(
So, instead it will be a rather quick visit to a chain steakhouse for a nice porterhouse. :o
Thank you all for your well wishes! 8)
Happy Birthday Flint! May your day be everything you want it to be.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
You have many loving memories of your family ladies. I went to school with your Mother and knew your Aunt Bonnie well, and your Grandpa and Grandma Hanlin.
Have a Great Day and Fred and I are sending wishes for many more.
Jo
HB, Flinty!
It all sounds really good... but what is Cracklin Gravy?
In this instance, it could be gravy made in the pan the chicken was fried in - with all the "drippings" (cracklin's).
I always thought cracklin's came from pork - but we've made gravy with the chicken left-overs and it's delicious.
Just never called it cracklin gravy.
Sorry, been away from the forum a couple of days. Too much work work and too much yard work.
Yes, what I call cracklin gravy goes by other names, but consists of making flour and milk gravy out of the grease and cracklins left in the skillet when you're done cooking the chicken. Have to get the flour to milk ratio correct though, or you'll have some wonderful tasting paste. No recipe, takes a while to learn the "right" amounts.
Yep, got the gravy part down (most of the time), just never heard the term "cracklin".
Baked potatoes, fried potatoes, mashed potatoes... anyone had "riced potatoes"?