barney's Cheap Eatin' Thread

[barney]

I have been out of fresh cornmeal for a while so I ground a batch of Tennessee red cob meal this morning. I keep several pounds of cleaned and ready to grind corn in one of my freezers.

Grandma's no flour recipe.

Fried up some fresh ham and taters and opened up a couple of cans of red beans to go with it for today's dinner.

 

[Tankt]

Subscribed once again

 

[ribsplitter]

What kind of grinder do you have Barney? I've been looking around trying to to find one but I don't want no junk.

 

[barney]

What kind of grinder do you have Barney? I've been looking around trying to to find one but I don't want no junk.

It is a C.S. Bell #2 that I motorized. They used to be common and in like new condition at every flea market you stopped at, now they are getting hard to find.

They were sold in hardware stores until up in the 80's and most every small farm had one.

 

[ribsplitter]

It is a C.S. Bell #2 that I motorized. They used to be common and in like new condition at every flea market you stopped at, now they are getting hard to find.

They were sold in hardware stores until up in the 80's and most every small farm had one.

Appreciate it, that gives me something to go on.

 

[aaronc]

Just a pile of my favorite sandwich sides.

 

[barney]

Appreciate it, that gives me something to go on.

You are welcome!

These mills have conical burrs that crush and roll the bran from the kernels similar to stone burr mills. Most of the smaller modern mills have burrs that do a lot of cutting and that makes ground corn and ground up corn is not cornmeal.

Here is a short video from several years back.

 

[ribsplitter]

You are welcome!

These mills have conical burrs that crush and roll the bran from the kernels similar to stone burr mills. Most of the smaller modern mills have burrs that do a lot of cutting and that makes ground corn and ground up corn is not cornmeal.

Here is a short video from several years back.

Thanks a bunch

 

[Nock]

Another epic thread!

 

[EdLongshanks]

It is a C.S. Bell #2 that I motorized. They used to be common and in like new condition at every flea market you stopped at, now they are getting hard to find.

They were sold in hardware stores until up in the 80's and most every small farm had one

It seems far easier just to ask you what you don’t know as opposed to the inverse. You remind me of my dear father to be honest. I wish I was gifted and earned that wealth of knowledge and intelligence. I’ll just keep hacking away and listening to you smart fellers. Seriously your knowledge is endless and it’s enjoyable to read your thoughts. I’m not a homo.

 

[barney]

It seems far easier just to ask you what you don’t know as opposed to the inverse. You remind me of my dear father to be honest. I wish I was gifted and earned that wealth of knowledge and intelligence. I’ll just keep hacking away and listening to you smart fellers. Seriously your knowledge is endless and it’s enjoyable to read your thoughts. I’m not a homo.

Haha.
Thanks, Ed!

I was thinking just a while back how fortunate I was to have the influential people in my life that I had as a child.

Not me, it was those people, family, friends and many others who laid the groundwork and just thankful that I was inadvertently able to see and grasp the value in what was being taught and hold on to it. I've been connecting their dots all through my life.

Such an honor bestowed being compared to your father.

 

[ribsplitter]

Haha.
Thanks, Ed!

I was thinking just a while back how fortunate I was to have the influential people in my life that I had as a child.

Not me, it was those people, family, friends and many others who laid the groundwork and just thankful that I was inadvertently able to see and grasp the value in what was being taught and hold on to it. I've been connecting their dots all through my life.

Such an honor bestowed being compared to your father.

I had those people in my life to Barney, but I was way to busy picking my nose.

 

[aaronc]

Chicken Alfredo. A few years back I ran into a Taliaferro doing some ancestry research, it explains a lot of my eating preferences.

 

[Backwoods Bowman]

This was a few weeks pre monsoon. Elk Steaks and grilled plantain on the fire after cutting wood all day.

 

[barney]

Chicken Alfredo. A few years back I ran into a Taliaferro doing some ancestry research, it explains a lot of my eating preferences.



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My grandpa immigrated here from Italy in 1901 when he was 21 years old. He hated the commie rule at the time, and after losing his first wife and baby daughter in a fire it pushed him over the limit, so he left on a cattle boat to Portugal and then caught a ship from there to NYC to the land of the free. He spent the next 19 years working his way from NYC to Pennsylvania to WV where he met and married my grandma before moving to KY in 1944. Yep, I know all about eatin preferences!

 

[aaronc]

My grandpa immigrated here from Italy in 1901 when he was 21 years old. He hated the commie rule at the time, and after losing his first wife and baby daughter in a fire it pushed him over the limit, so he left on a cattle boat to Portugal and then caught a ship from there to NYC to the land of the free. He spent the next 19 years working his way from NYC to Pennsylvania to WV where he met and married my grandma before moving to KY in 1944. Yep, I know all about eatin preferences!

Thats a hard story. Sounds like he made the best rebound he could.

 

[barney]

Thats a hard story. Sounds like he made the best rebound he could.

A lot of stuff in my head from hearing personal stories from 1880's Italy to hard times in 1930's Appalachia and everything else in between until 1984.
If I could write it all down in novel form, it would be way more epic than anything Anne Frank ever experienced.

From helping cut stones from the Vesuvius lava flow to replace cobblestones on the streets of Pompeii, and seeing neighbors with rabies locked in cages clawing and begging with bloody fingers and hands while foaming at the mouth and screaming obscenities at passersby until their death, to taking cover in Beartown, WV when first plane circled the ridge.

Kids just don't hear those kinds of stories now, and I'm still quite puzzled to this day why grandma told the Jenny Wiley story repeatedly along with everything else.

 

[aaronc]

A lot of stuff in my head from hearing personal stories from 1880's Italy to hard times in 1930's Appalachia and everything else in between until 1984.
If I could write it all down in novel form, it would be way more epic than anything Anne Frank ever experienced.

From helping cut stones from the Vesuvius lava flow to replace cobblestones on the streets of Pompeii, and seeing neighbors with rabies locked in cages clawing and begging with bloody fingers and hands while foaming at the mouth and screaming obscenities at passersby until their death, to taking cover in Beartown, WV when first plane circled the ridge.

Kids just don't hear those kinds of stories now, and I'm still puzzled to this day why grandma told the Jenny Wiley story repeatedly along with everything else.

You should write'em down, that stuff would be gold for your family some day.......imo.

I watch a lot of Appalachian/Ky and other local states depression documentaries as we've all discussed. I didn't grow up that way and my kid certainly isn't, however, I make a point to talk to her about it on the regular. Hopefully 10% of it sticks. I usually use those examples because it really hasn't been that long ago and it's close to home.

I'll look up Jenny Wiley. Pompeii is nothing less than fascinating.

 

[xbokilla]

Awesome stories Barney. My wife’s maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant then later brought his mother/wife’s grandmother over. When they were living it was always fun to hear them reference “the old country”. On my wife’s paternal side, her great grandmother was also an Italian immigrant. I probably haven’t heard as many stories as you but have heard a few and been privy to some good real Italian eatin!

 

[Little FR]

Kids wanted homemade bread so I’ve got a polish going for tomorrow but I slapped together a quick tangzhong loaf so they could have some before bed. Just waiting on this to rise.