That's the way Dad does it.
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That's the way Dad does it.
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Foam, that all looks awesome, I'm really impressed. I'm no stranger around the kitchen, but I leave the baking up to my wife (except for bread, that's my domain, too), pecan pie is my favorite. Around our house we get to choose the cake we want for our birthdays, and instead of cake I usually opt for chocolate pecan pie, can't beat it.
We have all kinds of gadgets for corn on the cob, including some of those fancy butter spreading thingys, but the old standby we usually use is rolling the corn directly on the stick of butter on a plate like c farmer. Maximum butter with minimum effort.
Great post folks, thanks for sharing!
Damn Foam, you've got me sitting here at 8am thinking about pulled pork and pecan pie. That's one heck of a feed!! Everything looks fantastic.
For corn, we always did the butter in the saucer thing when I was a kid. Then once in my 20's I went with a buddy to visit his grandmother in a little town outside Pittsburgh. At dinner, she put a heavily buttered piece of bread on everyone's plate. I wondered why, then my buddy picked up his ear of corn and took the bread and wiped the butter all over it. It perfectly coated the corn, and you still had the buttered bread to eat. It was one of those "why the hell didn't I think of this?" moments.
And my mom always did the little cinnamon sugar treats with the pie crust scraps too! She would roll them up into little bite sized pieces and for some reason always called them Tootsie Rolls.
Thanks for the q-view and the trip down memory lane!!
Foam -
Much respect for a man that bakes his own buns (well now that sounded weird).
Seriously, looks awesome. You gotta show us a picture of the sammich right before you eat it once the pork is pulled. I think I may take a pack of pulled pork out of my freezer after seeing this...
Wow Foamy!!
I'm jealous of how you can Do It All !!! Pork--Buns--Pie!!!
That Butt looks really Tasty!!!
Thanks for a Great Thread!!-----------------
BTW: All we ever did was butter a slice of Bread, and then wrap it around an ear of corn & spin it to butter it.
Bear
I was raised in the country, Mom went to town once every two weeks on pay-day to get what groceries we needed. Remember when there were gas stations and no convenience stores? It was a camp village, not a farm or a ranch. We were not poor, we were better off that most, but my Mom and my Dad were "Frugal", its a nice word for cheap! LOL Its why he retired at 57. Anyway we had a small garden plot much like folks show here for veggies. Sometimes a cow or a pig (This is in my youth now). But never a milk cow. So we bought butter, milk, well Our dairy products. Its probably why I do not like unpasteurized milk and unsalted butter.
See, it just takes me awhile to explain, LOL.
Cut a stick of butter in half and roll the corn in it? Buttered bread that wasn't for breakfast with homemade jelly? These things didn't exist. A stick of butter Mom probably figured should last all week! When we had corn, you got a pat of butter which you quickly learned to spead rapidly with perfection. You might sneak in and get a "large" pat, but you got that look from the Mom when you did it. If you thought of reaching for another you'd probably draw back a nub where your hand used to be.LOL
After the corn, you might get a piece of bread or a biscuit and sop up any type juices left....LOL
I just can't imagine the looks back then, that cutting a stick of butter in 1/2 would have caused..... ROFLMAO A buttered slice of bread? OMW! Who heard of such a thing.
I can remember the Thanksgiving Mom brought out the "Corn boats" for the butter and corn. You would have thought we were the Vanderbilt's! And then me being that stupid college kid, opening my mouth and teasing Mom about it.
Mom and Dad loved corn, especially the early season white "Silver Queen" I think it was the first non-feed corn they ever had.
Thank guys for getting me to remember a bunch of things too.