This week, we discuss the loss of the 2020 Iowa State Fair, and reminisce about the 50s. Also Some stuff about food, and probably other things. It’s hot in here, and I’m having a hard time remembering. Enjoy!
And yes, it’s on YouTube, also.
QUESTIONS:
Do you have any family recipes that were passed down to you? –Craig
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OMG William! I think I have that same bank from my grandparents house. The dog has the coin in its mouth and jumps through the hoop held by the clown to deposit the coin into the barrel. I asked for it when they passed because I thought it was nifty/retro.
I’ve watched Space Force up to the trigonometry lesson so far. I think the character is pretty similar to Michael Scott. However, I think Steve Carrell’s characters in Hope Springs and 40 Year Old Virgin are different characters.
Two tubes of Pillsbury Crescent rolls for 6-7 people is not a “ton.” Each tube has 8 crescents, so you’re at slightly more than two per person. And, while delicious, they seem far less substantial than a regular dinner roll (which we basically never have, we either have Pillsbury or no rolls).
About 12 years ago, my mom made each of us kids a 3 ring binder with recipes we had growing up. Some of them are classics I remember growing up with, and some are newer, including a Plum chili I find disgusting. There are also a few recipes in there that based on the name and what my husband recalls from HIS childhood, he is not interested in me making – meatloaf is one of those. I don’t personally love meatloaf either, but I also don’t dislike it to the point where I don’t want to ever eat it for the rest of my/his life. It also sounds to me that his family’s version of meatloaf is much different than mine, so I think it could be possible that mine is acceptable to his pallet (which has matured substantially).
He will experiment some. I’d say I’m batting around 70% for things he thought he wouldn’t like that it turns out he at least tolerates. Those that make the cut are worked into the rotation. Those that don’t, I am reminded of as being disgusting failures when I next want to try something new-to-him from my family archives.
We’ve had some other, non-(my)family recipe failures too, most notably: borscht, home made French onion soup, and I can’t live down the time I tried to replace the oil in his family recipe for pumpkin chocolate chip muffins with applesauce and they turned out as a globby, sunken mess.
Yep, that’s the bank, alright. 🙂
You’re recording and I’m listening!
The weather is good today too! Not good enough that I’d open the entire house, but then I only very, very rarely do that. We usually either run the HVAC or put up a window and/or ceiling fan in whatever room we’re in.
Liking things and extremes: Yup. As it happens, my mom does like turtles and she’s received hundreds of them in various forms over the years.
Clowns: Agree with Tony, straight up nightmare fuel. Clowns are evil, except for Puddles. Puddles is cool.
Deodorant with asphyxiation warnings: Well, you did say it’s a stick deodorant; so if you shoved it down your throat, I imagine it could cause asphyxiation. But yeah, it’s more likely it’s just an stray sticker.
Tony: You don’t sound any weirder now than you do in any other episode.
IA State Fair: I’ve not been to the fair since roughly when I was in high school, though Michelle & I have tossed around the idea of going to see it again but still haven’t made it down (COVID certainly didn’t help with that).
This only tangentially related to Space Force. I didn’t finish The Office before it left Netflix. I liked the bits of it, but too much of it hit too close to home with various jobs I’ve had. When The Office was good, it was really good; but other times it was just painful to watch. I think I watched the first episode of Space Force back when I was still trying to watch The Office and it just felt like the military version of The Office and not in a good way.
Family recipes: Kind of? We never had like the family cookbook with secrets passed from parent to child through the ages, but I did pick up on how to make a few things that my mom made a lot when we were kids. The main two recipes I learned were “goulash” & Watergate salad (our family’s whipped topping recipe). I put “goulash” in quotes as it’s American goulash and is very different/inferior when compared to Czech goulash, but is still something I enjoin from time to time. Nostalgia is a powerful force. Additionally, I technically know my mom’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, as she says it’s just the one on the nestle chips package. With that said, I’ve watched her make the cookies and she doesn’t really measure things anymore. She’s made them so many times over the years that she free hands it. This means when I try to replicate her cookies; it never turns out the same.
Tony: You said you’ve put out various iterations of your family recipes; are these online some place like on themagicaltalkinghat.com? If not, could I get a copy of your recipes?
Experimental Recipes: I’ve been known to do that too but I’ll try to keep track of at least roughly what I use so I can (hopefully) recreate it later.