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[bullfrog]

Time to figure out how to use a bidet! With Covid 19 nobody is shaking hands sooooooo! Lol!!!

 

[crofter]

Ugh! I cannot imagine fitting a bidet into a van. What will the newbies think, the thing is bigger than a kitchen sink. Absolutely NO multiple uses with that thing.
-crofter

 

[Sofisintown]

Dude, you don't need to install a bidet in a van! A spray bottle is all you need!

 

[crofter]

OK don't laugh at me. I am watching "Don't be tardy" and I swear it is us with a bigger RV. Too funny.  -crofter

 

[crofter]

Dude, you don't need to install a bidet in a van! A spray bottle is all you need!  

OK I feel better now, but still no multiple uses with that thing.  -crofter

 

[crofter]

Another great day in southern AZ, currently 83 degrees with  a few clouds. Should make for a nice sunset.

What did you ditch today? I ditched work, but I am retired so does not count. Then I ditched breakfast and had a tuna fish sandwich instead. Blackeye peas for lunch, yum. Well I better get on it and go water the flowers.  -crofter

 

[Gypsyjoe#1]

I love blackeye peas but when I make them they never taste right, I don't know what I do wrong just don't turn out right. May have to have you teach me!!!!

 

[crofter]

I think its the peas. The ones I ate as a kid were much more flavorful.   -crofter

 

[Sofisintown]

The senses of smell and taste weaken as we age and that's a reason we don't find foods as flavorful as we remember them when we were kids. Also medications can affect what we taste ans smell.
Just add more spices, I guess.

 

[bullfrog]

My wife learned to make New Years Peas from one of our Cajun friends, even the juice is delicious but I gain so much weight when she makes it cause I clean the bowl with a big piece of buttered bread. Just a couple months and hopefully she will make some!

 

[user 423]

Then I ditched breakfast and had a tuna fish sandwich instead.

My favorite quick breakfast is cold pizza.  No beer washdown these days though.

 

[Gypsyjoe#1]

I've always loved cold pizza, matter of fact I think I enjoy it more the next day than when it was fresh.

 

[VanFan]

Bullfrog:  Just ONE big piece of buttered bread?!

 

[bullfrog]

Maybe two, there is a lot of hot juice to soak up!

 

[crofter]

My wife learned to make New Years Peas from one of our Cajun friends, even the juice is delicious but I gain so much weight when she makes it cause I clean the bowl with a big piece of buttered bread. Just a couple months and hopefully she will make some!

I had to look up the recipe, link to recipe site.  Of course it has spicy sausage. Calls for both peperoncini and ham and ham hocks that's a lot of flavor.
-crofter
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/213029/new-year-black-eyed-peas/

 

[bullfrog]

My wife adds small cubes of potatoes and carrots as well as bacon bits. Also she uses gouya ham seasoning instead of ham hocks and some other seasonings I’ll have to ask her when she makes it as she never measures and always makes huge portions to get it right! Lol!!! It is one of those dishes that just get better the next day as it thickens a little.

 

[crofter]

Here are other sources for shelf stable (dry) sausage, both from the midwest.
-crofter

Description: links to supply catalogs
http://thecheesestoreandmore.com/smoked-andouille-sausage-1lb/

https://www.wisconsinrivermeats.com/smoked_andouille_sausage_3lbs.php

 

[crofter]

Here is some thrilling information from USDA on food safety and storage times for dry sausage. Sounds like you could leave dry sausage in your lunchbox for 6 weeks or in your refrigerator forever.  -crofter

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/porta...preparation/sausages-and-food-safety/ct_index

 

[bullfrog]

Okay it is Goya Ham Flavored Concentrate, Goya Sazon and cilantro cubes. She also fries thick bacon and uses the grease to sautéed diced onions and celery which all goes into a slow cooker all day. She does not use the peppers or diced tomatoes and instead uses diced potatoes and carrots along with the black-eyed peas.

 

[desert_sailing]

Well I better get on it and go water the flowers.  -crofter

Here I sit perplexed at how the hell you have flowers to water in a van?..lol