Dinner tonight - or last night.

For tonight I made a stew, a stoo.

Just a few ingredients, as after starting I found out I had no carrots. Diced braising steak, two onions, can of chopped tomatoes, four potatoes cut up small, and a tin of red beans.
Mixed herbs, and dried basil. And a chicken stock cube, don't ask me why. Quite a lot of ground black pepper, and salt to taste.

We're going to have it with wholewheat organic pitta breads, because we're on a diet. No trimmings. Maybe I'll do a green salad later.

I went out and bought a heat-diffuser mat for the hob, as out hob burns too easily, (I've been meaning to get one for ages) and now I've put the stoo in the oven as a casserole to finish off.

Whats a hob?

Pot likker is a mixture of the essence of the hamhocks and water that is used to cook the greens in. Usual greens are collards or mustard.

Serve with sweet ice tea, this is suthn com'ft food. Specially with the gret big hunks a the homemade cawn braiy' ed

the word bread, when spoken in the south US, has 2 distinct syllables. The word is BRAY'-ED

Well, Ive been taking over a drilling commitment on a mining job that, because of all the rain weve had, has really screwed up my company's schedules. Im sitting a drill rig and eating out at truck stops , barbecue joints, and road houses.

I never EVER, eat at fass food or motel restaurants.

There used to be a little hole in the wall restaurant attached to the independently owned Stagecoach Motel in Carlsbad NM that positively had the best catfish in the world. When working in that corner of the state, I intentionally scheduled stopovers in Carlsbad just to get some of that catfish. It was a huge disappointment when the restaurant changed managers and the menu. I stayed in Hobbs thereafter.

I met a man called Kee-in in Texas, who turned out to be Ken.

A hob is the top of a cooker where the gas rings are, maybe electric hotplates.

It all used to be a "cooker" here, but now of course in a kitchen the oven is often elsewhere from the top, which we call a hob.

Nothing to do with hob-nailed boots, though.

Southerners have dinner for lunch, supper for dinner.

......her skillet is from the forties....

made a big mistake last night...went to the neighborhood sports bar to watch my Capitals vs Penguins...Monday night special was any dish for $9.99 so I ordered the wings(nekkid) in honey garlic sauce...25 of those suckers came out and I overdid it.
Paid the fiddler about 3 am

There are no one-syllable words in Texas. I remember a comedian, illustrating and punctuated with his finger, explaining that the longest word in American vernacular was: Shhhhhhhhhhh-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuut!

yeah...and if a Texan says "I Tell You Whaaaaat!!"

there's no need to answer "what?"


he's just expressing amazement

lass night had me some reeee ubbs an butter beans with a light butter gravy, an a salad .

Im outta here today and back home tonight. I dont think I can take much more of the meats and three set ups.

What the heck, lets see what happens. Took frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts. Sliced into strips, oiled, loaded the strips in a seasoned flour filled gallon ziplock. Shake, shake, shake the booty. Skillet. More oil. Was wondering what was going to happen with the chicken still being frozen, the coatings, the moisture inside, oil. They fried perfectly. Tossed with spicy garlic wing sauce. Served with loaded baked potato, macaroni and cheese.

McTag...I remember the first time I was introduced to a "hob." I didn't say that it was a "burner" to me...just added it to the lexicon. I have wondered where that word hob came from. Burner was obvious.

I have an electric toaster oven at our cottage in Ireland...it has a hob on top. Most useful appliance I've ever had...if the gas bottle runs out, I put a pasta-water pot on the hob, some onions and peppers and stuff in the toaster oven...dinner time.

Just Googled it.
Main Entry:
2hob
Function:
noun
Etymology:
origin unknown
Date:
1511

1: a projection at the back or side of a fireplace on which something may be kept warm2: a cutting tool used for cutting the teeth of worm wheels or gears3British : cooktop

Home made pumpkin soup with garlic bread, followed by marinated bbq grilled chilli/garlic prawns on a skewer.

One large baked potato with sour cream & chives. (Ruined my appetite for dinner by indulging in some rather nice Brie on savoury biscuits late this afternoon ... & before that, some Bratwurst in a roll for lunch, while out shopping. <burp!> )

Ill be eating chicken soup and tea for the next few days, I think.

Aw ... poor, sick, farmer!