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VERY DISTURBING 3 VIDEOS IN 1--DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN WATCH
These videos were captured from the web site that posted them before they were removed from their site. I saw one on the GlennBeck show this afternoon and was horrified. Copy and paste the following:
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Made the Margarita!
Well, I did save back 1/4 cup of the prickly pear juice. I made the margarita with it on Wednesday evening, with all ingredients that a margarita uses but with the addition of the juice. Made in the blender with ice--so looked like a "frozen margarita" but was a deep fuchia color. I do think I put too much tequilla in as I felt a little inebriated in about an hour!!!! Of course I haven't had any alcohol in about 8 years and drinking that with all the meds I take..wasn't a very wise thing to do. Anyway maybe I was just celebrating the Grand Opening of Jeannie Reeves Photography Studio!!!!!
Just kidding...but really, I sure won't do anything like that again.
Just kidding...but really, I sure won't do anything like that again.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Prickly Pear Jelly
While I was in Graham last week, went up on the hill where the Gratex Oil and Gas Refinery once stood (this refinery was built in 1927 by my grandfather, G.O. Cozart and my father, W. O. Cozart).
Anyway while up there---I saw a large Prickly Pear Catcus filled with fruit (which are called "tunas". ) Picked about a gallon, but not without getting teeny tiny stickers in my fingers. After returning home I scrubbed the rest of the stickers off the "tunas", peeled them, cut them open and removed the seeds which are black and as hard as granite, They take up most of the "tunas", leaving very little flesh. Put seeds in a seive and saved all the juice that came out and put the flesh and juice in a bowl with some sugar (although the flesh is really sweet). Ate a few of them for breakfast one morning and today will be putting them in a large pan with about a cup or more of water to just cover and a lemon or lime juice and cook till the flesh has released the rest of the juice. This will then be strained thru a coffee filter, and made into "Prickly Pear Jelly".
I will save some of the juice to make a Margarita which will include lime juice, tequila and Triple Sec and put into blender with ice--makes slushy drink--- WOW--you've not seen anything to compare this with--it is a beautiful dark red with a hint of pink and delicious. Although I don't drink anymore, I will make just ONE for old times sake. Ha! Ha!
RECIPE FOR PRICKLY PEAR JELLY---my grandmother's recipe.
1 quart cactus fruits (tunas) (Just as they come off the cactus--not cut in two like I did)
1 package powdered pectin (NOT LIQUID)
3 tablespoons Lemon or Mexican Lime Juice
3 1/2 cups sugar
Sterilized jelly glasses
Melted Parafin.
Scrub fruits with a vegetable brush (I use one of those yellow plastic scrubbers.) Wash and place in a large pan with just enough water to cover. Boil until tender and soft. This is necessary to extract all the juice. Press through cheesecloth or coffee filter and dicard the pulp and seeds. Set juice aside so sediment will settle to the bottom. Pour off the clear juice and discard sediment. You should now have about 2 1/2 cups juice.
Add powdered pectin and bring to full rolling boil, stirring constantly. Add lemon or lime juice and the sugar. Bring again to a rolling boil that cannot be stirred down and boil for 3 minutes Timing is important to get a product that will jell. Remove from heat; skim any foam and pour into sterilized glasses. Cover with a layer of parafin.
Makes 6 half-pints.
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NOTE:
Since I've already cleaned mine up...and removed the seeds, I will chop the fruits into small pieces before cooking and use the flesh and juice to make Prickly Pear Preserves instead.
1 tablespoon of either the jelly or preserves has only 32 calories and no fat or cholesterol, and only 1 mg sodium.
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Now about those hard as granite seeds. Nothing goes to waste with the cactus fruits. I've dried them completely. They will then be lightly toasted in either a dry skillet or in the oven at a very low temp--cooled off and ground into powder in a coffee grinder. What I have should produce about 1 cup. Will make muffins with part of this cactus seed powder, adding it to the flour. It will give the muffins the same taste as the fruit has.
This old West Texas Woman has a lot of these old recipes that the pioneers, or just the poor, used when food was not readily available. They lived off what God had provided them on the land around them.
Anyway while up there---I saw a large Prickly Pear Catcus filled with fruit (which are called "tunas". ) Picked about a gallon, but not without getting teeny tiny stickers in my fingers. After returning home I scrubbed the rest of the stickers off the "tunas", peeled them, cut them open and removed the seeds which are black and as hard as granite, They take up most of the "tunas", leaving very little flesh. Put seeds in a seive and saved all the juice that came out and put the flesh and juice in a bowl with some sugar (although the flesh is really sweet). Ate a few of them for breakfast one morning and today will be putting them in a large pan with about a cup or more of water to just cover and a lemon or lime juice and cook till the flesh has released the rest of the juice. This will then be strained thru a coffee filter, and made into "Prickly Pear Jelly".
I will save some of the juice to make a Margarita which will include lime juice, tequila and Triple Sec and put into blender with ice--makes slushy drink--- WOW--you've not seen anything to compare this with--it is a beautiful dark red with a hint of pink and delicious. Although I don't drink anymore, I will make just ONE for old times sake. Ha! Ha!
RECIPE FOR PRICKLY PEAR JELLY---my grandmother's recipe.
1 quart cactus fruits (tunas) (Just as they come off the cactus--not cut in two like I did)
1 package powdered pectin (NOT LIQUID)
3 tablespoons Lemon or Mexican Lime Juice
3 1/2 cups sugar
Sterilized jelly glasses
Melted Parafin.
Scrub fruits with a vegetable brush (I use one of those yellow plastic scrubbers.) Wash and place in a large pan with just enough water to cover. Boil until tender and soft. This is necessary to extract all the juice. Press through cheesecloth or coffee filter and dicard the pulp and seeds. Set juice aside so sediment will settle to the bottom. Pour off the clear juice and discard sediment. You should now have about 2 1/2 cups juice.
Add powdered pectin and bring to full rolling boil, stirring constantly. Add lemon or lime juice and the sugar. Bring again to a rolling boil that cannot be stirred down and boil for 3 minutes Timing is important to get a product that will jell. Remove from heat; skim any foam and pour into sterilized glasses. Cover with a layer of parafin.
Makes 6 half-pints.
===============================================
NOTE:
Since I've already cleaned mine up...and removed the seeds, I will chop the fruits into small pieces before cooking and use the flesh and juice to make Prickly Pear Preserves instead.
1 tablespoon of either the jelly or preserves has only 32 calories and no fat or cholesterol, and only 1 mg sodium.
================================================
Now about those hard as granite seeds. Nothing goes to waste with the cactus fruits. I've dried them completely. They will then be lightly toasted in either a dry skillet or in the oven at a very low temp--cooled off and ground into powder in a coffee grinder. What I have should produce about 1 cup. Will make muffins with part of this cactus seed powder, adding it to the flour. It will give the muffins the same taste as the fruit has.
This old West Texas Woman has a lot of these old recipes that the pioneers, or just the poor, used when food was not readily available. They lived off what God had provided them on the land around them.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
MADE A TRIP TO ABILENE,SWEETWATER AND SNYDER
Thursday August 26,2010, took off from home to make my trip. Drove on I20 straight on through to Sweetwater where I stayed at the Country Hearth Inn. Had a room for the handicapped, king size bed, plasma TV, wireless internet, fridge and microwave, coffee pot, hair dryer, iron and ironing board. Large dresser and table with 2 chairs. The bathroom had bars all around the walls and no tub but a walk-in shower which was wonderful, also with a built in bench to sit on if needed.
Took me about 3 hours to drive there but got 30.9 miles to the gallon -which surprised me immensely. That afternoon drove on up to Snyder to see my old friend Wayne, we went to lunch, drove around Snyder (not a very big town), saw much of it then I drove back to Sweetwater. My cell phone wouldn't hold a charge so on Friday, Wayne came and picked me up and we went to Abilene.. first to Sam's so he could get new tires put on his old pickup..then on to the UPS store to use a notary public for an affidavit I needed notarizing,,an affidavite of heirship for some oil leases, and I signed and Wayne signed saying he knew the family. Then to the attorney's office in downtown Abilene to give it to him to have recorded in the County Clerk Office, then they will send a copy to the disbursing company for the royalty checks. The off to the the AT&T store to buy another cell phone...they transferred my phonebook to the new Sim Card,,,, Then we drove back to Sweetwater, Showed him pictures of my sons and their families and then he left to go back to Snyder.
Saturday I drove to Snyder about 2:30 PM and Wayne and I drove around in his new pickup for about 3 hours...Learned a lot about propane, butane, gas and oil, then back to his business, then I drove on back to Sweeetwater. Didn't go anywhere on Sunday, just stayed around the motel, walked around, watched some kids swimmng, watched TV, napped, got on the computer and onto facebook...Called my dog Max and left a message and song for him on the answering machine and my neighbor who was looking out for him, played my messages. I had sent two to him.
Monday I went by Snyder to say goodbye to Wayne and then drove Highway 180 to Graham. Oh, I did stop in Albany, took some photos of the town and courthouse and then stopped in a Shell station that had a small cafe and ate chicken tenders and drank a large glass of tea.. 3 little old, and I do mean old ladies sat down with me and questioned me about where I was from, did I have family in Albany (yes my daddy lived there a very long time ago), and then told me about themselves. They were a Hoot !!!. Then on to Breckinbridge and Graham. Stayed all night with my half-sister, Ella and her husband, James. We did go out to eat that night-Italian..and the next morning out for breakfast. Before leaving Graham I went to see the Young County Historical Chairman, Dorman Holbub (he's also the pastor at the East Side Church of Christ). We have corresponded by email and telephone for many years and I had told him that I would bring him something that he had never seen before but he could copy it as I sure wasn"t going to give him the original. He did copy as we were at his office at the church. We had a good conversation and he also told me that I could probably sell the Cozart Cemetery Plot to Morrisson Funeral Home and gave me the name to call and phone #. My plot is for 16 and only 3 buried there but also has a memorial stone for my brother who was killed in WWII and is buried in France. So there will be 12 spaces to sell. Anyway, this is a closed cemetery and no place to bury anyone else.
He said he had been researching families who had big plots (had never gotten to mine yet) and that they would use them to bury babies or men or women who had no plots and no where else in Graham to bury them. It was okay to keep the large marble Cozart in the middle--which divides the plots..8 on each side. Haven't called the funeral home yet..but will this coming week. Anyway...I'm going to start taking more trips now that I've made this one..with no problems. Enough of this. It's time for MAX to have his afternoon Pup-Peroni,,!!
Took me about 3 hours to drive there but got 30.9 miles to the gallon -which surprised me immensely. That afternoon drove on up to Snyder to see my old friend Wayne, we went to lunch, drove around Snyder (not a very big town), saw much of it then I drove back to Sweetwater. My cell phone wouldn't hold a charge so on Friday, Wayne came and picked me up and we went to Abilene.. first to Sam's so he could get new tires put on his old pickup..then on to the UPS store to use a notary public for an affidavit I needed notarizing,,an affidavite of heirship for some oil leases, and I signed and Wayne signed saying he knew the family. Then to the attorney's office in downtown Abilene to give it to him to have recorded in the County Clerk Office, then they will send a copy to the disbursing company for the royalty checks. The off to the the AT&T store to buy another cell phone...they transferred my phonebook to the new Sim Card,,,, Then we drove back to Sweetwater, Showed him pictures of my sons and their families and then he left to go back to Snyder.
Saturday I drove to Snyder about 2:30 PM and Wayne and I drove around in his new pickup for about 3 hours...Learned a lot about propane, butane, gas and oil, then back to his business, then I drove on back to Sweeetwater. Didn't go anywhere on Sunday, just stayed around the motel, walked around, watched some kids swimmng, watched TV, napped, got on the computer and onto facebook...Called my dog Max and left a message and song for him on the answering machine and my neighbor who was looking out for him, played my messages. I had sent two to him.
Monday I went by Snyder to say goodbye to Wayne and then drove Highway 180 to Graham. Oh, I did stop in Albany, took some photos of the town and courthouse and then stopped in a Shell station that had a small cafe and ate chicken tenders and drank a large glass of tea.. 3 little old, and I do mean old ladies sat down with me and questioned me about where I was from, did I have family in Albany (yes my daddy lived there a very long time ago), and then told me about themselves. They were a Hoot !!!. Then on to Breckinbridge and Graham. Stayed all night with my half-sister, Ella and her husband, James. We did go out to eat that night-Italian..and the next morning out for breakfast. Before leaving Graham I went to see the Young County Historical Chairman, Dorman Holbub (he's also the pastor at the East Side Church of Christ). We have corresponded by email and telephone for many years and I had told him that I would bring him something that he had never seen before but he could copy it as I sure wasn"t going to give him the original. He did copy as we were at his office at the church. We had a good conversation and he also told me that I could probably sell the Cozart Cemetery Plot to Morrisson Funeral Home and gave me the name to call and phone #. My plot is for 16 and only 3 buried there but also has a memorial stone for my brother who was killed in WWII and is buried in France. So there will be 12 spaces to sell. Anyway, this is a closed cemetery and no place to bury anyone else.
He said he had been researching families who had big plots (had never gotten to mine yet) and that they would use them to bury babies or men or women who had no plots and no where else in Graham to bury them. It was okay to keep the large marble Cozart in the middle--which divides the plots..8 on each side. Haven't called the funeral home yet..but will this coming week. Anyway...I'm going to start taking more trips now that I've made this one..with no problems. Enough of this. It's time for MAX to have his afternoon Pup-Peroni,,!!
CHIPOLTE SWEET POTATOES
The original video link is shown way below my recipe.
Ingredients:
1 can/jar of chipoltes in Adode sauce.
sweet potatoes ( after peeling and cutting into small chunks you should have 4 1/2 cups.
2 tablespoons Butter (no substitute), Salt, Black Pepper
Steam the sweet potatoes about 20 minutes.
Take from steamer put into a bowl or pan add the butter, salt and pepper. Mash...
Take one chipolte pepper from jar/can and chop finely. Put into the potatoes and mix.
Add 1 1/2 tsp of the adobe sauce and mix into the potatoes.
If serving right away..put into serving bowl and put fried onions on top if desired.
Now this is really different from the sweet potatoes you probably serve at Thanksgiving and/or Christmas...as they are not sweet, but hot and tangy. Good Eating!
Chipotle sweet potatoes recipe
Ingredients:
1 can/jar of chipoltes in Adode sauce.
sweet potatoes ( after peeling and cutting into small chunks you should have 4 1/2 cups.
2 tablespoons Butter (no substitute), Salt, Black Pepper
Steam the sweet potatoes about 20 minutes.
Take from steamer put into a bowl or pan add the butter, salt and pepper. Mash...
Take one chipolte pepper from jar/can and chop finely. Put into the potatoes and mix.
Add 1 1/2 tsp of the adobe sauce and mix into the potatoes.
If serving right away..put into serving bowl and put fried onions on top if desired.
Now this is really different from the sweet potatoes you probably serve at Thanksgiving and/or Christmas...as they are not sweet, but hot and tangy. Good Eating!
Chipotle sweet potatoes recipe
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE MUSIC
Native Americans:
Peoples who occupied North America before the arrival of the Europeans in the 15th cent. They have long been known as Indians because of the belief prevalent at the time of Columbus that the Americas were the outer reaches of the Indies (i.e., the East Indies). Most scholars agree that Native Americans came into the Western Hemisphere from Asia via the Bering Strait in a series of migrations. From Alaska they spread east and south. The several waves of migration are said to account for the many native linguistic families while the common origin is used to explain the physical characteristics that Native Americans have in common (though with considerable variation)Mongoloid features, coarse, straight black hair, dark eyes, sparse body hair, and a skin color ranging from yellow-brown to reddish brown. Many scholars accept evidence of Native American existence in the Americas back more than 25,000 years. In pre-Columbian times (prior to 1492) the Native American population of the area N of Mexico is estimated to have been between one and two million. From prehistoric times until recent historic times there were roughly six major cultural areas, excluding that of the Arctic, i.e., Northwest Coast, Plains, Plateau, Eastern Woodlands, Northern, and Southwest.
Monday, May 31, 2010
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