Incredibly Edible

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I couldn’t resist sharing this salad with you. There is certainly enough of it!!!

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  5. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

    That’s the kind I like, none of that dry stringy grass with only salad dressing giving it a flavor for me, I like something that will stick to my bones. Like the scenery too~!

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      1. Unknown's avatarSam

        I hate spinach where they do not take the stems out or cut the spinach and parts seem to find their way down my shirt. Did you know that I had never seen or heard of rhubarb until I went away to school in California, but learned to love rhubarb pie?
        They just never had it in Louisiana.

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          1. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

            I think that there is an art to fixing rhubarb, but in pie I liked it.. There were several things I never knew until I went up in your part of the country like “Buffalo Berries” and Boysenberries both of which we made jelly with. Here we have Agarita berries but they are not as plump as Buffalo Berries. Thorny leaves but we put a tarp under the bush and hit it with a stick.

            In Louisiana, as a kid each spring we would first pick dewberries then black berries always had to go get Mayhaws that my mother made jelly with. It is a delicious jelly they were harvested the same way as the Agarita except the mayhaw is a tree so we put the tarp on the ground and shook the branches with the berries raining down~! It was a way of life that my mother canned most of the summer. Fig and pear preserves were my favorite. Year after year the jars would build up in her pantry but the over-flow made good gifts. I think that a lot of this had to do with the depression, and as you know life was different~! I miss it~!

            In Colorado harvesting asparagus was really a great, outing and I love them.

            When I first arrived in South America and saw all of those large Avocados actually growing on trees~! I went crazy and climbed the tree and started picking a supply of them.. There were several little kids watching me and started saying: “No Senior, no est listo~!” I told them to scram and took a large bag of my loot to my villa. They all rotted~! That is when I learned the word “LISTO”, Which really came in handy later especially when I also learned “Lista” and was proud to know when an avocado is ready to be harvested.

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          2. slmret's avatarslmret

            Rhubarb is delicious when combined with strawberries in pie, but it may be that it needs lots of sugar! I grew up loving rhubarb-tapioca pudding, made with small or mid-sized tapioca. Again it probably needed lots of sugar to make it good.

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            2. SAM VOELKER's avatarSAM VOELKER

              Yes, now I remember, they put strawberries in it. That was Crown Cafeteria in Pasadena California where I worked (as a busboy) in the evenings after school. They fed us too~! I also loved Strawberry Shortcake until they told us that we could no longer put that on our tray. SO I just got a dish of Strawberries and a hot biscuit, put the strawberries on it and it was almost as good. When you are a starving schoolboy you must learn to improvise. Not much pay and almost no tips in those days for the busboy, but great food~! Yes, that WAS a very long time ago~!

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