Classic Saturday Supper

Burgers (new recipe)

Onions and tomatoes in olive oil and a bit of vinegar

Potato salad

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Music from the Redneck Collection (please excuse Mr. Big Food's reach):


UPDATE: Someone doesn't like that I posted 1 minute 20 seconds of
Pete Fountain's Basin Street Blues so I removed the video. Sorry. It was pleasant minute or so.

Stay Tuned / UPDATED

Antenna not included

Stopped in at Jim's Auto Parts this morning to pick up an antenna. I had two choices. I chose the magnetic mount because I have a truck, but not a truck. Then on to Stewart's Body Shop to chat about installation. (I know. I know. You can do it yourself. But what the heck is an ignition switch thingamajig?) It was before 8 and Caleb-- the radio guy-- wasn't in yet so I'll go back down later this morning after I pick some peppers.

10-10.

UPDATE: Caleb met me in the parking lot, took a look, said it wouldn't be hard but might take some time to get the various wires placed inconspicuously and so on. We drove back to the Farm together. He'll bring the truck back out as soon as he's finished. How's that for service? 

UPDATE 2: Caleb and James have returned the truck. Stop in any time to pay the bill. 

"The Olympics

in Georgia!!"

Mr. Big Food just shouted that. Readers more urbane than Mr. Big Food and I may not appreciate why I laughed out loud. 

Greetings y’all
And welcome all you danged foreigners from other nations
Dear Lord be with our guests and prepare them
For the butt whopping they are about to receive

The Olympics in Georgia
God you know we’re gonna screw that up
I guarantee you
When they let those doves go at the opening ceremony
There are gonna be guys in the parking lot with shotguns

And we will not have a flame
That big without a pig on it, I guarantee
Some fat guy going
“Danged good barbecue top of them stairs up there
They ain't got no hand rail be careful"

Of all the games that the rednecks play
There’s some crazy events
If you know about the redneck ways
Then it makes perfect sense

Recipe: Deviled Round Steak and Variation

Mr. Big Food made the variation for me. I do not care for peas all that much.

This was last night's supper. After the steak is browned in the iron skillet, and the remaining ingredients added, it bakes for two hours, affording Mr. Big Food and I the opportunity to fix ourselves an adult beverage, move the little speakers to the patio, plug in the mp3 player, listen to some of The Redneck Collection, and chat about America & how glad we are we made the move to rural Mississippi & how funny the dogs are & this week's menu which begins tonight with an assortment of appetizers for supper.

BIG LIFE!

Recipe below.

Cooler Corn & Cardboard Cookin' / Let's Play Redneck

Two great ideas for when the lights go out, or when you just want to play like a Redneck. 

The first, Cooler Corn, comes via an email from Mr. Big Food's Dad who I think gets more emails each day than Mr. Big Food (who gets a lot). The second, Cardboard Box Solar Oven, comes from Anita Evangelista's Backwoods Home Magazine article, "How do you live without electricity?" (issue 73: Jan/Feb 2002).

Just add boiling water!

Red Staegall: About 'More About Big Food, etc.'

Red Steagall (pronounced with a long E; accent on the first syllable), is

a multitalented showbusiness personality whose career has covered a period of 35 years and has spanned the globe.

(That's how the Wikipedia entry begins. Doesn't sound very much like an encyclopedia entry to me.)

He is an American Storyteller.

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The Redneck Collection of redneck, blueneck, Texas, jazz (there's some unidentified Pete Fountain), rock, high school and kid rock, and Southern-- including Southern Gospel-- , etc. songs Mr. Big Food collects in his spare time is at an interesting place in its history. It's evolving! Yuck yuck.

Quite some time ago, Mr. Big Food began listening to Red Steagall and decided to devote a CD in the ever changing Redneck Collection to Red Steagall's poems and songs. (Did I mention that both are Texans?) Back in the crappy olden days we identified songs as being on, for example, Redneck 7. The original Steagall CD was to be in the low 50's, if I'm not mistaken. 

We very much enjoy Red Steagall's poems and songs.

Photos from my other camera

Long time readers will remember that I had a camera that I hated. I got a much better camera. But I still have that little camera that I hate. I carry it with me all the time, just in case. 

I downloaded some photos from the camera that I hate. I liked this one.

Some kids walking in the rain with a dog.

READ ALL ABOUT IT!

This is NEWS!

Parker Roberson, age 76, of Parker Roberson Road was cited for possession of intoxicating beverages in a dry county.

He paid a $278 fine Tuesday afternoon in [our county] Justice Court, records show.


The state Revenue Department said charges for possession of the illegal distillery are pending.

It was an undercover operation. 

Willie

via North Mississippi Commentor...

Willie Nelson and family, April 9th in Oxford at the Lyric Theater

Details on ticket sales at the link.

For those who just can't quite conjur them up

after reading the NASCAR post, here are the lyrics from the theme song to The Dukes of Hazard, by Waylon Jennings.

Just the good ol' boys,
Never meanin' no harm,
Beats all you've ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born.

Straight'nin' the curve,
Flat'nin' the hills.
Someday the mountain might get 'em, but the law never will.

Makin' their way,
The only way they know how,
That's just a little bit more than the law will allow.

Just good ol' boys,
Wouldn't change if they could,
Fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood.

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/

Talk about rain on parades...

NASCAR has banned the General Lee from a lap in the Sprint Cup parade.

A sad day in The South's history:

Do it Yourself *IF* You Can

Made in USA. No, really!

Out here in rural Mississippi we Rednecks mostly do most things for ourselves. We replace batteries and change the oil in our equipment. We saw down trees for own firewood. We do our own laundry. A lot of us grow as much of our own produce as we can. And we unclog our own drains. 

This is not to say that we don't ask for help when we need it. Jody at the hardware store in town was very helpful. I had a pretty good idea how this contraption worked because I had consulted the World Wide Web before going to town. But it was nice to have him show me. I suppose I could have watched a video online, but that assumes I have access to a video.

Let us imagine that the World Wide Web went black-- maybe the electricity went out or maybe someone much smarter than I who works for Uncle Sam just felt like pulling the plug on YouTube so I couldn't watch a how-to video.

Please note: in less than 13 hours the English Wikipedia will be blacked out globally to protest SOPA and PIPA.

Then what would I do? I would consult Popular Science Do-It-Yourself Encyclopedia (1956), Volume 3, page 723, "Coil Spring-Steel Auger." What would you do?

Information redundancy is a good thing.

[Information on SOPA (House) and PIPA (Senate) is available all over the World Wide Web. Read all about it while you still can!]

"Mississippi You're on My Mind"

Yesterday, I mentioned the Jerry Jeff Walker song, Mississippi You're on My Mind (written by Jesse Winchester). Naturally, it's been running through my head all morning.

Lyrics from Sing365.com (Will we fall quiet one day this year?)

Listen to it here.

I think I see a wagon rutted road
With the weeds growing tall between the tracks,
And along one side runs a
Rusty barbed wire fence and beyond there
Sits an old tar paper shack.

Chorus

Mississippi, you're on my mind,
Mississippi, you're on my mind,
Mississippi you're on my mind.

I think I hear a noisy old John Deere in a field
Specked with dirty cotton lint, and beyond that
Field runs a little country creek, and there you'll
Find the cool green leaves of mint.

Chorus

I think I smell the honeysuckle vine,
It's thick sweetness like to make me sick.
And the dogs, my God, how they're hungry all the time
And the snakes are sleeping where the weeds are thick.

Chorus

I think I feel the angry oven heat,
The southern sun just blazes in the sky.
In the dusty weeds, an old fat grasshopper jumps.
I wanna make it to that creek before I fry.

Chorus x2

"Guns Made America Great" / Thanks, Max!

I'm pumpin' dum-dum bullets through a hot .44
That my brother brought back from the Vietnam War
Last that he told me was you'd better shoot straight
Guns made America great

A semi-automatic with an infrared scope
Can come in mighty handy when it's gettin' hard to cope
When the neighbors start complainin' and the hour's gettin' late
Tell 'em guns made America great

Guns made America big and strong
No one's left to save us, John Wayne's gone
Everybody's pickin' on the N.R.A.
Tell 'em, guns made America great

If everyone wore pistols, the rate of crime would drop
And we could all sleep easier, no need to bother cops
So let's get armed and dangerous before it's too late
Guns made America great

Guns made America big and strong
No one's left to save us, John Wayne's gone
Everybody's pickin' on the N.R.A.
Tell 'em, guns made America great
Guns made America great

Lyrics, from Pinkard & Bowden's Guns Made America Great, found here.

Mr. Big Food tells me that the album on which this song was originally recorded is out of print and no longer available, but Sony has a free download of the song. Not a problem for us. The original Guns Made America Great is on #3 of The Redneck Collection.

Long before Mr. Big Food started working on Big Food, he began The Redneck Collection.