WHEN GAS WAS TWO-DOLLARS ...GAS PRICES RISE MORE THAN LAST YEAR

Hi Miisrael! Come on now, I remember when gas was 25 cents!

Ha! Nice try Steve;
"I'm not admitting that I remember gas prices being 25 cents a gallon.
Nope! No way....

"One day I'm have a long talk wit you, but not taday!"

Yes, IR I know it will pass...Well, the only thing we can do is be grateful for one day at a time. I make it because I show a stronghold in faith. I am happy to have breath! That outlook is as my mom used to say is "just enough"

Don't think those prices will be that low aever t the corner store anymore....
It would be nice though if a grocerer would opt to a prices like that at least once a year! The shelves would empty quick. Of course, there would have to be a limited amount to each customer. People would be like a Taz monster!

Just playing Miisrael. We'll stick with the $2.00 figure.

Have you ever made sourdough bread Irma?

I've been wanting to make some, it's been a couple years. I won't have it for this Sunday, need to get the starter going, but next month I'll bring you some.

I like sourdough breads!....Warm breads, rolls, with some melted butter.

Steve, I was just being funny too, I'd like to see that gas $2 price once more.

I'll settle gladly for $3.

Miisrael, have you ever made any from scratch? It's the simplest thing.

Just water and flour for the first 2 steps, plus salt and oil when you make the bread.

Hey, i remember the gas wars of early 60's. Prices were 0.09 cents a gallon. luving this blog Miisrael.

Nope, only made biscuits and regular & hot water cornbread.
Sounds easy enough to make though.
Haven't baked in a few weeks...may just give it a try.

Hey Earl....9 cents a gallon! I'd fight for a price like dat! LOL!
I suppose there's always been some competition with gas prices since there's been gas stations.
Cant' imagine that all pumps have the same price would attract customers, mainly the attraction goes with one having the lowest price.

@IR I make it all the time! It's usually made on stove top like pancakes, but you can bake it but it's usually turns harder if it's bake. Instead of using milk, you use hot water, or boiled water stirring in 1 egg and tossing in right in the skillet.

AND...another recipe for cornbread is buttermilk cornbread. It uses buttermilk or soured milk to give a strong sour taste to it. Great with pinto beans, greens or any boiled pot veggie.

That's an odd last name, but I've never heard it before. The closest I heard to Chinyere is Chism but there are plenty of McIntyres around. And I've heard the name Wentworth.

@IR
Re: Hot water a Tennessee product..
No, not at all. I think it's made a lot in the south but not strictly in Tennessee It's very common in many southern states.

Miisrael, let me brush up on my recipe and then I'll pass it along. Basically, you start off mixing one cup of water and one cup of unbleached flour. You put that in a warm place and give it a few days till it starts bubbling. That's your starter, it produces the yeast. When that's going well (producing yeast) you take most of it and put the remnant in the fridge to stop the yeast growing, that's for the next batch. To the rest of the starter, you add again equal (approximately) parts of water and flour, let it sit in a warm place until it doubles. They call that the sponge or something. When that's done you add flour, oil and salt, and that becomes your bread dough. You work that like any bread dough, let it double, punch it down, shape into a loaf, let it double, and bake.

I admit I like pinto beans another way too... "WITH MILK AND BREAD." That's buttermilk with crumbled cornbread and pinto beans in a bowl sprinkled with sugar.
If that sounds like it tastes terrible, I absolutely love it. But does make a strong GAS! Laughs...
That's the price of that kind of food fuel....

Isn't methane a renewable source of energy?

@ STEVE

Thanks... You are saying the unbleached flour will become like yeast? I've seen where it should be covered with a cloth too.. So I don't need to add any yeast to the unbleached flour? I'm familiar with making biscuits and I know to kneed and roll it out with flour when I'm ready to bake it.

Steve! Yes of course...LOL!

Yep!!

Yeah, the yeast is produced naturally. And you do cover it, but loosely. When I make the starter I do it in a small tupperware container and just set the cover on top without sealing it. I'l ldo a batch to refresh my memory and then give you the specifics. Need to talk to my dad too, but he had a stroke a few years back and might have trouble telling me.

Earl, just curious do you bake or cook?

Okay Steve.

Yes, I do both.

That's great Earl. Men make some of the best cooks.
My son made dinner yesterday. His cooking turned out tasting pretty good.

I taught him that....Laughs...
Be pleasant Earl and keep in warm- heart kindness.

Ok...I will, and thank you Miisrael.

@STEVE, THANKS I LOOK FORWARD TO THE BREAD...YOU KNOW MY BELIEF THAT A MAN CAN OUT COOK A WOMAN ANY DAY AS WELL AS DO HAIR MUCH BETTER AS WELL. (SMILE)

I REALIZE PEOPLE WILLBELIEVE ALL PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN A CITY MAY THINK THEY KNOW EACH OTHER, SO I AM GOING TO ASK YOU IF YOU KNOW MANY PEOPLE THAT MAY HAVE RITIRED FROM THE AIR FORCE MANY YEARS AGO FROM THERE...I WILL FIND SOME NAMES FOR YOU...LIKE CHINYERE WAS NOT HER BIRTH NAME BUT AN AFRICAN NAME SHE TOOK AFTER HER AND HER HUSBAND JAMES WENGRIGHT DIVORCED...HE BIRT NAME WAS MATTIE AND SHE AND KACK MACHINTIRE AND HIS WIFE GREW UP TOGATHER AND MET UP AGAIN AFTER THEY RETIERD FROM TH EAIR FORCE HERE AT BEALE ARIFORCE BASE. (SMILE) THEY WERE STRONG CHRISTIANS.

MIISRAEL, EVENTHOUGH I AMD FROM THE DEEP SOUTH, I HAD NEVER EVEN HEARD OF HOT WATER CORN BREAD UNTIL ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO HEN I MET MY FRIEND CHINYERE...SHE WAS FROM MEMPHIS, TENN. (SMILE)...

IT HOT WATER CORN BREAD A TENN. PRODUCT?...

MY GRAND MOTHER USE TO MAKE SOUR MILK BISCUTS AND CORN BREAD...I INTRODUCED MY HUSBAND TO CRACKLIN CORN BREAD AND HE WENT NUTS IN LOVE WITH IT...I MAKE CRACKLINS AND PORK SKINS MY SELF...I ALSO MAKE POTATOE CHIPS. (SMILE)

I HAD PINTO BEAND, SALT PORK AND CORN BREAD JUST YESTERDAY...OH AND OUR WEATHER FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK IS LIKE SPRING WITH DELTA BREEZES...IT IS ABOUT 4PM NOW AND IN THE LOW 80S...I AM SURE INJOYINGIT WHILE IT LAST AS WE MOSTLIKELY WILL BE BACK AT RECORD SETTING HEAT IN ABOUT ANOTHER WEEK. THE LOCAL FRUIT AND NUT FARMERS MAY SUFFER FORM IT...THEY SAY THE EXTRA HEAT HAS MADE THE PEACHES MUCH SMALLER THIS YEAR. (SMILE)

...OOPS STEVE, I LOVE SOURDOUGH BUT HAVE NEVERGOTTEN THE HAND OF MAKING THE STARTER SO I JUST BO BY MY ONLY BRAND OF SOURDOUGH I LIKE...AND I ONLY EAT IT WHEN I GET IN MY CRAVING FOR IT STAGE .(SMILE)

@STEVE, TH EPERSON I SPEAK OF YOU KNOW HER AS I TIS SUMIKO THE ONE WHO TOOK THIS PICTURE OF YOU AND I.LOL!!!(SMILE)..

NO BUT I DO MAKE THE BEST HOME MADE BISCUTS AND HOME MADE BREAD...I HAD PLANED TO MAKE HOME MADE BREAD AGAIN FOR THE PIKNICK UNTIL THINGS GOT CHANGED AROUND SO MUCH AT THIS LAST MINUTE. (SMILE)...

ACTUALLY A GREAT BIT OF MY LIFE WAS SPENT THROWING OUT BAD BATCHS OF BISCUTS, HOME MADE BREAD AND HOME MADE GRAVY, BUT I REFUSED TO GIVE UP ON IT...HELL, STEVE MY HOUSE PLANT IS STILL ALIVE AFTER A WHOLE YEAR...THANKS MIISRAEL, YOU SAID I COULD DO IT...FIRST STEP WHEN YOU BUY THE PLANT CHECK FOR ROOT EMPACKMENTS...DONE. LOL!!!(SMILE)

I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHER YEAST CAME FROM...THEY ALWAYS SAY IT IS ALIVE BUT NEVER ABOUT HOW THEY FIND IT...

LAST SUNDAY ON THE COOKING CHANNEL'S SERIES TH ENEXT FOOD NETWORK STAR (THE WILLNER GETS TO HAVE A PROGRAM ON THE CHANNEL THEY WERE SENT OUT TO DIFFERENT FOOD PLACES AND ONE OF THEM HAD A 150 SOUR DOUGH STARTER!!! WHOW...TO THE ONE WHO TRIED TO ASK ABOUT IT SHISTORY HE OWNER SAID HE COUL D TELL IM BUT HE WOULD THEN HAVE TO KILLHIM.LOL!!! (SMILE)

ME, I WOULD PAY ANY PRICE TO JUST BE ABLE TO GET SOFT BREAD OF OLD DAYS..LORD HOW I USE TOLOVE JUST EATING THE CENTER OF THE BOND BREAD DELIVERED TO OUR DOOR EACH MORNING. LOL!!...

AND, NOW I ENJOY GOING TO THE STORE BUYING THE HOT UNCUT LOVF AND EATING THE CENTER ON THE WAY HOME A FRIEND D OF MINE DO THIS EVERY SO OFTEN.GO TO THE STORE AND SIT IN THE PARKING LOT OR AT THE LUNCH CENTER AND EAT IT AS SOON AS IT IS PUT OUT IN THE HOT CASES. (SMILE)

I DO REMEMBER WHEN GAS WAS THAT CHEAP, BUT LESS PEOPLE HAD CARS THEN...I BELIEVE OUR GAS PRICES HAVE BEEN OUT OF CONTROL SINCE THEY LEARNED HOW TO MANIPULATE THE PRICES WHEN WE HAD THE FIRST OIL EMBARGO AND PROMISES OF WE WOULD BE OIL INDEPENDANT AS WE WOULD BE SUING SHALE TOMEK OIL OUT OF...OOPS WE DO NOW HAVE SHALE OIL DON'T WE WHER PEOPLE NOW GET FIRE WHEN THEY TRUN ON TH EWATHER FACETS...

NATURAL ENERGYIS JUST TOCHEAP FOR US TO BE PRODUCING AND CAN ONE SAY , LIVING WAGE JOBS TO BOOT?...

I REMEMBER READING ONCE THAT ASPRIN OUR MAGIC BULLET , ALL AROUND MED CURE ALL AILS TREATMENT ABOUT IT IS SO CHEAP UNTIL IF IT HAD JUST BEEN DISCOVERED IT WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED ON TH EMARKET..SO TRUE, SO TRUE (SMILE)...BUT ALL IS WELL AS WE RECYCLE TODAY AND EVEN OUR GARBAGE IS BEING USED NOT TO FILL LAND FILLS BUT TO CREAT ELECTRICITY...I GOT A SHOCK LEARNING HOW PAINT IS BEING RECYCED HERE IN CA...

I REMEMBER WHEN TH AVERAGE FAMILY COULD AFFORD TO BUY A LOAF OF BREAD AT THE CORNER STORE, STEVE. (SMILE)...

MIISRAEL THIS TOSHALL PASS AS SOON AS AMERICANS GETS BACK TO WORK IN THE COMING JOBS IN AMERICA. (SMILE)