Whats Cooking Mother

Recipe:    Sausage, Potatoes, Carrots and cabbage
From:      Mother
Makes:   Plenty if you leave Mom in the attic

Ingredients:
   1 Lb Smoked Turkey Sausage sliced into 1 inch pieces
   5-6 Medium Red Potatoes, Quartered
   4 Carrots cut in large chunks
   Small head of Green Cabbage cut into 12 wedges
   1/4 Lb Salted Butter
   Salt and Pepper to taste

Directions: 

Add cabbage, carrots, and potatoes to cold water. Bring to boil and then turn heat to medium. Cook until vegetables are firm but not to firm by the fork. Add turkey sausage and cook for an additional 10 minutes. Drain then add butter. Salt and pepper to your liking. Enjoy immediately.

Prep time 10 min. Cooking time approx. 35-40 min

 Every so often I get home earlier than my wife and cooking dinner is my reward. One of our favorite meals, especially on a chilly, rainy, most foul night is sausage, carrots, potatoes and cabbage. It is likidy split fast and will have its consumers screaming, more! The whole cooking process is filled with nostril pleasing enjoyment. A single trip to the ice box will have your arms full of yummy-a-plenty ingredients, except for the spuds which can be found in the pantry. To prepare the vegetables you will need a strong butcher knife, like Norman Bates uses. This part can be scary (see video and be warned: extremely graphic).

 

There’s no sense thinking here, just hack away, throw the chopped stuff in the water that’s in a pan that’s on top of the island. Carefully transport the hodgepodge to cook stove top and twist ignition knob to high. I suppose if you are a stickler for detail you could cut your veggies to the sizes listed above, but come on, live a little and improvise. Munching fresh garden fruit is your reward for cheffing and will arouse your taste buds to the looming bliss. But please be careful, too much stimulation and dinner will surely be unsatisfactory. At this point you have about 1800 seconds of downtime (I use this time to think about nuclear proliferation).  How do we know when the meatless part of our meal is ready for meat? You will need to test the doneness of the spuds. Imagine sticking a fork in your eye and sticking a fork in a peeled orange, you want orange softness. When before mentioned spuds reach almost al dente it’s time to add the crushed turkey, pork, cow, and other stuff stuffed in an intestine tube to the stew and wait  most patiently for 10 more minutes. Drain, toss in the butter, season for your buds, voila. This meal fills the house with aromas fit for Kings and roughage enough for their horses. Hey honey, what to drink, it’s time for din-din, rub-a-dub-dub thanks for the grub, its chow time!

Note: It is best to leave Mother in the attic during dinner!

Final Blog Entry

I'm not real sure how to go about this reflective piece on my blogging. I will just go about it pretty much the same way as I blogged,  say what comes to my mind. The way I picked subjects for my blogs was like this. I would sit and think for a few minutes and if something was on my mind then I would just start writing, with no particular direction in mind. If my mind was blank with ideas then I would look around my desk and pick some object or a word within my sight and create a blog from scratch. The process seemed very easy to me and subject matter was no issue. I enjoyed creating mini stories from my warped mind. One night, while at home alone, I wrote about demons that were harnessed by music playing on my radio. This may seem really twisted but it was where my mind was that night. I enjoy writing these thoughts down and then reading them back to myself. I realized that most of my writing was going to be Greek to my readers but I didn't care. It was Sam's Space I was writing in and it was going to be Sam's ideas in the blogs, period. I will write civilly on Christmas cards. When I would start to think of people reading the blogs my writing would become watered down and homogenized, not really me. I don't like thinking about critics reading my stuff because then my style changes and it becomes their stuff. People don't want to read what I think they want to read do they? I think they want bold and fresh. I'm not good at ESP anyway. When picking a name for my blog site I decided on Safe From the Storm. I wanted my space to be safe from preconceived notions and expected ideas (the storm of conformity). There are other reasons too, but they are personal. This blog project was unexpectedly fun and enabled me to go beyond the normal "copy/paste" discussion boards @ OTC.