Retraining for the worst.

[Gramps]

My bride of 56 years informed me she is preparing a hot dish of potato soup for our evening meal. I asked why and she told me she is practicing her austere cooking styles in the event Mitt wins. Not that there is a thing wrong with here "tater soup". She could take garbage and turn it into a decent meal. She would've been a dandy mess sergeant back when I was in the army because instead of taking a piece of any kind of meat and ruining it she'd have turned Spam into a diner's delight. So I'm sort'a glad she's preparing for the worst and that she understands how to do that. She was raised in a family of ten kids whose father died too young and left a mom to make ends meet so she knows how to cook a pot of pasta with a tad of spice to make you believe you're eating at the Ritz. Just to play it safe, she advised me, she did purchase a couple of pork chops for dinner tomorrow night in case Obama prevails. Damn. I luv that gal.

Damn I'd hate to return to the days of yesteryear and dine on cooked cabbage so often as our main course at suppertime. But I can handle it if that's what lies in store. I'd rather return to those days of yesteryear when I was a kid and I heard those thundering hoof beats of the great horse silver pouring out of our Atwater-Kent radio. I learned to handle cabbage 'cause someone told me it was a kin to spinach and Popeye said it would make me big and strong like that Lone Ranger fellow and his Indian buddy Tonto.

Don'cha kind'a wish you were here to down a big, steaming bowl of "tater soup"?

So now you probably understand why me and my bride are still married after 56 years. Want'a know the real reason? We both vote for Democrats. Ain't love grand?

Gramps

 

[NightSwimmer]

Gramps,

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You reminded me of an old song from the 70s.

 

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My bride of 56 years informed me she is preparing a hot dish of potato soup for our evening meal. I asked why and she told me she is practicing her austere cooking styles in the event Mitt wins. Not that there is a thing wrong with here "tater soup". She could take garbage and turn it into a decent meal. She would've been a dandy mess sergeant back when I was in the army because instead of taking a piece of any kind of meat and ruining it she'd have turned Spam into a diner's delight. So I'm sort'a glad she's preparing for the worst and that she understands how to do that. She was raised in a family of ten kids whose father died too young and left a mom to make ends meet so she knows how to cook a pot of pasta with a tad of spice to make you believe you're eating at the Ritz. Just to play it safe, she advised me, she did purchase a couple of pork chops for dinner tomorrow night in case Obama prevails. Damn. I luv that gal.

Damn I'd hate to return to the days of yesteryear and dine on cooked cabbage so often as our main course at suppertime. But I can handle it if that's what lies in store. I'd rather return to those days of yesteryear when I was a kid and I heard those thundering hoof beats of the great horse silver pouring out of our Atwater-Kent radio. I learned to handle cabbage 'cause someone told me it was a kin to spinach and Popeye said it would make me big and strong like that Lone Ranger fellow and his Indian buddy Tonto.

Don'cha kind'a wish you were here to down a big, steaming bowl of "tater soup"?

So now you probably understand why me and my bride are still married after 56 years. Want'a know the real reason? We both vote for Democrats. Ain't love grand?

Gramps

My mon made the best potato soup that I can ever remember eating. She always made great Bean soup and great potato soup. Egg bread, tater pancakes made the next morning from mashed potato's from the nigh before. Tomato sandwich on white bread, hamburger gravy on toast. Yes the simple days of the past.

My wife is a better cook, but she has a lot better food to start with than mom did.