Below are some links to my other pages in my stuff place. Things I like, things I do and where I live.
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*Ok, this is one of the pages with "Sounds," but you can turn it off at the bottom of the page, on the crescendo player."
This is my "Stuff" page, but using a navigation bar, things I might have here are up at the top in button form. So, I got to thinking. . . .we all have "stuff" drawers for little things that just don't have another place to go, so that is what I will do here. I could put a couple of buttons here for paint shop pro. I could put our Siskiyou logo here. I could put some links here to favorite places. Ok, I will start with a few links.
The above link is to my most favorite quilting page. Marcia Hohn has done just a wonderful job and is working on a book. I go check out her site just about everyday hoping she will have good news about the book, so I can get a copy.
Here are a couple more places with links. I believe they are also on my Smith cousins page, but since I have links here, thought I would add them.
Jay Smith Family and Midi Jukebox
Smith Santa Page
Ok, I cannot think of much more "stuff" to put here, but as time progresses, I have a space for the little things, after all, this is my stuff "drawer."
I am going to put another link here to the most wonderful midi page I have come across, in a long time, at least for me. Thank you "Uncle Will" for having so many good midis. Not all, but quite a few of the tunes on my pages came from the below link for midi sounds.
Here I am going to put a couple of family type recipes. The first one is called Range Potatoes. It is one of the few recipes we have from my great grandfather, George Smith from when he was a cook in the lumber camps in the Colorado mountains back around 1900.
First recipe and one that came from my grandmother, no one knows for sure where it originated from, but my Aunt believes it may have come from a Ladies Home Journal Magazine as my grandmother loved that book and used several recipes from it. For our Thanksgiving it is one of the "have to haves." Recipe below:
SWEET POTATO PUFFS
Garnet yams (one medium size makes three puffs)
Brown sugar (to taste)
Cool Whip/Whipping cream (to taste)
Pineapple rings (one per puff)
Marshmallows (one per puff
Red Hot candies (about 3 per puff)
Now I always, every year, had to call and ask my Aunt Jewel or my sister about this, but they are called Sweet Potato Puffs, but you use yams. I was told Red Garnet Yams. So, you peel them and cut them into chunks like you do regular potatoes. Cover with water and boil until done. Drain them well. You add the brown sugar (about a 1/2 cup to start) and the cool whip (a couple large spoonfuls to start) and then mash like regular potatoes. You can cheat and taste. You have to know they are sweet. When they are mashed well and sweet enough for your taste then you take the pineapple rings (well drained) and place on cookie sheet. You take about two tablespoons (or a bit more) and plop on each ring. There are 10 rings to one can of pineapple, so just divide up the potato stuff for each ring. Then you take a marshmallow (I cut mine in half) and place in the center of the potatoes. On top of that place three little red candies. Place in a 350 degree oven until the marshmallow starts to brown and it looks like the candies have begun to melt.
Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Pretty good stuff. I think this year I will take a picture of one and place here so you can see what they look like. Well enjoy.
Now for the second recipe: Out on the Range Potatoes. Now this may be a very common recipe, but my great grandfather, George Smith was a cook in lumber camps in the mountains of Colorado and this is what he called this recipe and so my grandmother did the same. So, on with the recipe:
OUT ON THE RANGE POTATOES
Regular potatoes (Russet) and for how many? Well, my grandmother always said one potato per person and one for the pot. So, using that as a guide, figure how many people you are going to feed. . .
Potatoes (sliced a little thicker than for scalloped potatoes)
Onion (I would say just one large onion-sliced)
Water and salt/pepper to taste
4 slices bacon (diced)
You take and cook the bacon until done but not crisp. Over that place your sliced potatoes, then over those place your sliced onion. Salt and pepper to taste and add enough water to fill your skillet about 3/4 full. Cover and cook over medium heat until the potatoes are done. If you need, you can add a bit more water.
Nothing fancy, but it would go with a lot of foods.
A little more stuff on my stuff page. Steven and I live in an area that is filled with history. They do not teach the kids in school about this area, only about Sutter's Fort in Sacramento area. What most people don't realize is that gold was found her just about the same time. There is still gold here. There are still miners working on claims here. More gold was taken from here than the "other" place. There are quartz mines here also. The Modoc Indian wars were in this area. Just lots of history, so with that in mind and because Steven and I are both amateur genealogists we decided that we should and could help in some way. So, here is a link to a page we decided could be useful to people researching this area. We work very hard on gathering data for the page. Steven works hard making sure it is pleasing to the eye and that it all works. Below is our Logo and if you click on it you will go to our Siskiyou County web pages. The web site is called Siskiyou Cemeteries Online. A lot of what we have done is to walk the cemeteries and index (write down all the info we see) them. There is more information about what we do and why on that website.
Song: Cajun (It was Choupique, but I renamed it to Cajun so it would be easier to find in my messy music folder) Don't you just want to sit and tap your feet. . .maybe even get up and dance a bit? :) This may be Cajun music or Zydeco. . .either way, I love it!!!