July, 2023! Happy Canada Day for us, let's start that outside summer cooking!

bethk wrote:

Cookin Lore wrote:Cream gravy?  What's that?  

After you fry your breaded cubed steaks in a cast iron skillet you add a bit of the leftover flour used to bread the steaks to the fat to make a roux.  Then you add milk (or cream if you have it) to make gravy.  Season with salt and lots of pepper.

Cream gravy.....great on chicken fried steak, chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes or biscuits.......



Unfortunately, I just need to think about it for about 10 minutes and I've gained 5 pounds!  LOL

bethk wrote:Burgers tonight.  Mine was a thin 'Big Boy' Burger.  HIS was a larger rare cheeseburger ~ with lots of sliced onions.

Had Bush's beans and leftover potato salad along side.

Looks good Beth. The Master must have been happy with that meal for sure.
Looking at the beans, makes me remember when we had Campbell's
pork & beans at a meal, mom and dad would fight and scramble to get that square of pork fat that was in the can of beans.
Usually, Mom would get it.....

Cookin Lore wrote:My daughter called me years ago in a panic.  Her lemon tree on their rooftop terrace was covered in those caterpillars.  I suggested that she should go to her favourite garden centre with one of them.  She did that, and they told her that they would become swallowtail butterflies.  She took all of them off her little lemon tree and they put them on one of the garden centre's lemon trees.  

bethk wrote:

Cookin Lore wrote:My daughter called me years ago in a panic.  Her lemon tree on their rooftop terrace was covered in those caterpillars.  I suggested that she should go to her favourite garden centre with one of them.  She did that, and they told her that they would become swallowtail butterflies.  She took all of them off her little lemon tree and they put them on one of the garden centre's lemon trees.  

Thank goodness these don't seem to like MY little Meyer Lemon Tree.  But we do specifically grow the different areas of parsley & dill just to support them.  After all the caterpillars are done the plants will usually renew ~ well, the parsley will.  The dill just gets some 'saved' seed re-planted and it returns for free.

I didn't think the caterpillars had any predators but I saw two wasps just gobbling down one they had started picking on.  It was brutal ~ but I guess it's all part of the 'Survival of the fittest.....'

Cookin Lore wrote:

How large are these caterpillars?  can you post a picture?  Swallowtalys are not very common here, but I have seen a few.