Recent content by Ham Hock

Hi thar! My sister is a 25 year vegan and is coming for a visit! She can also cook, wow can she cook. I want to make something that she will like but feel like I'd be serving catfish in a seafood house if I just broke out with a vegan soup. I want to make some kind of veggie soup or...

I got none left because we invited some people over to eat it and some country ribs I did and they cleaned the pot no washing needed! It really makes you feel good when people say "that was the best I have ever eaten".

I have finally gotten my chili mix down "hard" so to speak, where I know what I want to do up to a certain point. I never used to cook chili, but I entered a contest after not cooking chili for prolly 10 years and won first place. So I decided to perfect it and chili done right is no easy...

They aint TUHH maters until they is cut 3/4 inch thick and slapped on some white bread with some real mayo and kicked up with Emerils pork rub! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

I entered a chili cookoff this weekend and practiced all week to get a pot the way I wanted it. At 2:00 PM on Sunday I went up to present my prize winnin chili, only to find out the contest was on Saturday!!!!!!! I lauged at myself all the way to the local Mexican restaraunt, only to find...

Well I done gots me sum veggies planted! I got 25 mater plants of many kinds, eggplant, squash, zuccs, okra, every pepper known to this hemisphere, two types of corn, bush beans, carrots, potatoes, radishes, brussel sprouts, two types cantelopes, two types watermelons, giant pumpkins, spices and...

I too have had a piece recently published in a Journal here in Mississippi. You can read it here http://www.myweb.cableone.net/duckhead/expressions/expressions.htm It IS kinda exciting to get published!

I firmly believe that gardening is something that needs to come back into this society. It has so many benifits. It also beats the heck out of cutting the grass that would otherwise be on that dirt. I have seen it in action - a garden builds community, because you can GIVE and dont have to...

I have cooked gumbo many many ways. I will tell you my mama's favorite, she says nobody can cook this the way her mama did but me. (her mama hardly spoke english and had so many grandkids she didnt even know who I was!) It is classic po folks Cajun gumbo and it is superb and remarkably...

I have grown some big gardens before but not lately. The pic below does not do justice to this one. This is only the top end of it, a pic I took early on before the rest of it came to bare. I had 65 tomatoe plants among other things. carrots, taters, peanuts, just about anything I could put my...

The farmer just left from de house and he cut me a garden GOOD about 50 feet wide and 150 foot long. I got enough rows to feed da neighborhood! I love lettin folks come pick fresh veggies almost as much as I like feedin them. Folks who dont garden are just wide eyed when they see them big ole...

Thanks M I done did that aweready on dat other day and done signed up on the waitin list which is 25 long but dey sed it's a good chance you get in.

Roast it and make a stock from it. There is no rule that says pork stock can only be used with beans or anything else, not even with something other than a pork dish. I use pork stock to cook rice for a lot of things that have no pork in them. The flavor of pork is good in a way lot of dishes.

Well I did officially sign up for the BIG Fais Do Do at the World Championship Gumbo Cookoff this morning. I sure hope I get in.

Well my bestus friend's son had some problems and they had to run him off to the hospital, since his family was a lot of the gig we just called it and I have spent the day working on my chili recipe. He is OK they just dont know whuts up, I think it's just pressure and anxiety.