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Necessities indeed. Food , shelter, transportation, medicine or medical care, loving family. All of those have proven to be necessities in the long run. With all of the scurrying that has been going on for the past two weeks, some things have been made very apparent to me.

Our friend traveled all over the country. We have found papers from many different states. He, himself did not have any idea where his family members were living, and trying to find even one of them…well, it hasn’t happened. We have had loving family around us as we have gone through all of the brouhaha with the rules concerning his care, and burial, and research galore. Thank God our family has stuck by us even when we were not able to socialize because of exhaustion. It will take a while to recover fully and finally get rested. I am just glad that we were able to be there for him.

Please don’t think that I am preaching, but if you have lost track of family, look for them while you can. All of my family except that which I have by marriage is dead except for my mother, whom I cannot find. I am going to do everything in my power to make sure that I do not lose contact with what family I have left. Their presence is a comfort to me, now. We do not always agree on everything (heaven forbid), but they are important.

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I like food. Many times someone has asked what type of food I like. I’m afraid my answer is that it would easier to say what I did not like than to list the things that I do like.

My list of food I do not like includes: tentacles, oysters, jalapeños, asparagus, and boiled okra. I like fried okra, and okra in stews and soups, and gumbo. I have eaten buffalo, bear, duck, rabbit, squirrel, lobster, and other items. However, the list of food I like is still not so easy to list. What is nice, is that the world is filled with so many choices. It keeps life from getting boring. Isn’t it great that the world is also filled with a lot of different types of people, too.

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Just read something that I thought was unusual and hilarious.

It involves 11 dozen eggs. I wish that I knew a lot of recipes for eggs other than cakes and stuff. If it was Easter, there would be no problem knowing what to do.

How many egg recipes are there anyway? This writer seems to know how to laugh at life. These days - that is important. When I read what happened, I couldn’t help myself, but guffaw, and then snicker. Of course I’ve never done anything like that….Ahem. Well, not with eggs. I have had many a disaster. So far, I have survived.

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I was wondering what to fix for supper. Didn’t want the usual type of thing. The usual being sandwiches of one type or another.

What do my eyes show me? Italian recipes and some pictures. They look yummy. I can imagine my waist slowly wanting to inch outward, my mouth was watering. That is what would be good for supper.

The only trouble that I can see is the lack of all of the proper ingredients. What i could see was wonderful looking. My idea of a simple ‘Italian” is some cooked macaroni, spaghetti sauce, browned meat - dump together and call it Goulash. That is not Italian by the way. I call it ‘dump-it’ cooking. It works for me, but for those of you who are adventurous, check out the link above for great tasting food.

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That word can be fun or dangerous. Well, today I’m going for fun. My sister and I communicate all the time even though she lives in Arkansas.

One thing she does a lot is send me recipes over the internet. When I look at the pictures or read the list of ingredients, my stomach starts to growl and it stirs up my imagination. It is so much fun to read what she will send each time, and some of her comments are hilarious. One of my favorite comments is - Bwahahaha. In other words, uncontrolled laughter.:)

There isn’t enough laughter in this world of ours, so any excuse to laugh makes the world brighter. Some of the sites have such beautiful pictures of what is to be fixed that they should be in picture frames. Just think of it, an art gallery filled with yummy pictures of tasty food. Of course if you could find a way to give the art gallery the scent of wonderful food, any restaurants in the neighborhood would get a lot of business after each visitor leaves. Now that would really be fun temptation !

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Yes, I did say diet. As in I need to good one. YECH

My sis has said that the word Diet also has the word ‘die’ in it. Diet just like wait is another ‘four letter’ word. You know, words that you aren’t supposed to say? *snicker*

Well, my blog is called TwoTonTilly for a reason. So yes, I need a diet that works. There are so many items that are advertised that I need to find a good diet pill reviews list. Expensive is not something that can be done. So, inexpensive yet works would be good. I like fish only occasionally, not all the time, I like fresh veggies, too. My main trouble is that I like meat and cheese and bread. Will power is not in great supply with me when it comes to food. That is the main reason why I am large. If they ever came up with a ‘diet’ (shudder) that allowed all of my favorite foods, I would be more likely to stick on it. Meanwhile I will look at what is out there, and ask God to help me not eat as much.:)

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Yup, it is the blabby broad. My spell check tried to tall me that the word - blabby - was supposed to be flabby. Either one works. *snicker*

Today I’ve been to the grocery store, got a little food for a bit of money, got soggy from the rain. It finally rained ! We’ve been in a dry spell that has left the grass sounding like potato chips when you walk on it. Our car got washed, you know the rain did it. If we took it to a car wash, the neighbors would be stunned, the car would be too.

The price of gas is going down a little. It is under 3.60 a gallon here in this part of Texas right now. I still think that the gas companies are gouging the public and should be up on charges, though. I have no idea why the executives would be getting such high wages for doing a lousy job. Although, now that I think on it, the gas companies are reporting a great deal of profit right now. The rest of us sure aren’t.

Got some tomatoes for 1.29 lb. They won’t last long in this house. They are eaten almost as soon as they are gotten. I’ve been having muscle cramps, so got some canned milk for the calcium.

At the very least we got out of the house, breathed some outside air, got wet, and saw some traffic. Another day in the life of….:)

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Round, red, juicy, full of vitamins, nutrients, and anti-oxidants. I have been on a tomato kick even through the scare with the salmonella illnesses. The tomatoes from Arkansas were never in suspicion, thank God.

I have run out of those wonderful fruit/veggies. I want to pout now.

I know it wouldn’t do any good to pout. Tomatoes are so good on many types of sandwiches, salads, or on my plate and then in my mouth. They also have very good fiber in them. When I have trouble with something bothering me that I have eaten (gallbladder trouble that is), some juicy tomato is such a help. I am making myself hungry now. See ya later.

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Well, it’s been a while. Not since I’ve written something, but since I got married.

He is a country boy. some of the things that he has been able to do in his life are amazing. He and his parents had lived in an area that didn’t have plumbed water, electrical lines, phone lines, and gas for cooking and heating. The water had to be carried in inside 50 gallon barrels. When it got dark, it was time for bed. Phone service was in town. Their neighbors were not within shouting distance. I used to call that being down in the boondocks.

Me, I was raised a city girl. I was used to traffic sounds all night long. Used to have trouble sleeping when there wasn’t traffic. The street lights would come in the windows in the front of the apartment house, so if I was awake at night, I didn’t have to turn on the lights. We cooked by gas on the stove. The house was heated with natural gas in the winter. During the winter, the snow plows would pass in the night so cars could be on the road for work in the morning. If the neighbors had a fight, we could hear the hollering. I had only seen wood stoves on TV. My husband and his family used to cook on a wood stove, and use one for heat. He knew about chopping wood and making wood piles.

During the holidays the food that my family was used to was different than what his family ate. Turkey and stuffing, green beans, mashed white potatoes or baked sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, mince meat pie, cranberry relish, dripping gravy, the stuffing was made of white bread. During his holidays, he ate turkey and dressing (cornbread dressing that is), sweet tater casserole, brown beans, greens (turnip or poke seasoned with ham), giblet gravy, sweet tater pie, cranberry sauce. sometimes ham and/or brisket were also served.

I never knew there was a difference between dressing (which never sees the inside of the bird), and stuffing (which is cooked inside the bird). Until I sat and talked with his sister and her family one day, I hadn’t thought about the differences in the things cooked. Her nephew-in-law and I remembered the same type of food. When we compared lists, we were told that he and I had been raised Northern. Regional cooking in our one country alone is varied and wondrous.

Soon my husband and I will have been married for 25 years. Country boy & city girl, it is amazing how two so different ways of doing things have merged.

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This has probably been around for a while, but I just found out about it today.

Was using Stumble Upon and was sent this site that showed Fried Oreos AND how to make them. Read the article and found that a lot of other foods are fried. I mean that I’ve known about some things, but Oreos? The pictures looked good and tasty. I know that Americans among others like to find ways to fix things in a new manner. Oreos are an old favorite. I’ve heard of them being dipped in chocolate - white, dark, and milk chocolate. As if they aren’t sweet enough already, but fried? Cool I’ve eaten fried dill pickles, usually found at Sonic Drive-ins, fried bananas -found at my favorite Chinese restaurant, fried sausage w/gravy sticks, and other things. Now fried Oreos.

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