WW 11 Allen & Jeanne Newby ASKS Mom & Dad Let's Make S.O.S.

Well Hello to all you Foodies out there in Web land to all of you I say I hope all is well with you and yours.  I hope your summer is not to hot or to short!  If I ever figure out how to post pictures on this thing I will be showing you the garden I planted in mid July with corn, peas, tomatoes, sweet Potato's, okra, herbs, and some eggplant.  They are producing and I owe it all to Chicken Poop, yes that's right, Chicken Poop but that isn't for this blog.  We are here to talk about making S.O.S. one of my favorite childhood
dishes that my dad would make for us but first let me give you some history on my Dad and Mom during WW 11.  We will start with my dad first.He trained at Ft Banning in Columbus Ga.  He worked with the 82th Airborne and the 101th Airborne yes he was a Paratrooper and when it was all over he was left with flat feet and lived on like a 1/2 lung or something like that.  However he was dropped behind enemy lines and fought in North Africa and Italy.  Not sure where else he was because they didn't record what he did there.  No record of it, you know its that take your life thing if you get caught.  His boxing picture hangs at Ft Banning because he was crowned Feather Weight European champion for the army during the war and on his DD 214 it states that his hands are considered lethal weapons for a period of five years after his discharge.  I could go on and on about this but that's for another story.  As far as my mom is concerned she enlisted in the service at 16 with her dad signing for her to enlist.  She has a full story as well with all kinds of awards from the government and congress, etc. etc, etc.  However I will tell you that she was a intelligence officer and was in charge of the teletype at age 17.  She was a E 5 and a member of the Wac.  She is also partly responsible for the  WW 11 Women's Memorial in Washington DC and if you go there you may view her files and her name was Jeanne Varney Newby.  A hell of a women.  She also is partly responsible for women having different floors at the VA hospitals. She raised 6 kids and a man that was very hard to handle and that is another story.  Any who I have to tell you am very proud of both my parents.    Well what made me think about making this recipe is because while I was visiting my Boys in DC this past weekend, which by the way they live at 8th and I, for your FYI is where the Marine Barracks is in Washington, DC.  On Friday nights they hold ceremonial events in the streets and inside the compound.  I have only viewed them on the street but you can go on line and get tickets to watch them match and hear the music.   They do a wonderful job and I will be adding pictures later when I learn how to add them.  They also have the security mission of protecting the white house and the commandant of the USMC which lives with the marines at 8th & I.  You should go and view them they are wonderful and it makes you feel so proud to live here in the USA.  Go Marines!  Any who when we were little my dad would make SOS for us kids and we loved it.  He didn't like alot of the army food but he did like this dish.  I know that there are alot of you who ate this dish at home.  We ate ours with bread and mashed potato's, yum yum.   Recipe follows.

S.O.S.

1 pound Ground Beef
1 Onion Chopped, finely
3 Gloves Garlic, minced
Salt & Pepper to taste
1/4 Cup Flour
1 Beef Bouillon
2 to 2 1/2 Cups Milk
1 1/2 teas. Worcestershire

Brown beef and chop fine, add onion, garlic, salt & Pepper, and cook till onion is clear.  Add Beef Bouillon with 1/4 water.  Cook about 5 minutes. Add Flour to mixture and mix well and try to get it to brown some.  Then slowly add the milk and cook till thickened.  Serve on Bread.  Serves about 6.

I hope you give this recipe a try and enjoy it as much as we do here at home.  Would love to hear from you at madjon51@aol.com and come be my friend on facebook, Eileen Hutson or come to my fan page Cooking With Madjon and Friends and you may watch the TV show by going to the aikenstandard.com, ASTV 95, Cooking With Madjon and Friends.  Enjoy the rest of the summer, eat and slepp well you all.  Happy trails to you and your until we meet again, Eileen Hutson, MadJon.  P.S. am looking for sponsors for the TV show and my fan page, hehe.  Come join the FUNNNN.