Monday, May 26, 2014
Cooking With Madjon aikenstandard.tv: WW 11 Allen & Jeanne Newby ASKS Mom & Dad Let's Ma...
Cooking With Madjon aikenstandard.tv: WW 11 Allen & Jeanne Newby ASKS Mom & Dad Let's Ma...: Well Hello to all you Foodies out there in Webland to all of you I say I hope all is well with you and yours. I hope your summer is not to ...
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Cooking With Madjon aikenstandard.tv: Happy Memorial Day With B.B.Q. Rib Eye Steak Thank...
Cooking With Madjon aikenstandard.tv: Happy Memorial Day With B.B.Q. Rib Eye Steak Thank...: Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land. Happy Memorial Day to you and your families and to all the military that se...
Happy Memorial Day With B.B.Q. Rib Eye Steak Thanks for Serving Veterans Past & Present
Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land. Happy Memorial Day to you and your families and to all the military that served in the past and in the present. Well I gotta tell you I do come from a military family which my roots go back to the Revolutionary War. My mom and Dad both served during World War 11 and I have two brother-in-laws that are retired and both served in wars during their time serving and one even shot. I wanted us all to remember that Memorial Day isn't just a holiday for B.B.Q. or kicking off the start to our summer vacations its about our fallen soldiers who have fought and died for our freedoms here in the good old USA and also around the world. I only hope that the world remembers them on May 30th as well. This holiday goes back to the Civil War and am going to give you the history right here now and it is as follows:
In the spring of 1866 the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia passed a resolution to set aside one day annually to memorialize the Confederate dead. Additionally, the secretary of the association, Mrs. Charles J. (Mary Ann) Williams was directed to author a letter inviting the ladies in every Southern state to join them in the observance.[2] The letter was written in March of 1866 and sent to all of the principal cities in the South, including Atlanta, Macon, Montgomery, Memphis, Richmond, St. Louis, Alexandria, Columbia, New Orleans, et al.
The date for the holiday was selected by Mrs. Elizabeth Rutherford Ellis. She chose April 26, the first anniversary of Confederate General Johnston's final surrender to Union General Sherman at Bennett Place, NC. For many in the South, that marked the official end of the Civil War.[3]
On April 26, 1866, tens of thousands of Southern women commemorated the first Confederate Memorial Day. Some, however, in the northernmost portions of the South did not participate because their flowers were not yet in bloom. Consequently, they selected dates later in the spring to hold their first Confederate Memorial Days. For example, parts of Virginia chose May 10, commemorating Stonewall Jackson's death. Near Petersburg, VA, they chose June 9, the anniversary of a significant battle there. Others opted for Jefferson Davis' birthday, June 3.
To the present, Southern states continue to have Confederate Memorial days. Though most are still on April 26, others continue to be later in the year.
In 1868, General John A. Logan, who was the commander in chief of the Union Civil War Veterans Fraternity called the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), launched the Memorial Day holiday that is currently observed in the entire United States. According to General Logan's wife, he emulated the practices of Confederate Memorial Day. She wrote that Logan "said it was not too late for the Union men of the nation to follow the example of the people of the South in perpetuating the memory of their friends who had died for the cause they thought just and right."[4]
I could have written it but they explained it so much better then I could have. Any who what are you going to B.B.Q. this Monday? One of the meats my dad always did was steak only it was T-bones but I happen to like the Rib Eye. He also would make wonderful Hamburger cooked in beer that were very tasty when ever he B.B.Q. It was always fun and mom would make her Potato Salad and Banana Pudding. Dad only added Salt and Pepper to his steaks and if you want a rare steak I like to cook it on High Heat and I like my seared if it doesn't have a grill mark on it its not a steak that I want to eat and I like mine rare so its like three minutes on both sides for me. That way I know I have a nice juicy tender steak. If you want it medium rare cook it about five minutes on both sides and it depends on how thick the steak is. am talking about a inch thick. Any who enjoy your holiday and please remember to say a prayer for those who paid the highest price for our freedoms and remember that when you are thinking about being able to say what you feel in this great country of ours. If you ever get a chance to visit Arlington please do so its a wonderful experience. Happy Trail to you until we meet again. Watch the tv shows at aikenstandard.tv, come like my fan page at Cooking With MadJon and Friends, on face book. Write me on recipes at madjon51@aol.com.
B.B.Q. Rib Eye Steak
2 Rib Eyes about 1" thick
Salt & Pepper to taste
Dust with:
Onion & Garlic Powder,
Red Hot Pepper
1/4 cup Sou Sauce
3 TBSP Olive Oil
Marinate meat in a bag with all ingredients and grill for about 4 to 5 minutes on high heat or until your steak is cooked the way you like it. Bona'yall..
Saturday, May 17, 2014
The VA Treatment of Vets MOM Corned Beef Hash & Potato's
Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land, I've been busy and today I want to share a couple things with you the first is my cousin passed away on the 15th and he was just in his seventy's. We are on our way to Ring Gold, Ga to visit with family.When members of your family start passing it does give you time to reflect on what is important in life. How can you put into a few words a lifetime of living? I think the most important thing is something we call love and if you've been loved in your life and know it then you had the greatest gift that God can give you. My cousin was what I called a Gentle Giant. If he had the right guidance when he was a child he would have been a great Baseball player no doubt in my mind. He did pass that on to other children during his lifetime. He was opinionated, but how else do you make changes in this world if you can't tell people what you think? I Say RIP cuz and blessings to you and your family
Well opinionated brings me to another person who was opinionated and that was my mother. However with that said without her being that way she wouldn't of been able to help Veterans during her lifetime. After our father passed she turned all her focus on VA benefits and fighting the VA for the rights of all veterans, including her. She was appointed by the governors for two states, Oklahoma and South Carolina to inform veterans what their rights were under the law. Veterans would come to her or contact her and she'd go toe to toe with the head of the veterans affairs in D.C. When we lived in West Virginia she'd fly in to visit and off we'd go the Washington to talk to congressmen or senators and even the head of the VA and I can't remember his name but he was elected later to hold office and he was in a wheel chair. Was it Max Cleland? Am not sure any who she went toe to toe with them telling them of the mistreatment of veterans in the hospitals The Veterans Affairs office has a long history of mistreatment's to our vets, She started her fight for rights for women when she had to have surgery and there was not a private ward for women or even private baths to use. She was so mad. That was Tulsa at the time she lived there. From then on out until she died she'd tell veterans what the laws were for them to fight back the veteran affairs office. She was in the Tulsa VA hospital so much they finally just gave her a office at the hospital so vets could go and ask her questions and she would advise them on what to do about it. She wrote their letters and whatever they needed. Then when she moved to South Carolina the governor had her doing the same things here for vets. She always told kids who were thinking of enlisting to not always believe the promises they get when the enlist and be ready to fight for their rights. When she died I never saw so many awards from presidents and governors listed in her name. She did this all on her own and used her own money and was never paid a dime. She had lots of invitations to go to the white house by presidents but she never went We still have all her paperwork and she even helped with the Women s memorial at Arlington, we'd go and talk to female generals about that She helped raise the money for that project and her name was Jeanne.Varney Newby. There are lots of stories on my mom. Any who I see the VA has not changed she always said it was cheaper for them to just let us die that way they didn't have to pay the benefits. Well one of the dishes my mom used to make alot of is canned Corn Beef with potatoes and it was so yummy so I hope you enjoy this recipe am short of time today or I could go on and on. Happy trails to you until we meet again. Come like my face book page,"Cooking With Madjon & Friends", come follow my on twitter @madjon51.
Corned Beef Hash
1 can Corn Beef without/potatoes
1 onion diced
Salt and Pepper to taste
3 or 4 small potatoes, peeled & diced
3 cloves Garlic, minced
eggs for topping
Place the beef in a heated pan with about 2 tsp. oil. Add the onions and garlic and cook till the onions are clear in color. Add your diced potatoes and cover, stir mix, until the potatoes are tender and brown. Salt & Pepper to taste. Place your eggs on top of the mix and cook covered until your egg whites are done.
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These are pictures of us in DC with the Military at 8th & I.
Well opinionated brings me to another person who was opinionated and that was my mother. However with that said without her being that way she wouldn't of been able to help Veterans during her lifetime. After our father passed she turned all her focus on VA benefits and fighting the VA for the rights of all veterans, including her. She was appointed by the governors for two states, Oklahoma and South Carolina to inform veterans what their rights were under the law. Veterans would come to her or contact her and she'd go toe to toe with the head of the veterans affairs in D.C. When we lived in West Virginia she'd fly in to visit and off we'd go the Washington to talk to congressmen or senators and even the head of the VA and I can't remember his name but he was elected later to hold office and he was in a wheel chair. Was it Max Cleland? Am not sure any who she went toe to toe with them telling them of the mistreatment of veterans in the hospitals The Veterans Affairs office has a long history of mistreatment's to our vets, She started her fight for rights for women when she had to have surgery and there was not a private ward for women or even private baths to use. She was so mad. That was Tulsa at the time she lived there. From then on out until she died she'd tell veterans what the laws were for them to fight back the veteran affairs office. She was in the Tulsa VA hospital so much they finally just gave her a office at the hospital so vets could go and ask her questions and she would advise them on what to do about it. She wrote their letters and whatever they needed. Then when she moved to South Carolina the governor had her doing the same things here for vets. She always told kids who were thinking of enlisting to not always believe the promises they get when the enlist and be ready to fight for their rights. When she died I never saw so many awards from presidents and governors listed in her name. She did this all on her own and used her own money and was never paid a dime. She had lots of invitations to go to the white house by presidents but she never went We still have all her paperwork and she even helped with the Women s memorial at Arlington, we'd go and talk to female generals about that She helped raise the money for that project and her name was Jeanne.Varney Newby. There are lots of stories on my mom. Any who I see the VA has not changed she always said it was cheaper for them to just let us die that way they didn't have to pay the benefits. Well one of the dishes my mom used to make alot of is canned Corn Beef with potatoes and it was so yummy so I hope you enjoy this recipe am short of time today or I could go on and on. Happy trails to you until we meet again. Come like my face book page,"Cooking With Madjon & Friends", come follow my on twitter @madjon51.
Corned Beef Hash
1 can Corn Beef without/potatoes
1 onion diced
Salt and Pepper to taste
3 or 4 small potatoes, peeled & diced
3 cloves Garlic, minced
eggs for topping
Place the beef in a heated pan with about 2 tsp. oil. Add the onions and garlic and cook till the onions are clear in color. Add your diced potatoes and cover, stir mix, until the potatoes are tender and brown. Salt & Pepper to taste. Place your eggs on top of the mix and cook covered until your egg whites are done.
These are pictures of us in DC with the Military at 8th & I.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Cooking With Madjon aikenstandard.tv: Mother's Day May 11th Mom & Her Saying's Chicken P...
Cooking With Madjon aikenstandard.tv: Mother's Day May 11th Mom & Her Saying's Chicken P...: Hello foodies out there its MadJon again coming to you from a long day of working on our spring garden. I drive with friends today to pick ...
Mother's Day May 11th Mom & Her Saying's Chicken Poop Planting
Hello foodies out there its MadJon again coming to you from a long day of working on our spring garden. I drive with friends today to pick up some Chicken Poop in Blackville, SC. While we were there we ate at Millers Bread and boy do they have some good bread. They make a Honey Oat, Cinnamon, Rasin and today I bought some Butternut Bread and its very tasty. They have been in that area with this bakery for almost 28 years. Nice people. They have a collection of antiques and foods. They have great fried Chicken and Meatloaf. Any who after the poop trip I went on to paint the trim on our outside doors and helped spread some poop for the garden and while my hubby is a engineer I think he really is from Mars because he got chicken poop all on the inside of my clean truck, I tell you I had some cleaning to do and he had some explaining to do. Any who that's finished and now its to the blowing again and then the planting. We are growing some Okra, pole Green Beans, Tomatoes, peppers, and onions that came from his grandmother so they are some old roots. Well its getting really close to Mother's Day and I don't have my mom here any more with me but I do have her memories. She was a good cook and I miss her, Baked Ham, Roast Beef on Sundays and I miss her Spaghetti Sauce. Most of all I miss her quotes that she always used to keep up on our toes. I can't remember all of them but here are a few, she was half French so we got a lot of those words like Sakli blye, she used that when she was excited. You think your the Queen Bee around here, get back to work. Its Lightening, the devil's beating his wife. Beauty's only skin deep but use your beauty to your advantage if it helps get you in the door. She grew up in the swing era so she sang a lot of swing songs to use. She had a beautiful voice and sang a Carnegie hall on the radio when she was a kid, more then once. She also had a full scholarship in music before the war but choose to fight for her country instead of going to school. She was stationed in Germany during WW11. She was one of the Greatest Generation. Kill them with kindness Eileen because you get more bees with honey then with sour grapes She also said," It's better to be an old man's sweetheart then a young man's slave." She would always say, " Stand up for what you believe, don't be such a coward. Take time to smell the rose's, Eileen. "You made your bed now lay in it." When the moon was full she always said, full moon lots of babies being born or full moon the crazies will be out. One of my favorites was," If your going to rob a bank Eileen, Just make sure you get enough money to make it worth going to jail for." However I did have a Uncle Jim that went to jail for bank robbery but they never found the money and I heard it was a lot of that green stuff, we always thought that he gave it to his kids after he died. Well I'd never tell if they did. Shut the door were you born in a barn, she'd yell. Another one that I can remember was we traveled and mover around a lot when we were little and every-time she'd see an old house standing by itself in a field, she'd say,"If only those walls could talk." That's all I can remember for right now. My dad had some sayings but some of them I could not say on the blog. You could email me I'd tell you a few at madjon51@aol.com and if you have any questions about a recipe please ask me. Come like my fan page on face book at, Cooking With MadJon & Friends or go watch the TV show at aikenstandard.tv Am going to be giving you an recipe for Baked Ham but do your mom a favor please, cook for her or take her out to dinner, after all you wouldn't be here with out her help. I say thank you to my mom for everything she did for me even the things that I thought she was wrong about. After all kids don't come with a book of instructions when they are born. You just do the best you can do and hope that your children turn out to be better then you are. Happy Trails to you until we meet again. Happy Mother's Day to all you mother's out there. Hugs to you all.
Directions:
1) Bake at 350° in a pre-heated oven.
2) Mix brown sugar, honey and mustard. Place a few gloves on the outside of ham, insert into ham surface. Pour glaze mix on ham, then top with pineapple, cherries, and with the toothpicks to hold the cherries onto of ham Bake for about 2 hours or until ham is tender.
Baked
Ham
Glaze:
½ cup Brown
Sugar
¼ cup Honey
1 tsp.
Prepared Mustard
Cloves for ham top
1 can Pineapple
Rings, drained
1 jar Maraschino
Cherries
1 jar toothpicks
1 5-6 pound HamDirections:
1) Bake at 350° in a pre-heated oven.
2) Mix brown sugar, honey and mustard. Place a few gloves on the outside of ham, insert into ham surface. Pour glaze mix on ham, then top with pineapple, cherries, and with the toothpicks to hold the cherries onto of ham Bake for about 2 hours or until ham is tender.
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