Hi Everyone,
Randal and I were up at 3:30 am this morning! Of course we spent most of yesterday afternoon sleeping and then were in bed by 9:30pm. Hopefully we’ll be on a Malaysia time schedule soon. And hopefully I’ll get used to the heat again. In the States we were COLD! Everyone else was enjoying spring; but we were used to summer all year round so rainy 60 degrees made us bundle up. Does blood really thin? I took photos or all of our family and friends; photos that are important to Randal and me. Some photos have additional stories so I’ll share those…like Randal’s sister Linda teaching him to make biscuits “like mama used to make.” Randal had tried making biscuits here in Sebana, but had little luck. They didn’t rise, they burned, and they were tough. Not good. He definitely needed help with his biscuits.
Randal and Linda in her kitchen. Looks just like the set of a Food Network cooking show. Linda is opening a bag of self-rising flour. Not sure what Randal is doing.
Mixing and measuring. Biscuits do best with Crisco and a very light hand while mixing the dough.
Biscuits in process
Perfect southern biscuits.
Ken, Linda and Randal
Just before we left Roanoke we had breakfast with Randal’s brother Eddie and his wife Judy and our friend Joe Deshiell. Judy made a huge southern breakfast with biscuits, sausage gravy, bacon, eggs, tomato, strawberries and lots of juice and coffee. Everything starts with a stick of butter! That’s how Randal’s mom had cooked and she lived to be 96!!
We had many wonderful meals with family and friends all along the way. Randal had requested a “lobstah dinnah” in New Bedford and our friend Harriet obliged. I ate wonderful fried clams at the Oxford Creamery in Marion, MA owned by Har’s niece. You could taste their time in the ocean….Yummm. I shouldn’t even start writing about the great meals because we had so many along the way and my fear is I’ll leave one out! Home cooked meals with family and friends were the highlights of our time at home.
Ruth Johnson
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