[Racer X 69]

"pot au feu (boiled meat and veg french style", my Dad used to call it "Bouilli" .... pronounced boo-yee, sorta but with lots of tongue and nose...the pronunciation not the dish

...and nice looking pot! May there be many a great meal produced!!

That Canadian store that sells things other than tires had some great sales last year and I picked up two dutch ovens...a medium and a large

How to Pronounce Bouilli - YouTube

Bouillabaisse is one of my favorites.

[SSGGeezer]

It depends on where in New England
In Massachusetts it's lahbstuh. In Maine it lawbstah.

No, just No.

[Racer X 69]

No, just No.

Did you give 'no' a different regional accent each time you typed it?

[SSGGeezer]

Inflight entertainment consisted of watching for hydraulic leaks.

That is the CH-47 Chinook's early models!

[Racer X 69]

That is the CH-47 Chinook's early models!

And we probably all know the term used in place of "Chinook" by mechanics and pilots back then, although typing it here wouldn't go over very well.

[CharLac]

How to Pronounce Bouilli - YouTube

Yes, exactly like that

[SSGGeezer]

I like small airplanes.

My mom owned this one for many years.



I have a couple hundred hours of right seat time in that airplane.

Too bad the guy she sold it to had no business flying small planes. He was flying from his home in California to Wisconsin for the EAA fly in at Osh Kosh when somewhere over Kansas he got scared he didn't have enough fuel to get to the next airstrip so he decided to put it down in a freshly plowed field.

Did a ground loop when the landing gear sank into the loose soil.

Destroyed it.

Grumman Cheetah or Tiger? Always dreamt of owning one of those,

[CharLac]

Just thought y'all should know.

It's Everybody's Business 1954 US Chamber of Commerce; John Sutherland Animation Macdonald Carey - YouTube

Very important stuff here.

Kinda prescient

[CharLac]

It depends on where in New England
In Massachusetts it's lahbstuh. In Maine it lawbstah.

No, just No.

And here in Canada it's lobstir eh?

[Racer X 69]

Grumman Cheetah or Tiger? Always dreamt of owning one of those,

American Yankee.

Built by American, before Grumman bought them out and developed the Cheetah and Tiger.

Always felt like I was putting along in a small econo car, like a Volkswagen Beetle.

With the wind whistling through the gaps around the canopy.

It was a fun little plane to fly, but because of the wing spar design, "NO SPINS" was marked on the instrument panel in large letters.

[SSGGeezer]

American Yankee.

Built by American, before Grumman bought them out and developed the Cheetah and Tiger.

Always felt like I was putting along in a small econo car, like a Volkswagen Beetle.

With the wind whistling through the gaps around the canopy.

It was a fun little plane to fly, but because of the wing spar design, "NO SPINS" was marked on the instrument panel in large letters.

I thought it was because the wing interfered with the airflow over the rudder in a flat spin on similar models.

[monochrome]

Looks like cooking soup.

Nothing wrong with soup.

Green Split Pea and Ham Soup

While technically spring will officially spring next week it is still chilly enough for a basic Saturday soup. IIRC @ExFinn asked for this a couple weeks ago. Not an epicurean chef's recipe, just a solid soup from my grandmother's card box.

Here's the simple base recipe. Add a spice bag to suit (bay leaf, etc.) Yield 2-3/4 quarts

1 lb. dried green split peas (2 cups)
7 c. chicken stock or water
1 tsp. Canola oil
2 c. fully cooked ham, cubed (either ham hocks cooked, stripped of fat and meat trimmed off or a packaged ham piece)
2 c. chopped carrots
1 c. chopped celery
1 c. chopped onion (I prefer yellow)
1 c. diced, peeled yellow potato
1 cl. minced garlic
1 tsp. Kosher salt (to taste)
1 tsp. fresh ground pepper (to taste)
1/4 c. minced fresh parsley
chopped chives

In a Dutch Oven or soup kettle, brings teh peas, chicken stock, and oil to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. Add the remaining ingredients except the parsley and chives, cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Stir in parsley. Top with chives and serve.

[CharLac]

Green Split Pea and Ham Soup

While technically spring will officially spring next week it is still chilly enough for a basic Saturday soup. IIRC @ExFinn asked for this a couple weeks ago. Not an epicurean chef's recipe, just a solid soup from my grandmother's card box.

Here's the simple base recipe. Add a spice bag to suit (bay leaf, etc.) Yield 2-3/4 quarts

1 lb. dried green split peas (2 cups)
7 c. chicken stock or water
1 tsp. Canola oil
2 c. fully cooked ham, cubed (either ham hocks cooked, stripped of fat and meat trimmed off or a packaged ham piece)
2 c. chopped carrots
1 c. chopped celery
1 c. chopped onion (I prefer yellow)
1 c. diced, peeled yellow potato
1 cl. minced garlic
1 tsp. Kosher salt (to taste)
1 tsp. fresh ground pepper (to taste)
1/4 c. minced fresh parsley
chopped chives

In a Dutch Oven or soup kettle, brings teh peas, chicken stock, and oil to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. Add the remaining ingredients except the parsley and chives, cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Stir in parsley. Top with chives and serve.

I just made a soup very similar to this but no split peas. I'll have to try this one.

[Racer X 69]

I thought it was because the wing interfered with the airflow over the rudder in a flat spin on similar models.

That might have been it. I just remember the no spins sign, and mom telling me it wasn't aerobatic, something about the wing design and the weak spar, so no fun stuff.

One time I asked her how fast it would go.

We were cruising somewhere in the Puget Sound region, at about 6 or 8 thousand feet. She opened the throttle, and nosed it down a bit.

When the airpseed indicator hit 150 or so she pulled back on the throttle, and eased the controls back until we leveled out. At the peak of the descent that little thing was shuddering and shaking quite a bit.

Somewhat like the B25 did when I was flying it at 230 or so and asked for a similar demonstration of speed and it hit 260+.

[eddie1960]

lunch at the best deli. wolfies. a mix platter with montreal smoked meat and pastrami