Saturday, 29 October 2011

How to make a Sandwich of Fried Bologna


My father was born in Escatawpa, Ms he was a pilot and General hand for a gent Italian old in Biloxi, Ms as a result, it could galvanise spicy medium spaghetti, chicken Fricassee sauce or a big pot of red beans. But his favorite food was a party any pork, ground, spiced and rushed preference in an envelope.

He loved the sausage, any. You would have thought that he was a drug dealer. A phone call would come to the House. A conversation in a low voice would be held, and it would be the door to meet suppliers. He would buy sausage from the back of a pickup truck ford raggedy, dark trunk of a car, or in an alleyway. It goes without saying that this produces pork are Government inspected or had a stamp of approval USDA to indicate that it is safe to eat. But it would he wrapped home in whatever packaging, the seller had available, sack croaker, greasy brown paper bag, regardless.

My mother wanted no part of this undertaking, since it was convinced that we were all gonna get sick and die of poisoning by the public, so that he would use us children stealthily sausage in the House and hide in the back of the refrigerator. I think never fool not that us him. She never cooked sausage or he ate. My father he cooked for us children and himself. It aloud it for breakfast with hominy grits and eggs or it would in a pot of red beans and rice and sausage gumbo.

Given that my father was such a connoisseur of sausage, goes without saying that his favorite sandwich would be somehow related sausage. It was a fried Bologna sandwich.

My brother and sister and I would sit at the kitchen counter, while he will explain the finer points of preparing a fried Bologna sandwich. Here are the instructions of my father. I do not think you can rightly call it a recipe.

Austin Fried Bologna Sandwich

1 Coat at the bottom of a frying pan in cast iron with what oil you have available and heat pan to medium heat.

2 Place in the pan of good quality, exhibit in thick slices of Bologna from which you removed the rind. Cook the Bologna until the edges are crispy and slightly charred. Restore the Bologna and cook the other side. Bologna will be puff in the Middle, you can make slits in the edges if you want to extend. Let just purists puff up.

3. For a breakfast sandwich, place the Bologna fried between two slices of white bread with a fried egg and some Apple jelly. For a sandwich at lunch, it's white bread, of Bologna, mayonnaise and lettuce and tomato.

I taught my children how to make these sandwiches. When they were young, it was a Saturday morning treat. I still do myself, but, in tribute to healthy living, I use roasted, reduced the Turkey fat Bologna and bread 9. Despite this, they still make me think about my father, the King of the sausage.







Saturday, 22 October 2011

Intentional or accidental poisoning


March 20 - 26, 2011 is Poison Prevention Week. Read this post to become more aware of the problem of poisoning and what measures you should take to help reduce the risk of poisoning in your home. The definition of a poison is any substance, including drugs that is harmful to your body, so too is consumed, inhaled, injected or absorbed through the skin. When no harm is meant to be caused this is called non-intentional or accidental poisoning. Misuse of drugs, cosmetics, household products, cleaners, pesticides, insecticides and all can be toxic.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 82 people die each day of non-intentional or accidental poisoning. A further 2,000 are treated daily in emergency rooms. Accidental or unintentional poisoning be may be prevented by being aware of the potential poisoning hazards.

Here are some tips that may help keep you and your loved ones from the unintentional or accidental poisoning:

Place of National Poison control number near each residential phone and save it to your phone cell 1-800 -222-1222 that the line is open 24 hours, 7 days a week
If you call the poison control centre or doctor in a poisoning emergency have original container of the poison and the label with you.
Follow the instructions on the label when give you or take medication.
Read all warning labels and to comply with the warnings!
Taking medication during the night, turn on a light and check whether you have the exact amount of the right medicine
Check with your doctor to avoid drug interactions, if you take medication more than one at a time
Keep all medications in their original bottles or containers
Never share or sell your prescription drugs
Keep all prescription and prescription medicines in a safe place which can be reached only by persons who give or take. (Keep out of reach of children)
Store all medicines and household products out of sight in a test firm where a child cannot reach their.
Do not put your next dose of drugs on the counter or table where children can reach their.
Become not distracted during medication.
Check expiry dates on unused prescription and counter drug and security have those passed their expiration date.
Child secure plugs security and immediately put the drugs and products household away when with them.
If guests are in your home, make sure that they store their drugs where children cannot find their.
Do not store food and cleaning all elements.
Don't call medicine "candy" or any other name would be interesting for children
Identify poisonous plants can have at home or yard and keep them out of reach of children
Pets can be accidentally poisoned as well. Be aware of what feed you your pets. For example chocolate can poison and kill a dog. No spray or store products for cleaning or pesticides near dishes of food or water for pets and immediately clean spills and leaks of all these products

If a poisoning occur:

Stay calm and call 911 if the victim has collapsed or is not breathing. If the victim is awake and call alert, the poison control center: 1-800 -222-1222 the following information would be useful and could be applied: victims of age and approximate weight, poison exposure time, the address where the poisoning is arrivéet the container or bottle of poison if available. Stay on the phone and follow the instructions in the emergency operator or poison control Centre.

For more information, please contact the Center for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Poisoning/index.html







Saturday, 15 October 2011

Is Poison Ivy contagious - learn the Poison


Get a rash from poison ivy plant is one of the most troublesome and debilitating things a person can live. Set apart that it is a pure and absolute discomfort, who can face the public carrying of red, stifle rashes and blisters around their skin? Poison ivy rash can be a frightening and leaves many people asking the question, is poison ivy contagious? The truth is, there are many ways that a person can obtain this particular eruption, even if it is not transferred from human contact.

A poison ivy rash is caused by urushiol of the plant, which, when coming into contact with the skin, severe skin rash. The rash can be translated by red spots or blisters, sometimes concentrated in a single region or across several of the different parts of the body. Given this look frightening, it is easy to understand why most people believe that it is contagious. However, fluid light bulbs and rash does spread it, only the oil from the plant. The reason for which the rash appear to spread in different parts of the body of the person is because their skin comes into contact with elements that can be carriers of urushiol. This can be clothing, tools or simply coming into contact with the leaves of the plant. It can also come from the nails of any person or animal fur. If you're hiking or are bare-legged, and you get cuts or scratches of plants, with open wounds can cause the poison to spread much more quickly that he would do with a single contact. Juice of roots, in cases where the plant was cut, without a doubt will lead to a strong reaction. Sometimes, even breathing the smoke of a fire with burning poison ivy plants can cause a severe reaction. Some people, however, appear to be immune even after exposure to the poison. This may change, however, and these immune to it in the past may lose their resistance to it with age or time.

As there are a number of ways the poison spreads, there are also several ways that the rash can be repaired, while poison ivy rashes are usually three weeks more than a month to be completely healed, depending on the severity. Eager is a plant which is highly thought to be a good cure for the poison ivy rash, relieving the skin of the sensations of burning and itching.







Saturday, 8 October 2011

Not scrape some more - prevent the spread of poison and dogs to humans Ivy

Bay California buckeye, live coast and black oak and Bigleaf provide cover. In the undergrowth you might see honeysuckle, toyon, coffee maker, Snowberry, and lot of sumac. This is the description of the last stage of a beautiful hike that my husband and I took the end of April with our dog Jade and dog my parents Shana. I want to emphasize is the last remnant of the last sentence of the description and many poison. In my opinion, the description should read something in the line of sumac is abundant on this track, dotted with the occasional Maple, honeysuckle, sumac, coffeberry, sumac, black and of course oak, sumac.In other words, do try this part of the ride unless you and your dog are completely recessed in impenetrable Cotte.


The track itself has been maintained in fact quite well, so unless poison oil actually keep off the coast of the plant on my body, I was fairly confident that I could avoid the plants by pasting in the Centre of the track. What worried me most was the dogs. Jade, my 6 year Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, does not exclude defined hiking trails (unless there is something to really, really dead and really, really smelly to go study). Shana, my old parents of 3 year cotton of Tulear, is the opposite. It does not remain on hiking trails. I consider putting leaves for the portion of the trail sumac, but knowing Shana and leashes, I suspect that all that would happen is that Shana manage always wrap the leaves around my legs and I to try to untangle myself, fall directly into the same poison, I was trying to avoid.


If you live and walk anywhere in the United States, the chances are good that you and your pets will meet with Sumac, poison ivy or more rarely, poison sumac. When brush pets against poison oak (or poison ivy), if you live in the coast is oil transfers the plant on their skin. Pets can then transfer that oil to their human owners without the slightest bit themselves affected


Knowing this, the scenario playing in my head was as follows: Shana decides to study who knows that trail. Shana brushes against each sumac plant within a radius of two miles (a very plausible situation based on the natural curiosity of Shana and the amount of poison on the runway). We return to the car. Shana forgets that she knows how jumping soil in his body in the car (note, it is extremely capable of jumping on its fund when we are leaving to go walk, it was only after the return journey his memory mysteriously fails him). When I choose Shana until placed in the car, oil transfers its fur to my skin - and twenty four hours later, I have a rash of sumac raging. Given that hiking, I learned that are very easy steps, you can take to help prevent the spread of your pet you poison or ivy.


Assuming that you are not ready to renounce the hiking and your dogs are not ready to give up playing games of chase in the fields of sumac/poison ivy poison sumac covered, you never need hiking or camping without carrying a bottle of Original Tecnu outdoor cleaning of the skin. Tecnu (and indeed, I am in no way affiliated with this company - I am simply someone who has used and liked this product) is a cleaner that, when used within 2 to 8 hours after exposure to poison oak, poison ivy or poison sumac, can remove oil urushiol (it is oil that creates the rash and cause itch you like crazy) before the start of the rash. After the eruption began, washed with Tecnu assistance to deletes any free oil on your skin for the natural healing process begin without possible re-contamination.


The best part is that Tecnu cleaner can be used on anything--including pets. Decontamination of your dog, saturate a cloth with Tecnu and wipe your dog coat. Then follow with a shampoo and bath water for pets. This last step is extremely important. Do not leave Tecnu on your dog fur. It should be washed completely with shampoo and water. I also recommend that you follow bath your dog with a shower of your own using the Tecnu as a cleaner. Happy hiking!