Friday Face OFF 1/17/25

 

 Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your faces or your face. Post any type of face from any medium. You can create it, or find it in nature, or even that face in the design of the

woodwork in your house. 

Human, animal, alien, or monster. 

ANY KIND OF FACE!

 

Since I have had my canner set up I have been a canning  as much as possible. Then, I ran out of propane. I will show you this weekend what I got done. Including oven canned blueberry muffins. Yum.

I have been working on my face too. 

Ya know, the one I showed of the teeth last week.

Now, he is still the the very rough stages and all of this clay will be cleaned and then some latex.  

He got new lips	He got some wrinkles and horns.
He got a bone going over his head	And his eyes are now open.

 

 My next day in the art room is cleaning up the clay. I want to add some hanging skin, maybe some brain showing. OK, I might be getting carried away but it will be fun to try. LOL

How much would I love to have this?

 

Here are some images from a few of FFO artist. 

Mia

Kwarkito

Christine

Don't forget to  link up with Gillena

That's it for to today, now it's time to show me your face.

Nicole

 

Louisisana Red Beans

 Hi Everyone!

As promised, here is the recipe for the Louisiana Red Beans.

Adjust the ingredients to your taste.

INGREDIENTS

1 lb kidney beans

1 smoked ham hock

1/4 lb thick cut bacon, cut into 1- inch pieces

1 lb andouille sausage, cut into 1- inch pieces

1 medium onions, diced (about 1 cups)

2 tsp salt

2 tsp dried thyme

1 quart chicken stock. You can add more stock. We like our beans in more liquid.

This is for NON canning.

Sort and clean beans. Place in bowl and cover with cold water for 24 hours. Drain and rinse beans. Put them back in a bowl of cold water while you cook the other ingredients.

Cook the bacon, and sausage together. You want to render as much fat off as you can. Once that is done, set the meat in a strainer. Add a bit of the oil back into the same pan and add the onions. Make sure you squeeze out any moisture. Add the salt and thyme and cook the onions until golden. Pour the beans into a strainer and rinse off. Pour beans into a cook pot, place in the ham hawk and cover the beans with broth. Cook until the beans are half way done. Add the meat and onion and cook the rest of the way. 

Corn Bread

Set oven at 400° F

1 cup yellow corn meal

1 cup APF

1/4 cup granulated sugar or honey

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 cup milk

1/3 cup veggie oil

1 egg lightly beaten.

Add all ingredients into a bowl mix together but don't over stir. Pour into a lightly greased baking pan and  bake for 20 minutes.

 

 Hope you enjoy

Nicole

 

Sunday Cannning

 Hi Everyone!

Wow! What a job canning Louisiana Red Beans. But I have to tell you this recipe is exceptional. The best beans I have ever made. This is what we had for dinner. Mr. M. had 2 huge bowls.

This was a huge canning job and I'm not sure if I will make these again to can. 

1st get canning items ready.	Jars and lids washed and sterilized.
Set up canner in back room. Since I use propane I can't do it inside the house.	Prepare the ingredients. andouille, bacon, onions.
Everything needs to be rendered and drained.	I had to cook the andouille in two batches.
The onions get a few spices added while they cook.	While I'm cooking the ingredients, the beans are on the stove with ham hawks for 15 minutes hard boil.
I cut as much meat off the ham hawks to put in the beans as well. In addition I had a big pot of chicken broth heating.	Mixing this all together was a chore but I got it done. Time to fill the jars.

After this I forgot to take photos. Well I didn't really forget my hands were full of food from mixing this huge batch of beans. LOL  

This is how they came out.

7 quarts canned and I froze 3 meal size bags.

I filled the jars as directed. 3/4 of beans and a 1" head space for the liquid. The beans sucked up the liquid pretty good. 

The trait of canning beans.

I will post the recipe tomorrow. You will want to try this.

 

Nicole