Food

When I was still living with my parents, my father said to me, "When you grow up you will be

eating nothing but canned pork and beans and baking powder biscuits!"

I have no idea what prompted him to predict such a thing. But he didn't realize that two of my

favorite foods were pork and beans and baking powder biscuits.

Well, I just now looked at my food supply because its lunch time and there was nary a sign of pork and beans, but I have a whole bag of Schwan's baking powder biscuits with cheese and herbs in my freezer compartment of the refrigerator. They are pretty good, but not as good as "made from scratch".

My father was a cook's helper in the first World War. That was good because he was a tender-

hearted man that had trouble killing a chicken much less a man. But he was a whizz at baking it after he killed it. I saw him once basting a chicken with white wine while it was roasting in the oven.

His mother was from Norway, so of course, he had to cook Lutefisk every Christmas. It was tolerable with lots of melted butter on it. He also loved pig's feet and herring. You won't find

any of those things in my larder! He had a big jar of hot pickles and I wanted to taste one. He

warned me! I didn't listen, but went ahead and bit into that very hot pickle. WOW!! Father knew best.

Now what else should I have with my biscuits?