Vacation, Day 9, 10/29/2009, Part 1

Sun's rising at Talladega Superspeedway, Thursday morning. You can see how many more rigs are in the campground, and there in the distance between the trees, you can see the grandstand at the racetrack.


Early morning look at another U-shaped spread at the campground. Halloween, college football rivalry, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.--looking from right to left.


Part of a game of some sort at a corner camp site. Looks like they're all set to play, even after dark with that light on the top of the pole.


The other end of the game.


The game set-up, in front of a trailer decorated with three racetrack flags--Talladega, Bristol, Lowe's, and one driver flag--Dale Earnhardt, Jr.


This is the rig just to the other side of Kay and Milton's trailer. I count at least 17 chairs, for a smaller trailer and a pop-up trailer. Wild! Wonder if the ghosts glow in the dark?


Our omelet makers at work.


Sausage and ham on the griddle--one side's done.


Another helper deals with the bacon and the bacon presses on the other griddle.


Green peppers need quite a bit of preparation--those seeds are the pits!


You can have ham in your omelet.


Gotta get those eggs just right before they go into the skillet!


The bacon's done!


Cheese on the eggs in the skillet.


Ham, green pepper and onion, cooking in the other skillet.


Ah, the important combining-all-ingredients step.


Close to done, thanks to Milton and his helpers.


My plate--I had no cheese or green peppers because neither one agrees with me.


The absolute jewel in the crown of a grand breakfast, Steen’s 100% Pure Cane Syrup! Just looking at the bottle took me back to my childhood, eating biscuits and syrup with my Daddy. Yummy!


You can certainly see what I mean in this photo--perfection!

Vacation, Day 8, 10/28/2009, Part 2

Kay's one of those women who accomplish so much in what looks to be an effortless way. I've been in awe of her for years now.


Kay's breakfast biscuits, yummy. Oh, I need to explain something. When Kay and Milton go to Talladega, usually at least two groups of friends come in their own recreational vehicles which they camp nearby. For years they've shared in bringing the food for their get-together meals. This particular morning one of those people had not yet arrived, having decided not to drive over from Mississippi in the rain on Tuesday. That particular person was in charge of the majority of the breakfast food, although Kay always makes the biscuits so she had those ingredients with her.


She also had strawberry preserves and a bottle of Roddenbery's Northwood Lite Reduced Calorie Syrup.


Wing it, that's what we did, eating more of that delicious BBQ beef with the biscuits and jelly or syrup. Tasted great to me!

My Sunday, May 31, 2009, breakfast

Already in the skillet, rough-chopped sweet Vidalia onion and thin-sliced potato in an olive oil, canola oil mixture. I forgot to take a photo of them, but I remembered with this colorful chiffonade of rainbow chard beside the bowl with two eggs. At first it occurred to me to scramble the two eggs into the vegetable mix, but I changed my mind as things progressed.

Here you see the onions and potatoes with the chard.

I let it all cook for a short while underneath this lid ...

...then I added a tomato and replaced the lid.

Once the vegetables felt done when I pushed at them with the spatula, I put them into a bowl and set it at the back of the stove top which the oven had nice and warm. Then I scrambled the two eggs in the skillet and placed them on top of the mixture in the bowl.

I got my Smart Balance, sweet tea and pepper jellies ready.

The timer went off, so I got the biscuits out of the oven, canned Grands Homestyle Originals.

Here's the finished meal, waiting on me to dig in.

Mama still slept as I cooked and ate. She's not an early riser. Sometimes I fix food like this for brunch, and she enjoys it just as much as I do--some days I'm way hungry when I get up so I go to these somewhat experimental lengths. Most of the time, though, Mama likes her raisin toast about an hour after first drinking her Shaklee protein drink, made with milk and chocolate syrup in the blender, just as soon as she's dressed and made her way to the kitchen.