To Hear Me Tell It
Travel back in times with Jerry Daniels, as he shares his stories (To Hear Him Tell It), of being raised in Butler GA as the son of a small town Grocery Man. He up and runs off to enlist in the Navy, where he serves some 26 years before moving back to America with his wife of 35 years and children. Jerry flavors his stories with a bit of Lewis Grizzard and Jeff Foxworthy, but tell his stories in such a way that will make you have flashbacks and leave you laughing and shaking your head.
To Hear Me Tell It
Mama used a fork for everything
Mama was gifted and skilled in the kitchen. I regret not watching her more in my early years of growing up. The meals she could cook, the cakes and pies she could bake, and the manner in which she went about the tasks stick with me today. Looking back now I see where I picked up a many of her cooking habits (techniques) in the kitchen.
Mama didn’t need a lot of fancy tools; she just needed a good ole’ fashion dinner fork. Not a three-tine (prong) fork, the regular kind what has four prongs. A folk with a beasty handle. She did everything with a fork. She whipped, mashed, stirred, turned, flipped, and agitated everything in a pan or pot with a fork.
She mastered the art of frying bacon with a fork. She didn’t use tongs for such, she just needed that good ole’ fashion fork.
There’s a lot to be said with learning to keep in simple, and using a fork in the kitchen is a good place to start.