The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019. I had
a note from his daughter on behalf of George's wife Anne.
He was a knowledgeable food preserver who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to be a guest in
the Shirley home when they lived in SW Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the United States
Navy and who prevailed over several mini strokes that ultimately took
their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th >wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27,
2019. I had a note from his daughter on behalf of
George's wife Anne. He was a knowledgeable food preserver
who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to
be a guest in the Shirley home when they lived in SW
Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the
United States Navy and who prevailed over several mini
strokes that ultimately took their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers.
His daughter Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz
Anne" observed their 59th
wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019. I had
a note from his daughter on behalf of George's wife Anne.
He was a knowledgeable food preserver who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to be a guest in
the Shirley home when they lived in SW Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the United States
Navy and who prevailed over several mini strokes that ultimately took
their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019.
Melba's Jammin' wrote:
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27,
2019. I had a note from his daughter on behalf of
George's wife Anne. He was a knowledgeable food preserver
who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to
be a guest in the Shirley home when they lived in SW
Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the
United States Navy and who prevailed over several mini
strokes that ultimately took their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers.
His daughter Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz
Anne" observed their 59th
wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
Oh, no! Such sad news to end the year on.
I often think of George when I'm planning or working in my
garden.
He was such a font of wisdom and knowledge and wasn't shy
about sharing it with others. I've mentioned some of the
info from his posts to friends, always giving him credit
and wishing he were still posting to this and the garden
newsgroups.
A good life. I can only hope his last months were full of
Miz Anne and his family rather than pain and discomfort.
My thoughts are with them today.
R.I.P. George. You will be remembered and missed.
Nyssa, who is trying to pay it forward and share things
she'd learned from George's posts over the years
On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:37:11 -0600, Melba's Jammin' <thetattooedlady@gmail.com> wrote:
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019. I had
a note from his daughter on behalf of George's wife Anne.
He was a knowledgeable food preserver who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to be a guest in
the Shirley home when they lived in SW Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the United States
Navy and who prevailed over several mini strokes that ultimately took
their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th
wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
Dammit.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th
wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
he always said he never expected to get very far as his
family history was poor but the medicos kept him going
quite a lot longer.
59 years with love. lucky guy.
RIP George. my thoughts are with the family and i hope
that Miz Anne is taken care of and has loving family around
to help out.
songbird
On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:37:11 -0600
in Message-ID: <news:2019122721371174218-thetattooedlady@gmailcom>
Melba's Jammin' wrote :
died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019.
So sorry to hear this. I've missed his wit and wisdom for a couple of
years - and now . . . never to return.
Hoping he passed at home in comfort and surrounded by those he loved.
God Bless, George and yours.
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019. I had
a note from his daughter on behalf of George's wife Anne.
He was a knowledgeable food preserver who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to be a guest in
the Shirley home when they lived in SW Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the United States
Navy and who prevailed over several mini strokes that ultimately took
their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019.
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019. I had
a note from his daughter on behalf of George's wife Anne.
He was a knowledgeable food preserver who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to be a guest in
the Shirley home when they lived in SW Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the United States
Navy and who prevailed over several mini strokes that ultimately took
their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
I found the link to Jorge's obituary: >https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/americanpress/obituary.aspx?n=george-milton-shirley&pid=194910452
Barb, 1-4-2020
In article <2020010409260754175-@news.iphouse.com>shirley&pid=194910452
Melba's Jammin' writes:
I found the link to Jorge's obituary: >>https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/americanpress/obituary.aspx?n=george-milton-
Barb, 1-4-2020
I kept marking this post as unread, as I wasn't ready to
read it.
Having read the obit, and reflecting on George's stories
over the
years, it feels too short. I shared the view, that I
think others voiced, that George should have written a
book on his experiences.
I never voiced the suggestion, as I had the impression he
wouldn't
have seen the value in it. But I would have loved to read
that book.
Drew Lawson wrote:
Having read the obit, and reflecting on George's storiesI agree.
over the
years, it feels too short. I shared the view, that I
think others voiced, that George should have written a
book on his experiences.
I never voiced the suggestion, as I had the impression he
wouldn't
have seen the value in it. But I would have loved to read
that book.
I'm wondering if we could somehow gather George's old
posts from this group and rec.gardens.edible and arrange
them into some sort of digital format books.
Saving and savoring his words of wisdom, jelly-making,
gardening methods, and just plain good humor would make
the effort worth it, at least to me.
Anyone have an archive of old posts from rfp and rge
they could share with someone who could work on this
project?
I'd be glad to help with the sorting and formatting, but
I don't have the raw article archive to start with.
Nyssa, who doesn't really net Yet Another Project, but feels
that this one would be more than worth the effort and is
willing to try
On 2019-12-28 03:37:11 +0000, Melba's Jammin said:
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019. I had a
note from his daughter on behalf of George's wife Anne.
He was a knowledgeable food preserver who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to be a guest in
the Shirley home when they lived in SW Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the United States
Navy and who prevailed over several mini strokes that ultimately took
their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th
wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
I found the link to Jorge's obituary: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/americanpress/obituary.aspx?n=george-milton-shirley&pid=194910452
Barb, 1-4-2020
I have r.f.p back to 2003 (all my provider had last early spring),
it is about 31900 posts (one file per post), with the oldest from
2003. That is 22 MB compressed.
I could filter those down to posts from George. Quick try says
that is 3966 posts in r.f.p. So about 3 MB compressed.
Checking r.g.e, I only have current things, but the earliest post
on giganews is also 2003. I could bundle that up. (Started the
fetch. Looks like it is 150k posts, so may take some time. After
that, grabbing just George's should be fast.)
In article <r0nsog$16lj$1@newshost.furrfu.com>
drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) writes:
I have r.f.p back to 2003 (all my provider had last early
spring), it is about 31900 posts (one file per post), with
the oldest from
2003. That is 22 MB compressed.
I could filter those down to posts from George. Quick try
says
that is 3966 posts in r.f.p. So about 3 MB compressed.
Checking r.g.e, I only have current things, but the
earliest post
on giganews is also 2003. I could bundle that up.
(Started the
fetch. Looks like it is 150k posts, so may take some
time. After that, grabbing just George's should be fast.)
rec.gardens.edible turned out to only have about 50k
articles.
943 of them are from George. They seem to start about
2006.
I've put what I have at
http://www.furrfu.com/GeorgeShirley/
The tar and ZIP files have the same content. tar
compressed better, but I don't know whether everyone can
open that.
I'm sure Google has more, but they've made that difficult
to search.
"Nyssa" <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> wrote in message news:r0q90f$u47$1@dont-email.me...
Drew Lawson wrote:
In article <r0nsog$16lj$1@newshost.furrfu.com>Thanks for digging this up and setting up the files.
drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) writes:
I have r.f.p back to 2003 (all my provider had last
early spring), it is about 31900 posts (one file per
post), with the oldest from
2003. That is 22 MB compressed.
I could filter those down to posts from George. Quick
try says
that is 3966 posts in r.f.p. So about 3 MB compressed.
Checking r.g.e, I only have current things, but the
earliest post
on giganews is also 2003. I could bundle that up.
(Started the
fetch. Looks like it is 150k posts, so may take some
time. After that, grabbing just George's should be
fast.)
rec.gardens.edible turned out to only have about 50k
articles.
943 of them are from George. They seem to start about
2006.
I've put what I have at
http://www.furrfu.com/GeorgeShirley/
The tar and ZIP files have the same content. tar
compressed better, but I don't know whether everyone can
open that.
I'm sure Google has more, but they've made that
difficult to search.
I've grabbed both formats; since I'm on Linux, both
should be readable with no problems.
Once I get time to take a look at what's there, I'll
start to figure out how best to present them, probably in
some sort of ebook format, probably epub unless someone
has a better idea.
Anyone have a preference for how George's posts should be
grouped? Chronological or by topic?
I'd love to put a few of these on my website under the
gardening or kitchen topics, but I wouldn't feel right
doing that without Miz Anne's permission. Does anyone
know how best to contact her about it?
Once I've gotten a handle on what's there and start
working on it all, I'll post my progress here and in
rec.gardens.edible. Just don't expect a fast turnaround
what with all my other to-dos going on, but I will get
aroundtoit.
Nyssa, who seems to keep piling things onto her to-do
list, but that's better than sitting around doing
nothing...or watching TV which pretty much is the same
thing
Hello Nyssa. I think this would be a very worthwhile
project. My preference would be by topic, my theory being
it would be easier/more pleasant to read
through to the end of a thought rather than to have to
jump about. I like epub for my reader but PDF might work
for everybody that wants to browse without having to use
more software.
Mike
Drew Lawson wrote:
In article <r0nsog$16lj$1@newshost.furrfu.com>Thanks for digging this up and setting up the files.
drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) writes:
I have r.f.p back to 2003 (all my provider had last early
spring), it is about 31900 posts (one file per post), with
the oldest from
2003. That is 22 MB compressed.
I could filter those down to posts from George. Quick try
says
that is 3966 posts in r.f.p. So about 3 MB compressed.
Checking r.g.e, I only have current things, but the
earliest post
on giganews is also 2003. I could bundle that up.
(Started the
fetch. Looks like it is 150k posts, so may take some
time. After that, grabbing just George's should be fast.)
rec.gardens.edible turned out to only have about 50k
articles.
943 of them are from George. They seem to start about
2006.
I've put what I have at
http://www.furrfu.com/GeorgeShirley/
The tar and ZIP files have the same content. tar
compressed better, but I don't know whether everyone can
open that.
I'm sure Google has more, but they've made that difficult
to search.
I've grabbed both formats; since I'm on Linux, both should be
readable with no problems.
Once I get time to take a look at what's there, I'll start to
figure out how best to present them, probably in some sort of
ebook format, probably epub unless someone has a better idea.
Anyone have a preference for how George's posts should be
grouped? Chronological or by topic?
I'd love to put a few of these on my website under the
gardening or kitchen topics, but I wouldn't feel right doing
that without Miz Anne's permission. Does anyone know how
best to contact her about it?
Once I've gotten a handle on what's there and start working
on it all, I'll post my progress here and in rec.gardens.edible.
Just don't expect a fast turnaround what with all my other
to-dos going on, but I will get aroundtoit.
Nyssa, who seems to keep piling things onto her to-do list,
but that's better than sitting around doing nothing...or
watching TV which pretty much is the same thing
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019. I had
a note from his daughter on behalf of George's wife Anne.
He was a knowledgeable food preserver who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to be a guest in
the Shirley home when they lived in SW Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the United States
Navy and who prevailed over several mini strokes that ultimately took
their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 10:37:17 PM UTC-5, Melba's Jammin' wrote:adventures. I think of him every time I pull out the canner (you too, Barb) or more importantly, make his moussaka recipe (entitled 'George Shirley's Moussaka Recipe" in my recipe book)
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019. I had
a note from his daughter on behalf of George's wife Anne.
He was a knowledgeable food preserver who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to be a guest in
the Shirley home when they lived in SW Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the United States
Navy and who prevailed over several mini strokes that ultimately took
their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th
wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
It's been eons since I've posted in this group, but I check in every once in a while, particularly to check on George (you too Barb). I am SO very sorry to hear this. He was a special guy and so generous with his knowledge and recipes and gardening
RIP George
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:09:23 -0800 (PST), Kathi <katjon@storm.ca>adventures. I think of him every time I pull out the canner (you too, Barb) or more importantly, make his moussaka recipe (entitled 'George Shirley's Moussaka Recipe" in my recipe book)
wrote:
On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 10:37:17 PM UTC-5, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
The old goat died at 12:30 a.m. this morning, December 27, 2019. I had >> a note from his daughter on behalf of George's wife Anne.
He was a knowledgeable food preserver who loved to share what he knows
about the subject -- or any other. It was my pleasure to be a guest in >> the Shirley home when they lived in SW Louisiana.
He was a tough bird who served his country proudly in the United States >> Navy and who prevailed over several mini strokes that ultimately took
their toll.
Keep Anne and George and their family in your prayers. His daughter
Merrie said he and the love of his life, "Miz Anne" observed their 59th >> wedding anniversary yesterday. God rest his weary soul.
Barb
www.barbschaller.com, last update April 2013
It's been eons since I've posted in this group, but I check in every once in a while, particularly to check on George (you too Barb). I am SO very sorry to hear this. He was a special guy and so generous with his knowledge and recipes and gardening
RIP George
Here is the recipe that he shared, I believe. Does it match what you
have?
MOUSSAKA MELITANES
1 1/2 kilos (3 lbs) eggplant (I use Ichiban eggplant that are
naturally sweet so don't need the salting and squeezing.)
1/2 kilo (1 lb) ground meat
2 medium size onions
1/2 kilo (1 lb) fresh tomatoes or a tablespoon of Tomato paste diluted
in a cup of cold water.
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 stick cinnamon
olive oil for frying
4 eggs,
1/2 cup milk -
parsley
1 tablespoon butter (for ground meat)
1 cup grated cheese (Parmesan or other) (I have used both parmesan and shredded mozzarella with success)
1 tablespoon breadcrumbs
Bechamel Sauce:
4 heaped tablespoons butter
5 heaped tablespoons flour - 2 cups milk
nutmeg - salt – pepper
Slice the eggplant thickly sprinkle with salt leave on a platter
for1-2 hours
Rinse in cold water and squeeze a little, wipe dry. (see note above)
Heat some oil and fry eggplant with lid on pan until soft on both
sidesput into sieve and drain on thick paper boil ground meat, onions, butter, in a cup of water. When water is absorbed let meat and onion
brown with the butter which is in the pan.
Add parsley and cinnamon,
salt and pepper
Pour wine over the mix and cover with lid - let wine be absorbed Add
tomato juice and sugar
Simmer until thick Discard stick of cinnamon If mixture is too greasy
add 1-2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
Grease large baking pan or pyrex dish layer eggplant in the pan
Sprinkle eggplant with grated cheese, spread half the meat mixture,
sprinkle with grated cheese, spread another layer of eggplant,
sprinkle with gratedcheese,
cover with third layer of eggplant.
Note: You can stop at this point if you intend to freeze the moussaka
for later use. I put the mix in an aluminum throwaway pan, freeze it,
then put in a vacuum seal bag and seal. If you do this then you do the
last part of the recipe once the moussaka is thawed. If you intend to
cook and eat then leave out this noted part.
Beat 2 egg yolks and 4 whites with 1/2 cup milk, Pour over the
pie.Make bechamel sauce: Heat butter and work in flour until smooth.
Add little by little the milk, nutmeg, and salt, stirring all the
while.
Cook until fairly thick. Beat remaining two egg yolks in the bechamel.
Add a handful of cheese. Pour over the pie.
Sprinkle generously with the remaining cheese and breadcrumbs and a
few dots of butter.
Bake for 45 minutes in a moderate oven (350F) until golden brown. Let
it cool a little and cut into squares before serving.
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