Rex and Ty's Food Blog

     Many months back I promised to make my granddaughter Orange Chicken. I seemed to keep forgetting this. I would like to think that getting old has caused this forgetfulness. Unfortunately I have a track record of forgetting things. Like the time that I left my youngest child in a neighboring town at a ballgame. My wife and I had traveled to the ballgame separately, her with my daughter and me with the youngest. We decided to leave before the games were over and she said she would go pick up some pizza for supper. I went home turned on the TV and waited for the pizza. After a while she came in the door, put the pizza on the table and said "where is Ty? ".  It dawned on me that I had forgotten to bring him home.      Now my young son was in a distant town, late at night and alone at a ball field. Needless to say I made a quick trip back to see if I could find him. All the while imagining what might be happening to him. Fortunatel...

.        THE ALL-AMERICAN Cowboy Cookbook , Home Cooking on the Range is one of my favorite cookbooks. The recipes in this have all been submitted by cowboy and cowgirl stars of gone by years. The book is filled with lots of pictures of the stars who portrayed these cowboys on the silver screen, on television or in real life.       Some of my earliest memories come from Saturday morning television when the good guys wore white hats and you knew who the bad guys were. They wore black hats ! You also were likely to hear a western song or two especially if Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Rex Allen, Gene Autry or the Sons of the Pioneers were in the show.       Gail Davis was an actress who played Annie Oakley in her own television series from 1953 to 1958 and co-starred in a few Gene Autry films. I am almost old enough to remember this series but probably my memories come from re-runs. Gail Davis has submi...