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Post by parrotandcrow on Aug 31, 2024 11:29:36 GMT
My daughter was given a goose egg, it was too exotic for her so she gave it to me.
Breakfast of champions this morning, I shared it with Bruno as it was much too big for me.
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Post by writerspanic on Aug 31, 2024 14:51:17 GMT
Today I'm setting up a batch of corn liquor. Instead of screwing around with scraping corn cobs I'm fermenting canned creamed corn that my spousal unit purchased as hurricane supplies (she's from Louisiana). I made a batch several months ago on a whim and it turned out better than I imagined. I just took a rum batch out of the fermenter this morning, so I could just roll into another batch without having to sterilize everything again.
I start by making corn soup (3 cans of creamed corn and 1lb of sugar) and getting it 180F. I check the alcohol potential with a refractometer after it cools below 100F. Then into the fermenter with Montrachet yeast and when it starts bubbling I put it on top of the water heater (I have space for 3 gallons there).
For the record, I don't sell this stuff. It's mostly for me, but I give it to a small circle of friends as well. I don't have a post-production alcohol measuring device, so I use bamboo skewers and compare the flame to one using 90% Isopropyl. When they match, I distill it again and I figure it's around 98%. It's clunky, but I AM in Georgia.
I'm also doing the laundry while she takes Endora into Atlanta to shop. See, that's the real pleasure of marrying into a Louisiana family, having a mother in law who actually IS a witch! I'm like the Creole version of Darren Stevens from Bewitched (Dick Sargent/Dick York). She put a curse on me when I moved her daughter out of state. 7 Years later it came true. The old biddie moved up here, 3 miles away.
I am truly cursed I tell you. The food's pretty good though!
So I'm going to take an aromatic appetite stimulant, and start folding towels. Then it's moonshine time!
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Post by graceomalley on Aug 31, 2024 19:27:28 GMT
Oh no,they 're coming back🎪most of them anyway.the summer stop is coming to an end.they 've got a week off between sites.so maintenance and bringing stuff back to the yard they won't use on smaller sites.boss ladies only been back once all season so will be good to catch up,see the little lads..and we 'll be going from 3 to 11 dogs on site!
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Post by bernie on Sept 1, 2024 5:49:46 GMT
Last day of dog sitting this smelly boxer then down to Cornwall now the school holiday have ended.
Cornwall has reported tourist figures are down this year. I'm not surprised, The shops, camp site, holiday rentals cafes etc have all got a bit greedy in my opinion.
Even the car parks are a rip off.
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Post by writerspanic on Sept 1, 2024 14:37:13 GMT
Last day of dog sitting this smelly boxer then down to Cornwall now the school holiday have ended. Cornwall has reported tourist figures are down this year. I'm not surprised, The shops, camp site, holiday rentals cafes etc have all got a bit greedy in my opinion. Even the car parks are a rip off. I hate when that happens. I grew up in Florida surrounded by public springs and waterways. You could waste a day at the beach or in a canoe and pay nothing, not even parking. These days Florida is just a money pit. They brag about not having a state income tax (because the tourists pay for it), but residents are squeezed by every kind of fee, fine or tax. There are still a few places to go, but there's always a catch. For example, Fernandina has a great beach that doesn't allow alcohol during Spring Break. The advantage for parents of young children become obvious in that respect. But then they crank up the paper mill in town and your vacation becomes a sunny sewer experience. But just 25 miles or so south is Sawgrass, a massive golf resort with impeccable service, and rates! Good to hear you survived the doggo. I'm still trying to find the break in the fence one of mine has discovered. 2AM she was on the front porch barking to get in. See, she can escape, but she cannot get back in. She's a Husky/Chow mix of all things. So she sheds a blanket's worth of hair every year and "talks" a lot. Plus, she's sneaky. |
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 1, 2024 16:56:11 GMT
The joys of rampant unfettered unregulated capitalism thats invented all kind of arbitrary fees charges and fines that dont represent any value for money or fairness and imposed simply because they can and get away with it.Its just another form of protection money....pay this to protect my lifestyle and business income so i dont need to actually do any work or make any effort to get benefit from your presence in my locale.
Its particularly bad here in the UK with hospital parking fees and fines and airport and station parking and drop off points.
And the overnight parking fees on leisure parks for motorhomes SUV campers and trailers has exploded from a reasonable £5 to 20 a night to 35 to 60 and often more in sort after touristy areas for parking overnight and using your own accommodation ...plus you get to pay extra for electricity hookup charge exceeding what you could ever possibly use, awnings or unit is over length of the pitch or you have a dog and all comes with a raft of dos and donts and not alloweds and can cancel your booking without explanation.
Nuch of it done now as gentrification to keep away the low income families and encourage the ones who dont even consider how much they spend and dont want children about or have to mix with low income people.
B&B and airBnB style lets are the same..a license to print money and rip you off.
Not really any surprise that most here choose to holiday in Europe where its much better value for money and experience.
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 2, 2024 18:22:02 GMT
I think all boxers are flatulant, bernie it's in their dna. Cris, that C word will not be tolerated, get a grip, man. This dog could strip paint. Last night I ended up in the kitchen watching stuff on my phone Lol my sweet pretty little cat could clear an olympic stadium with her farts.🤢 One of my Retrievers did the same but you always had prior warning of the SBD because she would get up and walk out of the room very quickly with her head down and leave you to enjoy the ghastly choking aroma. Ive only smelt worse with a room of decomposing corpses. |
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 2, 2024 18:26:27 GMT
My daughter was given a goose egg, it was too exotic for her so she gave it to me. Breakfast of champions this morning, I shared it with Bruno as it was much too big for me. I like goose eggs but they are a bit much to consume on ones own... Duck eggs on the other hand,too good to share lol |
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Post by parrotandcrow on Sept 4, 2024 17:33:44 GMT
Today I've been throwing out junk which has been left at my place by other folk. Tomorrow I'm repeating this, and the day after.
I'm also having a drive up the Berwickshire coast tomorrow if the weather is reasonable.
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 4, 2024 18:08:58 GMT
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Post by writerspanic on Sept 5, 2024 19:01:36 GMT
Today I'm preparing chicken. I purchased 3 skinless breasts from a local chain that leans toward the cheap. Leans so much that I have to remember to read the dates on packages there. I got raisins once there that were a year old. They were most excellent!
The first thing I do is rinse the chicken in a mixing bowl using tap water until the water stays clean. Then I rinse it again with filtered water (I installed an extra tap) and drain it. Then I add brown vinegar to cover the chicken, mix it well and let it sit for 30 minutes
Then drain it and rinse it again with filtered water, leaving enough water to cover the chicken. Then I add about 1/4 cup of baking soda and mix it well. I let it set like that maybe 10-20 minutes. Any latent vinegar will cause bubbles. A final rinse with filtered water and the chicken is clean enough for me to tolerate.
I call it Acid Washing and it works well for pork as well. It's not so good for beef. The idea is something I learned from a project that I decided not to take about 15 years ago. It was a process for neutralizing toxic waste. They use a series of acid/caustic baths that swing the pH wildly, back and forth. I just had no interest in being around toxic crap.
I'm making Chicken Parmesan for my spousal unit, She doesn't care for veal. From these 3 breasts, a half pound each I sliced 3 cutlets, a bag of nuggets, a bag of fingers and a bag of the various parts I cook for the dogs/cats/wildlife (we live out in the sticks).
I never craved chicken the way I do beef until I had it fried, from a bucket. What's really funny though is one time I had to throw dinner together quickly, so I went to Chik Fil a and got a couple of sandwiches. I made pasta and marinara sauce and put the sandwich patties in the convection oven, covered with cheese.
Unfortunately it was the best chicken parm I ever made her. I'm hoping to change that. I'm marinating the cutlets in Italian salad dressing. I have a brown egg coming up to room temp for making batter. I sometimes marinate chicken in ginger beer. It's best with cut pieces like nuggets or fingers (deja vu).
If it turns out well, I'll stick a pic to this!
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Post by parrotandcrow on Sept 5, 2024 22:25:06 GMT
It was indeed mostly wet, and cold. I stayed home and lit the fire. |
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 5, 2024 22:36:46 GMT
Sounds like a betterer plan 🍰☕
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Post by oldkeith on Sept 5, 2024 22:37:30 GMT
Wow, that sounds like a lot of chicken-washing. Is this to get rid of nasty taste, because chicken over there is washed in chlorine?
Over here (UK) we get told not to wash chicken because it can spread bacteria over your sink and stuff, just put it right in the oven or grill and get it cooked. This is enough to kill off any bacteria, so long as it's cooked right through.
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Post by writerspanic on Sept 5, 2024 23:09:46 GMT
Wow, that sounds like a lot of chicken-washing. Is this to get rid of nasty taste, because chicken over there is washed in chlorine? Over here (UK) we get told not to wash chicken because it can spread bacteria over your sink and stuff, just put it right in the oven or grill and get it cooked. This is enough to kill off any bacteria, so long as it's cooked right through. The thing is, bacteria is alive and excretes toxic stuff. Sure, cooking kills bacteria, but does it neutralize whatever that bacteria is producing? Also, most of the bacteria will be on the outside, so cleaning it is easy. I go through extra cleaning because I can't know how long it was soaking with other bird carcasses in a brine/chlorine wave pool before it was packaged. The beauty of the plan I have adopted (I can't claim credit) is the meager cost weighed against risking illness. I don't know why, but chicken that I don't think will poison me seems like it tastes better. When I was working in the Caribbean (2010-2012) I discovered that chicken on the islands was much better than in the mainland US. I figure it was the exotic insects and the lack of an actual winter. I didn't bother with more than rinsing because most of the chicken I could buy was freshly killed. Over the last couple of years I have to look around to find chicken that doesn't look like it was in a traffic accident. Decades ago I worked on industrial scales and a couple of chicken plants used our gear. This sort of plant is a testament to man's ability to mechanize killing. When you consider the scale, it's difficult to conceive an improved path. You will not be removing people from consuming meat. Not happening. They'll eat politicians to make the point! |
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