Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[SnapdragonQ]

Mason jars. Same as the canned foods, but a whole lot more fits into one jar. Some items I will freeze, like dried eggs because they keep better, or if I have questions as to how dry I actually got it, but mostly in jars big and small.
I have some used books with everything one needs to know, like optimal moisture content, for perfectly dried foods. Also have a few with recipes for nothing but how to re-plump and cook with dried foods.
I had planned to learn to make jerky and even turkey jerky, but never got around to it yet.

Meant to say, in jars, on a shelf at room temp out of direct light. Nothing more needed to store them.

 

[MROO]

I'm off to the vet, this afternoon. Late last night, Crazy Dog decided that she didn't like Little Dog walking past her into the house - and shook him - HARD. He had/has a small puncture wound high upon his shoulder, which I cleaned right away. He was limping a bit, but I gave him the night to rest up. This morning, he was limping really badly and yelped when I tried to handle his gimpy leg. He's a cockapoo (we think, he's a rescue) so he was all soft and buff-colored floofy and I couldn't see to assess. I gently clipped him down. fighting tears the whole time - partly because I was raggedly taking his gorgeous coat apart, but mostly because he was SO good about it, even though I know he hurt.
I didn't find any more obvious injuries, but now I know the extent of the "hurt." He's either got something broken in there, or he's dislocated a shoulder. Our vet is wonderful - he's squeezing us in at closing. I think his staff loves my boy almost as much as I do!
So please - one more prayer for the road - a joint one for both Indy and my wallet ... that neither will be hurt as much as they could be!
While your at it, you might say one for Skye, too - 'cause I'm about to send her packing. She's my daughter's dog ... and DD is beside herself with worry about the fates of BOTH of them!

 

[MROO]

Mason jars. Same as the canned foods, but a whole lot more fits into one jar. Some items I will freeze, like dried eggs because they keep better, or if I have questions as to how dry I actually got it, but mostly in jars big and small.
I have some used books with everything one needs to know, like optimal moisture content, for perfectly dried foods. Also have a few with recipes for nothing but how to re-plump and cook with dried foods.
I had planned to learn to make jerky and even turkey jerky, but never got around to it yet.

Dries eggs ... interesting. How do you dry them and how to you reconstitute and use them? Please?

 

[MROO]

Why is my life so damnably "Interesting?" I am SO ready for a period of peace and "normalcy." The Jumanji reference has lost all of its' appeal for me. It's too real, now.

 

[Folly's place]

Best wishes for your little dog! Shaking injuries are often NOT obvious on the outside, poor thing. Hope it's not too serious.
Mary

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Sending jingles for Little Dog that it's just the next day owwies and nothing is broken. Kind like when you take a hard fall...everything hurts more the following day.
Hopefully Doc will give him some feel better meds for pain and he's back to himself in no time.

 

[drumstick diva]

I loved that movie "Fried Green Tomatoes." Though I don't eat tomatoes fried or raw or most veggies. I know shame on me. I do like peas but, they are legumes or something like that - don't want to find out what that means. I love sweet corn.

 

[Folly's place]

And antibiotics for that puncture wound that wants to be infected.
Mary

 

[drumstick diva]

Hope little dog will be okay, shaking injuries can affect the brain.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

There are some good web pages out there on dried eggs and different ways to do them. They will not fluff up to be like fresh scrambled eggs no matter what I've tried, but others have claimed success with drying and freezing when eggs are needed for things like a binder or for baking.
For us, it's about using them as protein and a nutritional booster so the form and shape (after reconstitution) are not important.
Directions will have you cracking them and fork whisking them, then pouring out onto a flat non-stick drying sheets, like if you were making apple leather. I do indeed have plenty of those, but found it better to make a lipped tray out of waxed paper, butcher paper, or parchment paper to sit on the regular drying tray. I've also found it helps to blend in a little something for the runny-ness. Because we are GF, I use plain cornmeal. Often I will use these eggs in a recipe that calls for cornmeal, so it works.
Once dry, I crush it all up to conserve space and put in quart freezer bags. Because I am a ninny I also keep the bags in the freezer. But they don't take up much room and allow for the fewer fresh eggs in the winter to be used for fresh egg needs.

Caveat- since moving here my girls lay longer throughout the year so I did this much more often when we were up north and many of my girls would completely stop laying for 5 months in the winter. The late fall eggs would keep in the fridge for a while and I usually didn't have to buy eggs until like Feb. By April the girls would start laying again so it got us by when money was tight or getting to the store was impossible for the snow.

Supposedly yogurt is dryable too, I've never done any though.