Dixie Chicks

[seminolewind]

I'm here, always keep up on my favorite thread, have to you all are quite chatty sometimes and I don't like to skip...I can catch up at work, drive home twenty minutes and there is thirty new posts! Just haven't had much to say today. Finally planted in two four by twelve feet raised beds, first time I've done this, supposed of been two batches of 25 each, I think I counted over thirty in each, Ozark beauty strawberries. Then we took the kids to see 'Inside Out' at the drive in. Started really late something was wrong, didn't get over until midnight...So we skipped Terminator Genisys , kids say we are going next week to watch 'Minions' and the second is Terminator again so we will watch it next weekend.
Update on SandHill chicks, three dead white j giants and one red Sussex

not to happy at all! I've never had chicks die! Except for a bunch of guinea hens bought once. Good news is I the rest are doing good... for now...

That's just awful! Why do you think they died? This whole Sandhill thing was not a good experience from the start. I hope you eventually get some white Jerseys.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Ooh put the milk and the yogurt in the refrigerator and disassembled that lamb shank.....

Mildest lamb I ever tasted...  Just salt and pepper and garlic sprinkled over the outside then seared in the cooking pot till all sides were brownie and crispity....

Then layed the roast down and pourd in about an inch of chicken stock and threw the whole thing in at 325...  and forgot it was there .... it was supposed to cook about an hour and 40 minutes but the timer that I have on my desk top got shut off...  So I reset for 45 minutes and went by smell and internal temperature...

still not comfortable with medium rare  so I went for well which was about 160 internal temperature....

Now its cooled and still sitting in that yummy juice flavored with lamb drippins....     The plan was to eat some for my dinner and put the rest up for the weeks nibbles....  It aint going to make it a week.  I sliced it up into sandwich sized chunks and poured the juice over it all...

I did have mint jelley...  but it really didnt need it... 

deb

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

@ApiaryandAviary I would love more hens from the babydoll cochins. I have another rooster blooming out of the last group. That makes 3 roos and 5 hens. I still can't tell any difference in the teeny tinys. Are all of them half cochin and half baby doll?

From what I remember, All the small chicks I gave you were Babydolls, the three larger and older ones were from some expensive and selective breeding. I have some left. I have a dozen Babydolls and Calico Cochin Bantams and the expensive mix (they have Ohiki and babydoll in with the Cochin bantams in them). Can not let go of anymore as I did loose the last Ohiki/ babydoll to a hawk and am going to give away the last Ohiki boy tonight. He is jumping anything that moves and does not move. I thought of getting a stuffed chicken toy to give him. He has been crazy since her snatching. He has been going after the big girls too and roo that is three or four times his size. He is going to get killed by that Easter Egger roo that roams our yard. I locked him up for the day for his protection. I think I saw the Easter Egger roo sharping his spurs and talons. He was named Samurai but now I think he was missed named the past 18 months, Tom Jones might have been more along his behavior. He tries everything. Nothing safe.

 

[Mahen100]

Deb, that is one beautiful power rock!

Anyone got fertile blue or blue/green eggs? I have an EE that went broodie (again) and is tending her infertile egg.

I will dig out my mayo recipe and post it. It is almost time to make another rbatch here....I always double the recipe too.

Happy 4th of July to those here in the USA.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Deb, that is one beautiful power rock!

Anyone got fertile blue or blue/green eggs? I have an EE that went broodie (again) and is tending her infertile egg.

I will dig out my mayo recipe and post it. It is almost time to make another rbatch here....I always double the recipe too.

Happy 4th of July to those here in the USA.

Have a rainbow of blues/blue greens, etc... just holler if you want some...

 

[Mahen100]

Homemade Mayo
Ingredients: (double recipe amounts first in parenthesis)

(2whole)-- 1 whole "laid that day" large egg
(1t)-- 1⁄2 teaspoon dry mustard
(1/2t).. 1/4 teaspoon salt
pinch of paprika (I use sweet paprika-La Chinata, but any is fine or omit)
(4T)..2 tablespoons MEYER LEMON JUICE
(2C).. 1 cup vegetable oil (or your preferred oil...canola, olive or grape seed oil or combo)

Directions:
Crack egg into blender, add mustard, salt paprika and lemon juice...cover and pulse to mix.
Remove "hole" cover in blender lid and turn on to low,,,,then SLOWLY add oil in a stream through the hole.... Don't worry about how long it takes to pour, just continue, scrape down the sides if needed, and keep to a fine stream until all the oil is added. When I double the recipe I take a break to measure out a second cup of oil..then proceed on medium speed then. Blend until it is the consistency of mayo.

These days a "blender" is what I have always used, but some folk make the same recipe in a food processor.
Tip: everything...dry blender container, egg, all ingredients and tools need to be room temp or more...not cold.
Tip: If oil is added too fast it will curdle the batch (I use two hands on the oil-filled measuring cup..one finger under the pour-spout to help control the flow and the "aim," and the other hand on the cup handle, tilting the pour of the cup against my finger into the blender. so yummy. So much better than store bought...another level of deviled eggs and potato salad...just yum.

 

[bamadude]

So the eggs are raw?

 

[Ravynscroft]

So the eggs are raw?

Eggs are raw in mayo, bama... that's why they always say don't let it get warm at all once it's opened... and why bad mayo makes someone very sick...

 

[hennible]

In mayo? Yup

 

[Mahen100]

Bama, for you...just boil the egg to soft boiled and use it that way in the recipe.