Dixie Chicks

[Alaskan]

I've never had jerky. Nowadays you can get it at the store, but at 7 euros for a tiny bag I haven't had a need to try it yet. Maybe I should. I haven't seen anything else than beef jerky in different flavors though. 

Even though I am American.. With all of the melting pot-ness.....I have no Fin or Swedish ancestry, so I do NOT relate.

Jerky is the food of EVERY truck stop.

My dad's dad had the best thing going... He had the BEST jerky maker in the county make our jerky (venison, as in deer).




It is the BEST food ever for traveling and long road trips.

 

[getaclue]

I like to soak my thin venison strips overnight in teriyaki sauce, then dry it. Food dehydrators make perfect jerky too.

 

[vehve]

What would come closest to jerky here from a historical point of view would be reindeer stew. But since that comes from Lapland, where winters are always cold, they just used to store reindeer whole. Then when it was time to eat, they cut off small slices of the meat with their knives and prepared stew from it. Nowadays you can just buy it frozen, cut in slices. Super tasty though. I like to fry a couple of chopped onions in loads of butter (reindeer is super lean so you need to add some fat), and then throw the frozen reindeer chips into the hot cast iron pot. Once it's starting to cook, you add a splash of water, maybe some beef bouillon, and salt and pepper to taste, and serve with mash made from Puikula potatoes, a variety that is high in starch and grows well in the northern regions of the country, and then some crushed lingonberries on the side. In the mash I like to add chopped raw onion and butter in the servings. Some people like to fry the meat together with bacon, but I don't usually do that.

 

[Peep_Show]

I like to soak my thin venison strips overnight in teriyaki sauce, then dry it. Food dehydrators make perfect jerky too.

Ditto this, but I use beef. (nobody I know hunts, so deer have a pass) I also add lots of minced garlic and some red pepper flakes to the soak.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

I started a page for my chickens.

https://m.facebook.com/Calico-Chickens-1506296846336029/?ref=bookmarks

Here are several pictures of the kids that found where the runs had been during the summer. Apparently there must have been something to scratch at.
I need to add pictures of my chickens.

 

[vehve]

AnA, looks nice, but you might want to rethink that banner image, you need a higher resolution photo, because on a desktop it's pretty blurry.

How many molts have those Sussexes been through? Looks like 2-3 to me.

 

[BBQJOE]

AnA, looks nice, but you might want to rethink that banner image, you need a higher resolution photo, because on a desktop it's pretty blurry.

It almost broke my eyes!

 

[Alaskan]

V....

Cooking with jerky is all fine and good..... But you are supposed to eat it plain... Bite it off of a brick hard piece hoping your teeth do not crack... And then slowly masticate it while the juices flow around your tongue and the meat slowly dissolves in your mouth.

This makes it a great way to keep you awake on a super long drive.... Or something to do on a super long "fix all of the fence in the back pasture" chore.

 

[BBQJOE]

V....

Cooking with jerky is all fine and good..... But you are supposed to eat it plain... Bite it off of a brick hard piece hoping your teeth do not crack... And then slowly masticate it while the juices flow around your tongue and the meat slowly dissolves in your mouth.

This makes it a great way to keep you awake on a super long drive.... Or something to do on a super long "fix all of the fence in the back pasture" chore.

I used to have a friend from south Africa. Over there they made something called biltong. It's very vineagery, full of coriander, pepper and other stuff. It's not smoked or oven dried. Often just dried outside on a line away from the sun.
It's tougher than sin. But he'd grind it up and put it in eggs and stuff, more like a seasoning. But there was many a night, sitting by the fire drinking adult malted beverages, where we'd slice it thin, and gnaw til are jaws quit working.

 

[Beer can]

Last yr at this time it was below zero and mom wouldn't let the kids out to play too cold. Today 62, and I'm outside in shorts picking and hosing off a shopping cart full of carrots probably ten or more pounds? And one red potato. Kids are riding their bikes down the driveway.