Hey Grandpa, What's for Supper? Part 2

[Puff of Fluff]

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Jim called me while out shopping with my friend today, bring home bacon. We have too many eggs. If I had spare egg cartons, I'd take them to the shelter. But, we dont, we're to the point of using a butter tub, all the lidded cartons, then all of our half cartons. My egg tray in the fridge, his fridge is holding 4 dozen. The bator's full, the hatcher's full. Does anyone want some eggs? we have all colors, all breeds, you can either eat them or hatch them. lol He counted the other day, we have 42 laying hens... that's one's that are laying daily, we still have over 30 waiting to lay in a month or so.... plus all the babies.... the banties..the pheasants...lol notice how I can keep going...

And you can only pickle

, so many too before

. I pick up woven baskets from thrift stores and garage sales, I usually only have to give 25 cents for the baskets (it has to be something special for me to pay more then 50 cents). And I use those to take eggs to my grown children, coworkers etc. When I get overwhelmed with eggs I take my larger basket full into work and let them pick their own eggs out to take. I do tell coworkers if they want eggs, they either have to return the smaller baskets or bring in cartons, works great. It gives me such pleasure to watch the twinkle in their eyes (male or female) to pick out fresh eggs from a basket. Try it some time and watch the expressions. Totally Priceless .

 

[daygrower]

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Wow! Good for him! I keep hoping my 13 year old will learn a trick or two. How'd your son learn to cook?

He is real good that way He taught himself how to play the madolin and now he is making instruments and wants to be a luthier. He can't stand just sitting around We are truly blessed to have a teenager like Him.

 

[Backyard Buddies]

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Wow! Good for him! I keep hoping my 13 year old will learn a trick or two. How'd your son learn to cook?

He is real good that way He taught himself how to play the madolin and now he is making instruments and wants to be a luthier. He can't stand just sitting around We are truly blessed to have a teenager like Him.

Yes you are! He sounds like a wonderful young man.

 

[skand]

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Wow! Good for him! I keep hoping my 13 year old will learn a trick or two. How'd your son learn to cook?

He is real good that way He taught himself how to play the madolin and now he is making instruments and wants to be a luthier. He can't stand just sitting around We are truly blessed to have a teenager like Him.

That's awesome! I'm trying to get my girls to be totally dependant. To be able to give them the knowledge that they can make it or figure out what it takes to make something by themselves. They totally are involved on every part of the chickens. They helped Jim skin and gut the snake they ate Halloween, (yay trick-or-treat) lol The oldest helped process the pheasant, and they both did the guineas with Daddy. They pefer to eat homemade meals.My mom gets aggravated, she'll take them to McDonalds to eat and play, they get the toy, go play, then take the happy meal home to give the chickens. lolc

 

[Backyard Buddies]

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Was that a Freudian slip or did ya mean *independent*?

I'm sure you did. I'm amazed that your girls are so participatory at their age. Good for you guys! I think that living more rural really helps. My son, being a city boy, has his responsibilities and such with the home and the chickens, but when you've only got 3 and they're pets, we're talking minutes of time each day.

My son is actually not a bad cook for his age but he lacks confidence to do it himself. He just enjoys directing the REST of us how to cook.

I'll make something totally awesome for dinner and he'll say, "This is really good Mom, but it could use a little bit of (fill in the blank)" and he's usually right. But, after hearing that often enough, I'm ready to get that kid cooking on his own so that he can be HIS own critic. Teens!

 

[momofdrew]

I am going to try Zoo's rost pork recipe tonight just need to get the raspberry vinagret at the store with green beans and mashed potatoes...

 

[Backyard Buddies]

Sounds wonderful, momofdrew!

I'm not cooking tonight. It'll either be leftovers or take out.

Hey, I noticed something funny about my dinner last night . . . and I didn't do it on purpose.

Scotch Broth - Scotland
Cornish Cross buns - (southern part of England)
Bread Pudding with Irish Whiskey sauce - Ireland

So, I guess I had a UK/Ireland thing going on.

 

[momofdrew]

how did you make the scotch broth?...

 

[Backyard Buddies]

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. . . by combining directions I found on the Net.

Sadly, I do that all the time by picking what I like out of a few recipes which sometimes makes it hard to replicate what I did.

Here are the basics for a very large pot of soup:

Leftover leg of lamb, trimmed of most of the meat, as much fat removed as possible.
(Chop and reserve the rest of the meat for later)

Put it in large pan with water, carrots, and celery. Simmer for an hour or so, remove the carrots and celery, strain some of the fat and add:

1.25 cups of pearl barley (that had been rinsed and drained)
3 ribs of celery, sliced
1 large turnip, peeled and chopped
4 carrots, sliced
1 large leek, white part, sliced
1/2 a large onion

Cook for about 2 hours. At this point, I tasted it. It was good, but lacked a little flavor, so I stirred in a heaping spoonful of beef base (if I had either had fresh leg of lamb or the bones had been cut, there would have been more flavor and I could have skipped this).

Then I sliced up a bunch of kale, probably 2 cups worth, and cooked it for another 15 - 20 minutes. Add the reserved lamb at this same time.

It needed a lot of salt to really bring out the flavors, but it was quite tasty.

The search term I used online was ' "scotch broth" food tv ' to pick up the Scottish and English online recipes. Some of the recipes call for the addition of dried split peas and/or lentils (added at the same time as the barley), but since I already make a soup with those in them, I wanted to stick more to the barley (which is why I also used more barley than most of the recipes out there). Additionally, some of the recipes use cabbage or other greens to replace the kale, but I wanted all the goodness and vitamins that kale supplies.

I make a lot of soup and make it by feel a good amount of the time, so I apologize for not having more exact directions.

 

[cockadoodleboy]

I had chicken salad and my moms chickens ate it.