Office Work.......

[Buff Hooligans]

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And your Bargaining Powers weren't even involved!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Okay, off to a morning of some sort of manual labor helping my real estate appraiser person - they have sold their house and have to disperse their belongings to their other various vacation rental properties for the winter while they look for a new house. I see boxes in my immediate future.

Hope to by on BYC later, but depends on when I get home later. Behave!

 

[Orchid]

Washing. Waxing. Scrubbing. Dusting. Polishing.

Yes, Thanksgiving is coming.

Buffy, lift with your legs, not your back. Dacs, if this thread gets closed, you're the scapegoat.

Back to it. Have a good day, everyone!

 

[NellaBean]

Orchy, sounds like a very thorough beauty regime......your DH must be so happy.

 

[Southernbelle]

My kids are off of school today, so I've been sharing my computer. I told my oldest DD that she needed to clean her room, so I booted her off the computer. She doesn't have that much to do, but she'll probably take the rest of the day doing it.

I fixed the PANTRY shelves this morning and I have a Pumpkin Pie in the oven, so the house smells nice. I'm working up the energy to peel enough apples for 2 Apple Pies. We're going to a friends for Thanksgiving since I'm 9 months pregnant, but I offered to bring pies since I can make them ahead of time and I havent' gone into labor, yet.

 

[dacjohns]

It is so quiet in here today.

It's time for me to trim deer meat for jerky and whatever else it wants to be.

 

[Orchid]

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*snort*

You crack me up Nella.

Dacs, how do you make your jerky? I have two frozen venison haunches that my DS wants to make into jerky. Don't know if it will be easier to just take it in to the meat market or do it ourselves. I do have access to a smoker, a food dehydrator and an oven.

 

[Orchid]

Belle, my momma is bringing five pies. I don't think it will be enough. DH and my sister's BF both want a pumpkin pie of their very own.

 

[dacjohns]

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*snort*

You crack me up Nella.

Dacs, how do you make your jerky? I have two frozen venison haunches that my DS wants to make into jerky. Don't know if it will be easier to just take it in to the meat market or do it ourselves. I do have access to a smoker, a food dehydrator and an oven.

It's easier to have it done. It's cheaper to do it yourself.

Two frozen haunches might be hard to work with. It's best to trim off all the silver tissue and the silver tissure surrounds each muscle. I deboned the back quarters and trimmed off some of the fat and silver. I then threw the pieces in the freezer overnight because it was warm where I was and I was going to bring it with me to Wisconsin. So now I am working with partially frozen pieces of meat, trimming off the silver and slicing and chunking. My fingers hurt.

How do I make my jerky? Trim off the silver, slice into about 1/4 inch thick slices, marinade or use a commercial cure, dry in a dehydrator.

You can use about any marinade you want. I like to marinade at least overnight, preferably 24 hours. Teriyaki is gooood. Commercial cures and seasonings, just follow the directions. I'm using right now because I want to get rid of it. I might try it out as a sausage seasoning too.

Drying in a smoker would be real good.

 

[Southernbelle]

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You must be having quite a crowd!

Our friends are only having us over, so it'll be 4 adults and 5 kids. The kids won't even eat the fruit pies. I'm only taking 1 Pumpkin and 1 Apple to their house (I'm keeping one of the Apple pies for us, so we have some Thanksgiving leftovers to look forward to.) She bought one of those Edward's Frozen Creme pies, so there will be that, too.