Sally's GF3 thread

[cavemanrich]

fuzzi​

Is Giardiniera available in your area???
I'm in Chitown,,, and It is readily available here. It goes hand in hand with Italian Beef. I Know that Italian Beef is a regional thing.
When DD#3 was living in Nashville, Italian beef was nowhere to be found. She always took a quantity with her back home every time she visited us.

 

[Sally PB]

Thanks for introducing me to something new, @cavemanrich!

I had to look up Giardiniera. It sounds really good, so I had to look up how to make it. Looks easy enough...

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12291-giardiniera

 

[fuzzi]

fuzzi​

Is Giardiniera available in your area???
I'm in Chitown,,, and It is readily available here. It goes hand in hand with Italian Beef. I Know that Italian Beef is a regional thing.
When DD#3 was living in Nashville, Italian beef was nowhere to be found. She always took a quantity with her back home every time she visited us.

Thanks for the suggestion. I can't eat peppers, but the olives should work well.

 

[Sally PB]

I looked back through my egg log. One of my four year old Black Australorps, Little, started laying on February 18th. Her last egg was June 19th. I can tell her eggs, as they are distinctive in that they are usually 50-53 grams. 50 grams is the bottom of the "medium" size. Little's eggs are the littlest of any of my birds.

I named her Little because she was the smallest of the chicks. I didn't know the name would have ramifications.

She is probably "on hiatus" until next February, or whenever she might start up again, as she is molting now. I saw pin feathers on her neck. At 4, she is long past her most productive days.

She still is a very pretty bird.

 

[fuzzi]

I keep an egg log, too. I was gifted with 5 eggs today, and looked back in my journal to see when was the last time I got that many...it was March 11th, right before Martha and Hannah went broody, followed by Tamar and Rahab a few weeks later.

 

[Sally PB]

A rather disappointing day.

We looked in the bee hives, thinking that we'd have at least a few frames of honey. Nope. Zilch. We're not sure what is going on, if we're doing something wrong, or if the hives are in trouble.

I'm going to call my Bee Guy tomorrow and ask him for his opinion. Maybe he can come over and look into the hives with us and tell us what is happening. He's had over 60 years' experience with bees.

 

[Sally PB]

In other sad news... the photo lab where hubby and I worked has closed. Rather abruptly, it seems, but I don't know any details. 44 years; end of an era.

I'm glad neither of were still there.

 

[Sally PB]

I'm trying an experiment. Hubby made his homemade bread with the organic flour. I ate one bite. We'll see what happens.

I marked it on the calendar. I think sometimes my reaction takes a day or two to show itself.

 

[pertnear09]

I'm trying an experiment. Hubby made his homemade bread with the organic flour. I ate one bite. We'll see what happens.

I marked it on the calendar. I think sometimes my reaction takes a day or two to show itself.

Hope it works out to where you can start eating all you want of it. With lots of home made butter.

 

[Sally PB]

How about home made peanut butter instead?