The Front Porch Swing

[Triple Willow]

@SearsMom... pretty bird! Let us know if you eat that egg. Might be tastey!

@PerchieGirl... I use to hate liver too! I believe it was the texture thing. Now that I am getting old my taste has changed and I love it.

 

[Triple Willow]

OH, MY ICK, THAT'S SICK!!!    Nope...never saw anything like that in a chicken in my life.  Never in a store bought chicken either...because I pay close attention to the "good stuff" when I purchase store chicken, which is hardly never since the 80s and early 90s~didn't even do it much then. 

That's just scary....do folks actually eat those infected chickens?  

I don't know what that disease is but there seems to be a lot of things that make the kidneys swell - maybe too much protein...?

 

[Triple Willow]

I think the ick face isn't appropriate for social situations but at home it's sort of okay...if you are around close family and friends who will not offend.  My DIL feels it's appropriate to offend anyone and everyone with her ick face and also uses verbalization. She's also lacking in most social graces and accepted forms of good manners, so it may not be her fault.   Maybe it's a family culture thing with some people? 
You gotta love it at a family gathering when the person is doing their twisted ick face over some food that they are looking at and haven't even tried while the person that busted their butt preparing it is possibly seeing them. Talk about no manners whatsoever! That really gets under my skin!
Those eggs with the baby duck in them?  Only if I were starving.  Putting whole baby animals in one's mouth, guts, beak, bones and all is just savage unless one is starving.  I don't care how good it may or may not taste, one is eating a baby that was purposely killed before it could be hatched simply to indulge some person's whim.  It's repulsive to even think about it.  I'll allow myself a full body, all over spasm of ICK on that one. 

I bet those PETA peeps say that about all of us. hahaha

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I bet those PETA peeps say that about all of us. hahaha

If course some do. And lots of folks won't eat fertilized eggs for quite the same reason. Vegans often believe all animal products represent enslavement and torture. I'm more inclined to think that about pets than farm animals. But I'm weird.

 

[Beekissed]

If course some do. And lots of folks won't eat fertilized eggs for quite the same reason. Vegans often believe all animal products represent enslavement and torture. I'm more inclined to think that about pets than farm animals. But I'm weird.

Me too...and we are in a minority of only a few. It's agony to watch the pet torture out there....confined to houses, overfed and understimulated, no natural life at all, just for the pleasure of "masters". Sounds like a slave to me.

 

[Triple Willow]

I think, honestly, Eggs, Sugar, Milk is recipe enough once you've figured out the technique. I tried it with different quantities of eggs & sugar to milk, and both were gorgeous and delicious. It is a very simple & forgiving recipe. 

Heat, but don't boil the milk; beat, but don't whip the eggs. Stir the hot milk into the eggs slowly so you don't start cooking the eggs. Cook it in the oven on low heat in a hot-water bath, remove before it is completely set. You could probably even steam it in a pot on top of the stove or camp fire. Just use any old heat-proof dish, one big one or lots of little ones, it doesn't matter. 

I'm going to shut up about the custard now. But if anyone needs some encouragement, just message me and I'll be happy to help.

Thanks for the pointers! I shall record it in my cookbook.

 

[Triple Willow]

If course some do. And lots of folks won't eat fertilized eggs for quite the same reason. Vegans often believe all animal products represent enslavement and torture. I'm more inclined to think that about pets than farm animals. But I'm weird.

Yep. Yet a whole lot of those people have no regard for human life... but that's another topic.

 

[LindaB220]

Really???? I don't remember posting there.

Someone also once accused me of owning peacocks based on my supposed posts in a thread about them!

I have some Speckled Sussex I got from a hatchery. They are SO CUTE ... friendly, pretty, good sized birds (for hatchery birds). Dad had one he was favoring because she was acting all pathetic and wouldn't come down from the roost at treat time, and he hand fed her until she perked up ... late molt. We kept the rooster because this breed is so nice and round for hatchery birds, so we figured any cockerels would be worth eating compared to the other options, but he is not assertive. He now appears to be Wing Man for Shade, the big Black Austrolorp who I believe is now Top Cock. I'm not sure Pecker, as the SS roo is called, is getting lucky at all. If you pick him up, he cuddles and coos.

Sorry, I bet you have Dellies. Look so much alike

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Sorry, I bet you have Dellies.  Look so much alike

Yes!!! I have a breeding trio of some of those Delaware restoration project birds from Kathy in Missouri!! Good memory!! They are regal!!! And mine are laying pretty well. I get a 60 g plus sized egg from each of the two pullet/hens almost every day. Not shabby, though they took forever to start laying.

The last custard I made was from a full dozen Delaware eggs. The yolks on them are so orange they are almost red. We've been thinking they taste creamier, too. The custard is a pretty rich golden color. This is either a breed thing, or because I've been giving them extra protein & minerals, or because they have a good sized run (with baby grass) all to themselves, or because they had great forage while young (I only brought them here mid October).

I need to build a few things to get that project swinging ... or my participation won't be worth it. And I hate being a flake.

 

[apteryx]

If course some do. And lots of folks won't eat fertilized eggs for quite the same reason. Vegans often believe all animal products represent enslavement and torture. I'm more inclined to think that about pets than farm animals. But I'm weird.

I agree. Back home there was a problem with non-rural folks visiting the rural areas and reporting farmers for having dogs that were "too thin". In reality these dogs (that majority anyway) were actually well conditioned, but looked thin compared to the dogs these people were used to seeing which were (and still are) overweight. I still recall getting a young lab years ago from a family in a small town. When I took it home I thought that it looked very fat. Sure enough, within a month or so it didn't ripple when you patted it - it was all muscle from the all the exercise it got each day following us all over the farm.