The Front Porch Swing

[LindaB220]

Hey Deb. I love to cook but I sure do hate the mess I make. I've been preaching lately that I am going to buy a dishwasher!! lol I don't even know what leeks taste like. I'm going to be mad if I love them and have been missing out on them all this time!! LOL I'm "guessing" they taste like a mixture of celery, onions and cabbage. hahaha When I bought them yesterday the guy that checked me out looked at them so funny. People around here just don't do leeks much at all. I'd say most people don't even know what they are. ha! We have several immigrants so we do get some "different" new foods in the grocery now so I like that. Thanks for the ideas!

They are very sandy. Slice up and put in bowl of water. Agitate and sand will sift to the bottom. Do this a couple of times. This may be the reason why more people don't do leeks. Not as easy as onions. Milder flavor. Delicious.

 

[wyoDreamer]

Sorry for the multiple posts, I am trying to catch up and guess I want to hear my voice ... ha, ha!

About the kitchens and canning kitchens... I love that picture Deb, I saved it into my "inspiration folder". Can't wait to get this house sold and move to the new place in Wisconsin. DH has been brainstorming kitchen remodels - I keep telling him that I refuse to make any decisions until I can live there for a bit. He is talking about putting the canning kitchen in the basement, or out in the garden shed, but possibly in the basement. Then last week, he made a frozen pizza in the oven. It barely fit, it seems the ovens are only 12" deep and just wide enough for a medium size cookie sheet. He was all depressed that we may need to put that out into the garden shed for canning use only and use the nice gas oven that we moved to WI. He really likes the look of that range I guess. I suggested that we could just add a wall oven to the kitchen for using large pans and such. I always wanted a wall oven, I hate pulling a heavy, hot pan of food out of an oven at knee height. It is hard on the back.

Here is a picture of what my DH is in love with. The six top burners are really nice, 2 of them are high heat burners. It has a broiler, a convection oven and a regular oven.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Aah but you can have fish right? You can make all the things that normally have shell fish in it with varieties of fish. Even Gumbo and Paella. Most people think Paella has to have shell fish in it but traditionally it was cooked with what was on hand. I havent had Paella yet but its on my bucket list.

Unless there is a fish allergy along with the shellfish allergy....

deb

 

[wyoDreamer]

Little Diane and Dustin got here this morning. ... LOL Interesting vacation so far.



She was having such a good time! Oh, how I've missed her!

Blooie, congrats on your visitors. Hope you have a great visit! Sounds like it is going to be a visit to remember ... altitude sickness, broken glasses, Motel 5 1/2 and a wet bed - I'm sure that Dustin will remember this for a long time.

 

[perchie.girl]

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If she is feeding the RAW diet it will be chicken backs and chicken parts. Seems that raw bones are quite different than cooked ones. Its supposedly the most natural way to feed dogs.

http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/best-dog-foods/raw-dog-food/

http://www.rawlearning.com/rawfaq.html

I was also told by a vet to never feed cooked bones. you know the big knuckle bone from the roast or rib bones... its better to get em from the butcher.

Those two links I picked out that seemed to have the best info. I havent looked this stuff up in years.

deb

 

[wyoDreamer]

Ya'll need to come to Nova Scotia for a visit and have some good, down home seafood chowder; fixed with cream, baby shrimp, lobster, scallops and haddock and all the seasonings one could ask for. All seafood is fresh from the local fisherman and simply delicious. All the fresh lobster you can eat around these parts !

Seafood chowder - oh yum! The only seafood chowder I have had is some stuff that I made myself with a weight watchers recipe.

 

[LindaB220]

It looks like we have a new dog. An English Labrador. Twelve years old. Nine months ago one of SIL best friends wanted to board Cane at her dog boarding shop. Top seller for Landers Dodge in Bossier City. He's also fifth in the nation so plenty of money. His wife had developed cancer. One of these beautiful cheerleading ladies that was so beloved by everybody because of her wonderful heart. Months go by and they travel to different parts to "find" a cure. In the end, she passed. Such sadness I've never seen. He was destroyed. And after spending so much money he had to really work hard and didn't feel that Cane needed to be alone all the time. Well, Aimee has washed him 5 different times to get him ready to go home and Denny keeps putting it off. Now he's paid over $3000 for the upkeep on Cane. Aimee finally decided that he didn't need to be in a cage anymore at night (he spends his day in our front yard) so she washed him again and brought him in our home. Never have I seen a dog that enjoys lovies more. We all make over him. He's old so doesn't cause any trouble. Even our little Diva 6 lb poodle mix tolerates him. Company for her. Aimee told Denny that there's no more need to send money because he's gonna be ours. He laughs and says I'll make a decision soon. This is a money dog $1500, and he can't be out of the fence because he will wander forever. He's gotten loose twice and Aimee and Clint run like he// to get him back. But he's so very happy with us.

 

[LindaB220]

Sorry for the multiple posts, I am trying to catch up and guess I want to hear my voice ... ha, ha!

About the kitchens and canning kitchens... I love that picture Deb, I saved it into my "inspiration folder". Can't wait to get this house sold and move to the new place in Wisconsin. DH has been brainstorming kitchen remodels - I keep telling him that I refuse to make any decisions until I can live there for a bit. He is talking about putting the canning kitchen in the basement, or out in the garden shed, but possibly in the basement. Then last week, he made a frozen pizza in the oven. It barely fit, it seems the ovens are only 12" deep and just wide enough for a medium size cookie sheet. He was all depressed that we may need to put that out into the garden shed for canning use only and use the nice gas oven that we moved to WI. He really likes the look of that range I guess. I suggested that we could just add a wall oven to the kitchen for using large pans and such. I always wanted a wall oven, I hate pulling a heavy, hot pan of food out of an oven at knee height. It is hard on the back.

Here is a picture of what my DH is in love with. The six top burners are really nice, 2 of them are high heat burners. It has a broiler, a convection oven and a regular oven.

Oh, my, yes, keep that. It's beautiful. Wall oven sounds like the way to go. I had one (a double) once and loved it.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Well, not judging Lee (and I didn't read the whole thing either, have work to do) but I agree. It just doesn't make sense. She feeds her dog meat, probably from inhumane sources. She gives the dog CHICKEN BONES! Any vet will tell you that is asking for a perforated intestine. Won't happen often but often enough.

Then consider this line: "First of all, there are the facts of life: that dogs are predators, and predators track and feed on prey."
Animals with eyes on the front of their heads are predators, those with eyes on the side are prey. Though ALL animals prey on something, we know chickens have quite the varied diet of live animal foods given the opportunity. So, where are the eyes on humans? Right.

Exactly. Our eyes may not glow in the dark when the light hits them but we are decidedly predators, scavengers and eaters of animals and/or animal by-products. We need the B12 from animal consumption for healthy living....my parents found that out...a little too late.

I think a lot of picking and choosing between what foods we will eat comes with a couple of things ... abundance being one of them. Delegation of the dirty work of farming & food prep being another.

I had typed up a HUGE long thing about it, because the whole conversation has me constantly putting on my Scooby Doo "ruh?" face.

What keeps me from ranting about it (much) is my deep belief that what an individual decides to put into their own mouth is completely personal ... I don't really believe in shaming or bullying other people into or out of eating certain things. And there is just so much we don't know about food ...

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The Whole Prey diet that Lee was referring to presumes the "prey" (usually chicken or rabbit?) is fed raw. I gather the thinking is that cooked bones are unnatural and dangerous, but raw bones are natural and healthy.

I'm not really sure how the idea of just offering the animals the best cuts of muscle meat (on the bone) instead of offering them the "guts" in normal proportions factors in ... it seems to me the nutrition would be more complete if the "whole prey" actually did mean "whole," but from what I gather, it doesn't.

From what I've stumbled across on the Internet, "raw" cat food recipes are supposedly based on the notion that the "perfect" diet for a cat is whole, warm, freshly killed mice, but I don't think I've read one "recipe" for home-made raw cat food that involves tossing the cat a few live mice the way one feeds certain other pets ... Those recipes certainly don't get into the nitty gritty about what the mice should eat as their last meal, and certainly that would be a big factor.

 

[LindaB220]

Aah but you can have fish right? You can make all the things that normally have shell fish in it with varieties of fish. Even Gumbo and Paella. Most people think Paella has to have shell fish in it but traditionally it was cooked with what was on hand. I havent had Paella yet but its on my bucket list.

Unless there is a fish allergy along with the shellfish allergy....

deb

Fish they can do. It;s even good with link saugage and chicken in it. My daughter Brandi once told me she had got a recipe from one of her dad's relatives. Total redneck. It's a rice dish. I ask her what it was and she pulled out the paper and showed me. Spelled Pie Yell casserole. I kid you not. I was hysterical and told her how it was pronounced. Brandi is very kind hearted and fussed at me for making fun of the backwards people (my words) Snicker. Can't help it.. They were dumb. And not the nice kind of people you would like as in-laws. I was the city girl and not much tolerated either. Ahhh, good times. Makes me glad I was divorced. Johnny's on his third wife now and they still don't like any of us.

And the bad thing about it was that relative worked in Dallas for 15 years before coming back to the small town Rayville.