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[chickadoodles]

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What type of ornamental peppers were they? I have tons of different pepper seeds. U should request a free catalog from pepperjoes. I have been buying seeds from them for a while now.

I don't know the name of the variety. The plant is compact and the peppers are in shades of cream, yellow, purple, orange, and red, on the same plant! They actually change colors as they mature and the different colors represent the various stages of development. I had them when I was a kid and loved them, they are so pretty. I got older and moved from my parent's home and the plants were lost. I finally found some and was thrilled, but I got distracted by life and my starts dried out. I would try to find and post a pic, but alas..................

Hey! It worked!

I also like these!

And these are not my tomatoes, but it is what my tomatoes will look like before long.

Hey Wisher, you should share this pic of the fried green tomatoes on the gardening thread, Lazy Gardner I believe wanted to try some and I posted the recipe on how to make them but did not have a pic. lol

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Ive never eaten snails. I hope i never have too

Many of the escargot served in Europe are actually Oregon slug. Apparently the culinary experts consider Oregon slug to have a better texture and flavor than escargot.

The early French settlers in Oregon ate the local slugs, and they developed the recipe still used by some of their descendants. First the slugs are thrown into stale beer or really cheep beer so they exhaust their slime glands, then they are cleaned like fish, and then sautéed in butte, with perhaps a little garlic.

Some people feed slugs and snails on cornmeal for two to three days before eating them. Some people also live trap possums and feed them on white rice or white bread and milk for several days before eating them. I choose to pass on both. I have eaten and would eagerly eat cougar again,, but I prefer to pass on raccoon, bear, possum, snails, and slugs.

Fortunately, the Dominiques are delighted to consume any escargot so foolish as to enter the yard.

 

[chickadoodles]

Is it possible to coax a hen into going broody to hatch some eggs? I have some eggs in my bator that are going on 10 days and would love for a broody to be a mom to the chicks.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Oh - a friend of mine has a Jersey Giant that is also a slug and snail Hoover. She once gave an hilarious description of the disgusting fashion in which her Jersey Giant savored that wonderful main dish that was crunchy on the outside, and creamy - and slimy - on the inside.

 

[ronott1]

Is it possible to coax a hen into going broody to hatch some eggs? I have some eggs in my bator that are going on 10 days and would love for a broody to be a mom to the chicks.

It is possible--you need to fill a nest with fake eggs and if a Hen will go broody, that will sometimes do it.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Is it possible to coax a hen into going broody to hatch some eggs? I have some eggs in my bator that are going on 10 days and would love for a broody to be a mom to the chicks.

Sometimes. One approach is to set a pile of nest eggs in a nest and see if someone chooses to move in. My grandmother had a game hen that would sometimes adopt chicks even if she wasn't broody - grandma e could tell if the biddy would accept them or eat them by whether or not biddy spread her wings and started making mommy noises - or started clicking her beak and looking hungry..

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I actually dislike tofu. However, it is one of the less expensive foods here, especially if purchased on special at an Asian market. Sometimes I buy bulk soybeans and make it at home.
I have used many techniques to make it edible enough to choke down over the years, especially during my student days.

 

[vehve]

You guys don't know what you're missing - escargot in garlic butter together with some white bread is delicious. Mmmmmmmmm. Yum.

 

[dsqard]

People will also use corn meal to purge clams. Unfortunately, most of the ones I have had fried or steamed, were not purged. Not a huge fan of gritty food. :/

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Lunch today is a fleisch blachinda with peppers taking the place of the cabbage and paprika instead of black pepper.

This afternoon I have to make more dough and stuff it with the balance of the filling. It takes the equivalent of two 4.5 c of flour loaves of bread to cover one recipe of filling. I think I'm going to add some of the hotter paprika to the filling.

I like them better with cabbage, though.

The basic filling is ground meat, onions, and either fresh cabbage or sauerkraut, preferably homemade. You cook the filling if you intend to bake them; and you can stuff them with raw filling if you intend to deep fry. I tend to bake since I already have the graceful, sleek form of a harbor seal - or a walrus.