The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

We are having a lovely weekend at Karin's parent's cottage. Yesterday we ate raclette, it was delicious. Today we've been doing winter preparations. I went out around sunrise to try and shoot a couple of ducks or something, but none were to be seen. Instead I got to witness a beautiful sunrise. There was no wind, and the sun came up with beautiful colors over the see. And there was total silence. Then I went back to sleep for a while, and then we made breakfast. Then Karin and her mom went shrooming and berry-picking, and lost our dachshund and the other labrador for about 2 hours. Meanwhile, Karin's dad and I took apart two old doors that had been exchanged earlier in the summer, and we took down the marquis over the terrace. Then we had some lunch, bratwurst, fried taters and a tuna salad. Now we're burning up the wood from the doors, and we have a 4 pound hunk of entrecote in the grill, which is slow cooking. And the weather has been absolutely beautiful, it's about 5 deg C warm and the sun has been shining all day, but now it's going down.

I am not familar with those foods.... what are they?

Entrecote= prime beef.... Really? Like prime Rib?

Raclette= melted cheese.... Yummmm.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

So @vehve where did your wife finally find the dogs... I picture the Dachshund going to ground and the lab was waiting to find what he came up with....

deb

 

[hennible]

True or not freganism works... Reminds me of the movie "the east".... I think that's what it was called. Bamadude could live well on the waste of others

 

[hennible]

We got our first turkeys processed this morning and we will get to eat our first home grown turkey! We are very excited! One was a BBB and the other was a BBW the white what about 2-3 pound larger than the bronze. BBW BBB

How hard are they to raise and butcher?

 

[perchie.girl]

for what its worth @RoboDuck and @LindaB220 I found this article on Kudzu

http://www.aaes.auburn.edu/comm/pubs/circulars/cir83/grazing_crop.pdf

This is a pdf of one of the original studies of Kudzu.... Wow its been in the US since 1920....

deb

 

[vehve]

Deb, we mostly go with a mix of Finnish and French meat cuts here, entrecote is a marbled steak cut. We just made it whole now. Raclette is from the alps, basically cold cuts, potatoes, and melted cheese.

The dogs were about a kilometer from the house when we found them. I don't know what they were looking for, the dachshund had not gotten any fresh scent at least, otherwise she would have been heard. Her hunting wail really carries.

 

[chickadoodles]

Nice sized birds. You should get them vacuum sealed to preserve the quality of the meat better.

Thanks vehve but I don't know where to take them as big as they are. Arielle has been doing her own birds for a long time and she told me to do them like this. That they hold up good.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: They are easy to raise and fun. As far as processing it would be like a chicken only larger so a larger pot for scalding but you can do 1/2 at a time also.
I enjoy raising the turkey so much.

 

[LindaB220]

for what its worth @RoboDuck and @LindaB220 I found this article on Kudzu

http://www.aaes.auburn.edu/comm/pubs/circulars/cir83/grazing_crop.pdf

This is a pdf of one of the original studies of Kudzu.... Wow its been in the US since 1920....

deb

Sounds good doesn't it. The trouble is when you get it going, it grows so fast that it overpowers all bushes, plant life and trees within 1-2 yrs.

 

[RoboDuck]

for what its worth @RoboDuck and @LindaB220 I found this article on Kudzu

http://www.aaes.auburn.edu/comm/pubs/circulars/cir83/grazing_crop.pdf

This is a pdf of one of the original studies of Kudzu.... Wow its been in the US since 1920....

deb

And 94 years has given it a permanent hold on the south. It was also thought to be a good erosion control system. However, we don't know if it's working because we haven't seen the ground since it was planted. And no wonder, the stuff grows like 17 inches a day. Don't lie down and take a nap next to it.