The Old Folks Home

[ozexpat]

No, no, the slotted spoon is what you use to get the tadpoles out of the water. Silly Alaskan!

And you're from Texas - what part of "highs in the upper 90's and the humidity nearly there" would make you think we'd want to get within 100 feet of a wood-burning stove?! (though we do have a gas-fired one)

back in oz when we were sheep farmers, we used to cook on an Aga stove that ran on coke

christmas was 100 degrees but mum would always turn out a roasted turkey and roasted lamb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I have ducklings! I have ducklings!


(I also have squirrel guts in my freezer... But how about we don't sing that one.... Huh?)

I'm intrigued. What are you going to do with the ducklings?

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: Oz, I grew up without AC; I can remember days-long marathons of canning vegetables when it seemed as hot in the kitchen as it was in the pots.

"What can't be cured, must be endured," but if one has a choice, why make it more miserable than it must be? A lot of the historic houses in the Wilmington area had kitchens that were separate from the house; it decreased the risk of losing everything in the event of a kitchen fire, but it also kept the heat of meal preparation out of the main house.

 

[ozexpat]

Oz, I grew up without AC; I can remember days-long marathons of canning vegetables when it seemed as hot in the kitchen as it was in the pots.

"What can't be cured, must be endured," but if one has a choice, why make it more miserable than it must be? A lot of the historic houses in the Wilmington area had kitchens that were separate from the house; it decreased the risk of losing everything in the event of a kitchen fire, but it also kept the heat of meal preparation out of the main house.

in the philippines we have "dirty kitchens" seperate to the main house or at least a separate well ventilated room.

 

[Peep_Show]

Squirrel guts hot.
Squirrel guts cold.
Squirrel guts in the freezer
so they don't get old.

Squirrel guts cold.
Squirrel guts hot.
Gotta take 'em out
before it goes in the pot.

(add banjo riff....)

 

[bamadude]

Dang peep...just dang

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
bwhaahaha.... I was expecting "What are you going to do with the Squirrel Guts"

deb

 

[bamadude]

Lol. X2

 

[Alaskan]

I shall sell a bunch for ten bucks a pop!

And what I don't sell will grow up to be turned into pastrami... Maybe we will try prochiuto (sp?) this year... though smoked and roasted is good too.

They are the cutest animals, and so the hardest to kill... But they are also by far the tastiest, as well as the most lucrative!

Unfortunately, i lost two of my ducks (so HALF of my breeders), and my first clutch of the year was much smaller than usual...

So I am triple grateful to have ducklings now.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I ended up with 2 ducklings out of the eggs I put in the incubator after the fox got my last male and left me with my last female. They hatched May 10th and they're already the same size as my adult female. Pekins grow fast! And I agree 100% that they're absolutely delicious yet hard to kill. They have such personality.