The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

Um, wow on the "unplanned additives" in store purchased food. I don't think I've ever found any. At this point I'd rather not know if I just missed seeing it! Yep, I've seen cabbage worms on broccoli that I grew myself. Probably have eaten a tiny cooked one on occasion without knowing it but they do have a different color than the broccoli once both are steamed so they are easy to pick out. Sorry if it is too early in the morning for that sort of thing! I seem to have a decent quantity of insect eating birds here (not the girls, I don't let them in the garden once things are growing) and don't have as many cabbage moths as I did at my prior house.

@Bunnylady I sure hope you mom doesn't do more damage to her arm! I know that at 60 I don't heal as fast as I used and it sure doesn't get better in one's 70's, 80's, 90's.

Leave it to @perchie.girl to not already know about, but find a much earlier version, of moose being used as draft animals! Very cool. And the best thing? If they are pulling your wagon, you don't need to worry about hitting them and coming through your windshield.

 

[Beer can]

While moose have in fact been used as beasts of burdon  This particular one is an Urban Legond...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/workmoose.asp

first I saw of it was around 2007 or 8

deb

Aww man! Thought it was cool as crap... I just happened upon that 'real pic' researching draft horse history WW1. Started out just wondering which is the absolute strongest most winning between the breeds in horse pulling competitions, Belgian, Clydesdale, Percheron, Shire, Suffolk Punch, I come up with no definite answer.

 

[microchick]

I had a recent food nightmare with a bag of grits that I bought at the local Amish bulk food store.I had just bought the bag about a week ago, made a few servings out of it, went to make the 4th and found dead grain weevils about half way down in the bag. That was bad enough but then the thought crossed my mind. How many had I already eaten?

Needless to say, the chickens got a big bowl of hot grits that day. They loved the extra protein.

 

[Peep_Show]

Yep. Definitely something to be said for homemade/homegrown food. I think I'll clean my pantry today. Thanks for the impetus!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Never seen any in my foods

 

[Latestarter]

But don't you have eyesight issues Penny? Or perhaps I have that confused with another member...

 

[Peep_Show]

Two people and a turkey = almost eternity. Our 8.75-lb. bird yielded many meals (T-Day dinner proper, turkey tetrazinni and sandwiches). The final iteration of our bird was throwing the picked-over carcass into the pressure cooker with a cheescloth bag filled with onions, garlic, celery, peppercorns and bay leaves for 1.25 hours. The end result was 2 quarts of gloriously fragrant turkey stock. (So yet another couple of soup-ish meals!)

 

[ronott1]

Two people and a turkey = almost eternity. Our 8.75-lb. bird yielded many meals (T-Day dinner proper, turkey tetrazinni and sandwiches). The final iteration of our bird was throwing the picked-over carcass into the pressure cooker with a cheescloth bag filled with onions, garlic, celery, peppercorns and bay leaves for 1.25 hours. The end result was 2 quarts of gloriously fragrant turkey stock. (So yet another couple of soup-ish meals!)

I took the bones home from my Mom's. Yesterday I baked a turkey breast. Today I will make stock from the bones and turkey soup using it and meat from the turkey breast.

What I do with a turkey is to take all of the meat off and then freeze the bones. With the lefover from dinner, I slice up the meat and freeze it in zip lock bags. That way I can use it at my leisure.

 

[miss heny]

We been very lucky on the store bought food but plan on growing more of ours natural stuff.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Belgian is most often used for pulling competitions.... in the US. Many of our stock went to war in WW1 and never came back. There are breeds of choice for particular jobs... Percheron and Clydesdale and shire were used for the big wagons hauling cargo... Those wagons could weigh as much as eight tons. took Eight horses to move em and a good set of brakes.

Suffolk Punch is considered a smaller draft and one of my favorites besides Percherons.





They were used on farms mostly for heavy work. I have never seen one in person but they are always Chestnut in color ranging from dark to red to light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Punch

deb