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[Rainwolf]

Tonights dinner....

Cooked in pan that can go on stove top and in oven. (I use a cast iron pot)
cabbage and acorn squash cut into pieces
steamed/cooked on stove top to half+ cooked state

in blender mix
Eggs (enough to cover what is in pot)
Heavy cream
Parmesan cheese
spices (for simple I add a table spoon of johnny seasoning)

pour egg mix over veggies in the pot
cover with sliced cheese of choice (I use cheddar)
cook in oven at 350-400 until top is firm and browning.

it was very YUMMY!

I call it my leftover or random quiche.
What ever I have goes in and if for any reason it goes "bad" and we won't eat it it goes to the flock for a treat

So far I have not had a bad flavor mix yet.. the flock has had to settle for leftover quiche.

edited to correct spelling... I can't spell

 

[DIYSeattle]

Sounds good Rainwolf. We have an old dead chicken laying in teh slow cooker with the remnants of carrots and beets that have went through the juicer and came out as pulp (I hate to waste things can you tell?). Also has some seasonings and ginger. A cup of water or so added to the bottom and the pulp and chopped leeks laid on top of the dead aforementioned chicken. Tomorrow Ill pick out the structural components of the old dead chicken and add some more seasonings. It also has some stewed tomatoes added in. With the beet pulp it will be a nice red color. The beets are sweet but I still dont care for just beet juice too much.

I will take along some seeds that I have an excess of or that I am not going to plant just in case anyone has or wants anything. It is likely that I will forget them somewhere at home and remember them when I am walking in the Third Place complex.

In the midwest a lot of people that I worked with called thongs what we in the south call flip flops.

 

[TrystInn]

Going through our breeding stock and incubating like crazy, we've decided to put some of our extra chickens and ducks up for sale. I'm thinking that there's quite a few of us in a similar situation, so how about we do a bit of an online sales listing of our birds?

For sale:
Silver Gray Dorking pullet
Silver Spangled Hamburg pullet
Blue Andalusian pullet
Khaki Campbell/Silver Swede mix female
2 Blue Swede drakes (hatched mid-July)
5 KC/Runner drakes (hatched mid-August)
Breeding pair - Rouen ducks

Pics available upon request.

 

[Illia]

So I know "garden" talk is 'so yesterday' in this thread, but, I'm just so excited and obsessively thinking about it. . . We're just now officially laying out and beginning all our plans for this spring/summer/fall's gardens and crops, and aaah I can't stop thinking about it!

How many of you will be trying out any crops? (Corn, Oats, Wheat, Quinoa, Flax, Amaranth, etc)

How many of you have greenhouses or hoop-houses?

How many of you are doing heirloom gardening/varieties?

Our list is nothing but heirloom varieties, we're going to finally work on doing some crops this time, and we've already got a big greenhouse up, but are working to get some more. There are a lot of things you just can't grow in Forks - And a greenhouse is a big must for such things. Things like peppers, melons, winter squash, etc.

Already I have three hot pepper plants being housed in the kitchen right now. They're from last year, and were rescued just before it frosted. They were only babies then, and are now 2 feet tall. I really can't wait til I put them out in the greenhouse this summer and watch em burst with delicious, gorgeous peppers!

My biggest excitement though, and I already have experience with, is our Oaxacan Green Dent Corn. Yes, green! It is a flour corn that originates in Mexico, very old variety, that does well in short season climates and produces beautiful blue, green, and teal colored corn. We first tried it a couple years ago, never touched it, and amazingly it actually took off and produced several ears without any of our knowledge. By the time it frosted over, I went out to the old corn patch just to see if anything actually produced, and there it was - several ears laying around of beautiful blue, green, purple, and lemon-lime yellow corn.

This fall I hope to be making green corn tortillas.

I love oddly colored things though. . . . We'll have purple potatoes, red eggs, and green corn.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Did any of you guys ever used to pull down the end of a young tree -- the bigger strong pine trees that are bendy-- it took about 6 or so kids to do this and maybe even someone to shimmy partially up the trunk to encourage it to tip down... Then someone would sit on the end and everyone would let go. And the kid sitting on the end? Ride of yer life. I don't know how we didn't die.

I never did this (above), but I did ride my horse with nothing but a peice of bailing twine around his neck. I would take off at a dead run across the hill side, jumping huge sage brushes. I was a wild hellion. I have no clue why I am not dead because of some of the things I used to do. God wants me here for something.

 

[T Hi]

Cool corn!!!! Can you eat it like regular corn or is it just for flour?

This week of work is killing me!!! I wanna go back to Christmas break!!!!

I am thankful that I have a job though so I should quit complaining. But I am not a morning person and this 4:30am thing stinks!!!

Have a good day everyone!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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me neither...
funny typo!!

...never understood the appeal.

My friend was not careful while shopping for her 10 y.o. daughter and bought her a package of undewear without checking the style. She was doing laundry and found a thong amongst her kids clothes and started panicking about her 12 y.o. son who hangs out with the neighbor girl a lot. She took the thong and set it on the back of the couch while she was freaking out on how to approach the subject with her son, husband and neighbor when her daughter got home from school, picked up the thong and said "Mom, do I have to wear these new underwear you bought me? They're kind of uncomfortable."

This is absolutely hysterical. There was a time when I wanted to be "sexy"and wore them for awhile...sorry TMI....but they are very uncomfortable. Again, this is a hilarious story and I think should be written down for story-telling when your kids are older.

 

[pongoid]

I have that green dent corn too. I also have Aztec black and white. And Lakota White. I am looking for Navajo or Hopi corn that you plant 3 ft deep, it only grows about 18 inches high and produces 6 to 8 ears.

 

[BoldogKennel]

Do you show your dogs? Your dog website is super!! We have an ancient rescued pitbull. She is about 500 years old and spends the day making sure the couch stays put

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Jen

I've never been one for conformation shows, though I am a real student of "soundness" and do breed for that. However, being a performance person, I do sacrafice "type" for "performance" when push comes to shove. I have put almost 75 performance titles on my dogs over the past 30 some years. Nowadays I only title in schutzhund, tracking, obedience and weight pull. Schutzhunds my first love and obsession.

As to your dog being 500 years old, I believe you! These guys live for-ever! I have several oldsters here now, one who is 12 and very well and his mom made it to 14 without a sick day in her life. I love my old guys... even though one is deaf which makes it tough to call him in the house! (Yard is fenced of course, but its big and he'll sit out in the middle, staring away from the house, and I go crazy yelling for him!) : )


Thanks Illena for the additional info, I will head on over to those threads. Look forward to meeting you guys at upcoming chicken shows! : )​

 

[Illia]

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Hopi Blue Corn? I've heard of people having it around the northwest, but I myself don't have it. Seeds of Change carries it though.