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[Chickielady]

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Oh thank you!! When I find the time and the package I will take a pic and post so you can see it..so it is used as a dessert ?

 

[Chickielady]

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Fried rice Hmmmmm
First, you need left over rice from the refer. Fresh rice is sticky.
First, cook up your ingredients....scrambled eggs, chicken, peas & carrots.
wash out the wok. It has to be clean.
Temper. ie, heat the wok then add the oil. (1 tbsp of olive oil, half tbsp of sesame oil)
This creates a "repellent of sorts. (Use the non stick wok if you have one.)
Now add your cold rice.
Add some tamari sauce. (soy sauce has wheat), and some salt. Remember, to balance the salt, you'll need equal parts of sugar.

When it looks good & ready, add your ingredients that you've already cooked.
Give it all a good stir / toss.
then add a sprinkle of black or white pepper and some very finely chopped green onions.
YUM.
I actually prefer the spanish version.
It is easier.
Heat pan, add oil, add raw short grain rice.
Wait for the rice to brown, then add chopped onions.
Add mushrooms salt & pepper.
and just about what ever else you want.
Now put the whole thing into a rice cooker and add equal parts of water.
Sprinkle lots of paparika or add saffron or tumeric.
Add lots of clams and a lump of butter.
Cover the whole thing and leave it to cook.
Then go to BYU site and chat away.
Dinner is ready when you are all caught up with the previous pages.

Your "spanish version" sounds a whole lot like "Rice-A-Roni" the San Francisco treat, which is my (and DH's) favorite rice dish..I can make the same with equal parts gluten free pasta broken up, and white rice, and saute with butter, until golden, add water and GF boullion.................YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
My good rice cooker that I love and will die for , is still in storage in Calif. along with my ironing board, and sewing machine.
incidently, went to my Mom's today to get the table, and had luch, and DUG a whole lotta rasberries for me & Cheryl...........
and forgot to bring my camera to take pics of her quilts...this woman has won sooooooooooo many prizes and awards for her quilts, she both machine quilts her patchworks and hand quilts them...AWESOME like CR said, on a big quilt rack, rolling the patchwork back & forth and hand quilting..I tried and keep stabbing myself !!!

 

[blueducklings]

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4 cups is not big at all. But to do all teh cool stuff, you'll need a 6 cup+ cooker.
I can keep my eye out for one if you like, & bring it to the show in March.
$10 is my limit on used ones.
Or sometimes Walgreens have them for $10 too.

 

[Chickielady]

Cool pics I took today...

try and chase these busy birds for a good picture...

Jazz, he is sooo beautiful !!

All the blue Ameraucanas and a Blue Copper Marans hen after the worms in the compost

HOLD STILL!

A crow!!

Ahh, more bugs and stuff to eat..

Guinea hen, Pied

Guinea Cockeral...moving fast

both together going in 2 different directions..awesome birds...

interior of the garlic hoop cover..smells yummy in there
OK that is enough for now...

 

[WhySayWhat]

Nice weather in Spokane today! I got outside and started my coop! Then...I found someone near me selling one for the same price as everything I have spent...I emailed them for pics, we may end up getting it and returning the hinges and such...use the building mats for another project... Shall see what it looks like though!

Here's what I have done on my coop though...

I had to stop as the sun was setting and I ran out of vinyl tiles, lol. I shall resume in the morning! I also found out my chicks are coming from Dunlap...the pic of the BR they had looks nice...no pics of their SLWs though.

 

[Illia]

I'm so jazzed today.

Since my sister moved out of the house a while ago, off to college and China and whatnot, her room is available for use. It is always heated, really warm, has two windows to make it nice and bright. . .

We turned it into a greenhouse today.

We're replacing the lights in it with growing lights, we've cleared everything from the windows for maximum light, then added shelves, then filled the room with our adult peppers, our growing tomato babies, and MORE tomato, pepper, lettuce, and even strawberry spinach seeds!!

The lettuce and strawberry spinach should be ready to eat in just 30-40 days, so we'll be planting new batches every 1-3 weeks. We already planted a batch of lettuce last week, so we've got 2 more weeks left, and aahhh homegrown salads! This time we'll have little berries in our salad, too.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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And I bet the lab doesn't do as good of job of "spreading it around " and it deosn't make things grow as good as cackle spackle!!

I am glad you are able to read my typing...that was suppose to say "waste"......

cackle spackle...what a hoot.

 

[Illia]

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She's not allergic, but like Tapioca Flour, she can have a slight reaction (tired, etc) to it if she consumes too much. Thus, I usually add 1/3 of a cup of either to something, which totals to about 1/8 of the whole recipe. She's yet to have any sort of reactions to it.

 

[Chickielady]

This post is for CR: About poop trays and it may be of interest to anyone building a coop..save yourself so much time by doing it this way, coop floor is sooooo clean, and almost every poop will be here on the poop tray::
Remember when they wake up, they go outside, so when they are indoors, about 99% of their poop will be 'let out' when they are roosted at night:

A poop tray from the Cochin Coop

A poop tray from another coop

still another from the Rhode Island White coop, all the birds are outside...
their droppings are from the night

and every day or every 2 days I scoop the poop trays.
The floor is clean, rarely do I see so much as a turd or two on the floor.
The sand in the poop trays acts to absorb and prevent poop from sticking, and the short lip on the poop trays prevents the sand from falling out..the birds jump up, on the lip edge, and again to the roost which we use alder trees... any roost will do, as long as it is about 8" above the poop tray, and you can use shelf brackets to affix the roost above the poop trays.
OK ?

All the sifted poop goes in my poop bucket (5 gallon bucket) and I carry ouyt to the compost..done, in minutes~~

 

[WhySayWhat]

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And I bet the lab doesn't do as good of job of "spreading it around " and it deosn't make things grow as good as cackle spackle!!

I am glad you are able to read my typing...that was suppose to say "waste"......

cackle spackle...what a hoot.

Spokane has a chicken ord that allows chickens...the gal with the Lab was from Deer Park.

And yeah...she was a real "winner" on the news blip I saw a few days ago...