Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[kristip]

I am thankful the garden is bout over... Still got some jalapenos I am am going to freeze as poppers need appetizers for the Packer Bears game on Thanksgiving!! One Hungarian Wax Pepper plant that is going nuts gotta figure out if they will work like popper too, can;t see a reason why not... but the freezer is plum full... I now realize I am still freezing, gardening and canning like we are a family of 4 and not two empty nesters... Have another beautiful fall day all!

. Momg if you have extra produce give me a holler...depending what it is, might buy some off you...

 

[jvls1942]

we have all the corn we need .. so my sister came and picked a bunch,,
DD Barby said she would take some more.. Annie went to the patch and could find only 17 ears left.

DSis got all of hers frozen by midnight.. not bad for an old lady .. she had a little more than two bushels, I think ..

we had rain most of the day,, on and off, but it didn't amount to very much ..

...........jiminwisc..........

 

[Cindlady]

Hi All!

Stacy.... Now where are the chickens going to live? LOL

Jim... Congrats on 52 years!

Momg.... It will be 27 years for Paul and I too.

Killdare... Congrats on your girl coming home!

Nothing New Here..... Night All!

 

[jvls1942]

good morning,

thanks Cind,,

have to go draw blood again today,, she wasn't too happy about the last one last week.. just blood thinner.. not a big deal..

I am ordering rubber plucker fingers as soon as I finish up here..
finishing up building my 5th plucker
I started it almost a year ago, and then everything else came up..

going to take Ollie and demolish the garden.. I like to knock everything down and let it stew over winter under the snow.. then in the spring I don't even have to plow.. I just drag it a few times over a period of a few weeks, then I tototill and plant ..

............jiminwisc...........

 

[Daethen]

Ok, this may gross some of you out. We hunt deer. Has anyone ever thrown a rib cage to their birds to let them pick it clean? Would this be a good sorce of protein or would it be too much?

 

[jvls1942]

Ok, this may gross some of you out. We hunt deer. Has anyone ever thrown a rib cage to their birds to let them pick it clean? Would this be a good sorce of protein or would it be too much?

that does not gross me out,, hardly nothing does..
I have taken carp and split them open and let the chickens clean up the whole thing

that is a good way to give the chickens some protein,,
but IMHO it is throwing a delicacy away,,

I cut along the side of each rib all the way along it.. leaving the meat between the ribs attached to only one of the ribs,, then I use my "bone crusher" and cut the ribs into about 2 inch long pieces.
this makes bagging them easy.. and they do not poke through the freezer bag..
I cook the whole batch of prepared ribs from one deer

when I cook them, I boil them for about an hour.. this removes a lot (most) of the fat..
drain all the water off..

then I put them back into the cast iron kettle with a lid..

mix up a couple of cups of ketchup,

lots of onions, at least one cup chopped.

a couple of cloves of garlic,
I use the bottled chopped up garlic,, about 2 table spoons..

about 1/4 cup of mustard

about 1/4 cup of lea and perrins worchester

about 1/2 cup of brown sugar..

no need for salt as there is enough in the ingredients for my taste..

you can add pepper if you like..

then I add about a 1/4 cup of tobasco pepper sauce..
you can add more or less.. I just like the little bit of bite it gives, and I also love the flavor..

mix this all very thoroughly and pour it over the ribs in the kettle..
mix the ribs with the sauce to coat each rib..

pop it into a 200F oven and let them absorb all that goodness.. I go for about 2 hours..
bake as long as you can without drying out the sauce..

GUARANTEE:
you will never throw another rib cage away ..

 

[Daethen]

I appreciate the info. Might give it a try. I don't usually leave much meat on the ribs, Just the tiny bit in between them that is almost transparent. We can a lot of it, so I take most of the flank steaks and any other bits I can get and can it all. So tender and yummy. I just put the spice and cure on 22 pounds of jerky meat that will go into the smoker this weekend. Almost time to get back into the woods and bag a couple more.

 

[corewassen87]

All this talk makes me hungry ! I just vacuum sealed 22lbz of venison wieners today. I work part time at kens meat market in antigo so lets me come in and use all the professional equipment to do my own stuff. What a difference it makes. Venison bacon is getting done next weekend. If you've never had it I highly recommend it

 

[jvls1942]

All this talk makes me hungry ! I just vacuum sealed 22lbz of venison wieners today. I work part time at kens meat market in antigo so lets me come in and use all the professional equipment to do my own stuff. What a difference it makes. Venison bacon is getting done next weekend. If you've never had it I highly recommend it

a few years ago I took four hind quarters (hams) to a meat market to have them smoked..

they were OK,,

but when I made boiled dinner.. sort of a boiled cabbage, potato, carrot, celery type of soup..
the venison ham bleached out and it tasted like cardboard..

I don't know what that processor did, but I suspect he just injected the hams with smoke solution.. I don't know if there is even such a thing, but those hams were definately not smokehouse smoked ..

I ordered 150 rubber chicken plucker fingers today.. should be here next week..

 

[irishrovr]

The last of the sweet corn is on the produce stand - mostly small ears so it's going for half price. Leftovers get frozen for later goodness.

The end of the tomatoes is near. I didn't get ahead of the late blight so there's not much out there to pick. Some of the cherry tomatoes and currant tomatoes are pretty good yet but the big boys and the romas are pretty sad looking.

I'm getting tired of grinding zucchini to freeze for the chickens - think I'll call it quits for that and just throw the over-size ones on their pile and let them peck at them as needed.

One bank of bunny cages is up in the barn. So far so good!

I hope you all have a great evening!