Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[bigzio]

OK here is my recipe for southwestern beans....my kettle is done, and the sampling is non stop....addicting stuff for me!
Hi this is Suzie.....ok

2 cups dry pinto beans
1/2 lb bacon
2 cups chopped onion
3 cloves garlic minced
2 - 8oz cans tomato sauce
3 T. chili powder
1/2 t. oregano
1/2 t. salt
1/4 t. pepper
1/8 t. cumin

Soak beans overnight...do not drain! cover and simmer beans till just tender .about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. do not let them get mushy.
Fry the bacon until crisp....(I use ten to twelve slices) Drain
Leave some bacon grease in the pan to fry the onion till transparent...add garlic till you can smell it.
Add to the cooked beans...do not drain.
Add tomato sauce. chili powder, oregano. salt, pepper and cumin. Let it simmer a little then break up the bacon and add it. I simmer mine on low till it gets thick about 2 hours or so depending on your burner.

I always tweak mine to taste.....stirring often to keep from sticking!

Hope you like it!

Suzie

 

[CherMoz]

THANKS SUZIE. SOUNDS DELICIOUS!

 

[chickendreams24]

Hi All,
  chkdrm,,  you can check them every day, but that won't speed things up any ..
I hope 2 weeks is correct because I am nearing that point.
I haven't looked at mine for a few days..

today I have decided to water all of my potted starts.  I will check the apples then.

I had a Dr appt yesterday.  He told me that everything looked fine,  and that according to my tests, my heart is stronger than when he saw me a year ago.. 
  maybe I will live long enough to enjoy some of the fruits of my labor , eh ?  asparagus: 3 years,  apple: 4 to 5 years.
elderberry: 2 years.  I transplanted some grapes last fall.  those could give me some next summer.
  I think I left a grape where it was, so that should be OK for next summer.

I fed the chickens vast amounts of feed today.  so if they don't make pigs of themselves, I shouldn't have to feed them until late tomorrow afternoon.

I picked up a few 5 gallon buckets from Trig's yesterday.
going to make at least one feeder out of them.
5 gallons should last 2 days..???  I hope..

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

Jim, how are you checking them?

 

[jvls1942]

Quote: I have them sticking in 5 gallon pails. I just look for fresh buds to appear.
where are yours ?
something came up today that took me away for almost all day. so I didn't get at the watering, or checking for buds.
tomorrow I am reserving the day for myself..

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

 

[chickendreams24]

I have them sticking in 5 gallon pails.  I just look for fresh buds to appear.
   where are yours ?  
something came up today that took me away for almost all day.  so I didn't get at the watering,  or checking for buds.
tomorrow I am reserving the day for myself..

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

We have them in clay pots in the kitchen in soil that said it was specifically for cuttings and such. However as we keep our house at about 62-64 degrees during the day and 56 at night I have one pot under a Ziploc baggie it's not tight and make a nice mini greenhouse. We also left two at my Grandma's under my mother's care(they may not make it BC if this lol but they keeping about 70 degrees so we are wondering if the temps will matter.

 

[jvls1942]

low as 60*F might be OK, but the cool nights might slow them down a bit.
if they don't make it, you can do soft wood cuttings in summer..
main thing is to keep the root end in moist dirt.
the mini greenhouse is a good idea.
keep them out of direct sunlight.

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

 

[GranolaGirl72]

I am wishing I would have planted elderberry right about now, starting to feel like myself finally, but the cough is hanging on. I thought when I stopped being in the classroom this creeping crap would pass me by, not so much.
Didn't go out to the coop yesterday, have not seen an egg in 4 days, seems as though my last hold out, the Rock, has decided to follow the other lemmings and stop laying. May have to rethink the whole light bulb in the coop thing next winter, not like I am planning to have these girls till they die of old age. At the moment it is like we have added 5 new pets to the zoo we already have. I have noticed with the decrease in eggs, they seem to be eating less, so maybe it balances out?
Oldest has one more week at home, then back to college life. Should see my food bill go down as well...

 

[jvls1942]

I am wishing I would have planted elderberry right about now, starting to feel like myself finally, but the cough is hanging on. I thought when I stopped being in the classroom this creeping crap would pass me by, not so much.
Didn't go out to the coop yesterday, have not seen an egg in 4 days, seems as though my last hold out, the Rock, has decided to follow the other lemmings and stop laying. May have to rethink the whole light bulb in the coop thing next winter, not like I am planning to have these girls till they die of old age. At the moment it is like we have added 5 new pets to the zoo we already have. I have noticed with the decrease in eggs, they seem to be eating less, so maybe it balances out?
Oldest has one more week at home, then back to college life. Should see my food bill go down as well...

one thing I learned. it is never too late to plant a tree or a bush. Years can go by while one thinks and wishes he would have done that. in that amount of time he could be eating apples from his tree..
Now I am thinking I would go and steal a few cuttings from the neighbor's choke cherry tree..
they both go to work all day .. and the tree is right next to the road.. hmmmm...

I just finished planting 130 tiny asparagus seeds.. thanks to Brent.
now we just sit and wait for something to happen, eh ?
I doubled up on a few compartments. I can always separate and transplant them later..
can we say,
"WOW ! that's a lot of pots !"
boys and girls ?

 

[bigzio]

Yep, that's a lot of seeds Jim....I was a seed counter too, and used 60 from the pack I sent you....190 seeds In one pack...now that's value in my mind. I have 20 groups of 3 growing from my effort....hope yours do well.....they germinate slow for sure, and I was amazed how not giving up on them resulted in them sprouting.

Finished down at Camp today....I finally had the balls to remove that stupid kill switch from under the seat on the snow blower....it has been nothing but problems for folks that help out.....I simply took the unit out and wired the two wires together and a bunch of duct tape to keep it from shorting out....heaven on earth to be able to get off the tractor when needed while running for picking up branches or whatever is in the way... why do we always have to work in the extreme cold? We do have some nice weather here in the badger state, but not when we are working on cold metal parts for some reason......

Don't forget the fish fry Friday....I'm getting hungry already for it, before 4pm.

bigz

 

[jvls1942]

Yep, that's a lot of seeds Jim....I was a seed counter too, and used 60 from the pack I sent you....190 seeds In one pack...now that's value in my mind. I have 20 groups of 3 growing from my effort....hope yours do well.....they germinate slow for sure, and I was amazed how not giving up on them resulted in them sprouting.

Finished down at Camp today....I finally had the balls to remove that stupid kill switch from under the seat on the snow blower....it has been nothing but problems for folks that help out.....I simply took the unit out and wired the two wires together and a bunch of duct tape to keep it from shorting out....heaven on earth to be able to get off the tractor when needed while running for picking up branches or whatever is in the way... why do we always have to work in the extreme cold? We do have some nice weather here in the badger state, but not when we are working on cold metal parts for some reason......

Don't forget the fish fry Friday....I'm getting hungry already for it, before 4pm.

bigz

Yup, cold weather sucks.. and working out in cold weather is the ultimate suck..
A long time ago I was finishing up a siding/soffit job and it was in the single digit 5 below comfortable..
I was two flights up on a scaffold, and cold as heII.
I absently mindedly turned and took a full step. forgetting that I was at the end of the scaffold.. fell off and landed on a concrete retaining wall and rolled off into a deep snow drift. I had a bruise on my upper leg the size of a football.
I finished that job and vowed to never work in the freezing cold again.. and I stuck to that ..

you are only about at half efficiency when it is that cold.

I checked the apple cuttings. it is a bit too soon to see any buds .. but it doesn't hurt to look at them.

I did some research about the water in my tractor transmission . it looks like there is a Seafoam product that might do some good.

I am going to give it a try ..

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