Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[vickiw]

HI ALL~HAPPY ANNIVERSARY DR HA!!!

OK, A bit of bragging here. Check out the pics (I know this looks like it is for the girls but check out the bottom guys)








This is a set of shelf sitters I picked up @ 30% off (the little statue too) so the entire grouping was less then $15. I had to have something to go with the Rooster clock from Amazon hubby got me for Valentines Day (love it when he lets me pick out
what I want)

Ok, here's the "guy" part. Notice the "pie safe" they are sitting on? Not a pie safe. Know what it really is???

It's our new gun safe!!!!! Cool huh? Yes, there is a real gun safe inside.
We have a good friend who is an amazing carpenter/woodworker who built this. He made 2. The other one looks just like an old oak icebox (wish I had a pic of it). He liked that one better to go into the kitchen of his new home he just finished building (completely by himself-you'd have to see it and then you still wouldn't believe it- or the view) and since he didn't need two, asked if we would like this one. UMMMM, you bet!!!! Since he is now retired I told him once he is done with the finishing touches on his home and starts getting winter cabin fever he should start building these. I know they would sell like hot cakes! What do you guys think? Would these sell???

Sadly, gone pretty much are the days when you could just have your guns sitting in a glass front cabinet (what we did have) or hanging proudly a gun rack on the wall.

Now have to get outside, check on the girls, who are grounded again today and NOT happy about it

, and get a little more shoveling done. If the weather man's right it's going to be a couple days of beautiful then WHAM again, sigh.

 

[NDchickens]

Vickiw - that is beautiful. And it would be nice to be able to put it someplace where you normally wouldn't want a gun safe! Oh, I like the figurines on top and the clock, too!

 

[Bigfamily4me]

Judge..

Have you made Pasties lately? I can post the recipe if you are interested..easy to make and freeze well. Kids can pick them up and even help make them.

Burger soup

Swiss potato bake...my great great Grandmother lived in the Swiss Mountains and made this often it was like a staple

I think these are probably a few that are unusual that I make

uummm... we should specify MEAT PAAASTIE... a pastie is a whole different story and I dont think we should know if Judge is making her pasties and wearing them around her place...

 

[vickiw]

I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO CATCH THAT!!!!

 

[denisemhogan]

"Oh...that was your hunting dog's blanket I just cut up and used for my new brooder pen for the chicks.....I'm sorry". So...how does that sound...sincere enough? ;-)

So first..big fam...I about pee'd myself laughing...I had a visual of a women with her muck boots on with tassles swirling and the chickens mesmerized....to funny! I love to cookand I'm going to try the bbq recipe...very similair to my own. My current cooking project has been trying to perfect my sourdough bread.
So my chicks have been moved to the spa room in a much larger setup. They have a 150 watt lightbulb. I'm worried sick about them. Just they are getting to big and smelly for inside. I will keep checking on them. I'm a little sad because with them inside I could play with them.
Well the monsters will be home soon. I better go!...

 

[Celtic Chick]

Leave it to Bigfam to mention that one................

Vicki, love the new decos and I would absolutely love a pie safe like that! Or the ice box one.

But I would like them to be pie safes, not gun cabinets.

Let me know what he think he would charge & what the dimensions are, please.

Delisha, glad momma took the new chick. Cute pic. Gotta love a mom & chicks!
I'd be interested in your Swiss potato bake recipe, pretty please!

The snow is coming down like crazy down here. Be safe, everyone!

 

[GhostRider65]

Hi all! Completely unrelated to chickens but I know there are a lot of good home cooks out there. Anyone have any good recipes that use ground beef? I am up to my ears in it, being that we live on a farm, and I am so sick of my same old recipes. Any suggestions?
Everyone is doing well here, and I the chickens are loving the warmer temps. Wish it wasn't snowing again. 
I know Delisha uses fermented feed for her chickens, does anyone else?
have a good day everyone

Ever made burger soup its awsum.............. if ya want the recipe I will post it.
or have a spaghetti supper then freeze or can the left over sauce, I like the sauce canned but not the meat in it, but some do
or burrito casserole
1 lb ground beef or 1 lb ground turkey
1/2 medium yellow onion, chopped
1 (1 1/4 ounce) package taco seasoning
6 large flour tortillas
1 (16 ounce) can refried beans
2 -3 cups shredded taco cheese or 2 -3 cups cheddar cheese
1 (10 3/4 ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
4 ounces sour cream
jarred hot sauce, if desired to spice it up
Directions:


Brown ground meat/turkey and onion; drain.

Add taco seasoning and stir in refried beans.

Mix soup and sour cream in a separate bowl.
Spread 1/2 sour cream mixture in the bottom of a casserole dish.

Tear up 3 tortillas and spread over sour cream mixture.

Put 1/2 the meat bean mixture over that.

Add a layer of cheese.

You could put some hot sauce on this now.
Repeat the layers.

Sprinkle cheese over the top and bake, uncovered, at 350°F for 20-30 minutes.

this is good came from food .com

also found these at allrecipes
this link has 23 different recipes
http://www.southernliving.com/food/whats-for-supper/ground-beef-recipes-00400000063551/page26.html

 

[jvls1942]

good aft,

I just went to Strombergs chicken catalog.. wow !! over $4/ea for meat chicks ?? I think I will just hatch my own and put the $4 toward the extra feed for my slow growers..

and to think that people don't want to pay more than $5 for a butchering or egg laying size chicken.. ??

I didn't price out the guinea keets.. but I imagine they are more than $4 each also..

I was not going to do much hatching this year,, but now IDK>. If I sell week old chicks for $3 maybe I would not have any trouble getting rid of them, eh ??

I could isolate the Delawares in with the peacocks in the new pen..

hamburger uses.. meat loaf,,, spaghetti sauce,, sloppy Joe's (we call them BBQ's here) ,, Chili (my special recipe).. stuffed peppers.. hamburger steaks.. hamburger soup.. corn cassarol.. pizza topping, (spice it up with Italian seasoning).
now you went and made me hungry..

we're having steak and baked potatoes for supper..

I (we) are leaning toward having mostly "plant" type of veggies in the garden this year.. peppers, kale family, corn, beans, tomatoes, squash and maybe a few cukes.
.. no carrots, lettuce or potatoes..(hard to weed and high maintenance) .

.we can buy organic potatoes from a guy in Stevens Point where I usually get my seed potatoes from..

I am thinking I will break down and make some hoop rows this year..

anybody got a good plan for a hiller plow to make narrow raised beds ?

February,, the month for dreaming up all this neat stuff..

......jimgoingtogolightafireunderthecookI'mhungry...........

 

[delisha]

Raclette

• 2 lbs. potatoes bite sized cubed, boiled for 5 minutes and drained
• 1 small onion chopped
• 1 strip of bacon
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1/2 pound hamburger cooked and drained
• 3 cups melted Raclette, Gruyere, Reblochon or Taleggio.
• 1 pint Whipping Cream
• 1 stick butter, melted
• paprika (optional)

Melt the butter in a saucepan and gently fry the onion until soft. Add the bacon and cook for a further 5 mins. Mix the bacon, hamburger and onion with the potatoes in a bowl.
Mix ½ the cheese, cream, salt, pepper, paprika and place in a baking dish (I use a glass cake pan)
Pour the potatoes in, cover with the rest of the cheese, cover with foil
Bake 25 minutes ..remove the foil, sprinkle additional paprika on top and bake an additional 20 minutes

This is a very modern recipe.
Raclette is a big wooden round container on most Swiss tables contained with cheese.Swiss milking cows, goats, and sheep were used to make cheese, they put the used cheese in the Raclette. Potatoes were baked in the fire and the cheese from the Raclette was scraped onto plates. The potatoes were practically drowned in the cheese on the plate. Sprinkles of meat were on top.

350 degrees
9x13 pan

 

[CasieD]

Delisha - I had to google Raclette, had never heard of it before. The pictures I found show lots of melting cheese.... mmmmm sounds good to me!

I made some chicken noodle soup here. Cooked up the chicken in the pressure cooker earlier in the day. Boy did that turn out great! Hubby said it was excellent!