Posted on 09/01/2025 4:39:33 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Yes Sauerkraut is #1 !!!
When I make poppers I clean them out completely especially any membrane. Otherwise I can’t eat them.
Same to you! :-)
We are a bit warm and humid, but only for 2-3 more days, says NWS. I don’t know if it’s too late to get moisture in the ground for good fall colors or not. In areas just north of here, a LOT of leaves blew down in the t’storms, last night.
I’ve got a bucket of roughly 1/3 each cayenne, jalapeno, and serrano peppers fermenting in the barn. Plan is to let it sit for another month or three then run it through the blender and bottle it up for use. I expect it to be almost unbearable.
If you like to spice up your winter greens a bit, try this - stuff a resealable bottle/jar with serranos, add 5% white vinegar, cap the bottle, then hide the bottle in a cool dark place and forget about it for at least five years. Then find it by accident later on down the road and put some of that stuff on your greens (is also very good on boiled cabbage). You will thank me.
That wasn’t Howard in my pic from earlier today. Howard is the hound that showed up early in the summer. Booger the Aussie is the one lounging at the campground.
If you saw me hobbling around here last night, you wouldn’t be thinking that LOL!
I know you LOVES you some Kraut, LOL!
I like it without the Caraway seeds, though. It’s good for your gut while you’re starving, cut off from civilization, in a Midwest Blizzard, LOL!
Caraway seeds, thanks, I’ll put them on my list along with kale, olives, etc, etc, etc. There was no such thing growing up in our house, Same with mint jelly and lamb.
I think Mom made Lamb ONCE - and it was ‘One and Done.’ Dad didn’t like it.
You don’t like olives? How is that even possible? Too salty?
I use kale in salads, or use it for Pesto, but most of it goes to the chickens. They love the red (purple) kale most of all for some reason. They have a very refined pallet for critters that never leave the farm, LOL!
I grew up eating lamb. You have to know how to cook it. Best way is to rotisserie over coals and not for long. Pink inside. And if you cover it with olive oil and lots of garlic and herbs, mmmmmmm
Olives are just disgusting I only tasted one once and that was it, could be the salt or the brine or the olive.
Our company never showed up ... no call, text, email .... grrrr. It’s 7 PM & the feast is about to begin with all the good food made for the no shows.
(I would add Chocolate, Peanut Butter to my prepper pile)
That’s terrible! I hope nothing bad happened.
I doubt it & I have my reasons for saying that.
Oh, No! How rude! Well, you’ll be eating good the rest of the week, at least.
Oh, they’re pretty inside! They look like a Mango. I was expecting GREEN on the inside.
Best thing I ever ate in my life.
I am soooo jealous!!
It rained some during the night last night and almost all of the day today. We need the rain pretty badly. I was going to have watering on my to do list today, but I’m really grateful that God took care of that task for me.
I woke up to a big surprise this morning. Two more butterflies emerged, and last night when I shut things down, I didn’t think the chrysalises were far enough along. I thought it would be a few days before they emerged. Shows how much I know! Oh, and a third one emerged later in the day. So now 3 butterflies in the habitat.
I’m hoping they have a good day of airing out/drying their wings. When it wasn’t raining today, it just felt so humid.
More to come!
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