Don't go out wearing your red cape and a basket!
Posted on 11/04/2011 5:08:00 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. I hope all of you are doing well this first week in November. Daylight Saving Time officially ends in the U.S. and Canada, at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6th, when clocks are moved back one hour. We have had some nice weather with lows in the mid to high 30’s and up into the mid 60’s for highs the last couple of days. Forecasts are calling for lows in the 40’s with Highs in the low 70’s for the next week.
I hope all your Fall gardens are prospering.
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Hey R.D! I have a non-garden related question. My thicket next to my garden is where I feed the wintering birds that will start visiting soon. The whole area has been inundated with mourning dove. I believe they are using it for their personal coop and multiplying fast.
Do you or anybody have any suggestions other than clearing them out with bird shot?
I wish I’d had your recipe earlier. I wasted a lot of tomatoes this year, for which I shall feel guilty all year.
Do you think that your recipe would work with RIPE tomatoes?
Have you gotten a buck yet? Or, is it too early? My husband is going to MO in a week, or so, for his annual hunt.
We were shocked this AM to see a large, fluffy coyote meander through our yard. It was so big (I think it had its winter coat already) that my husband cried “Wolf”!
I know we have coyotes around here, but I haven’t seen one for 20 years; and I have never see one so close to the house and never this time of year. I’m concerned now about my old Golden Retriever who might want to chase it. This guy was almost the size of a Belgian Shepherd. When I’ve seen them before, they were always thinner and sort of mangy with fur falling out in patches. This guy had a beautiful coat, but I’ve never seen one going in to winter. I have always seen them before in the early spring when they have just endured a long winter.
We called the police, and they said it was OK for my husband to shoot it if he sees it again. Trouble is, they generally don’t come out in the day time.
Don't go out wearing your red cape and a basket!
Looks like someone stabbed one of them before it took over the garden! LOL
Nice! I think growing season is too short here for something like that.
LOLOLOL! You don’t know how close to home you struck! My mother (a TEACHER) has always been overly dramatic when she reads stories, and she must have scared the bejeezus out of me with Little Red Riding Hood. I used to hide my eyes when we passed the wolf cages at the local zoo. (”I’d better not looooook...”)
Yep! I have had quite a few I had saved from C-rations since my days in the Marines. Used to keep it on my dog tag chain, just like every other Marine, we also called them “John Waynes”. From what I understand they are not made any more and the newer one is called the P51. It is longer in the handle section.
Being longer in the handle makes a lot of sense. I once had to open a five pound can of coffee with one. My fingers still hurt when I think about it.
I forgot to tell you that three of my seven varieties of Garlic are up and looking good. I think it has been a little over 2 weeks since I planted them plus I also found five more small cucumbers on the still healthy vines. I bought some cover crop seeds at the feed store today but I have to cultivate for the weeds that have sprouted first. I will probably use the Wheel Hoe for that and then rake it good after this rain stops.
I think the weatherman said we’d be 20
I think the weathernman said we’d be 20 percented on tonight, which means our little town will Our county probably will get none of it. Monday & Tuesday we’re supposed to be 30 & 40 percented on, which means, hopefully we will. We sure do need rain, and a bunch of it. Our stock tank and lake, out front looks like a desert. I lost a nice big tree night before last. We had some pretty heavy winds, but NO rain.
My tomatoes and green pepper plant survived the high 30 degree weather. That’s all I’ve planted so far. I’m thinking of doing a salad planting.
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Thank you, JaDB. I collect recipes with veggies in them. Years ago there was a cake recipe book with nothing but veggie cake recipes. I’m sorry I didn’t pick one up then.
I use mashed potatoes in my bread. It makes a hearvier, fine grained, dense bread.
Reminds me of a story. My girlfriend asked her daughter to get the canopener, during an electrical outage. The girl walked into the kitchen, then came back laughing and said “Mom, the can opener won’t work, there’s no electricity”, the little darling never knew there was a thing as a manual can opener.
Gads, I haven’t seen one of those in years.
We had a light shower here this morning. It is enough to settle the dust. It sure messed up the windshield on my pickup.
My mother used mashed potatoes in her homemade Doughnuts - she left me the recipe - makes one heck of a dough. Can be used to make Sweet dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls, snails and various other tasty things!
Would you mind sharing? Hubby loves homemade doughnuts. I ‘ve even made some with finely ground carrots, once he “misbehaved” so he got a doughnut with horseradish. I wish I had a camera ready with the first 2 chews of that tidbit. The expression was priceless.
Raised Potato Doughnuts
2 pkgs. Dry Yeast
½ Cup Warm Water
½ Cup Scalded Milk (cool)
2/3 Cup Crisco
2/3 Cup Sugar
1 tsp. Salt
1 Cup Warm Plane Mashed Potatoes
3 or 4 Eggs
6 ½ Cups Flour (approx)
Scalding the milk is an important step when using milk in any yeast dough recipes. Scalding is necessary even with pasteurized milk because of the whey proteins in milk need to be inactivated. They can weaken the gluten in dough and produce a dense final product unless the milk is scalded.
Mix yeast in warm water, set aside. Cream sugar and Crisco. Add unbeaten eggs, warm potatoes, and yeast w/water. Add 1/2 of the flour, all of the milk, salt and use hands to mix thoroughly then add rest of flour and mix it in. Turn out on a board and continue to knead for about 5 min.
Grease a large bowl, place dough in and let rise ½ way. Punch down the dough and cover the top of bowl, use plastic or similar so it will be airtight. Store in the refrigerator over-night or at least 8 hours. You must open and punch the dough down several times, before it finally cools down. Warning this dough will take over the fridge like the Blob if you don’t punch it down several times.
Four thirty doughnuts take about ½ of dough. Keep rest stored as before, can be kept this way for a week. Warm dough to room temperature. Knead, till bubbles appear, use flour sparingly while kneading. Roll out to about ¼ inch thick. Cut with doughnut cutter. Place cut doughnuts on wax paper and let rise, about double in size.
Fry in deep fryer 2-4 min. at 375 degrees. Turn them over about half way thru. Use Crisco in the deep fryer it makes a difference in your doughnuts.
2 Cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
About ¼ cup boiling water.
Add hot water to sugar and vanilla while stirring – add the water a little at a time (the glaze must be thick as the hot doughnuts will thin it out).
As you remove the doughnuts from the fryer lay them in the glaze and turn over in glaze and then drain over a pan so you can scrape the dripped glaze back into the bowl.
This is Basic Dough for any type of snail, butterhorn, cinnamon rolls, etc. Also dinner rolls, the use of 4 eggs makes for nicer dough, for dinner rolls or snails 3 eggs are ok.
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