Posted on 11/19/2022 6:44:48 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Xanthan gum - the recipe also lists arrowroot powder as an alternative. This stuff is really tasty & easy to make. I found turkey broth today - I’ve used chicken broth in years past. I’ll probably add some pan drippings, too.
https://www.fourscoreliving.com/keto-gravy/
I got a 20 pound turkey for .55 a pound. Spent the last two days stripping it, grinding the meat, adding bacon and seasonings and bagging and freezing. Enough for 33 patties of breakfast sausage. Cooked the bones down yesterday for broth. Added a couple of cups to moisten the sausage. I have enough meat stripped off the cooked bones and broth to make a turkey and gravy dish with peas and onions. Last year I did this with 2 frozen sale birds but I just did not have it in me for two this year. 8 inches of snow on the ground and more today. I don’t really want to do a bird this year there are only two of us.
Sounds like a very nutritious two days.
That’s a great deal on turkey! I’ll have to keep an eye out after Thanksgiving for some sales. I got two birds a couple of weeks ago (17+ lbs) for $1.07/lb ... saved about $9-10 a bird. This year, I have an extra 7 cu ft freezer - it’s maybe half full, if that. I have plenty of room for “sale” meat - been buying up Sale/Manager’s Special London Broils & Chuck Roasts - the prices run $3.59 - $3.99 a pound, which is pretty good for beef these days.
Last year, on a January sale after the holidays, I got a huge turkey at Kroger (22-23 lbs) for something like 89 cents/lb. That bird was in the freezer for almost a year - I made it last Thanksgiving. It turned out just terrific ... meat was falling off the bones tender. My only issue was it was so big, it was a wrestling match to get it in the roaster - my usual pan was too small, too.
For just the two of you, I can see why doing a bird is a lot of work. I don’t envy your 8 inches of snow - I have to do all the shoveling around here when we do get snow, so the less snow (or none!), the better. :-)
I shovel and there is not much to that, and he does the plowing. Hope you find a sale turkey.
Good afternoon!
This is a repeat post, some of you may know that I have moved south of the Mason Dixon Line. Excited to be moving to a red state :)
I am looking for some vendors who sell blueberry and raspberry plants, maybe some apple trees.
Though I have bought retail from local nurseries in the past, I have more space and would like to plant a number of them, so I am looking for a quantity discount :)
Check with your local DNR. Many of them have yearly plant sales, and the ones I’ve bought from had outstanding prices. Their selection is limited, but at $2 a tree it’s often worth a look.
You are likely right.
Thank you!
Actually, I have checked and will be purchasing some trees through their program—pine and hard wood seedlings, but they did not seem to have any fruit trees or bushes, so that is why I am looking for a reasonably priced vendor :)
We use arrowroot exclusively for gravy.
It’s even good for people with celiac. My son had a co-worker who was bemoaning not being able to eat gravy any more and my son asked him why he didn’t use arrowroot. The guy had never heard of it, but tried it and was thrilled that he could tolerate it.
Check with Jung’s. http://www.jungseed.com
They can set you up with lots of stuff, and they do give quantity price breaks.
My wife made Jumbalaya yesterday. I cooked a large round roast last night. A few days ago I fixed Red Beans with a ham bone with lots of meat left on it.
Today two of our construction workers and I were working outside on a roofing project. It was not as cold today as yesterday, but was still cold. My wife brought us a bowl of Jumbalaya along with a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch. It was just the thing, we all three agreed.
Tonight wife and I had foil wrapped slow cooked round roast and the red beans. We put on different sides, but it was an incredible good meal.
I like the ramp up for Thanksgiving and Christmas. But earthy meals require no season holiday.
Thanks for the post.
You eat good.
I grew up on a farm. My ancestors came here in 1889 from Coryell County in 3 wagons with teams of mules. The county was not cut up until 1885. There were no stores. Railroad came in around 1905.
Nearest lumber yards was 60 miles away.
It was very spartan in the beginning. I am still amazed how they traveled great distances like they did. They knew how to survive. They did hunt, much of those traits have been handed down.
None of my friends have any use for the Globalist pukes who want to enslave the world (all of mankind) and make us eat bugs. They can forget that crap. They can eat their own bugs.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Been a while since I updated my home build and garden build in Texas.
Foundation is getting poured this week and next week framing starts.
Hope to be in the house in April but at least by my bday and Mother’s Day in May.
This coming weekend I am renting a skid steer and ripping out about 2000 after of native grass, pulling out the soil down 2.5 feet (where I hit the limestone/caliche,) then switching to a leveling blade which is essentially a giant rake/sifter to get the rocks out.
Then the soil goes back in and I will add some purchased garden soil followed by renting a wood chipper to cover all the raised beds.
The beds will be 4’ x 25’ except when I hit a big surface rock that is too big a pain to deal with.
Nice to hear from you! Progress! :)
I’m finally starting to feel human again. I got downright ambitious yesterday.
The rollers that support the upper rack in Mrs. Augie’s automagic dishwasher machine broke on one side a couple weeks back. It was a real pita to use, but with both of us being sick we tried to ignore it the best we could for a few days. I ordered a repair kit last week and installed that yesterday morning.
After that I went to Lowe’s and picked up the parts that I needed to repair the GFCI circuit that runs out to the fresh water tap in my front pasture. I installed a livestock fountain out there when we built the place and switched it over to a hose tap after we figured out that we didn’t need the fountain there.
I hang a 100w incandescent light in there during the winter to keep the metal bits of the plumbing from freezing. The GFCI crapped out last winter and the stop valve froze up and cracked during a spell of bitterly cold weather. Now that the power has been restored I should be able to avoid a repeat of that fiasco.
So that’s two less things to fret over.
Thanksgiving dinner at our house this year is actually going to be on Thanksgiving for a change. It’s the one day that all four of our kids are able to be here. I’ve got a spiral-sliced ham in the fridge and a 17lb turkey thawing out in the barn.
Reading all of the news articles about the “turkey shortage” I was a bit worried that I wasn’t going to be able to find a bird, much less find one that was worth the money. The local grocery where we do most of our shopping had a whole freezer case full of frozen birds for $1.19/lb. One more benefit of living in fly-over country...
Glad to hear you’re both on the mend!
Re: Turkey Shortage. None here, either. We got a 10.5-pound Butterball for $10.16! And there were two freezer cases full of them. Jenny-O’s were available too, but we splurged. This one is for the freezer, Mom is doing The Bird for Thanksgiving. I’m doing Apple Pie, an appetizer and Whiskey Glazed Carrots. It’s obviously a ‘Cheat Day,’ LOL!
We also bought a HUGE pork loin for $19.06 which we cut into chops and vacuum sealed and it’s enough for FIFTEEN pork dinners for the two of us.
That’s some good eatin’! :)
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