2012 December "Santa Claus is comin to town" CHAT thread
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12-14-2012, 08:57 PM
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12-15-2012, 07:44 PM
It's going alright - looked like all of my neighbors took off to somewhere today, I was actually wondering if there was something special going on that I didn't hear about.
Mostly overcast and soggy, so I drained a hydroponic tank that didn't work out like I planned and made a few pounds of Scrapple.
*Scrapple is proof that the old time Pennsylvania Germans never wasted anything if they could help it, but it's just about the best doggone stuff I ever had for breakfast...
It's made out of meat scraps, broth, sausage spices, and a whole lot of corn meal or masa harina. Made right, in the oven: it's thick enough to stand up a wooden spoon in even before it's chilled in the fridge.
Once chilled, you slice it, fry the slices until the outsides are crispy, and chow down!
The taste and everything is kind of hard to describe. But once you've had it - you'll never forget it
I form it into "BRICKS" using bread pans
A good slice is about half an inch thick, by three inches, by five or six inches. They can also be toasted in an oven
Normally, IF YOU CAN FIND IT in stores, it's made from pork. I made this batch with turkey though, since I know turkey is an excellent protein source and I cleaned most all of the fat out of my 'rendered' meat in the process.
I also reserved a large amount of "Turkey Spread" because I figured out how to make rolled taco's quickly and easily...
Those things that cost so doggoned much in the freezer sections of stores? Yeah, right...
I figure they cost me less than five cents each doing it this way
~But that's a story for another post
And I still have a whole turkey breast (roasted to a turn) in my freezer waiting for a special evening
Mostly overcast and soggy, so I drained a hydroponic tank that didn't work out like I planned and made a few pounds of Scrapple.
*Scrapple is proof that the old time Pennsylvania Germans never wasted anything if they could help it, but it's just about the best doggone stuff I ever had for breakfast...
It's made out of meat scraps, broth, sausage spices, and a whole lot of corn meal or masa harina. Made right, in the oven: it's thick enough to stand up a wooden spoon in even before it's chilled in the fridge.
Once chilled, you slice it, fry the slices until the outsides are crispy, and chow down!
The taste and everything is kind of hard to describe. But once you've had it - you'll never forget it
I form it into "BRICKS" using bread pans
A good slice is about half an inch thick, by three inches, by five or six inches. They can also be toasted in an oven
Normally, IF YOU CAN FIND IT in stores, it's made from pork. I made this batch with turkey though, since I know turkey is an excellent protein source and I cleaned most all of the fat out of my 'rendered' meat in the process.
I also reserved a large amount of "Turkey Spread" because I figured out how to make rolled taco's quickly and easily...
Those things that cost so doggoned much in the freezer sections of stores? Yeah, right...
I figure they cost me less than five cents each doing it this way
~But that's a story for another post
And I still have a whole turkey breast (roasted to a turn) in my freezer waiting for a special evening
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12-16-2012, 09:42 AM
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Yeah...having tried scrapple before, I can say that it is an acquired taste.
Sounds like you have been very meticulous in your turkey preparation.
It is POURING rain right now and supposed to have THUNDERSTORMS tomorrow. Crazy weather, again this fall/winter.
Hope everyone has a great day.
Sounds like you have been very meticulous in your turkey preparation.
It is POURING rain right now and supposed to have THUNDERSTORMS tomorrow. Crazy weather, again this fall/winter.
Hope everyone has a great day.
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12-17-2012, 11:40 AM
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Tuesday, and the weather here is going to be nice....sunny and 58 degrees. Tomorrow, supposed to be up to 65 degrees! I will finish the fall/winter prep on the flower and vegetable gardens over the next 2 days-----trim down the browned leaves on the flowers, mulch and till the veggie garden so all the leaves and such I've shredded onto it have a good chance to decompose. A re-tilling in the spring will make it nice and rich.
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12-20-2012, 08:56 AM
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12-23-2012, 09:50 PM
Yep - as I said elsewhere, it's "Soil Season" now - time to whack everything and plow it under for the winter while I think what I can add to it to make it better for next year.
I have yet another large turkey in the oven just about to ring the bell...
I got some real good ideas last time around - now I'm going to try even more things!
Turkey breast rolled tacos (recipe of the day!!!)
with thin sliced & diced onion, and various mild and hot peppers bits inside
*maybe some olives, too...
** I get good results toasting corn tortillas one by one in a COVERED skillet to make them the right softness to roll right
Treat the pan bottom only once with light oil
Use a medium single burner heat (halfway) and let the pan warm with the cover on
Start one tortilla, with the lid on. Let it go 1 or 2 minutes, then check it. Flip it and put the lid on
Check it in 1 or 2 minutes, flipping it onto a plate where you stuff it and roll it while the next tortilla toasts...
You get a rythm going after a while
I like to use a big butter knife as a guide for meat stuffing
- I load up the blade of the butterknife with meat, set it down, grab a tortilla from the pan, put another tortilla in.
The new tortilla is ready to flip by the time you roll the tortilla you had the meat ready for.
So you flip it, and load up the butterknife again...
It goes pretty fast
~to do this well, you really have to have everything else besides the meat stuffing sliced, diced, and ready to toss in
Especially if you want to use any kind of grated cheese - prep more than you need
If you want to use canned tomato & green chile stuff in your taquito's, you should have two or more cans DRAINED ahead of time
SOUR CREAM? Maybe so. but it's normally used to dip them in AFTER they are cooked.
OLIVES!!! FRIED Onion bits, Anaheim chiles...
Need I become pathetic about it?
"GOOODIES, MAN!!!"
I have yet another large turkey in the oven just about to ring the bell...
I got some real good ideas last time around - now I'm going to try even more things!
Turkey breast rolled tacos (recipe of the day!!!)
with thin sliced & diced onion, and various mild and hot peppers bits inside
*maybe some olives, too...
** I get good results toasting corn tortillas one by one in a COVERED skillet to make them the right softness to roll right
Treat the pan bottom only once with light oil
Use a medium single burner heat (halfway) and let the pan warm with the cover on
Start one tortilla, with the lid on. Let it go 1 or 2 minutes, then check it. Flip it and put the lid on
Check it in 1 or 2 minutes, flipping it onto a plate where you stuff it and roll it while the next tortilla toasts...
You get a rythm going after a while
I like to use a big butter knife as a guide for meat stuffing
- I load up the blade of the butterknife with meat, set it down, grab a tortilla from the pan, put another tortilla in.
The new tortilla is ready to flip by the time you roll the tortilla you had the meat ready for.
So you flip it, and load up the butterknife again...
It goes pretty fast
~to do this well, you really have to have everything else besides the meat stuffing sliced, diced, and ready to toss in
Especially if you want to use any kind of grated cheese - prep more than you need
If you want to use canned tomato & green chile stuff in your taquito's, you should have two or more cans DRAINED ahead of time
SOUR CREAM? Maybe so. but it's normally used to dip them in AFTER they are cooked.
OLIVES!!! FRIED Onion bits, Anaheim chiles...
Need I become pathetic about it?
"GOOODIES, MAN!!!"
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12-24-2012, 08:08 AM
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Hope every one has a GREAT day!
Twas the Night before Christmas Poem
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!
"Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.
His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, 'ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
Twas the Night before Christmas Poem
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!
"Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.
His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, 'ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
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Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Santa was good to me....got a dash mounted (just sits on, actually) heater/defroster/light contraption for the old '66 which will come in handy this winter. The truck runs well, but the defrost system in the old trucks isn't what one would call powerful. Also got the latest (8th, and I have all of them) Jesse Stone film starring Tom Selleck. A great series from CBS-TV where he plays the police chief in Paradise, MA. Check it out if you need some entertainment some night.
Have a great Wednesday, or as some would call it "The Second Day of Christmas."
Have a great Wednesday, or as some would call it "The Second Day of Christmas."
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12-27-2012, 08:06 AM
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