Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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I was on assignment several years back around the Jasper, Lynn area & met some good folks from the Winfield area. I am trying to think of that little restaurant up there, buffet style, run by the same family for years, Cedar Creek or something like that keeps coming to mind, but I cannot put my finger on it. Pretty country. We like the old style PWs like long ago, they are a good store. We have some outlaws up around Carbon Hill too.
calldoctoday If I’m remembering right, hamburgers and chicken tenders were the specialty, one place in Guin, one in Winfield. The mayor at the time ran the dairy queen and the western auto, the chief or police ran the hardware store, fire department and post office.
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That mayor sounds like the same mayor that I met when down in Amelia Louisiana during the 70’s. I was down there about a month or so maybe & the mayor ran the hardware store, a little restaurant, & a little grocery store. Those were the days.
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Nothing like home made pickles. I just opened one of my habanero dills yesterday. So good and soooo crisp.
lkrfletcher we did pickles for the first time this year. My cucumbers were gangbusters till the pickle worm found them. Fought those bastsrds for two months.
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lkrfletcher we did pickles for the first time this year. My cucumbers were gangbusters till the pickle worm found them. Fought those bastsrds for two months.
pr0wlunwoof looks awesome.
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We also put up greenbeans and some strawberry fig jam. Got enough butternut squash to make everyone tired of it . Also froze enough tomatoes to get us through.
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pr0wlunwoof looks awesome.
lkrfletcher you must of had a stash of lids and bands. About as easy to find as primers for reloading.
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We also put up greenbeans and some strawberry fig jam. Got enough butternut squash to make everyone tired of it . Also froze enough tomatoes to get us through.
pr0wlunwoof I love butternut squash. I did some dilly fire beans this season too. I’ll have to post pictures later on.
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lkrfletcher you must of had a stash of lids and bands. About as easy to find as primers for reloading.
YooperDog yep I got a bunch. Stocked up a while ago.
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We also put up greenbeans and some strawberry fig jam. Got enough butternut squash to make everyone tired of it . Also froze enough tomatoes to get us through.
pr0wlunwoof awesowe
Here are my fire beans. Great for bloody Mary’s
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pr0wlunwoof I love butternut squash. I did some dilly fire beans this season too. I’ll have to post pictures later on.
lkrfletcher I mad 3 half pan casseroles and froze 2 of them. I like it pretty well. I have 5 5gallon buckets with sweet potatoes I grew from slips off a walmart potatoe. I hope they make. Been feeding them worm casting tea from my worm bin.
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pr0wlunwoof awesowe
Here are my fire beans. Great for bloody Mary’s
lkrfletcher I love a good bloody Mary. I usually use zing Zang as scratch takes half a pantry sometimes.
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YooperDog yep I got a bunch. Stocked up a while ago.
lkrfletcher rare as hens teeth around here, but I have a small stash put aside. Just another item to add to the keep an eye open for.
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I’m in a big city so not too hard to find. I haven’t needed to buy any for a while.
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lkrfletcher we did pickles for the first time this year. My cucumbers were gangbusters till the pickle worm found them. Fought those bastsrds for two months.
pr0wlunwoof Way to beat the censors!
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We also put up greenbeans and some strawberry fig jam. Got enough butternut squash to make everyone tired of it . Also froze enough tomatoes to get us through.
pr0wlunwoof If you’re interested, I have a butternut squash and shrimp soup that people go crazy over.
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TexLaw here’s the pictures of the eggs I put up yesterday, only thing I changed is I did add a bit of beet juice, wife thought the color was pretty.
Chef The gojuchang puts a little color on the eggs, sort of a pale yellow/orange. I look forward to seeing how the beet juice works out!
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Chef The gojuchang puts a little color on the eggs, sort of a pale yellow/orange. I look forward to seeing how the beet juice works out!
TexLaw Between the turmeric and the gojuchang, they are taking on the pale yellow/orange color. I believe I didn’t add near enough beet just to alter the color nor taste.
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calldoctoday I think most people in this community will do okay regardless of the situation. There is so much knowledge and experience with the people who are part of meatgistics. We’ll survive anything, even Armageddon.
Chef Well, I stopped at two places on the way back from an inspection today just to see if all that was affecting us too. Well, apparently it is. Both places were completely & totally wiped out of canning goods & usually they look like no one ever wants anything to do with it, amazing. I talked to one of the guys at one place & he said he has been filling the shelves with canning goods every morning & they are wiped out by early morning, he has never seen anything like it before. I just did not imagine that many folks were into it like that. I just hope it does not turn out to be a lot of wasted effort & food somehow. I will be on assignment in North Carolina most of the rest of the week.
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Chef Well, I stopped at two places on the way back from an inspection today just to see if all that was affecting us too. Well, apparently it is. Both places were completely & totally wiped out of canning goods & usually they look like no one ever wants anything to do with it, amazing. I talked to one of the guys at one place & he said he has been filling the shelves with canning goods every morning & they are wiped out by early morning, he has never seen anything like it before. I just did not imagine that many folks were into it like that. I just hope it does not turn out to be a lot of wasted effort & food somehow. I will be on assignment in North Carolina most of the rest of the week.
calldoctoday It’s not just canning supplies. Manual grinders are hard to get (at least a #32), well pumps, solar panels, pressure cookers… I think people are really concern about the future more than ever. I’m most certainly not a survivalist, but I know that I can exist for awhile. Depending on a few things in the future, I do have a list of things I will stock up on. Would be interesting for people in our community to suggest things we should have, just in case… Would love to see other’s thoughts.
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Wow, It is a good thing a lot of us here already have a good supply of a lot of those things. I wonder about pressure canner & grinder parts though, now that you mention some of this. We can hang around for quite a while & have been even more fiercely independent in the past than we are now & we are still pretty fierce. Well, I may have to go back to hunting & fishing on the property & still freezing drying, preserving, & canning. I am curious as to a lot of other folks thoughts too, not so much the normal day to day stuff, but really getting serious.
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