Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

Always a good idea to boil ribs first unless you are doing a real slow cook {below 250F}.

And it is not that chittlin's are good, it just that they are part of the pig and as such, should be ate. Black folks and poor whites alike ate everything that didn't run off. My Granny Messer made renowned chittlin bread. That is about the best way to eat them, in a thick hoecake of cornbread. It spreads the taste around more

I agree, I always par boil ribs for 15-20 minutes before going to grill or oven.

 

[daugen]

I agree, I always par boil ribs for 15-20 minutes before going to grill or oven.

and that's why mine were dry after cooking them long enough "the other way"
I bought them, rubbed them and on the grill. With I guess predictable results.
At least they tasted good, with a dry rub that didn't have sugar in it.

Training for just about anything is a good thing. My reference wasn't meant to imply waste, in this example...
And unfortunately in training lot of soldiers get killed, seems helicopters crashing are always an problem. But when you are trained to go in
harm's way, you can't pussyfoot around if you want to be the one that survives.

I enjoy watching YouTube plane videos, particularly in foreign countries and islands where the scenery can be amazing.
And I've watched a number of Warthog videos, and I would say that plane has done very well by us and likely will continue to
for awhile. So in this case, I'd say it's very good tax payer dollars at work. Which is what I should have said the first time.

 

[rswyan]

31.8F and overcast ... one forecast I've seen for Tuesday says 67F for a high, another one says 70F.

Whichever it is, it will be appreciated.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good Morning (actually afternoon now) from Candia. It was around 15F this morning
and now a sunny 36F.
I'm checking out photo upload with >1Mb photos. I thought that interesting wildlife
in my area would be suitable and maybe interesting, since I haven't any recent seat
time photos (no snow) to exhibit.

Back in the fall of 2010, we had a porcupine who visited us on a daily basis.

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In January of this year, a group of four deer paid us a daily visit looking for food.

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Then one not so wild - Max modeling his new Patriot's jacket.

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Looks like uploading photos with >1 Mb works again!:cool2:

So did you have that porcupine tamed? Where you nervous?

Thanks for posting some really cool pics.

 

[toppop52]

Had 2 A-10 Warthogs "bombing and strafing", the airport, which has a runway about 300 yards from my house, yesterday. Quite a sight, they're old planes but still the best ground attack aircraft ever built.


I hope you didn't hear that BBRRRRRRRRRR sound or something around there surely got blown to bits...
That really had to be cool to watch and be thankful you weren't on the receiving end.
Just your tax dollars hard at work.

This airport gets used for military training a lot. We get ASW planes, AWACS, Ospreys, and Thursday we got a very low altitude buzz from an F-18 Super Hornet, I was in the garage when I heard it coming, walked to the window in time to see it bank hard right and start to climb from about 500', which turned into 5000' in a hurry. There are some kind of maneuvers going on, supposedly in two adjoining counties, but we're getting some overflight.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Had 2 A-10 Warthogs "bombing and strafing", the airport, which has a runway about 300 yards from my house, yesterday. Quite a sight, they're old planes but still the best ground attack aircraft ever built.
%0 today, then 60's and 70's for the next two weeks they say. Still have a little snow from Friday laying around.

Yesterday, we had 2 AH-64 Apache helicopters playing around our small airport here. Usually on Thursday evenings, we have some blackhawks practicing touch and goes.

The news said they were bringing home the B1's from Iraq and now going to send in the B52's to bomb ISIS. I guess the candidates bragging about bombing the __it out of ISIS has led to something being done.

 

[newbury]

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now did you know that a chittering is a cooked chitterling, aka chitlin? None of which any sane person would put in their mouth btw. And I expect Larro to correct me to tell me how good pigs intestines are. And hog maw which apparently is often eaten as "soul food" also. I read the instructions for cleaning chitterlings and no thanks, complete turn off. Although, Eric's ancestors ate them, but now are too "civilized" to do so:

Chitterlings were common peasant food in medieval England, and remained a staple of the diet of low-income families right up until the late 19th century. Thomas Hardy wrote of chitterlings in his novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, when the father of a poor family, John Durbeyfield, talks of what he would like to eat:

Tell 'em at home that I should like for supper, well, lamb's fry if they can get it; and if they can't, black-pot; and if they can't get that, well, chitterlings will do.

Ok, smart man, first he wanted some of Eric's lamb. then...I'm stumped here, what is black pot? Lots of info on cooking in black iron pots but not a recipe. Did it mean anything and everything that went in the big pot?

Do you realize what PART of Eric's lamb he was referring to?

Lamb fries are lamb testicles used as food.

In the film Funny Farm, the main character, Andy Farmer (Chevy Chase), breaks a local record by eating thirty lamb fries, only to discover what they actually were and spit the thirty-first out in revulsion.

from wikipedia. Just appeared on "Chopped", a cooking show SWMBO watches.

Be careful if you get invited to a dinner of oysters and fries

 

[RedNeckGeek]

As for today it's going to be an easy day. Walk birds, check cows, and then go get the harrow from dad's.

Something I keep meaning to ask you, Farmer: How do you walk 20,000 chickens at a time?

 

[Trails End]

So did you have that porcupine tamed? Where you nervous?

Thanks for posting some really cool pics.

Actually, my wife had the most interaction with the little guy from the
first time he appeared here around March 2010. There was still snow
on the ground and he was feeding on bird seed dropped from a feeder
near the house. Being young and 'cute' (the porcupine, not me) created
an instant attraction for my wife. She threw sun flower seeds in his
direction and, at first, he'd back away, and then return to eat the seeds.
Needless to say, it didn't take too many sessions to ease his apprehension
and he no longer backed off when she approached him.

In the fall, she was outside hand feeding him from a small dish of seeds,
and I saw a perfect photo opportunity and managed to get the pictures
that I posted. I was a little apprehensive when he climbed on my shoe,
and I slowly backed away, after snapping a picture, before he tried to
climb up my pant legs.

She has that effect on the wild turkeys too. When she goes outside
with a coffee can filled with cracked corn, within two minutes or so,
the flock come running from out of nowhere, with little fear of her.

Like the pics thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Thomas! I always enjoy capturing some unique wildlife photos when the
opportunity arises. The bear photos were the most exciting, as they usually
appear when least expected, resulting in a rush to grab the camera before
they leave.

Here's another rush job!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 48F @ 8:30AM. Scattered thunderstorms during the morning - with a steadier rain and gusty winds arriving this afternoon. High near 55F. Winds SSE at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

We picked up about an inch of rain yesterday, at least that's what made it into the gauge as the winds were blowing hard the whole time. Gusts in the 40s were common, the highest being 47. I'll have to take a walk around the property to see if any more trees came down.

All that wind led to two momentary power losses, something that's rare here. The second one was after dark, but since there was a nice fire going in the wood stove I was just a little disappointed that the lights came back on after only a few seconds.

More winds and rain are on tap for tonight.

Found a neat set of weather maps for the Interstate Highway System yesterday. It clearly shows this most recent storm moving east over the next several days, a strong hint that I'd better pick I40 instead of I80.

Drew, I've had great luck with baby back ribs on the grill by just running one end burner all the way down while the ribs were placed on the grate all the way at the other end. The temperature hovers around 225F, and the ribs will be happy there all day. There's a box for wood chips at the lit end, but I just throw a handful on the heat deflector three or four times during the run. Four to six hours gives plenty of time for smoke to penetrate, and the low temperature leaves the rib meat tender, moist, and almost falling off the bone.

Eric, I think I heard the little hilltop lamb crying "I'm on top of the world, Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a!" :laughing:

Glad to hear a lot of you putting away the heavy snow equipment. A sure sign spring is in the air!