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[Mitty38]

I read once that every north American bird species is edible . That's knowledge like knowing tomatoes are fruit .
Like many things edible you will find some of them not particularly palatable . That's wisdom like knowing tomatoes don't go in fruit salad and probably wouldn't make really tasty jelly .

You never had Tomato Jelly, or Jam ????? "Goes by both names".
Nothin like a tomato jelly sandwich. My mom used to make it all the time.
Maybe that's just an Ohio Pennsylvania thing? Us Buckeyes will eat just about anything in a jam, pie, or sandwhich.

 

[Winelover]

Was born in PA. Never heard of tomato jelly. I love ketchup but I ain't eating a ketchup sandwich. Tried apple butter, once. Don't like that, either.

 

[Mitty38]

Pennsylvania Tomato Jam | How to Make Tomato Jam

One of the best ways to coax sweetness out of ripe Pennsylvania tomatoes is by turning them into tomato jam, flecked with ginger and lemon zest.

www.paeats.com

Here is a link for a quick stove top version. Usually called Jam made this way, or Jelly if a little Knox all added, strained a bit and canned.
But the terms are interchangable.
If you do not like apple butter then this probably would not be for you.

 

[blackthorn]

Wife has a recipe for green tomato mincemeat. No animals are injured in production!

 

[RBHarter]

Well something new every day .

 

[CZ93X62]

And you eastern folk think our chile rellenos are exotic. Hijo la!

 

[Bret4207]

I'm telling man, you haven't lived until you've had good Poutine! The best foods, IMO, are real simple, basic foods cooked properly by someone who knows what they're doing. I'm not at all into spicy foods and I like my chili with lots of kidney beans in it, with cornbread of course! My eyes water just getting a faint wiff of some of the habernero type sauces Gordy likes. He can have my share! OTOH, the kid would starve to death before eating a raisin!

To each their own!

 

[Winelover]

Robins were back again, yesterday afternoon. Brought their buddies..............flock of Cedar Waxwings.






Quite often they travel together. Both will eat the berries off the (Juniperus virginiana) Eastern Red Cedar tree. Which I have scattered about the acreage. Preferred by the Waxwing. Though, we did see a few Robins dining on the juniper berries, yesterday.

 

[dale2242]

We had an elderberry bush that was loaded with berries behind the shot.
A flock of cedar waxwings came in and cleaned them out in one day.

 

[Winelover]

They do that to the pokeweed plants, around here. Bluebirds, also. What the Pileated woodpecker misses.

 

[CZ93X62]

Speaking of SNOW.......two flurries here today during the mid-afternoon hours. Yup! Right here in Rose Parade Country.

I am a survivor of The Great Palm Springs Blizzard of 1979. There aren't many of us left, you know. Among the *interesting* calls-for-service that we received at Indio Station were close to a dozen demands from well-to-do frostbacks (local epithet for over-entitled snowbirds) from the Rust Belt wintering in the Low Desert that my agency oblige hoteliers to refund room/condo charges BECAUSE IT SNOWED. I kid you not.

 

[L Ross]

Robins were back again, yesterday afternoon. Brought their buddies..............flock of Cedar Waxwings.

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Quite often they travel together. Both will eat the berries off the (Juniperus virginiana) Eastern Red Cedar tree. Which I have scattered about the acreage. Preferred by the Waxwing. Though, we did see a few Robins dining on the juniper berries, yesterday.

I told Sue about your Cedar Wax Wings, she said, "Ooooohhh."

 

[Ian]

And you eastern folk think our chile rellenos are exotic. Hijo la!

Standard fare here!

 

[Ian]

We used to get huge flocks of migratory robins and cedar waxwings every fall, usually they'd stay until early spring and sort of straggle back home. The robins would scratch for bugs on the cedar-covered hillsides and eat plenty of cedar berries. The waxwings are the only bird I know of that will eat pyrocanthus berries, and a flock of 50 can clean a loaded bush in ten minutes.

I suppose the statute of limitations has run out on my juvenile exploits by now so I can admit that hunting robins as a kid with a .22 Benjamin pellet rifle or a .32-caliber percussion rifle was one of my all-time best remembered thrills. The robins eat really well if treated like dove or quail.

 

[fiver]

they make a pretty satisfying thud when they come down for about 30' in the air too.

 

[CZ93X62]

Today's brunch (after all sorts of errand-running all ^%&$ morning) was chorizo con huevos as a peace offering from SWMBO. Terms accepted.