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chorizo and eggs is my all time favorite breakfast when camping. Easy to make, rolled in a flour tortilla. (Gotta get the good stuff though)
andouille has never been on a plate in front of me. I just looked up some resepies, and drool got all over my shirt. Some shrimp and andouille are on the grocery list. I would imagine there are differences? Like chunky chorizo vs. The super ground up stuff.
Mark
andouille has never been on a plate in front of me. I just looked up some resepies, and drool got all over my shirt. Some shrimp and andouille are on the grocery list. I would imagine there are differences? Like chunky chorizo vs. The super ground up stuff.
Mark
Funny story about chorizo.
My wife and I make spaghetti with loose Italian sausage instead of ground beef. She once called and asked me to get some made for dinner. I grabbed the sausage from the freezer and got started. Not long after the sausage got cooking I noticed an odd aroma. Looked at the package and wondered when the hell she started buying chorizo!
Yep, we had spaghetti with chorizo. Nothing like some fine MexItalian dining.
My wife and I make spaghetti with loose Italian sausage instead of ground beef. She once called and asked me to get some made for dinner. I grabbed the sausage from the freezer and got started. Not long after the sausage got cooking I noticed an odd aroma. Looked at the package and wondered when the hell she started buying chorizo!
Yep, we had spaghetti with chorizo. Nothing like some fine MexItalian dining.
smokeywolf
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Do love chorizo and eggs for breakfast.
I make pretty good Italian sausage. Also make very good spaghetti sauce, as per family and friends. In addition to spaghetti, we use the spaghetti sauce for dipping garlic bread in and for homemade pizza.
I make pretty good Italian sausage. Also make very good spaghetti sauce, as per family and friends. In addition to spaghetti, we use the spaghetti sauce for dipping garlic bread in and for homemade pizza.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I dealt with Amerigas some time back and then switched to a local propane dealer. Now that little guy has been bought out by Ferrell Gas which has a rep just as bad as Ameirgas. OTOH, I have 4 or 5 local oil companies I can deal with that undercut each other at every chance. This alone makes me hesitant to jump on the propane bandwagon. Plus, you run out of propane you are done. I can always get diesel to run in the furnace if I stick to oil. Where propane shines is long term storage. Outside of that it's a wash IMO.
Oh good, more rain. People are getting a bit stressed here with the rain. The Gubermints of the US and Canada came out with some new plan a few years back for regulating water levels on the St Lawrence and Lake Ontario. 2 out of 3 years the new plan has resulted in flooding. So all the lake shore and riverside people are screaming bloody murder. Meanwhile the farmers are dropping like flies around here. The tourists aren't touring in the rain and fuel prices are going up. Happy, happy, joy, joy....
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my wife is getting set to retire and wants to move south to be near her sisters. I was dreading this, but going with her is lots cheaper than a divorce. Moving south means 200 miles, not Fla or Georgia. So I got thinking that where she wants to go is 15 minutes or less from the Vermont border. If I gotta live in a blue state, why not live in a blue state with good gun laws and lower taxes?! So I opened up that option and she says, "You said we couldn't move to Vermont because they didn't need NYS Troopers there!" I pointed out I've been retired for 10 years and that that discussion as 25 years ago! Sheesh!
Oh good, more rain. People are getting a bit stressed here with the rain. The Gubermints of the US and Canada came out with some new plan a few years back for regulating water levels on the St Lawrence and Lake Ontario. 2 out of 3 years the new plan has resulted in flooding. So all the lake shore and riverside people are screaming bloody murder. Meanwhile the farmers are dropping like flies around here. The tourists aren't touring in the rain and fuel prices are going up. Happy, happy, joy, joy....
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my wife is getting set to retire and wants to move south to be near her sisters. I was dreading this, but going with her is lots cheaper than a divorce. Moving south means 200 miles, not Fla or Georgia. So I got thinking that where she wants to go is 15 minutes or less from the Vermont border. If I gotta live in a blue state, why not live in a blue state with good gun laws and lower taxes?! So I opened up that option and she says, "You said we couldn't move to Vermont because they didn't need NYS Troopers there!" I pointed out I've been retired for 10 years and that that discussion as 25 years ago! Sheesh!
RBHarter
West Central AR
Man they never forget do they ?? 
I do love it when management systems that have flowed well when things were over the top and barely a trickle for the long term have worked 98% no loss and somebody that's never seen the whole picture sells a new program that streamlines everything but has a crash and burn effect when you're outside of the middle averages .
I do love it when management systems that have flowed well when things were over the top and barely a trickle for the long term have worked 98% no loss and somebody that's never seen the whole picture sells a new program that streamlines everything but has a crash and burn effect when you're outside of the middle averages .
JonB
Halcyon member
Rain and Lake levels.
While my little corner of MN hasn't been too wet, some corners have been, according to the TV news last night. Many of the 10,000 lakes are at record levels...or at least the 5 lakes that the TV news anchor mentioned anyway, LOL. They interviewed the DNR and said the number of Lake associations that are requesting permits to pump water out of land locked lakes is up. The next bit is what I found to be interesting. The TV news Anchor said that we haven't have any drought conditions since 2014, that help control lake levels. BTW, I am plenty old enough to remember hearing the word CRISIS mentioned in reporting of droughts [in MN] in the past.
While my little corner of MN hasn't been too wet, some corners have been, according to the TV news last night. Many of the 10,000 lakes are at record levels...or at least the 5 lakes that the TV news anchor mentioned anyway, LOL. They interviewed the DNR and said the number of Lake associations that are requesting permits to pump water out of land locked lakes is up. The next bit is what I found to be interesting. The TV news Anchor said that we haven't have any drought conditions since 2014, that help control lake levels. BTW, I am plenty old enough to remember hearing the word CRISIS mentioned in reporting of droughts [in MN] in the past.
L Ross
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Best chorizo I ever made used pineapple vinegar given to me by a Mexican Grocer/Butcher named Issais (sp?), Alvarez. I did a store security survey for him after he suffered some thefts. We got to talking and he told me how much loved venison. Next time I stopped in I brought him a package of back loin. He called it Venado, and you'd have thought I gave him the greatest gift ever. So we are talking sausage making and he takes me in the back room and shows me a vat of fermenting pineapple wine. He saved all the scraps from skinning pineapples to sell in the store. Then he made pineapple wine, and when the wine was alcoholic enough he added the mother of vinegar he had kept alive ever since immigrating from Mexico. He gave me a gallon jug of the vinegar to make chorizo with. My only dilemma is how spicy to make the chorizo as I can take more heat than my wife and most of our friends can. The chorizo just gets pumped into plastic hamburger tubes because there isn't much point in casing it only to cut it out of the casings to use it.
Now the andouille. We case that in hog casings and make 1/4 lb. sausages. These are smoked for a couple of hours over hickory and come out of the smoker a nice mahogany color. We use it in our corrupted Yankee recipes of Jambalaya, creole gumboish stuff, and bastardized red beans and rice. We had a meat mix of 16 pounds of lean venison, and 16 pounds of pork shoulder and a little fattier trim.
Believe it or not, Hillshire Farms commercial andouille is not bad if you don't make your own or have a good butcher shop that makes it.
Hawk
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Got back from taking my daughter to Las Vegas for her 40 th birthday.
Flight was delayed 7 hours due to a blown tire.
Didn't turn the house front door key until 5:00 AM this morning.
We were up for 23 hours! Getting to old for that kind of stuff.
Only good side was free drinks because of the delay. We did some damage to their liquor supply.
Uber from the airport to the house, so we weren't driving!
Flight was delayed 7 hours due to a blown tire.
Didn't turn the house front door key until 5:00 AM this morning.
We were up for 23 hours! Getting to old for that kind of stuff.
Only good side was free drinks because of the delay. We did some damage to their liquor supply.
Uber from the airport to the house, so we weren't driving!
fiver
Well-Known Member
wish I'd have known you were going, my Little brother is down there right now doing some work out at Nellis.
his wife drove down to hang out and spend some of his out of town money, and his Boy had made the trip last weekend down from college in southern Utah.
I bet they would have enjoyed having dinner or drinks with another shooter Reloader type guy, and his wife.
well I'm sunburned, wet and welted from the weather we have had in the last few hours, but I'm pretty much done digging holes in the dirt, and can finish up the little pergola walkway.
well,,, except for the trellis part I forgot yesterday.
if I can get that done anytime soon,, [rolling my eyes] I can focus on the walkway's that are gonna cut through the lawn, and maybe start laying out the dirt mound for the flower/bush bed that's going in the lawn between the crabapple tree and the green house. [for phase-4 of the back yard project]
his wife drove down to hang out and spend some of his out of town money, and his Boy had made the trip last weekend down from college in southern Utah.
I bet they would have enjoyed having dinner or drinks with another shooter Reloader type guy, and his wife.
well I'm sunburned, wet and welted from the weather we have had in the last few hours, but I'm pretty much done digging holes in the dirt, and can finish up the little pergola walkway.
well,,, except for the trellis part I forgot yesterday.
if I can get that done anytime soon,, [rolling my eyes] I can focus on the walkway's that are gonna cut through the lawn, and maybe start laying out the dirt mound for the flower/bush bed that's going in the lawn between the crabapple tree and the green house. [for phase-4 of the back yard project]
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freebullet
Guest
Finished up a nasty overhead mold remediation project today. Having papr's for such tasks is priceless.
L Ross
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Arrrggghhhhh, string trimmer. Ran mine for almost two hours, wearing LaCrosse knee boots and some of the time was in standing water and mud. The places I have not been able to mow, and in front of my 80 yard berm. Then my wife and I got the two John Deere's out and mowed the yard. Then I changed oil and filter in the 425 while Sue scraped the deck. I'll sharpen the blades, grease the zerks, and reinstall the deck tomorrow. Managed to take the time to shoot 4" squares with my 513 a couple of times today. Once late this morning, and again this evening. I have 15, 4" squares cut out of 1/4" mild steel standing on a mine cart rail at 80 yards. I have been working on my off hand shooting leading up to next week's Summer Solstice Shoot here. The 513 is a good understudy for my .308 Model 700 SPS in a 40-X stock. I got 10 for 15 this morning, 8 for 15 this evening, and it took me 10 shots to clean up the remaining 7. I don't know if any of you guys have seen Target Sports USA's prices on Aguila Super Extra at $169 per case with free shipping. Good ammo for the money.Ran the string trimmer for about 40 min. the sprayed eight gallons of round up. Oh boy, Friday night fun.....
fiver
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I almost bought one of those string cutters today.
there are places in the yard it would be pretty efficient, but I'm cheap and the kids need something to do.
snip,,,, snip, snip.
gotta do the roundup spray thing pretty soon but we keep having little thunderstorms, todays were accompanied by dime size hail.
I was okay with it until I took one straight in the ear.
there are places in the yard it would be pretty efficient, but I'm cheap and the kids need something to do.
snip,,,, snip, snip.
gotta do the roundup spray thing pretty soon but we keep having little thunderstorms, todays were accompanied by dime size hail.
I was okay with it until I took one straight in the ear.
Ian
Notorious member
I just came in from tying off one end of a run of high-tensile game fence, tomorrow I'll stretch it and tie off the other end. Working with a headlamp in the dark when it's only 80⁰ is much preferable to 100⁰ in direct sun, but driving tee posts and hammering stretcher wedges is ungodly loud so some things just have to wait for daytime.