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That’s Cheap!
Now, I am firmly aware that the Fourth of July holiday just recently came and went. Like me, most Americans probably spent all their extra money on blackjack and hookers. I understand the financial straits this might have left you … Continue reading
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Makin’ Bacon!
Bacon is delicious. This is known. Even if you don’t eat meat for any of the myriad (and valid) reasons, you know that bacon is delicious. It hits all of our major pleasure centers at once. It is salty, sweet, … Continue reading
Posted in Meat Stuff
Tagged Bacon, Grocery store, Home, Meat, Michael Ruhlman, Pork, Pork belly, Smoking
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Capturing A Honeybee Swarm
Spring time is swarm time. Swarms are great ways to save money for a budding beekeeper or even an experienced one because swarms are free…after you catch them! honeybees swarm for a number of reasons. Sometimes a queen gets old … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Bee, Beekeeper, Beekeeping, Colony, Honey bee, Missouri, Plant & Food Research, Swarm (comics)
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Raised Beds!
Here in the foothills of the Missouri Ozarks, we’re not exactly known for our stellar soil. Actually, the term “unctuous red clay” came from the soil around these withered old mountains. So, unless you live in a river valley, most … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Gardens, Leaf vegetable, Plastic, Raised-bed gardening, Soil, The Bed, Wood
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Chickens Have Returned!!
Did you think this post was about birds? Chickens don’t migrate, where would they have gone? No, this post is about one of my favorite edible mushrooms, the chicken mushroom. I found the first one of the year yesterday! There … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicken, Cook, Edible mushroom, Fungus, Home, Laetiporus, Missouri, Mushroom, Polypore
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Dry Curing Salami
One of our many hobbies is to cure meat. Just seems like a good skill to have. Dry cured sausage is shelf stable, needing no refrigeration and it’s just damn tasty. We talked about doing this for years until we finally … Continue reading
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Tagged cure, Curing (food preservation), Curing salt, Meat, Michael Ruhlman, PH, Salami, Smoking (cooking)
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Some words on reviews
I have thanked folks for reviews many times. I would like to do that again. THANK YOU!!! Reading a review, even a three star review, makes me so happy I want to roll around in a hedge of blueberry bushes. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Arts, Author, Book, Literature, Reading (process), Review, self-publishing
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So it begins….
Hello and welcome to my new virtual hangout. Homebrews on tap over in the back, various meads are chilled and waiting. Grab a drink and plop down on the couch. We’re all friends here. This is going to be a … Continue reading
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TravisMohrman 