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Post by luvtohomeschool on Jan 22, 2012 11:04:48 GMT -4
Wayne, You can also make ginger candy. I also put ginger in elderberry syrup we take each day to keep healthy. You can also put it is tea...it is very strong so be careful. I love my excaliber dehdrator too. BTW, I am still around and read the posts all the time, I just am not signed in and usually can't remember my password so I don't post.
Trudy
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Post by azlonerider on Jan 23, 2012 9:03:25 GMT -4
Yesterday Trudy mixed up our first batch of bar soap ever. She used a simple recipe that allowed us focus on the process. In future batches we will get more inventive and use different odors, and all natural additives. Eventually we will be making soap with extra goats milk we have. Also eventually I would love to be able make the lye solution and not have to buy it either. If we get comfortable enough with the soap making process it would be nice to market an artisan line of soap products.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Jan 23, 2012 10:13:08 GMT -4
The lady that advertises in The Valley has a BIG business going. After she started advertising with us and set up 4 retail outlets in stores, her business took off to the point that she had to close her little shop at home so as to dedicate more time to production.
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Post by Martin on Jan 25, 2012 10:52:34 GMT -4
Yikes!!!
I'm not going to mess with my one neighbor lady!
She cut a couch up in piece and set some of it out each week in garbage bags with regular garbage to get rid of it rather than pay to have it hauled. LOL
What a mild winter this has been so far....knock on wood! I usually dread this time of year!
~Martin
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Jan 25, 2012 17:28:11 GMT -4
Smart lady, what else has she sent to the trash?....LOL
I am digging the mild weather too, a lot less work keeping the house warm.
Was just out at the Amish farm for eggs and milk, they have been busy, I ordered 30) 6" X 6" X 6' locust to make my new raised strawberry bed to be ready for April 1st, they have about 20 of them finished already. Next I am going to have them cut locust for a wood pavilion that I am building this summer.
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Post by rAcErRicK on Jan 25, 2012 20:29:27 GMT -4
Yikes!!! I'm not going to mess with my one neighbor lady! She cut a couch up in piece and set some of it out each week in garbage bags with regular garbage to get rid of it rather than pay to have it hauled. LOL What a mild winter this has been so far....knock on wood!ough, I usually dread this time of year! ~Martin I can tell you where your bad winter went, I have it DOWN HERE ! And you can have it back ! Covered my 'maters up a few weeks ago for two nites with the misters on and they were happy both mornings at somewhere around 25*. A week ago a surprise cold front took 'em completely out ! My local TV station let me down big time. 5 plants may survive it but all the leaves are gone, so if they make it, I'm way set back. Some of the cold hardy stuff even got burned. Water hoses and PVC lines were all frozen solid. Seriously though, glad you guys caught a break, hope it holds out for you. I'm sure gonna' be more alert. A friends wife works for a huge citrus company and she now has me on her mailing list for their cold weather warnings, so I should be covered now. Says they are extremely accurate, they have to be. No one's missing in your neighborhood are they ~martin ?
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Post by Martin on Jan 28, 2012 22:45:32 GMT -4
A week ago a surprise cold front took 'em completely out ! I'm sorry to hear that. ~Martin
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Post by azlonerider on Jan 28, 2012 22:45:38 GMT -4
Today we went to the farmers market and got seeds, 2 different kinds of tomato's, a small bell peppers, anaheim peppers, jalepeno peppers, spinach, beets and we have bean seeds I bought last week.
We are starting to cook in the dutch over out in the yard with briquettes and/or coals from a fire, it's a skill that is going to be needed, I believe. So tonight I cooked a meal outside in the dutch oven. It came out real tasty, the recipe is below, we ate it on a bed of rice:
Sweet And Spicy Polish Sausage
4 lbs. smoked polish sausages; cut into 1/2" slices 1/2 cup spicy mustard 2 med. yellow onions; halved then sliced 4 cloves garlic; minced 2 cups brown sugar 1 cup beer (your favorite) I used my home brew
To a 12" Dutch oven add sausage and onion. In a medium bowl combine remaining ingredients and stir to mix well. Pour over sausages and onion and then stir to mix. Place lid on oven and bake using 8-10 briquettes bottom and 12-14 briquettes top for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes.
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Post by Martin on Jan 28, 2012 22:53:48 GMT -4
re: ginger Weis has Honduran ginger roots for $1.59 a pound, that's a bargain!!! ;D Ginger root is $3.99 a pound a Wegman's!! I bought 8-10 small hands, came to about $2.40 I'll soak those in warm water and then plant them. I read one so called expert say that the soaking doesn't help, but in my experience it wakes up the roots and gets them going quicker. ~Martin
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Post by Martin on Jan 28, 2012 22:58:15 GMT -4
Today we went to the farmers market and got seeds, 2 different kinds of tomato's, a small bell peppers, anaheim peppers, jalepeno peppers, spinach, beets and we have bean seeds I bought last week. We are starting to cook in the dutch over out in the yard with briquettes and/or coals from a fire, it's a skill that is going to be needed, I believe. So tonight I cooked a meal outside in the dutch oven. It came out real tasty, the recipe is below, we ate it on a bed of rice: Sweet And Spicy Polish Sausage 4 lbs. smoked polish sausages; cut into 1/2" slices 1/2 cup spicy mustard 2 med. yellow onions; halved then sliced 4 cloves garlic; minced 2 cups brown sugar 1 cup beer (your favorite) I used my home brew To a 12" Dutch oven add sausage and onion. In a medium bowl combine remaining ingredients and stir to mix well. Pour over sausages and onion and then stir to mix. Place lid on oven and bake using 8-10 briquettes bottom and 12-14 briquettes top for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes. Sausage sounds good. I've got some polish sausage in the fridge curing now. I'll stuff and smoke 'em tomorrow. Excellent with 'kraut too. I'm pumping out a 4 pound batch of fresh 'kraut every 2 weeks now. ~Martin
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Post by Martin on Jan 28, 2012 23:01:30 GMT -4
Now that another one of my investments has finally paid off and I have some extra money coming in, I think I'll get some rabbits and pharaoh quail down here. ~Martin
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Jan 29, 2012 10:03:00 GMT -4
Martin is on the COMEBACK!!
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Post by luvtohomeschool on Jan 29, 2012 10:36:09 GMT -4
I will add that our daughter who doesn't like polish sausages came back for seconds last night. She thought the sweet and spicy polish sausages was great. We are going to start working on different dutch oven recipes. We also want to make a solar oven. In the summer I bake on the grill so we aren't heating up the house so much.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Jan 30, 2012 17:45:42 GMT -4
Honing those skills before it becomes necessity is smart.
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