B&B Happy Goats....journal

[CntryBoy777]

Poor chickens!!....I guess ya will be the topic of discussion on the roost pole tonite....
I'm a born and bred southerner and never ate limas and rice....either pinto or kidney beans, but most of what we ate didn't include rice....cause it had to be bought....we had either purple hull or crowder peas and cornbread....there were about 3yrs that we ate that at least 3-4 nites a week....since I've been on my own there have been some lean meals, but never have climbed back into that rut again.........the only beans we had were speckled butterbeans....and when we did have kidney beans, it wasn't what is called red beans and rice....that is Cajun and nobody but me, would eat anything spicy........during that period, I got in trouble for picking the blooms off the beans.....I was tired of eating em so often.....

 

[Bruce]

guess it's a "southern thang

Sounds like a heartburn thang to me!

never thought i would hope for male goats

Don't hope TOO hard or next year they might all be male!

1st time doing it

Success on the first try - priceless!

the darlings were sitting on the fence this morning laughing at us for not having the hot wire done yet.....I told DH "I'll fix them."

You do know that if they want to they can actually stand on a hotwire. I don't know how they can balance on such a small wire but I've seen Cassie do it once.

when i grew up it was canned peas and instant potatos and SPAM...YUCK, barf, discusting!!!

I agree 100%

 

[CntryBoy777]

Oh, just so ya know....Spam was a Treat for us, but those salmon patties were my "barf point"....even today, I can't eat salmon....doesn't make it past the taste buds.........and yes, I've tried some salmon that others swore was just Wonderful....smoked and all.........once Mom didn't have salmon and used mackerel instead.....I went to bed without supper that nite....and we ate sooo many peas I had to start putting sorghrum on them just to get them down....

 

[greybeard]

Anything can stand or perch on just the hot wire...think doves sitting on a 40,000v powerline. The circuit has to be made complete somehow, otherwise there is no current flow thru the biological life form on the wire.

I have eaten a LOT of Spam in my lifetime, tho none recently. Had Spam sandwiches for school lunch frequently and we had it for lunch at home in summer, usually simmered sliced in bbq sauce. Tried it again a few years ago and found the recipe had changed. It's way worse than it was in the '60s and early '70s. (getting real Spam in a care package from home when I was overseas was a treat..it was much better than the c-ration equivalent, which was called 'meal, pork loaf') There is a product called Armour Treet that looks all the world like a big rectangle shaped hot dog, with the same texture & consistency of cheap bologna, vienna sausage..or..........dog food. Pretty bad tasting and smelling.
All those type products have a LOT of salt in them.


We eat a lot of rice here. Made chicken/sausage gumbo just last Friday night, and of course served it on rice. I prefer the Jasmine rice but it is more expensive as there is very very little aromatic rice grown in the US. I do not care for Basmati rice altho it has a significantly lower glycemic index compared to 'regular' rice and slightly lower than Jasmine rice. I can't imagine cooking and not having a rice cooker available.
All retail rice has gotten relatively more expensive nowadays.

 

[Bruce]

@ Bruce. They can stand on the hot wire ...what about the squirrels ? Don't tell me they won't get zapped

Nope, no zap. If your fence is metal but on wood posts, you probably want to stick a few ground rods in along the span and connect them to the fence. The other option is to run a ground wire along the fence from the charger point close enough to the hot wire that something climbing the fence would have to hit both of them.

 

[AmberLops]

@greybeard @CntryBoy777. ..you both ain't right, liking that SPAM

In Hawaii it's pretty much all they eat! Spam and Vienna sausages!
Spam and eggs, loco moco, spam musubi...everything else too
I used to love spam until I opened a can that had hide and hair on it....

 

[greybeard]

In Hawaii it's pretty much all they eat! Spam and Vienna sausages!
Spam and eggs, loco moco, spam musubi...everything else too
I used to love spam until I opened a can that had hide and hair on it....

I lived in Hawaii for a while when in the military.
Loco moco is usually made with a burger patty or ground meat and not spam, heaped on rice and covered with gravy of some kind, and I 'guess' I can see where spam might work. The gravy is what makes the dish tasty tho, so I guess it would have to include packaged gravy mix since fried Spam wouldn't make a gravy.
Sometimes, ground or sliced pork is used, but it can be made with fish and poultry as well.

 

[AmberLops]

I lived in Hawaii for a while when in the military.
Loco moco is usually made with a burger patty or ground meat and not spam, heaped on rice and covered with gravy of some kind, and I 'guess' I can see where spam might work. The gravy is what makes the dish tasty tho, so I guess it would have to include packaged gravy mix since fried Spam wouldn't make a gravy.
Sometimes, ground or sliced pork is used, but it can be made with fish and poultry as well.

I grew up there
I used to eat at a loco moco restaurant and their best-selling dish was the spam loco moco.

 

[Baymule]

1st time doing it....did cold process and got 12 regular size lilly of the valley sented bars, plus 6 cupcake size and made 6 BUCK SOAP bars, for "that time of year"....not going to stink like a buck for days on end again !

Wilbur's Wonder Soap? Pig fat or not, that name has stuck.

 

[Baymule]

My Mom was a terrible cook. Even as a kid, my survival instinct kicked in and I refused to let her "teach" me anything concerning food. I left home at 17, knowing how to make a hamburger patty and that's about it. Old women mentored me, old women taught me how to cook, make bread, freeze vegetables, make cream corn, can, etc. Now that I am an old woman, I love the opportunity to pass on what it took me years to accumulate. Pay it forward and pass it on.