Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

I just took some smoked beef brisket out of the freezer and and I'm going to try using it to make some Beef Stroganoff tonight. We have just about used up the brisket that we have in the freezer so it's time to cook some more.

 

[Beekissed]

I forgot to post something about the corn we bought at the Amish farm the other day. One thing we found a couple of years ago is like a Baker's Dozen is 13 donuts, an Amish bag of corn is sold as five dozen ears and usually winds up being six dozen ears. By the time we got it all processed, we put a bit over 16 pounds of corn in the freezer which will last us through the winter.

We get that around here too! We normally get two bags of that and can it up each summer. It's great tasting corn and, when not canned in a pressure canner, tastes just like it was cut off the cob.

We HWB/steam can our corn.

 

[Mike CHS]

We don't use the pressure canner for corn. We just cut it off the ear, freeze it in shallow layers and then vacuum seal it and back into the freezer. Tastes just like fresh cut.

 

[RollingAcres]

I just took some smoked beef brisket out of the freezer and and I'm going to try using it to make some Beef Stroganoff tonight. We have just about used up the brisket that we have in the freezer so it's time to cook some more.

Mmmm I bet that beef stroganoff would be delicious!

 

[AmberLops]

Did you have any damage from the storm last night?
It wasn't too bad here thankfully.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Mr. @Mike CHS,

Have you read in the news recently that researchers have figured out a way to separate male sperm from female sperm fairly reliably and (hopefully) inexpensively? They used mice sperm for their test but saw applications in farm animals as quite feasible. Just think, if you wanted 4-5 ewes for every ram, you could do that. Miss @farmerjan could do the same for her dairy cows. Even Miss @AmberLops could do so for her rabbits. And yes, it could be applied to humans as well.

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Mike CHS]

Did you have any damage from the storm last night?
It wasn't too bad here thankfully.

We had a lot of noise but that's about it. Total rainfall was under 1/2" and that came down earlier.

@Senile_Texas_Aggie I had not heard about that process.

 

[Mike CHS]

I have to say that smoked beef brisket makes a great tasting stroganoff. I made it with a red sauce rather than white and although Teresa was skeptical when she saw it, she loved it.

 

[RollingAcres]

I made it with a red sauce rather than white and although Teresa was skeptical when she saw it, she loved it.

Red sauce as in like a tomato sauce for stroganoff?

 

[Mike CHS]

Red sauce as in like a tomato sauce for stroganoff?

It goes with the smoked meat better. It's prepared like the white sauce except after the onions are sauteed add sliced mushrooms and garlic. 1 1/2 TBS of Worcestershire sauce. I add a cup and a half of Chianti and the diced meat and let it simmer for 10-15 minutes then add 2-3 table spoons of tomato paste (as the thickener). Once that is all mixed in I add room temperature sour cream and it's done.