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Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Discussion in 'GatorGrowl's Diamond Gators' started by GatorLurker, Jul 28, 2016.

  1. GatorLurker

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    Already out of your own venison sausage from last deer season?
     
  2. Bazza

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    Good friend of mine has a wife who's an excellent cook. She brought me some lentil soup once that had venison sausage in it. Best soup I've ever had. Her husband and their family goes hunting couple times a year up in Georgia and the venison came from a recent hunting trip.

    If I could ever have another bowl of that soup, I would die a happy man.
     
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    Lol, no—Hickory Hollow is my processor I use for my smoked sausage.
    They do an 80/20 mix venison/pork and use natural casings.
     
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  4. GatorLurker

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    Is there a way to do a super like?
     
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  5. GatorLurker

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    I remember having breakfast in Uig on the Isle of Skye in Scotland with my wife. The sausages were in natural sheep casings, but I never told my wife. I know her and she would have not reacted well.

    The sausages were dee-lish.

    I would rather eat that as opposed to plastic.
     
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  6. GatorLurker

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    Tonight will be another simple night: warming up sausages on the gas grill and cleaning out the fridge for sides.
     
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    Tonight Ms. Jan wants BBQ grilled chicken halves, and like @GatorLurker, we’ll be working on cleaning out leftovers with a do-over on the green beans and new potatoes—steamed yellow squash and vidalia onions to go with—

    It was a hot day cleaning up and refilling Ms. Jan’s bird feeders and bird baths—you guessed it, the ice cold longnecks have answered the bell once the outside work was done and now we’re waiting on the MLB All Star game to get started.
     
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  8. Bazza

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    Last night I had some generic frozen green beans (uncut) from Winn Dixie (SE Grocer) in one of those steamer bags that you microwave. Put some real butter and Jane's Crazy salt on them and they were unreal delicious.

    Tonight it's take out......

    [​IMG]
     
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  9. GatorLurker

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    Tonight pork tenderloin with a teriyaki/sesame marinade, rice and broccoli.
     
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  10. GatorLurker

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    I have three seed feeders and two suet block feeders in my yard. I am currently going through two blocks per day. Good thing that I make my own or otherwise I would be going broke. There are a lot of downey and red bellied woodpecker fledglings as well as blue jays chowing down. The seed feeders are also being hit hard with a lot of cardinal fledglings.

    So about every third day I am using 1 lb of crunchy peanut butter, 1 lb of lard, 4 cups of coarse corn meal, 4 cups of oatmeat, two cups of flour, and one cup of sugar to make "suet" blocks.

    I have taken down my hummingbird feeders because a racoon has been dragging them down and drinking all the nectar. But I have a lot of native salvia and a big firebush (another native) that humming birds love so the hummers are OK. Being inside the city limits the subcutaneous lead solution to the racoon is not legal. And trapping won't work because we have lots of feral cats in the neighborhood and I would end up only trapping them. Last time I had a pesky racoon we trapped our own cat ten times and a possum once before we finally caught the coon.
     
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    Lol—

    You didn’t hear this here, but, if you take a Platex baby bottle nipple and “x” the end of it with your knife, then slide it over the barrel of your .22—when you pull the trigger all you’ll hear a “plitzzz”....;)
     
  12. GatorLurker

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    Yep, that would work but I don't work that way. There are good reasons why discharging firearms within a city limit is illegal except in extreme situations. And raccoons drinking your hummingbird nectar doesn't quite get to the extreme level in my humble opinion even though it irks the hell out of me.
     
  13. Bazza

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    Good for you, Lurk.

    Shame on you, 74.....:confused:
     
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    Well Bazza, when you’re raised in the country.....
     
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  15. GatorLurker

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    No shame on 74Nole. He had a solution that I could have used and nobody would have been the wiser.

    I would not be upset if somebody else did that.

    But I just don't work that way.

    I grew up in the city and had incidents with firearms aimed at me.
     
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    I have two Havaheart traps and have used them extensively over the years. When I lived in Lehigh Acres, I had a chain link fenced in backyard and my house backed up to the woods. I had an enclosed lanai with a cat door for my cat and had his food and water dish in the lanai. He'd come inside at night and I'd let him out when I went to work. Dang coons would come into the lanai at night and raid his food and water. I'd set a trap at night and on my way to work to Ft. Myers the next morning put the trap & coon in the back of my truck and release him somewhere near a canal and woods and away from other homes and any roadways. I felt at least I was being humane about it. My cat was the greatest cat in the world and I felt I had to be his protector.

    Now in NSB, I'm a block from the ICW and of course we have coons all over the place and I have new cats to watch over only this time their food and water dishes are in the garage. Same deal, except I take them down south towards Canaveral National Seashore Park and release them along the marsh areas.
     
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    I understand—there’s always a pellet gun—(they’ll get tired of getting stung—;))
     
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    Sorry 74 - I didn't mean that as an attack. Things are different in the country - I get that. Thanks for clarifying.
     
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  19. GatorLurker

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    I don't have that much patience. If I shoot something I want it to be a single shot.

    I live really close to downtown Gainesville and yet I have to deal with raccoons and possums all the time as well as armadillos and on occasion bear cubs but only once every 10 years or so. No deer, though. They are just a bit further out.
     
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  20. Bazza

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    How about Coyotes?

    We have some here.