What are you canning now?

[Ridgerunner]

Ridge, I remember that smell....the smell of barnyard in the meat. Even when it was cooked you could still get faint whiffs of corn..and manure...no matter how clean the butchering was.

After switching to fermenting my feeds, that smell is no longer evident in my butchering, nor in the meat cooking later on. No smells at all during the butchering and just a pure goodness when the carcasses are cooked. I was amazed at that dividend of using the FF, as was my mother...she's still amazed to walk into the chicken coop and never smell "chicken".

Even the eggs lack a sulfur smell or taste. Just a clean, nutty flavor and no smell at all when cooked.

Bee, to me that smell is the same as when I clean a rabbit or squirrel, a natural smell. I'm not offended by it but when I butcher I know I smell, especially to others, and so do the clothes. To me, the meat and eggs still taste great, like I think meat and eggs should taste.

Bee I understand that to you fermented feed is the greatest thing since peanut butter and sardines on rye with yellow mustard. More power to you , I'm glad. But I'm an old fogey stuck in my ways.

 

[ninnymary]

Peanut butter and sardines on rye with yellow mustard?!

Mary

 

[Beekissed]

Alrighty then....

 

[flowerbug]

@Ridgerunner when i've had fresh whole milk yogurt and can taste and smell the barnyard in it i find that very delicious. i'm with you on that.

i grew up kitty-corner from a neighborhood dairy and the smell of a good run dairy is "home" to me. the dairy is still there but not being run any longer from what i can see.

 

[flowerbug]

@ninnymary sounds like breakfast to me if i had some.

will have to settle for peanut butter toast and strawberry jam...

 

[journey11]

Wanted to show you guys my new canning shelf I finished this week. I built it all by myself!

The one that was here when we bought the house was narrow and warped, rough cut lumber on shelf brackets. I painted the paneled wall and added some T5 lighting fixtures to the ceiling to brighten things up down there. I'm going to build another shelf on the backside of the wall (this is a center partition in my basement) for storage and to organize my laundry room. I have been on a mission to organize and minimize the clutter around here. Hope to be done before spring gets here.

 

[thistlebloom]

Looks good Journey! Is that blackboard paint you used on the shelf fronts? Job very well done.

 

[journey11]

Looks good Journey! Is that blackboard paint you used on the shelf fronts? Job very well done.

Thanks! I used chalkboard tape. They make dry erase tape too. And chalk markers... What will they think of next! I labeled everything so the odds were better the kids could find it when I send them after something.

 

[flowerbug]

Wanted to show you guys my new canning shelf I finished this week. I built it all by myself!
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congrats on a job well done.

lovely!

never too many shelves/bookcases as far as i'm concerned...

 

[Nyboy]

The woman here rival the men in building !!!!