spring flowers and good food

[chuck123wapati]

2 minutes ago, Handstitched said:

The left over massaman curry  and a previous  lamb roast got turned into a nice pie, ...with a bit of left over mince  ....with a bit of extra curry powder  . Scalloped potato on the top with cheese, served up with a few vegies.  Damn good it was  

Our $$$ are getting tight these days . Thank God for left overs eh ?  . Nothing gets wasted in this house. 

HS 

yes it is I'm down to one tank of gas a month and checking all the marked down foods daily just to get by. So there no waste here if we can help it, if we don't eat it our dogs do lol. My roast made three full meals plus we still have the bone for boiling, I'm thinking beef and homemade noodles. 

[Handstitched]

On 7/27/2022 at 9:49 PM, chuck123wapati said:

checking all the marked down foods daily just to get by.

They are in big demand these days, they don't last long.

Hope all is well in your universe.  

After a frustrating  few days, a lot of driving in bad weather for leather supplies, our market for Saturday got canned, and frustration with a customer, *sigh* ...I decided to cheer myself up, found a cheap-ish T bone steak and a few ' snags' ( sausages) at the supermarket  and cooked em up on the barbie and ate them straight off the BBQ plate, yummo ,  ( no washing up) all washed down with a beer...feel better now 

Butter chicken   next week.  I won't cheat, I'll have a go at making my own butter sauce from scratch , I'll try not to mess it up. 

HS

 

[chuck123wapati]

3 hours ago, Handstitched said:

They are in big demand these days, they don't last long.

Hope all is well in your universe.  

After a frustrating  few days, a lot of driving in bad weather for leather supplies, our market for Saturday got canned, and frustration with a customer, *sigh* ...I decided to cheer myself up, found a cheap-ish T bone steak and a few ' snags' ( sausages) at the supermarket  and cooked em up on the barbie and ate them straight off the BBQ plate, yummo ,  ( no washing up) all washed down with a beer...feel better now 

Butter chicken   next week.  I won't cheat, I'll have a go at making my own butter sauce from scratch , I'll try not to mess it up. 

HS

 

yum!! Had egg foo young last night and teriyaki elk strips, celery and onions over dry noodles. eggs are now almost 4 bucks a dozen twice as much as two year ago so now they are a  main dish lol. I fried up some rabbit the other day, my daughter raises them, absolutely nothing like wild rabbit its much more tender and the flavor is amazing. 

[Handstitched]

6 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said:

eggs are now almost 4 bucks a dozen

They're around 5-6 bucks a doz here,  sometimes more ,  totally crazy  . But we have a couple of  healthy chooks that have been laying constantly, thats a blessing, but we still have to buy chook food, but that gets supplemented with kitchen left overs , scraps etc. that keeps the costs way down, besides , they taste better. 

My Mother would love you & your Daughter, she's a big fan of rabbit  . She's from the  'olde' world when it comes to rabbit.  Her Father ( my Grandfather)  once said to her, "never buy a dressed  rabbit from a butcher" ..in case its a cat  .  

HS

[chuck123wapati]

On 8/5/2022 at 8:17 AM, Handstitched said:

They're around 5-6 bucks a doz here,  sometimes more ,  totally crazy  . But we have a couple of  healthy chooks that have been laying constantly, thats a blessing, but we still have to buy chook food, but that gets supplemented with kitchen left overs , scraps etc. that keeps the costs way down, besides , they taste better. 

My Mother would love you & your Daughter, she's a big fan of rabbit  . She's from the  'olde' world when it comes to rabbit.  Her Father ( my Grandfather)  once said to her, "never buy a dressed  rabbit from a butcher" ..in case its a cat  .  

HS

i saw fresh free range eggs here today 8 bucks a dozen that's freekin crazy. we have been stalking our pantry with canned foods for the last two years have two 20 lb buckets of powdered eggs i'm thinking we will be using them pretty soon.

i'm sure we would love her too we would feed her all kinds of goodies. 

That's why you didn't  buy a pig in poke too lol. 

[Handstitched]

 @chuck123wapati

"My biggest issue and i wont give folks a second chance is selling low grade leather for higher grade leather" 

I put my response here, as its off topic, and about food. 

The one thing that has been p****ng me  off about supermarkets lately , is selling 'lamb' especially  leg roasts , but I know damn well its mutton .  We used to get it all the time, it was cheaper. Cook a mutton roast slowly,  its just as tasty as lamb, and theres 3-4 meals from the left overs.  I thought it just disappeared.... nup , they just re-labled it  call it "lamb" and charge more for it.

But any type of  roast, or any type of meat ,  is now becoming a luxury item these days.  

Thank God my Mother taught me how to cook as soon I could reach the stove , and be frugal at the supermarkets . 

HS

[toxo]

6 hours ago, Handstitched said:

 @chuck123wapati

"My biggest issue and i wont give folks a second chance is selling low grade leather for higher grade leather" 

I put my response here, as its off topic, and about food. 

The one thing that has been p****ng me  off about supermarkets lately , is selling 'lamb' especially  leg roasts , but I know damn well its mutton .  We used to get it all the time, it was cheaper. Cook a mutton roast slowly,  its just as tasty as lamb, and theres 3-4 meals from the left overs.  I thought it just disappeared.... nup , they just re-labled it  call it "lamb" and charge more for it.

But any type of  roast, or any type of meat ,  is now becoming a luxury item these days.  

Thank God my Mother taught me how to cook as soon I could reach the stove , and be frugal at the supermarkets . 

HS

That's what passes for "business" these days. In the interest of profit they gradually hike up the price until it no longer sells. Then they start reducing the size. Over here we have something called a "Wagon Wheel"  and when I was a kid it was around 7inches across and almost an inch thick. Now it's the size of a biscuit.

I used to think some of the better stores were better than that. I was wrong.

[johnnydb]

It's the stockyards and the grain.  

Meat is processed in huge butcher shops these days with lots of low cost labor.  It's cold, wet, and tight quarters.  

With covid a lot of people got sick or just didn't bother to go back to work.  (Found other jobs)  So livestock which was ready to be butchered had to wait....and wait some more....and wait some more.  The prices of the livestock ready for butchering went down and farmers lost lots of money on a high dollar crop.  

At the same time the price of transport and grain went through the roof.  

 

The risks being so high...people stopped raising livestock.   The cost of tractor fuel, fertilizers, pesticides, and etc went through the roof too.  You can't feed animals straight grass or hay if you want to eat them.  You have to feed them grain.  What was once $4/bushel  is now $17/bushel.  Not much relief in sight either.  

With the current prices of petroleum products it's not going to get better for a few years.  

China vs Taiwan, Russia and Ukraine, and even Africa and Vietnam are all having issues....these places need shipping containers made of steel and people going to work.   Guess what they don't have? 

With all the things going on....it's not going to get any better for a while....if ever.  

Last year during the sugar shortage India had a bumper crop of sugar just rotting away unable to distribute it anywhere for a lack of shipping containers.   Meanwhile everyone was in the grocery stores wondering where the sugar was.   

That's how things are going to continue until there is peace and harmony on a global scale again.  We don't have to like everyone but we can learn to get along well enough to stop breaking down the farmers and supply chains.  Ethiopia from the 70's and 80's should be a clue as to what happens when farmers can't farm.  (Wealthy nation when they don't fight themselves) 

[chuck123wapati]

5 hours ago, johnnydb said:

It's the stockyards and the grain.  

Meat is processed in huge butcher shops these days with lots of low cost labor.  It's cold, wet, and tight quarters.  

With covid a lot of people got sick or just didn't bother to go back to work.  (Found other jobs)  So livestock which was ready to be butchered had to wait....and wait some more....and wait some more.  The prices of the livestock ready for butchering went down and farmers lost lots of money on a high dollar crop.  

At the same time the price of transport and grain went through the roof.  

 

The risks being so high...people stopped raising livestock.   The cost of tractor fuel, fertilizers, pesticides, and etc went through the roof too.  You can't feed animals straight grass or hay if you want to eat them.  You have to feed them grain.  What was once $4/bushel  is now $17/bushel.  Not much relief in sight either.  

With the current prices of petroleum products it's not going to get better for a few years.  

China vs Taiwan, Russia and Ukraine, and even Africa and Vietnam are all having issues....these places need shipping containers made of steel and people going to work.   Guess what they don't have? 

With all the things going on....it's not going to get any better for a while....if ever.  

Last year during the sugar shortage India had a bumper crop of sugar just rotting away unable to distribute it anywhere for a lack of shipping containers.   Meanwhile everyone was in the grocery stores wondering where the sugar was.   

That's how things are going to continue until there is peace and harmony on a global scale again.  We don't have to like everyone but we can learn to get along well enough to stop breaking down the farmers and supply chains.  Ethiopia from the 70's and 80's should be a clue as to what happens when farmers can't farm.  (Wealthy nation when they don't fight themselves) 

world economic forum! They are real and they are doing this on purpose. Stopping fertilizer usage in all countries as we speak. 

[Handstitched]

15 hours ago, toxo said:

Over here we have something called a "Wagon Wheel"  and when I was a kid it was around 7inches across and almost an inch thick. Now it's the size of a biscuit.

That was a popular fave back in school. But now,  they seem 'bite size'.  Most chocolate bars  ( amongst many products) have reduced in size as well, but the price hasn't changed .

I don't pay full price for anything at the supermarket  these days. I wait until they are marked down, especially meat . 

HS