Recipe: Sausage Stuffing Bake

Photo here. Recipe for Caraway Sausage (which is what Mr. Big Food used in this dish) here.

SAUSAGE STUFFING BAKE

Serves 6

1 ½ lbs bulk pork sausage (preferably homemade—see recipes in Basics section)

1 C packaged herb stuffing mix

1 C tart apples, pared and chopped fine

½ C celery, chopped fine

¼ C onion, chopped fine

2 Tbsp snipped parsley

2 Tbsp chili sauce (preferably homemade—see recipes in Basics section)

¼ tsp dry mustard

¼ tsp pepper

Preheat oven to 375^o. Shape sausage into 12 patties, ¼ inches thick. Prepare stuffing according to package directions using ¼ C water and 2 Tbsp butter. Add apple, celery, onion, parsley, chili sauce, dry mustard, and pepper, tossing well. Arrange 6 of the sausage patties in a shallow baking pan. Top each with ½ C stuffing mixture, then another patty, and secure with wooden toothpicks through center. Bake about 45 minute or until done.

Recipe: Caraway Sausage

CARAWAY SAUSAGE

5 lbs ground fatty pork

¾ C cold white wine

3 Tbsp caraway seeds

1 C chopped fresh herbs (parsley, basil, oregano, whatever)

1 C minced onion

2 tsp brown sugar

4 tsp curing salt (like Morton’s Tender-Quik)

2 tsp freshly ground black pepper

2 tsp ground allspice

Combine all ingredients, mix well, and stuff into hog casings or form into 1 lb logs. Cure 24 hours in refrigerator. Cook or freeze. 

Recipe: Green Beans Belle

Photograph here.

GREEN BEANS BELLE

2 cans cut green beans, drained, liquid reserved

1 bunch green onions, sliced thin

Large can sliced mushrooms, drained, liquid reserved

1 stick butter

Salt, pepper

Slivered almonds

Chopped pimento

Fry green onions in butter until soft but not browed. Add reserved green bean and mushroom liquids to onions, and cook down until only about 1 C liquid remains. Add green beans, and salt and pepper to taste, and let heat thoroughly. Add slivered almonds, and chopped pimento before serving.

The Puddle Formerly Known as the Pond

Taken with my Droid this morning

You may remember way back when (3/2) when Rocky drug the raft to shore.

More than one month later

She doesn't know it yet, but she could walk across this puddle.

See?

Stay cool, y'all!

"Why are store bought tomatoes so bad?"

Althouse has the answer.

Playing by the Rules

A Modest Proposal by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. 

Now that the Roberts Court has affirmed that the government has the power to mandate purchases of private goods and services as long as it’s structured as a tax, I propose that we put this new-found authority in the service of an explicit Constitutional right.  For far too long, too many Americans have suffered from an inequal distribution of firearms, despite the Second Amendment’s express exhortation to “keep and bear arms,” in large part because income inequality in this nation has kept the poor and working classes from having the proper protection for themselves and their loved ones.  We need to end this disparity now by applying the ObamaCare model immediately.

First, the government needs to issue a mandate that all households must own at least one firearm. We will need a federal agency to ensure that people aren’t just buying cheap BB guns or .22 pistols, even though that may be all they need or want.  It has to be 9mm or above, with .44 magnums getting a one-time tax credit on their own.  Let’s pick an agency known for its aptitude on firearms and home protection to issue required annual certifications each year, without which the government will have to levy hefty fines.  Which agency would do the best job?  Hmmmm … I know!  How about TSA?  With their track record of excellence, we should have no problems implementing this mandate.

Don’t want to own a gun?  Hey, no worries.  Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says citizens have the right to refuse to comply with mandates.  The government will just seize some of your cash in fines, that’s all.  Isn’t choice great?  Those fines will go toward federal credits that will fund firearm purchases for the less well off, so that they can protect their homes as adequately as those who can afford guns on their own.  Since they generally live in neighborhoods where police response is appreciably worse than their higher-earning fellow Americans, they need them more anyway.  Besides — gun ownership is actually mentioned in the Constitution, unlike health care, which isn’t.  Obviously, that means that the federal government should be funding gun ownership.

[my emphases]

Read the rest here.

Ethogram

An ethogram is a catalogue or inventory of all behaviours or actions exhibited by an animal used in ethology. The behaviours in an ethogram are usually defined to be mutually exclusive and objective, avoiding subjectivity and functional inference as to their possible purpose.[1][2][3][4]

For example, a species may use a putative threat display, which in the ethogram is given a descriptive name such as "head forward" or "bracing display", and not "head forward threat" or "bracing threat". This degree of objectivity is required because what looks like "courtship" might have a completely different function, and in addition, the same motor patterns in different species can have very different functions. Often, ethograms are hierarchical in presentation. The defined behaviours are recorded under broader categories of behaviour which may allow functional inference such that "head forward" is recorded under "Aggression".

Sometimes, the definition of a behaviour in an ethogram may have arbitrary components. For example, "Stereotyped licking" might be defined as "licking the bars of the cage more than 5 times in 30 seconds". The definition may be arguable, but if it is stated clearly, it fulfils the requirements of scientific repeatability and clarity of reporting and data recording.

Some ethograms are given in pictorial form and not only catalogue the behaviours but indicate the frequency of their occurrence and the probability that one behaviour follows another.

Rocky's doing well leashless. But I want him to be comfortable on a tie-out. And so, I've taken to tying them both out first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Please keep in mind that they are dogs whose lives were made much better by coming out to the Farm. And that they do run Free when we say it's okay.

I want them to become very very comfortable just hanging out around the house. 

This is a poor photo but it still conveys what Rocky is up against, as the guard dog and all. 

Sausage Stuffing Bake with Home Made Caraway Sausage

It wasn't really burnt.

What we have here is a sausage patty topped with stuffing topped with a sausage patty. 

What we have here is Green Beans Belle. 

Very good

Recipes as soon as Mr. Big Food sends them from the kitchen to the den via the World Wide Web. (It would go so much quicker if the recipes were on note cards.)

Timing: This is Rich

I'm on the Organic Consumers Association email list. Frankly, I do not share some of OCA's concerns, but I do share in the Association's hatred for Monsanto and the Big Monsanto (and others) - Big Government collusion. So I skim the emails just to keep up looking for a good laugh.

Today, at 12:11pm Central Time, while I was stewing over other things, I received my weekly newsletter. Here is the lead story in its entirety.

Independence Day is in just one week.

"Most people plant roses,"

she giggled said as she saw the corn and squash and sunflowers coming up in the front yard.

There's no zoning where I live. I can grow corn in my front yard.

And sweet potatoes in my planters.

Be Happy!

Unfortunately,

http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/23/i-say-tomato-you-say-no

Waste not; Want not.

Yes. Some of us are still eating baby carrots on our salads.

New Zealand Spinach. A small black zucchini, a small baby round zucchini. Pepper. Tomato French Dressing. 

Don't you wish ... .

Check out the label "salad"

"Are parents not teaching them the age old adage 'Waste not, want not' "?

That's what Someone very Dear to Me asked me a few days ago.

Are parents not teaching them the age old adage "Waste not, want not"?

[snip]

Do children no longer understand the value of a dollar? Are parents not teaching them the age old adage "Waste not, want not"? If this were my child I would be driving him to the local shelter for several hours of volunteering. That would teach him a lesson. Or would it? 

:-)

Don't you wish Someone very Dear to Me were your kid?

It's time to start talking about cotton.

The fields are planted. The plants have been making good progress. But Mr. Cotton Farmer planted late. It's dry. His plants are suffering. The forecast is for something like 100-100-102-100-101-99. Or something like that. 

I'll need to water the squash. I don't want to, but I'll need to. MORE ORGANIC MATTER.

suek and I are having a discussion about the weather & cotton here.

Keep Guessing: I Really Love Your Peaches

It is hot enough even for me so I'm diddling around for a few minutes exploring aspects of Blogger I've previously ignored. One is linking directly to others' posts. I thought y'all might enjoy this one from Becca's  Keep Guessing. 

Let's see if it works.

Everywhere I go: UPDATED with a question!

today on the World Wide Web there's a poll. 

Uphold/throw out? with variations [Can't remember where I saw it]

Contempt? Yes/No [Can't remember where I saw it]

Cherokee? 

anti-Bain working? 

And so not to be outdone, I figured out how to add a non-political poll to the blog (although I couldn't figure out how to add it to a post).

One thing is certain. It is hot enough for the dogs. 

Have you noticed?

There's a new Page here with contact information should you wish to contact me for any reason but especially should you wish to send recipes!

Do tell! It's an art blog

not a political blog.

The Empowered Man

Jon McNaughton, the artist who brought us Wake Up America, has released a new painting. Read more about the imagery, see Wake Up America, and please do watch the video at BuzzFeed.

Recipe: Ed's Hot Squash

With 15,000 or so recipes in Mr. Big Food's Big Food Manual and Survivalist Flourishing Guide we seldom have the same dish more than once. But there are exceptions and Ed's Hot Squash is one, as you can see from this dated photo.

2007

Recipes for Two Zucchini Breads that Couldn't Be More Different

Down on the Farm, we love our zucchini bread! What could be simpler than zucchini bread? Most recipes, including these, can be made entirely by hand. We've had zucchini bread continuously for at least two weeks-- three different versions. I can't remember what the first was called, so I'll just post the two most recent recipes. 

These two breads couldn't be more different. The Broadway Zucchini Bread-- named after the now defunct retail chain in southern California which served this bread in its cafes-- is thin, only about an inch and a half high. Zucchini Bread rises out of the bread pan and is topped with sesame seeds. Both are simply delicious spread with some soft cream cheese.

Enjoy!