moose eater
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moose eater
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The 3 (maybe 4) reasons to visit NOLa in my opinion;
1.) Cuisine of amazing construct and history.
2.) Festival during Mardi Gras
3.) See an attorney and fellow legalizer from years ago, whom I met at the 13th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform in Washington D.C., in 2000, who put away 26 very bad NOLa cops with the help of the Feds, for crimes ranging from murder for hire, racketeering, extortion, transporting/escorting dope shipments, and much more.
4.) Decent quality inexpensive dope.
Mostly in that order of priority.
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moose eater
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Soylent Green?
thanks moose.things are still rough but i moved to IA and am in a better place.i miss the country but at least i have quality restaurants in the area although they are quite hit or miss.also looking good smooth.is that mashed potatoes and coleslaw?
moose eater
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Iowa and not in the country. That can only mean Des Moines, yes? Maybe Dubuque?
Flat ground for sure (though that was the case where you were before, if I'm correct). Surrounded by corn country and grain, man! And if you hunt for it, a side or quarter of reasonably priced grain-fed angus, fattened to the 14th to 18th month mark, slithering off your hands like melted butter if lacking a meat hook when you handle those quarters!!
Glad you're settling into less rollercoaster riding in relationships.
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Davenport moose and its REALLY hilly where im at.i have to use the back alley cause im on a hill.you would have a bad day if you fell off the steps in the front.im really close to the Mississipi.like a couple miles.good excercise though.maybe ill take a pic tommorow.your right about the meat.even walmart had HUGE tomahawk ribeyes.ive never seen those at a walmart.good price too but im gonna find a good butcher.its time to buy a grill.hopefully they will be on sale soon
moose eater
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If you find some inexpensive or free rapid freight, send me a hind quarter of some grain-fed angus. I'll be waiting.
Mississippi, eh? Maybe a raft trip is in order, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, like a neo-Huck Finn?
sure thing moose.yeah i guess theres not a lot of fresh grass fed cow meat up there huh?i see that all the expensive boats are still wrapped up in what looks like plastic shrink wrap.by the docks.what is that tyvek?i can tell those are nice boats even under it.id definitely like to travel in one of those.only in my dreams though
moose eater
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We have beef and dairy farms up here, 'hawk. There's grass-fed beef and arctic barley (and sileage) fed beef, and we used to buy a whole angus each year to pair with 1-1/4 moose at our house, sending half of the angus out to the bush via aircraft once it was butchered, to a former friend's place in the foothills of the Alaska Range.
Fewer dairy farms up here now.
The Matanuska Dairy, out near Pt. Mackenzie, out the Knik-Goose Bay Rd. in the Mat-Su Valley, was a favorite. At Christmas time they'd make old-school egg nogg and sell it in the stores. Awesome stuff, truly.
Northern Lights Dairy was out of Delta Junction, and I loved their milk products. You could taste that they weren't reconstituted from dehydrated, as many dairies do when they're over-stocked with fresh product and need to store the milk in dried condition. I still have some of the Northern Lights Dairy's 1-gallon plastic jugs in my shop for water-holding for my cannabis plants. Better plastics back then too, though who knows how much they leeched unhealthy stuff into our milk before people were more aware of that sort of thing.
Most of our dairies were subsidized, and, thus, as costs were cut, or farmers got old and sold out, they went out of business.
There's a fellow down near Delta Junction who raises some dairy and beef cattle (angus crosses for beef). I've often taken a utility trailer down there with my truck and hauled back his composted cow manure from the barn cleanings. Good, black, rich, stuff for my veggie and spud gardens.
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never had real unpasteurized milk before.used to be allergic to dairy as a kid.had to drink goat milk.dont know if im still allergic or not.almost impossible to completely get rid of it from my diet so unless i wanna eat crappy food so i dont really care.im not familiar with your agriculture sitiuation up there so i wasnt sure.i knew you had cows but i didnt know how many.you ever have moose milk?lol serious question
moose eater
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Those 2 dairies were certified and commercially marketable under the laws, so their products had to be pasteurized.
There are some smaller dairy operations here (Delta Junction area, maybe some around Fairbanks, up the Hot Springs Rd., and Mat-Su Valley as well), vending both goat milk and cow milk, where the milk's not pasteurized. The work-around for those operations that I know of is that the patrons buy shares in the animal and not the milk. So they often get regular deliveries of whatever volume they subscribed for, based on the percentage of the animal they supposedly rent or own.
One of those wink-wink, nod-nod arrangements... to an extent..
I was also allergic to conventional milk as an infant, 'hawk, but can't recall for sure if it was soy milk I had to drink or goat's milk, though I think it was goat's milk. Just not sure, and no one left alive to ask any more.
raw milk has much more flavor. visited a lady years back that kept her milk in the springhouse in a stone crock, covered with cheese-cloth. always got a glass. move the cloth, catch the inevitable tiny frog, and scoop the thick cream to the side. excellent milk!
moose eater
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Most of the way through graduate school, until she died, there was a quirky little old prairie woman who lived next door on the mostly defunct farm I lived on, the mother of my landlord. She brought gallon jars of fresh unpasteurized cow's milk with about 4"+ of cream on the top of each glass jar, and she made for me (and delivered to my trailer) many mock mincemeat pies using green tomatoes. They tasted -just- like mincemeat.
She was a trip, and a wonderful human being.
She wore an old pair of horn-rim glasses, with the lenses gone, and she'd put different colors of plastic film in each lens, using those as her (I'm sure an interesting view) sunglasses.
I still have the majority of the 1-gallon glass jars here. and that was 35+ years ago.
moose eater
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One fried egg, broken yolk, but not too hard, formed with the flipper into a more or less reduced-size semi-rectangular shape to fit the half-slice of bread it was going toward, with sharp cheddar cheese melted on the egg, and a half of an exceptionally tasty uncured kielbasa, filleted down the middle, and fried, covered up with the other half of the slice of thin-sliced, low-carb, high energy seed and sprouted grains bread.
I best stay away from these things in combination. That was way too tasty. Dangerous, maybe.
I best stay away from these things in combination. That was way too tasty. Dangerous, maybe.
Cactus Squatter
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Our bee populations are off the hook here in the SW USA. I come across a new hive at least twice a week. I found one 3 weeks ago that is incredibly calm and let me just reach up and grab a piece of the comb.
We have a metric butt ton of Africanized bees though too. They suck to find at work on accident.
Our cactus bees are really bad ass though.
Cactus Squatter
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Carnitas tacos on fresh homemade corn tortillas, tomatoes, cilantro and green onions from the garden out back.
“Everything but the taco” sauce from Seed Ranch on top. Stuff is awesome flavor.
“Everything but the taco” sauce from Seed Ranch on top. Stuff is awesome flavor.
I lived in IA before moving to CO, if you were around Des Moines I could recommend a couple good restaurants, upon searching for them it seems some have permanently closed, but a couple of the best are still open
Noah's Ark Italian restaurant would be my #1 pick, it's been a minute since I've been there but they say "1940's Italian restaurant" and they mean it, long story short my grandfather had a construction business back in the day and his best friend was Sicilian, his brother started a pizza place and had his hands in a couple other pizzerias and restaurants with that being one of them
and the Open Flame Steakhouse in Gilbert, known particularly for their pork tenderloin
just pulled a turkey pesto provolone ciabatta out of the oven waiting for it to cool
Noah's Ark Italian restaurant would be my #1 pick, it's been a minute since I've been there but they say "1940's Italian restaurant" and they mean it, long story short my grandfather had a construction business back in the day and his best friend was Sicilian, his brother started a pizza place and had his hands in a couple other pizzerias and restaurants with that being one of them
and the Open Flame Steakhouse in Gilbert, known particularly for their pork tenderloin
just pulled a turkey pesto provolone ciabatta out of the oven waiting for it to cool
moose eater
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Early lunch after a late breakfast; that kind of a day.
Procrastination before another town trip.. Or, good preparation; take your pick.
Deep-fried hand-breaded squid steak stripped into 3/4" x 1/2" x 3"-4" strips, deep-fried hand-breaded sea scallops, and deep-fried golden potatoes (French fries).
A fine oily lunch to guard against the pitfalls of dealing with Urbania.
(*All with homemade tartar sauce...).
I think I'll probably make it OK now.
Procrastination before another town trip.. Or, good preparation; take your pick.
Deep-fried hand-breaded squid steak stripped into 3/4" x 1/2" x 3"-4" strips, deep-fried hand-breaded sea scallops, and deep-fried golden potatoes (French fries).
A fine oily lunch to guard against the pitfalls of dealing with Urbania.
(*All with homemade tartar sauce...).
I think I'll probably make it OK now.
That looks dynamite cactus.think I'm gonna try a torta for the first time today.see what mood I'm in.also I used to be a beekeeper.never been to the SW but I haven't heard about African bees in a while.italian hybrid bees are mostly domesticated and harmless unless you give them a reason to be aggressive.but yeah I wouldn't wanna mess with those African bees though
