Sweeping Up Scraps
Trump took South Carolina, followed by Rubio and Cruz, which caused John Ellis to quit. The Republican ‘establishment’ is stuck with Rubio… 😈
Hillary took the Nevada caucuses by 5% over Bernie, which is better than losing, but she just can’t convince voters under 45 to vote for her, not even women.
The announcers at the Westminster Dog Show need to learn how to pronounce Samoyed. The name of the white Russian herding and sleddog is not pronounced “Sammy Ed”, it is “Sam oy ed” with the middle syllable rhyming with toy and stress on the first syllable. In Russian it means ‘self-propelled or automobile’. They choose a German short-haired pointer as the best of show. They are a nice dog, better if you aren’t one of the jerks who lops off half of their tail.
FYI: Great Danes have no connection to Denmark, and French Poodles have no connection to France. Both were developed in Germany.
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Speaking of things Russian, today I bought my annual 5-ton loaf of Russian rye bread at the Russian General Store, this loaf marked in scant English “sweet-sour”. I made my dinner of this bread, Celebration Roast, some anonymous blue cheese (from RGS) and a robust Aussie Shiraz. My already high regard for the Russian peasant farmer is renewed!
Хлеб (Khleb) provides the bulk of carbohydrates in the Russian diet. It is also used to make Квас (Kvas), a soft drink, and Пива (Piva) Russian beer (the second most important source of carbs in the peasant diet). If it goes stale it can be used as a building product.
This time of year people would be existing on bread and Сало (Salo), salted pork fatback. They eat a lot of fat, especially in the winter, but it is better toasted on a stick over a campfire like thick bacon.
Sort of like how hardtack and salt pork was the primary diet of our pioneer forefathers. Except Russian rye bread seems (marginally) more edible than hardtack…
Forefathers? It was a staple whn I was growing up in the Netherlands. Pumpernickle bread (Rogebrod) and baconfat (speck) was the fuel of choice in winter.
Salo is salt pork without the protein, consisting of the fat alone, and Russian bread is certainly more edible than hardtack.
Shirt that used to be the breakfast bread they served on airliners leaving RheinMain in Frankfurt. They included butter and marmalade. Both the Dutch and the Germans preferred bread and fat for breakfast. Thin sliced and grainy it was a great way to wake up.
if I were going to get a sporting breed, the gsp would be one of my top picks for looks (love that roan, but the solid chocolate/liver is eye-catching too) and personality (real sweetie pies!), but only if I could get one with a whole tail.
I don’t understand the mindset that thinks you should cut ears or lop off tails. The kennel club standards could stop the practice very quickly, but they won’t do it. You probably have to get a puppy to avoid the surgery.
Shirt, hardtack is considerably less edible than pumpernickel bread. Believe me, I made some, with the authentic 19th century recipe, just to see what it was about (I already knew what salt pork was about, my grandmother used a chunk of salt pork in just about everything she cooked to add flavor). You know those rawhide chew toys that you give dogs? That’s basically what we’re talking about, except made with wheat flour. Even soaking the stuff in soup or coffee for half an hour, you’re gnawing on it like that dog gnawing on that rawhide chew toy.
Bryan, the stuff my grandmother used in her peas and cabbage and soup and pretty much everything she cooked was mostly the fat. That was its primary purpose, to add fat and thus taste to things that were not inherently all that tasty like purple hull peas, or to offset the flavor of things that were inherently sort of bitter, like turnip greens. When she was younger they smoked their own pigs in their own smokehouse. By the time I was old enough to know anything, she was a widow and was using store-bought salt pork. It was still pretty much just fat though.
Regarding mutilating animals, did you hear about ISIS shaving bears? LOL. Though they might as well have, given that the Russians are bombing the cr*p out of them regardless of where they’re hiding. Russians don’t care about collateral damage. No people, no problem is their motto to live by.
Oh, yes, you can’t have greens or beans without a chunk of salt pork thrown in. If you are going to pan fry, you use it to grease the skillet. If you are using fresh vegetables you have to add your own salt, and salt pork is the way to go.
There is nothing worse than lean meat – it is tasteless. If I’m using ground beef I don’t want anything that is more than 85% lean, and prefer 75% when I can get it. After I cook whatever I’m making [soup, etc.] I put it in the fridge to meld the flavors, which makes it possible to easily remove most of the fat because it floats to the top and congeals. When you reheat to serve it has all of flavor, but very little grease.
Oh, the ISIS madmen are truly absurd. Apparently they are being gunned down by all sides in Afghanistan because they are crazy foreigners. The Russians are showing the finesse that made them so ‘popular’ in Afghanistan. The Russian gassed that auditorium in Russia knowing that a percentage of the hostages were going to be killed. If a government doesn’t care that its own innocent citizens are going to be collateral damage, why would anyone think they would care about another country’s innocent citizens?
You probably have to get a puppy to avoid the surgery.
you can avoid the ear cropping, it’s done at iirc about 3 months or older.
the tails are done at 2 days, so you have to breed your own if you want tails.
Two days! They have barely figured out how to get a meal and people are cutting off bits. It should be illegal.
the theory is that it’s less painful then because their nervous systems aren’t yet fully developed.
I just looked up ear cropping and found, on a Doberman forum, that it’s recommended ears be cropped between 7 and 12 weeks. so even there you may have to breed your own if you want ears.
sigh. I wish it were all illegal too.
They should a least be big enough to bite off your hand before you start surgery that serves no purpose. The fact is that, if necessary, there are anesthetics that will eliminate pain at any time.