All About Pocket Knives

That's great OH! Good to see the photos.

I also deal with goose crap all over the place in my neighborhood. What makes it especially bad, is my two dogs step in it, then sometime later like their paws and then get sick. Over the last 5 yrs, it has cost me over $1000.00 in Vet bills. Grrrrr...!!! I really dislike Geese... kill'em all I say!

Philip, I'm surprised that big, fat doe is still feeding instead being fed on by you! I like seeing your trailcam pictures - I might have to buy one of those things to hang on my leased farm. OH

One of Tuesday's geese became tonight's dinner. I cut two breasts into strips, browned them in olive oil and garlic, then combined some wild rice (half cooked) and a can of Cream of Mushroom soup in a deep skillet, covered and simmered it for 45 minutes (could have gone a tad bit longer but was afraid to scorch the rice as it thickened up). My three girls (wife and two daughters) liked it well enough to consume it nearly all gone. Nothing like field to table fare!! OH

OH: It is not fair to stir up my gastric juices with those excellent photos at this late hour. It all looks delicious including the asparagus-a perfect vegetable choice.

That do look tasty my friend.....mmmm....mmmm....mmmm!

Looks and sounds mighty tasty Col. Congratulations on the goose hunt and also for having the good sense to cook that grub up in cast iron the way the good Lord intended us to cook.

Old Hunter,
That is a very appetizing dish, I think? Just kiddin' about "I think" part, at our camp, we too know all about browning various meats, using garlic, mushroom soup and rice, those ingredients are almost a staple. However, what are those green lookin' things layin' on the plate?
Miss Joy and I have been married over 50 years and we cannot remember ever cooking asparagus in our kitchen ! It must be a regional thing as far as real southerners are concerned. Of course we've eaten "the stuff" but none of the old cooks in the families before us, to our knowledge, cooked asparagus.
Great readin', from the blind to the table .
Treefarmer

Colonel, don't pay no attention to Philip. You just keep that asparagus coming. That's some good stuff.

Grilled asparagus!!! YUMMMMMM!!! John

treefarmer wrote:Old Hunter,
That is a very appetizing dish, I think? Just kiddin' about "I think" part, at our camp, we too know all about browning various meats, using garlic, mushroom soup and rice, those ingredients are almost a staple. However, what are those green lookin' things layin' on the plate?
Miss Joy and I have been married over 50 years and we cannot remember ever cooking asparagus in our kitchen ! It must be a regional thing as far as real southerners are concerned. Of course we've eaten "the stuff" but none of the old cooks in the families before us, to our knowledge, cooked asparagus.
Great readin', from the blind to the table .
Treefarmer

Phillip, don't like oatmeal or asparagus? I'm a beginning to wonder about you boy.

Never met a mess of greens I didn't like athough turnip greens and collards are my favorite. Love grilled asparagus and my favorite way to eat it is incrusted with parmigiano or Asiago cheese.ummm good.

Come on y'all, is asparagus as good as a big mess of collard greens or mustard greens, or how about a real old time Florida favorite, swamp cabbage? And that crack about oatmeal, let be known that a bowl of grits "Trumps" a bowl of oatmeal any day! Been waitin' for over a month to say that !
I do love y'all .
Treefarmer

Boys, I just love to eat; Southern cooking like my paternal grandma cooked was/is wonderful. My maternal grandma was from Ireland - entirely different style of cooking and it was great. I'll cook any type of wild game I take and love that too. Wherever I'm at I like to sample the local food - I've eaten Mensif with Bedouins when it served our purpose. I'm an old son of the south, but I'm pretty broad in the food I like. Merry Christmas gents. OH

One day it served my purposes to eat puppy dog stew and drink ducks blood. These, however, I cannot recommend in good conscience.

treefarmer wrote:Come on y'all, is asparagus as good as a big mess of collard greens or mustard greens, or how about a real old time Florida favorite, swamp cabbage? And that crack about oatmeal, let be known that a bowl of grits "Trumps" a bowl of oatmeal any day! Been waitin' for over a month to say that !
I do love y'all .
Treefarmer

Ya forgot the ultimate in south Florida cuisine... pond scum algae. Sun dried and then steamed to perfection. Yum!

Funny.....stufff fellas!!

Well they come and go quickly. The 4th Annual Christmas Eve Mission was done by about 12:30.

First I had the kids make shavings.......then I let a few try hitting the birch bark with ferro rod sparks....then I let the 13 yr old try.
He hit it on about the 20th stroke and then we added, the shavings, kindling and logs....to have the proper fire to cook hobo meals on.

Then posed for a group pic....

I believe there was 16 today!

Great pics Scott! That's one Christmas eve those kids will remember for the rest of their lives.
Kudos my friend!

CheckSix wrote:

treefarmer wrote:Come on y'all, is asparagus as good as a big mess of collard greens or mustard greens, or how about a real old time Florida favorite, swamp cabbage? And that crack about oatmeal, let be known that a bowl of grits "Trumps" a bowl of oatmeal any day! Been waitin' for over a month to say that !
I do love y'all .
Treefarmer

Ya forgot the ultimate in south Florida cuisine... pond scum algae. Sun dried and then steamed to perfection. Yum!

............WHAT????...................... .......................

carrmillus wrote:

CheckSix wrote:

treefarmer wrote:Come on y'all, is asparagus as good as a big mess of collard greens or mustard greens, or how about a real old time Florida favorite, swamp cabbage? And that crack about oatmeal, let be known that a bowl of grits "Trumps" a bowl of oatmeal any day! Been waitin' for over a month to say that !
I do love y'all .
Treefarmer

Ya forgot the ultimate in south Florida cuisine... pond scum algae. Sun dried and then steamed to perfection. Yum!

............WHAT????...................... .......................

Joking Carm! just joking.

CheckSix wrote:

carrmillus wrote:

CheckSix wrote:
Ya forgot the ultimate in south Florida cuisine... pond scum algae. Sun dried and then steamed to perfection. Yum!

............WHAT????...................... .......................

Joking Carm! just joking.

..........thank goodness!!!......you had me worried!!!........... ........................

Tommy, I believe Phillip has been sneaking out there to his corn feeders and harvesting one of those coons every now and then and you know that fried coon will singe your taste buds for life.

Y'all might think I'm kiddin' but there was guy on our maintenance crew that could cook up a delightful coon hash . When we were young and foolish, we ate a lot of things just to try them. The old standby was armadillo (possum on the half shell) till we read in the National Geographic that research out in Texas revealed they carried leprosy. Then it was coon, meadow larks, alligator, cattle egrets, gar fish, mudfish(bowfin), softshell turtle, any time we went fishing we usually cut several Sable palms (the state tree of Florida) and turned them into a pot of delicious swamp cabbage.

By the way, this afternoon I saw the 1st real evidence of the rut beginning here in this part of the Panhandle. There was a buck chasing does all through the pines in the last 15 minutes of legal shooting time. Had they started a few minutes earlier or got out in the wheat plot, maybe I would have had enough light to see if the buck had legal headgear.
The peak of the rut is the 3rd week of January, the wheat is beginning to grow, had 80º today, lookin' good !::tu::
Treefarmer

WOW Scott looks like everyone had fun

Scott - very cool photos, looks like a lot of fun was had.

For what it is worth, I am a collard man. Turnips second, spinach third, asparagus ... well I would have to make a long list before I got to asparagus.

Wow, what a group Scott - bet a lot of fun was had! OH