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They would have a hard time geting away with a rat trap screwed to a piece of plywood.............but the noise would raise the dead..........

What's that wrapped around the asparagus? Prosciuto? One of the best things I ever ate in Germany was spargle (white asparagus) wrapped in schinken (ham) with some kind of case (cheese), during the spargle festival. Man, that was good stuff! And schweinehaxen! Now I am thinking German food. Again.......... But tonight it is fresh yellow beans from the garden, BBQ chicken drumsticks, and potato salad. (Boiled potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, yellow pepper, green onion, lots of mayo, and some smoked paprika, yum yum.) No seal salt, no vinegar (but the Germans love vinegar in their kartofflesalat), no carrots.............

Seal salt? x2........... But how did the round zucchini taste???

ah, so!

Now you have me crious. I use the Havahart live release traps for racoons, but what is this one you are talking about?

It was the plastic wrap part that I completely forgot, and toothpicks are not a good substitute............

Excellent! Thanks, Brian! I ended up with so many toothpicks holding the thing together it looked like a porcupine................

Rather than go through all 150 pages.........................Brian do you still have that video that shows how to do the bacon weave? I tried it once and it was a disaster. Well, nothing with bacon can be a disaster............but it was NOT successful. Doug

All true, and especially PATIENCE. I am not patient enough to be a baker, except for the real easy stuff! Doug

Looks awesome Brian! Now with a glass of red wine..............

I was getting tired of re-heated meals that I put in the freezer when all this covid crap started, so I said to the wife that I would like to order a pizza tonight for a change of pace. We have take-out food less than once a month, on average, but I do like the pizza from the one small pizzeria that is in our neighbourhood. ANYWAYS, a number of her friends had been telling her about this Middle Eastern restaurant maybe a mile and a half from our house, so I said OK, go for it. Buy local and all that, I'm good with this. So if I never eat shoe-warmer chicken again it will be too freakin' soon. Succulent, moist, tender chicken blah blah blah in their advertising, crap, the chicken was as dry and tasteless as cardboard. I don't eat most of the sides that came with this monstrosity, hummus, garlic sauce, a salad-looking plate covered in muck.... What a disappointment! But on a positive note, the pita that had been wrapped around the shoe-warmer was quite good with a bit of margarine on it. Next time I won't be talked out of pizza! Doug

Those bones and skin etc will make a wicked soup!

Hmmm. I don't generally buy ground meat because I have ground venison. But I did buy some of the lean ground beef/pork mix a year or two again and I thought it was just fine. I know I made a meatloaf out of some of it, or maybe I made two meat loaves and froze one. I do recall there was slightly more shrinkage than I would have expected with commercial ground meat - there is very little shrinkage with ground venison - but I thought the flavour and texture were just fine. Don't believe I ever bought ground pork except one time I needed one more pound of pork for a bunch of venison sausages, and I bought ground pork. And it wasn't cheap!!! Doug

Looking good, Brian. I have never used pecan for smoke wood, never seen it for sale I don't think. I agree with apple for sure, but I don't recall doing turkey pieces either. They look delicious! Doug

Beef/pork blend? I see it is on special at Food basics right now. I'd have bought some but have no freezer space..........

I did not know that you were in the Masonic Lodge!

Not sure why I am not getting notices when new posts are put on here..........

HARD labour!!!

Holy cats Brian,I get tired just READING this! Doug

Please send address, I will be there tomorrow for lunch.....😋 Doug

I love the hull design of the older Starcraft boats. They can take a lot of water.

Starcraft?

A stout cardboard box should be just fine. I use a thick cardboard box over top of my electric smoker when it is really cold or really windy (or both of course). That is a hot smoke, so there would be less moisture than a cold smoke but it should still work just fine. I sure as hell would not use plastic. Doug

Well, m2b2, I actually had pan-fried WALLEYE for supper tonight! 😁 Youngest son called me this morning, a buddy of his had caught three nice walleye but did not have time to fillet them because he had to go to work. Would I like them? HELL YES!!!!! Three lovely eater size walleye, I froze three fillets for later and cooked the other three fillets and the six cheeks for supper. OMG!!!!!😋 Doug

Fabulous! There's a hundred bucks worth of halibut on that table, if a fellow bought it up here. Beauty job on the filleting! We ate our last package of halibut a couple months ago from a trip I did to BC. That one weighed 55 pounds and it was a dandy! Doug