bigugli

Cardamom is one of them big spice staples in a Finnish kitchen. For me the aroma and flavour are just heady. I load my pulla (Finnish bread) with a lot. About 2 tsp per dough batch.

Ok more about liver..........

 

When my two oldest sons were about 5 and 8, I had them out grocery shopping. We were down in the meat aisle and I asked them if I should buy some liver. They both started jumping up and down shouting "I LOVE LIVER!!!!" Most of the grocers in the vicinity looked on in absolute astonishment...............and probably some of them reported me to the child welfare authorities........

 

Liver is terrible stuff unless it is properly cooked. But cooked as I described previously it is FABULOUS!!!!!

 

 

Just do not ever eat moose or deer liver the day the animal was killed, that is a guaranteed path to Montezuma's revenge.

 

Doug

We ate mountains of liver growing up and loved it. Properly tenderized, dredged in seasoned flour and pan seared in the drippings from the bacon and onions. Just a hint of pink in the middle, and always ever so tender. It literally melts in your mouth.

Hey Shag. I'd be rubbing fresh ground cardamom right into the meat. It gives off a wonderful rich flavour.

Fresh deer liver! AWESOME!!!! Slice it as thinly as possible with your best filleting knife, then soak it overnight in milk, then season it with garlic powder and Hy's seasoning salt, shake in flour, and pan-fry at high heat. A few seconds per side, still a bit pink in the middle, just absolutely delicious!!!! One of my favourite meals!

Doug

You forgot the fried onions and bacon. About a 1/2 lb of each. Now I'm drooling.

Before my one neighbour had to give up the hunt, I used to receive a very generous supply of deer liver every fall from the 5-6 deer he'd harvest every year. (He hated the stuff)

Bruce I agree,but what they are paid,should be showing a lot more heart!!!!!!!!!!

You know, the more I look at the Leafs, the more I am reminded of a good old fashioned burlesque show. In between the performers you had the stand up comic. In hockey, you get real games with a Leaf game in between as the comic relief.

All I want to watch is good hockey. Don't really care what team is playing. or even if it's NHL or minors (minors play with a lot more heart than the Leafs possess). If the Leafs are no longer capable of playing good hockey, so be it. Let them be the league's joke. Let them fold. No real loss. Still a lot of good hockey out there without them.

I get that part - but if some, or some of, the answers don't apply to the person filling out the survey, and you can't leave them blank, nor answer with no opinion or an N/A the result is instead of getting a survey that shows (in this case) a bunch of resources that are not being used, then the person doesn't complete the survey. That in itself skews the numbers.

 

It shows that not enough individuals are either using the resources, or familiar with them. The main goal of this survey was to get respondents to grade, by level of importance, a set of assets. Even if you only ranked the 2 assets you knew, the rest are auto ranked down the list. By default, they know which assets have greater value.

A number of government surveys are skewed in this manner.

Survey completed.

It will be nice to have also a way to know how much contaminates are farmed fish?

Just to have a baseline. Are the farmed fish cleaner that wild?

I doubt that.

That comes under the jurisdiction of different government agencies such as CFAO or CFIA. In the case of imported foodstuffs, CFIA is very hesitant to engage in chemical testing on foreign food sources, until a solid complaint is lodged.

Put simply. the Feds are not going to put up a guide for eating ocean caught, farmed or imported fish.

that one wasn't thought out too well. doesn't permit a null answer in fields to some of the questions - really how many of the public are gonna use the raw data or have a suggestion on how to improve it? if you dont use a source, you cant select null as an answer?

N/A or No opinion as an option might have been a thought

Actually it was perfectly thought out. Especially if you are focusing your survey to a specific outcome / proposal. A driven opinion poll has questions and language skewed towards a set of desired responses. They want respondents with definite positive/ negative responses. Looks like they are fishing for a response that either validates continued expenditures in the program, or justifies cancelling/ reducing the expenditures.

A number of us university students, back in the day, used to write material for survey companies and political parties in Toronto. i still get a kick reading some of the stuff they try passing off.

Monetville does have an Elk farm so maybe that was where they go it..... hopefully.

Regretably no. The fella selling it has, in the past, had venison, elk, moose and bear jerky available. I won't buy from him, but lots of tourists do every year.

The French river herd is not doing as well. Lost some to trains. Both herds have lost some to unreported harvest.

 

An adjustment for some but, in the end an amazing re-introduction for the province.

 

Cheers,

Mark

Lots of elk jerky available up in Monetville last year. The boys bought 5lbs during their annual trip to the West Arm. They have a "friend".

Sorry guys.

Warden says i have a prior commitment.

And make sure the snow does not have a crust on it. Trust me.

I just sprayed my screen with beer. Lol.

Yup, that's why mine is up on shore.

It's a pain taking it out and putting it in every year but I have too much $$$$ invested to have it destroyed by the ice.

 

I used to be first into the water every year after ice out to get our docks in place and still wading in November when we pulled the docks out.

The one uncle had a "permanent" dock set on a rock crib. Lord knows how many times we rebuilt that dock after the ice crushed it into kindling.

Happens every year throughout cottage country. You leave your dock out and you risk it drifting out with the ice or getting crushed.

At the start of Jan. I bought the card with 3 year fishing license.

After 3 month without recieving the new card I called.

Somehow they screwed up.

They had my current address as my residence but subistuted the town (all other info the same) for my mailing address.

No wonder I didn't recieve my card yet as I live in Seaforth & they sent it to Sebringville.

Sending a new one.

Said it should be here in 3 weeks. We'll see.

Bought the renewals for the daughter and son in law at Christmas. They never received their cards in the mail. Supposedly new ones are being sent in the mail after a long circuitous discussion on the phone.

That's OK Lew, you need a certain amount of "sisu" to truly appreciate the qualities of a good sauna

I'll be using mine, but any fish that destroys one will get a very stern talking to.

At the very least boiled in oil sounds like an appropriate punishment. Lol

I have not used real sauna soap for a long time but remember it. My parents use a birch vasta in the sauna but I did not care for it.

Used to get it from the old Suomi Aitta in Toronto. Can only get it by mail order now. Our family always used a loofah sponge for scouring the skin.

And nothing makes you feel as clean as a wash with real sauna saippua followed by a good steam. Before we had running water in 1970 we had sauna. Even after the running water was put in we would always go for the sauna instead of a shower. The family sauna held 8 at a sitting with 3 benches. It sat on a ledge hanging over the lake with a dive door from the sauna to the water Beside the sauna was a screened sunporch to relax and take in the sunsets after a good sauna. It was a huge Sunday ritual.

When you get that sauna up to that desired optimum of 200F, you just toss 2 cups of water on those rocks. Your pores will explode. You only stay in for 60 seconds and hit the cold. Then you go back and do the long steam and wash.

I do miss the days when I did not pay for heat. For 20 years I heated our house with wood. Baseboards only kicked on at 45F when nobody was home and the fire out.

On the subject of dinner. A late night pot of Gramma's "fish head soup". With more than enough left over for a couple more solid meals.

 

and back to bigugli.............that may be true for your "wimmens" but mine is not and has never been a cook nor a baker. She did not marry me for my looks - she married me because I could cook!

 

Doug

Judy tain't no Betty Crocker neither. Lol

Sounds interesting. I guess it depends on how far west you are coming out.