Big Cliff

1/8 tsp curry powder per lb of meat. OMG it is so good.

Wouldn't do a turkey without brining it anymore! Flavour is fantastic, and it does cook quicker! OMG, one of natures delights!

I will second that! I do them in a very hot pan to sear them, reduce the heat to finish. Now one thing I like to do is once seared, I remove them from the pan and I throw in some cubed apple (nice small cubes) and just a bit of sugar to caramilize the apple. Bizmatti rice is one of my favorites for a dish like this because of it's nice earthy (almost nutty) flavour. I like to serve it with green beans but I blanch them for about 3 minutes in boiling water then rince them in ice water to stop the cooking. Toss them in a pan with a bit of olive oil and about a table spoon of butter. As soon as the butter and oil starts to show heat, add some minced garlic then a couple of drops of sesame oil, and the beans. A few sliced almonds, add the pork back to the pan with the apple just until warmed through and you have a plate that will impress even you!

This was our worst year (or our best year depending on how you look at it). Caught 22 mice (previous record was 12). Also caught 2 voles (they are a little harder to trap than mice because they don't seem to go for bait). I will not use the poisen because owls, cats, foxes, and dogs can get a mouse loaded with poisen and it can kill them. I really like the plastic traps that are like a close pin. If baited properly they work really well. Bait the top inside of the trap, not the trigger.

Here are a few from Canada: In Alberta, there is a city law that states that any person being released from prison must be given a handgun with bullets, and a horse so that they can ride out of town. In British Colombia, it is illegal to kill a sasquatch. In Hartland New Brunswick you are not aloud to make jokes about people with mustaches. Unless that person or persons first name begins with the letter "A" and last name begins with the letter "N". In Etobicoke, the bylaw states that ‘no more than 3.5 inches of water is allowed in a bathtub’. Guelph, is an official ‘NO-PEE’ zone. In Toronto, it is illegal to drag a dead horse down Yonge Street on a Sunday. Apparently any other day of the week is fine!

Ok, way too logical! But funny!

Saw a guy that ate deer guts one time because he thought he was lost in the bush and he started to pannic. He wasn't a hundred yards from the nearest road but he didn't know that. To top it all off, he hadn't been in the bush for more than about 6 hours but he got scared.

It is all bull spit! Every situation is different and even the time of day or bright or clouded can make a huge difference. How fast, how dirty is the water, how deep. There is no answer that works, you have to adjust your presentation for the conditions when and where you are fishing! There have been some good ideas presented here by different people, all are good and all will work under the right conditions but each and every one of them have something in common. None of them work all the time! It's called fishing, not catching for a reason.

And here I thought it was a prerequisite! For a politician to be a liar I mean!

Mike, I know you know your stuff but you have to give this a try especially in the evening, you will be amazed at the number of fish you'll catch. Now day time and if you have a boat anchor up stream. I like to use a drop shot rig with about 18" leaders off my main line and a good size bell sinker. I don't cast up stream at all, that causes too many snags, I just open my bail and drop my sinker right to bottom then let out some slack. I hook my minnows through the head so it looks like they are swimming up stream and I just keep lifting my sinker off bottom and droping it back down paying out more slack line each time. If you do get a snag you are pulling opposite the direction your sinker got lodged. We have put many many limits in the boat doing this when no one else was catching a fish.

Well, if you want good bacon for the price go to National Groceries. I have bought the SunSpun 14-16 slices to the lb 5KG box there for around $33.00/box. It is excellent for store bought bacon but I still prefer to do my own thing whenever I can!

Guided there for years Would you be talking above the Flat Rapids by any chance or the set below X Bay? You can PM me if you prefer. A Husky Jerk or Rapala type lure (I always liked Fire Tiger pattern) Stand on the rocks as far out as you can get so that your lure is going to come up toward you but still be off shore. Cast out and let the current take your lure down stream then set your bail. VERY slowly retrieve your lure letting the current do the work for you. Enjoy your limit of walleye!

Doug, just got back from the butcher shop. Fresh pork belly cut into about 3 lb pieces and trimed nice and square (I find that makes it easier to cure evenly and smoke properly) vacuum packed so it can be frozen for later if you want, $4.75/lb (if ordering a slab which is typically 9-10 lbs) $5.00/lb if you just want to buy a piece at a time. I just ordered a lamb $5.00 a pound cut and wrapped to my specifications. It is quite a bit higher than the last one but still seems to be a fair price. Average weight about 50-60 lbs. Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, I had to work yesterday. Cliff

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I did smoke it occasionally years ago, haven't bothered for a long time now but I don't see anything wrong with it. I have a few friends that don't drink but enjoy a social smoke. I think it should be leagalized but I won't vote for JT no matter what.

Tried the salt cure on a steak tonight but rinced it really well after. I don't know how tough it might have been before but this was amazingly tender and not too salty like the first atempt.

I just ordered the lamb from a local farm just down the road from me, they have a local slaughter house kill, butcher and wrap it for me. $4.10 was last years price, I'll let you know what I get quoted this year.

I am just going to talk to our local butcher shop today about ordering some more pork bellies and a spring lamb. He trims the pork bellies nice and square for me and cuts them into about 3 lb slabs which is the perfect size for me to handle for making my bacon. Last year the lamb cost me $4.10 a lb cut and wrapped. I'll probably order about 9 lbs of pork bellies (not sure what the current price will be) (enough for one batch of bacon) and one or two lambs (they won't be ready for a couple of months because I insist on Ontario lamb) but I'll get my order in now. Since you are OFC do you want to quote me on it? You can PM if you prefer!

Over the years I have had many gardens, everything from 50 X 200’ when I lived in French River which with canning and freezing helped keep our food cost down, to where I am today. I learned a lot of things over the years but some of the key points were; potatoes and carrots take up a lot of space for the value you get from them, the work and space required to grow and harvest 50 pounds of potatoes which you can go and buy for about $15.00 isn’t good value. That said however as others have mentioned don’t do it to save money, do it for the pleasure it gives you. I am now down to a little asparagus patch 2’ X 14’ a horseradish patch 2’ X 8’ and a mint patch of about the same (nothing better than homemade mint sauce with lamb or venison) and a few small pots of herbs. The asparagus patch is about 8 years old now but healthy as ever, I over seed it each spring with a package of fresh seed and add about 2” of new compost and that little patch produces way more than we can eat, I usually end up pickling some, freezing some, and giving the rest to neighbors. Unless you are willing to can or freeze stuff don’t plant much of any one thing unless you are willing to stager the start times of different batches. If you don’t you’ll have bunches of the same thing ready all at the same time. A nice handful of fresh beans are great but when you end up with ½ a bushel all ready to be harvested at the same time you are either going to be giving them away or preserving them. I never use any chemical fertilizers for any of my vegetables, we compost everything we can; all our food waste (excluding meat and bones)leaves, and best of all even weeds from the lake (let them dry before you compost them though). I get probably close to ½ a yard of really good compost for free every year just from doing that (mostly from the lake weeds).

Well, they have been using salt on the roads for a lot of years and suddenly this is the first year that this problem has come to light? There sure seems to be a lot of poles catching fire lately though!

Unfortunatly they don't have a candidate called "None of the above" or that person would win by a landslide. The best we can do is vote for the lesser of the evils, until there is accountability we will never have good goverment!

Geeze Beans the last thing I need is 3000 recipies for horseradish, all I need is one that works LOL. I've got a few from this thread that I am going to be trying as soon as I can dig the ground.

Color does make a differance, I have often fished on a day when a pink jig and white twister tail would be pounding the walleye but I have also fished on a day when that combination wouldn't get a hit but a yellow head and black twister tail would be pounding them. I have seen it with crank baits too, same bait, different color pattern, one will be catching the other won't, next day it can be exactly the opposite.

It is interesting but what sort of application could you use it for?

Lets stop with the personal attacks on each other, enough already! If you disagree with someones point of view fine, debate it if you will or agree to disagree but let it go at that. Over the years we have had some very heated topics discussed on here and some real eye opening debates but I don't ever remember this level of attacks on anyones charactor being tolerated before.