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About 5 guys in this thread need to have a beer and take off their panties.

No doubt! But steroids are now old school, now its SARMS

Sounds logical....

Eh bummer. My bad. Sometimes I forget alot of lakes up there have cottage owners.not really an issue I deal with

I already saved it and jenn is game for monday. I look forward to it! Ill let ya know my thoughts

Are you forgetting how "obama care" was approved?

Im very limited at the moment. Cooking is hard on crutches. But I just made 2 grilled cheese sandwiches with provalone topped with a sunny side up egg Simple and delicious snack

← General Discussion Ontario Fishing Community Home » Recipe thread for 2017 Reply Old Ironmaker's PhotoOld Ironmaker Today, 02:58 PM I went back 7 pages and can't seem to find the old recipe thread started by M2B2 a few years ago. If someone does bump it please. It's good to read it and try a few. Made what we call in the Family "Beans and Greens" which is nothing more than bean soup with greens. It takes minutes not hours if you use canned beans which isn't against the law. Dry beans are much more economical and better. Toast some garlic, whole, crushed or sliced. Usually the rule of thumb for browning anything is hot pan, hot oil and brown whatever. Garlic is so easy to burn. I found the best way to toast garlic to a nice golden brown is cold pan, cold oil add garlic and then turn on the burner to medium and watch closely. Once browned remove it and add latter or quickly add whatever so it doesn't go beyond golden brown. Toast 3 or 4 cloves of garlic in Extra Virgin Olive Oil, (EVO) Then add hot chili flakes to taste. Slowly add stock, be careful pot is hot and adding too fast will cause a splash back of hot oil. Tilting the pot away from you is a good tip when adding liquid to a hot pot. Add whatever beans you want. Dry Navy beans soaked over night is traditional, cheaper and better for you. I used 2 cans of $$ store mixed beans and a can of Navy beans for about 1.5 lts of chicken stock. Use your favorite beans, it doesn't matter. Another tip, open cans from the bottom, you get 100% of whatever is in a can of anything especially canned beans. I don't rinse them. Lots of flavour in the stuff at the bottom of a can. Some cans won't open from the bottom. Bring to a boil and simmer until beans are done. The dry beans need time to get soft, canned are already soft. Wash and cut up a bunch of greens. My favorite is Rapini or Swiss Chard. You can use anything like spinach including Romaine lettuce. Just remember it will cook down to about 10% of it's raw volume. Always looks way too much. Don't be afraid to use all the stalk. No reason not to. Mom says the stalks may be too bitter, I disagree but won't tell her that. Your done. Traditionally a piece of toasted day old bread is toasted and laid into a bowl, then ladle the soup on top. I will cook separately Pastina, Acini de Pepe (micro pipes), mini stars or elbow macaroni and put that on the bottom of the bowl, now you have a type of Pasta Fagioli. I always add to much pasta in a pot and it soaks up all the liquid, no good. Drizzle with EVO and add grated parm or similar cheese. Make some garlic bread or whatever type of toast. I'll cut up leftover meat and add it towards the end. My favorite is to add cut up sausages. I will pre cook a few just for this. I added sliced pork chops we had this time. Chicken, anything really. It should take you longer to prep than to cook unless dried beans. Fast, good, healthy and economical meal. A bonus too, 1 pot cooking. Eat and fa cresece. (Ketchinany if you are reading, please give me a spelling lesson.) This is a thick soup, add more stock or even water to thin it to taste. I will add water. There is enough flavor in this soup to handle it. In fact you can use water rather than stock, just simmer it longer. Many soups are started with water. I do not recommend freezing it. Something happens to the greens and whatever it is I don't like the texture and taste once frozen. If I told my Mom this was Beans and Greens she'd slap me, and tell me my Noni is rolling in her grave. I can't get it like Mom did and my Uncle still does so I don't try anymore and get disappointed. I need to get to New York and watch Uncle Angelo do it the way I had it as a kid.

Bump for OI

The food thread will never die! Its just on hiatus lol

Thats brutal. I can only go off my experience and I guess I choose to remember it that way lol. My gramps and great uncle played pro hockey in europe waaay back, maybe 52 ish. My other cousin did as well and actually made the back up roster for the red wings. After that he either started, or bought northland hockey sticks, I cant recall?? Anyways I was in TO with my gramps and he had a surprise for me. And thats what it was. Dinner with don. He was amazing to us, and boy did they chug the beers. He donated one of his damn ugly suits to our town years later lol. Maybe the fame got the best of him? But he sure is good to the kiddos, and I respect that!

Funny how that goes. I met don as a youngin in AA bantam and he wined and dined as as if my gramps was the best thing ever to happen to hockey. No cameras, no naddas. Amazingly nice guy

I wouldnt doubt, much like Trump, this is more a business decision than it is "for the well being of the Country". Imagine being uber rich, business contacts worldwide in all major sectors, then you gain power of a country. The gains that could be made afterwards financially could be huge and of unreal benefit to a business man. Just like Trump donating his presidential earnings. It looks good publicly but he knows he has much more to gain financially afterwards than a measily 450 thousand dollars. Im not sure at what point in history this began happening? But business and government is just an open door of power and business recycling itself

Great news!!! Hes been a major piece of the puzzle this year. Not someone we would want to lose

Thats absolutely nuts!!!!

Im pretty sure half the world feels the same. Uncertainty is pretty darn high at this moment

If the lake has no structure, aside from shoreline, if you find em id expect some quality schools to be bunched up

Always trolling...???

Man, so different up here for pike. Ive never fished a lake in my life that isnt full of pike. And ive fished 100's of lakes in sunset country. 3 guys in a boat and you are catching at least 30 in a day, ranging from 17"-35". Thats NOT targeting them. If you are targetting them expect well into the 70 or 80s, with many of those over 35". They taper around 40". They get into the higher 40s but catch rate decreases. My PB is 47". You cant do anything wrong lol. Any bait, lure, presentation, water levels, water depth to about 40fow, any weather, water clarity, you name it... your still gonna hammer em. On the bigger lakes, rainy lake, lake of the woods, lac suel etc an average pike is probably 8lbs.

In my area its normally just fathead minnows, size small through large. A small is about 2" and a large is about 3 1/2" I can get shiners from a few local trappers, or frozen shiners. Its hard to find suckers but we have frozen ciscoes for pike fishing. Id consider using livebait more often if I could get emerald shiners. In my experiences they really produce

Just an inside joke between geoff and I

I dont use tip ups often but when I do its mono. Either 10, 12 or 14lb. Depends what ive been tying harnesses with.

Im in the same boat lol. And yes, when the Koch brothers are involved, whether warrented or not, raises red flags with me as well.

I would agree. At least to some extent its possible and plausable. I for one was shocked when cormorants decimated many species on Rainy Lake in such a short time frame. Its a large body of water too and the damage was done very quickly. Quite shocking really. But that being said lakes all have their own ecosystem and manage differently. Pretty tricky to scientifically analyze with so many factors in play. Thats why I like the "play it safe" type methods, because we never really have a full understanding, so treading lightly is often the best solution. Not to say it will happen, but a new disease or something similar could be introduced and change things quickly, or slowly over time. No waterbody has infinite biological sustainability on the levels we expect or are used too.

Carry on Dutch. Personally, I learn alot from your posts and point of view(whether I agree or disagree) You have a knack for rational debate on various topics and always back it up appropriately and I for one, appreciate the insight and effort put into your posts.