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What's For Dinner?

Buckmaster

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What's for dinner? Weiners and Sausage....

Batch 1 is Poultry Hot Dogs. I butchered some chickens and turkeys so its about a 50/50 mix....should be healthier than store bought Hot Dogs.
These are in their raw format but they got smoked over Apple smoke. They taste like Chicken Nuggets found at McDonalds according to my kids.
 

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Buckmaster

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Batch 2 is Slovenian Sausage made from the old family recipe. My great grandparents used to have family gatherings and slaughter the hogs.
From what I've been told.... passed down through the generations..... the men would be outside drinking homemade wines while butchering hogs, rendering the fats over open fires, and whatever else they did. The women would be inside tending to the cuts of meat, making sausage, pigs feet jello, head cheese, and cracklings. Nothing was wasted and everything was used. It was a family gathering and quite the annual ordeal.

100 years later....all that remains of the Family Tradition is.....Me and the Family Recipe (no one in my family generation remotes cares about past traditions).

The results... Before smoke (Hickory) and after smoke.
 

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Buckmaster

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I spent the weekend playing with my meat again. This time its homemade beef pepperoni smoked for 10 hours over hickory.
In the end...we made homemade pizza last night. I've got a picture of the pepperoni but the pizza got devoured.
 

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Jamie

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bowhunter1023 said:
Little freestyle action this evening after the wife decided to go out with the girls. It's easier to cook for my taste buds than our taste buds!

Took some free range chicken breasts and marinaded them in adobe sauce and chopped chipotles, then seasoned with course sea salt and fresh cracked pepper. Heated up the cast iron skillet with some MCT oil and pan fried. Meanwhile I cooked some brown and long grain wild rices, then sauteed the rice with organic corn and black beans. Tossed in a couple chopped chipotles and finished with a little grass fed butter. Served with some homemade salsa and organic blue corn tortilla chips. Damn fine meal...

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what is MCT oil?
 
Jamie

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Buckmaster said:
Batch 2 is Slovenian Sausage made from the old family recipe. My great grandparents used to have family gatherings and slaughter the hogs.
From what I've been told.... passed down through the generations..... the men would be outside drinking homemade wines while butchering hogs, rendering the fats over open fires, and whatever else they did. The women would be inside tending to the cuts of meat, making sausage, pigs feet jello, head cheese, and cracklings. Nothing was wasted and everything was used. It was a family gathering and quite the annual ordeal.

100 years later....all that remains of the Family Tradition is.....Me and the Family Recipe (no one in my family generation remotes cares about past traditions).


The results... Before smoke (Hickory) and after smoke.
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very nice. what is the Slovenian sausage like? never heard of it, but they look really tasty.
 
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Blan37 said:
Until next week's study comes out
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Well... not really. The science is pretty sound and there's really no one in the nutritional realm that disagrees on this. At least in regards to the school of folks who agree that we need healthy fats in our diets. All of the paleo/primal diet folks agree that coconut oil (and MCT oil) are acceptable fats. The oils that kill us are the partially hydrogenized industrial oils. MCT oil is far from that...
 
the Lackster

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bowhunter1023 said:
Medium Chain Triglyceride.

It's made by spinning coconut oil in a centrifuge and the MCT is the healthiest part of an already healthy fat. Very little flavor and a low smoke point. It's one of the best oils for you.
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Hey man do you ever use essential oils for anything. My wife has been ordering from doterra? I think is the name. We are trying to get away from so much medication for small stuff. It's been working well for us.
 
bowhunter1023

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I do not. Other than ibuprofen, I never have a need for medicine. I know some people who swear by essential oils, but it's not something I'm in to. Most of my ailments went away when I cleaned up my diet. The rest I can deal with.
 
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bowhunter1023 said:
Well... not really. The science is pretty sound and there's really no one in the nutritional realm that disagrees on this. At least in regards to the school of folks who agree that we need healthy fats in our diets. All of the paleo/primal diet folks agree that coconut oil (and MCT oil) are acceptable fats. The oils that kill us are the partially hydrogenized industrial oils. MCT oil is far from that...
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I was just saying it tongue in cheek. I try to eat healthy but honestly anymore I just don't care much about what anyone in the nutritional realm has to say because they've cried wolf a few too many times. If it's natural I tend to go with that. It's the processed crap out there that's the problem imo.

At one time everyone in the nutritional realm said that science proved butter was bad for you and you needed hydrogenated oils. I think I'm gonna listen to my grandparents from now on lol
 
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Buckmaster

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Jamie said:
very nice. what is the Slovenian sausage like? never heard of it, but they look really tasty.
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Lots of pork, black pepper, and garlic. The "Ramps" of the sausage family.

I'm already prepping for next weekend. Pork and Beef traditional weiners over Hickory.
 
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