Pot Luck

AAAK! (4.00 / 2)

The hatchery I was getting my broilers from isn't selling broilers anymore. I called them the other day to order more chicks and the fellow called me back this afternoon to say that they wouldn't have any anymore. I think they're going to all heritage layer breeds. So now I'm looking for another commercial hatchery that I can drive to instead of shipping in chicks. I can get chicks through Cackle Hatchery or McMurray all winter long, but it's so much nicer to be able to drive to the hatchery. Even if it doesn't save me money on shipping (if I have to drive to Corvallis it'll be a push), I still would rather buy from a local hatchery and the stress isn't as bad on the chicks even traveling an hour or so in my pickup cab as it is traveling for 2 or 3 days across country.

I texted my distributor and he said he'd ask his poultry suppliers where they get their meat chicks.

I wouldn't worry about it, but I need 50 more birds to fill orders already on the books and to give me some chickens for my own freezer. And then everytime a new batch of CSA members sign up, I need to have birds that I can slaughter for them and I'd like to have some half grown birds so the members don't have to take all of their birds in the last week of their contract. I'd like to be slaughtering birds every couple of weeks or so.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Fri Sep 30, 2011 at 02:26:52 AM UTC

olive oil taste (4.00 / 1)

A couple of days ago, I wrote a comment about a peppery taste or sensation from extra virgin olive oil. The sensation was from olive oil by itself, from a spoon.

I bought some "pure" olive oil and some "extra light" olive oil. The sensation is barely detectable in these oils. It's there, but very mild.

I wonder what causes the sensation, and why it is concentrated in evoo.

I'm very far away from being able to say anything about how this affects the taste of food in which evoo is used, or if it has any effect at all.

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by: count @ Sat Oct 01, 2011 at 23:58:45 PM UTC

It is my understanding that the tastes of peppery (4.00 / 2)

or fruity in EVOO is determined by where the olives are grown and the type of olive. Olive oil from Sicily, for example, has a peppery taste. Spanish olive oil is generally a fruity tasting oil. Each country grows different kinds of olives; different regions of each country grow different kinds of olives. All contribute to the taste.

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by: caseyOR @ Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 03:56:30 AM UTC

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this evoo (4.00 / 1)

contains oil from Italy, Spain, and Tunisia.

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by: count @ Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 04:03:46 AM UTC

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thats why I like the Spanish EVOO (4.00 / 2)

from Trader Joes. its from one kind of olive tree from Spain. Its really fruity :)

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by: LeeN @ Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 18:50:42 PM UTC

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Do you mean it is a blend of oils or (4.00 / 2)

that it is made from olives from those 3 countries or that when you buy a bottle of this EVOO you don't know which country the oil in that particular bottle comes from?

My point was simply that terroir and type of olive are what determine the taste, be it fruity or peppery or whatever. If you don't like the peppery oil, just find a different oil. As Lee said, the Spanish EVOO at Trader Joe's ( my go-to EVOO) is a fruity oil that works well for all my needs. I use it in vinaigrettes, for sautéing, for coating veggies before roasting.

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by: caseyOR @ Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 23:25:03 PM UTC

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label (4.00 / 1)

The label says and, not or. Bottled in Italy with oils from Italy, Spain, and Tunisia. Interpretation of the plain English is that oils from those countries come to the plant and are blended, but who knows? Do labels mean anything?

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by: count @ Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 23:45:49 PM UTC

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I've read that the practice of blending oil (4.00 / 2)

from different countries and then exporting to the U.S. is a not uncommon practice. I have also read that such oil is an inferior product that is sent to the U.S. because Italian producers assume our palates are barbaric enough that we won't notice the difference.

Further reading tells me that if one wants good EVOO, not necessarily expensive oil, one should look for EVOO that is made from olives grown in one specific country or region of a country, and that preferably it will come from one particular olive.

Find the olive whose taste you like and look for that listed on bottles of EVOO.  

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by: caseyOR @ Mon Oct 03, 2011 at 01:01:16 AM UTC

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blending (4.00 / 1)

I am happy with coffee made from different kinds of beans from different farms. I drink coffee by itself, no sugar, occasionally a little half and half for variety.

I am happy with wine made from different kinds of grapes from different vineyards. I drink wine by itself, except when I make kir.

I never drink olive oil by itself. Blended olive oil is fine by me.

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by: count @ Mon Oct 03, 2011 at 02:12:00 AM UTC

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all of the above (4.00 / 2)

:)

The Trader Joes Spanish is my go to evoo :)TOO

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by: LeeN @ Mon Oct 03, 2011 at 12:16:45 PM UTC

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Fucked up Congress (4.00 / 1)

Today is October 1, the beginning of FY2012, and Congress has not yet managed to pass even one of the 12 budget bills needed for FY2012. The recent continuing resolution funds the federal government until October 4. Sometime before then, Congress is expected to pass another resolution funding the government until November 18, and then who knows what? A Gang of (12, is it?), is supposed to come up with an FY2012 budget proposal that can be passed, but everybody expects the group to fail. The very existence of the group is proof of Congressional failure.

This is even worse than last year, and last year was very bad.

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by: count @ Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 01:14:21 AM UTC

Gang of 12 (4.00 / 2)

There is no way in the world that they will come up with a coherent proposal given the extremists on the committee. Obama and Boehner and McConnell and Reid were just covering themselves with paper fig leaves.

Nothing will be resolved until next year's elections, and I'm very curious to see what the public's verdict will be on Dem's vs. GOP. Personally I'd like to vote for Gus Hall.

But by then the European Union may have fallen apart and the banking system gone into terminal shock, excerbating the 2nd recession dip (2nd Great Depression, anyone?). It's going to be a very interesting year, the next 12-13 months.

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by: DennisP @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 03:18:35 AM UTC

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I agree with you. (4.00 / 1)

Last year, an omnibus budget bill was forced through at the end of December because the new Congress was coming in. There's no such pressure this year, so they might very well stumble through the entire fiscal year on continuing resolutions. It will be quite the spectacle.

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by: count @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 06:27:36 AM UTC

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My first cousin was married to Jarvis Tyner (4.00 / 2)

who ran as VP under Gus Hall. For many years we all thought she was paranoid and it turns out she wasn't! The FBI was very interested in her because she was white and married to a black man. Her FBI file is 2400 pages.

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by: LeeN @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 10:47:28 AM UTC

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word play (4.00 / 1)

Trying to lighten the mood:

Q: What are drunken actors called?

A: Boiled hams.

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by: count @ Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 01:15:45 AM UTC

Chris Hedges just got back from Imalokee (4.00 / 3)

http://www.truthdig.com/avboot...

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by: LeeN @ Mon Oct 03, 2011 at 12:26:10 PM UTC

Thanks! Watching it now (4.00 / 2)

This is in part three

I don't like the term revolution, I like the term rebellion.  I come out of the Julian Benda vision of the world with his book The Treason of Intellectuals where people have to make a choice to their fealty or loyalty to two sets of principals: either privilege and power or justice and truth.

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by: Crider @ Wed Oct 05, 2011 at 17:09:34 PM UTC

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Hey Jay (4.00 / 2)

Have you seen this one? The Ramen Truck 33rd and Hawthorne in SE.

Now that looks so delicious!

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Tue Oct 04, 2011 at 15:52:26 PM UTC

Not yet... (4.00 / 1)

Huh, that's funny.  A friend was in town last week and we ate like a block away from there.  Finally got to Chiang Mai.

It was night though, so maybe I just couldn't see the cart.  Or wasn't looking.  I'm sure I'll come across it sooner or later...

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by: JayinPhiladelphia @ Wed Oct 05, 2011 at 10:51:09 AM UTC

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supercommittee (4.00 / 1)

Deficit 'supercommittee' struggles as clock ticks

ANDREW TAYLOR
AP
1 hr 16 mins ago

After weeks of secret meetings, the 12-member deficit-cutting panel established under last summer's budget and debt deal appears no closer to a breakthrough than when talks began last month.

Duh.

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by: count @ Sun Oct 09, 2011 at 20:04:02 PM UTC