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  1. 2 minutes ago, Foosters said:

    From the LA Times today re: the covid surge.

    There are like 7 beds available in a county of 10 million+ and if you drive around, you'd think its a normal Wednesday in December. 

    If they were republicans we could spike the football on them. 

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  2. On 12/24/2020 at 7:52 PM, Orange&White said:

    I haven’t checked into this thread on this site but followed closely on the previous site.

    I made a batch of gumbo about 8 weeks ago and tried something new that was awesome. I bought two of the little cheap lobster tails from the seafood counter. Gutted the meat out and set it aside and then threw those shells in with my shrimp shells to make the stock. Then threw the tail meat into the gumbo 20 minutes prior to serving. 
     

    It obviously doesn’t add much protein to the dish but definitely kicked up the flavor.

    I usually make seafood gumbo. Shrimp, crab, oysters.  Throwing a couple of those small shell lobsters in there kicks it up to 11. 

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  3. 36 minutes ago, USCATX said:

    I’m using Cabela’s seasoning, but happy with these 80/20 venison/pork belly snack sticks done on applewood in my Little Chief electric.  Not sure why people insist on putting so much pork or beef in with venison when it’s such a mild meat and makes great sausage at 15% or so fat content. 
     

    I’m super lazy about making them real stick length so I just run a (that’s what she said) super long sausage link and the coil it up on racks.  It gets cut to length later and is much faster.

     

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    Looks nice.  I got pork butt @ 25% fat in my recipe calculator, which is based on the one that @Judge Roybeanbag shared here a while back...so 80/20 puts you at 5% fat which is pretty low. Probably alright for snack sticks, but not sufficient for sausage imo. 50/50 with butt gets you to 10-12%.  I'd love to find fat back as judge mentioned in another thread, but I don't exactly see that shit hanging out in the coolers at HEB. 

  4. 1 minute ago, Both Tacos said:
    2 hours ago, Anastasis said:
    I need a deer camp.  Y'all let me know if you need someone to cook that is willing to cull spikes and does and maybe get one shot at a 8 or 10 pter. 
     
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    Your menu better include more than burgers.

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  5. Can we talk grind for a bit.

    Most of the recipes I see call for two passes through the plates. 

    I ran one time through the big holes, and started making a second pass through the big holes and the pork fat just created an emulsification that gummed everything up.  We ended up just putting it all in the stuffer after one pass and moving on.  What are y'alls grinding procedures.  Do you free after the first pass to make it workable, or just do a single pass.  I keep all my temps in low 30s and freeze the equipment so it is not a temp issue unless I just need to partially freeze the first gring. 

  6. Finally got around to making a batch of sausage. 

     

    Used a Castroville sausage recipe.  Made some plain, some with cheese, some with jap and cheddar, some with jab and habanero cheddar. Also some breakfast links. About 40 lbs all in.  Had my BIL helping me out.  Got a bit to optimize the workflow but I feel like we did a pretty good job with things. 

     

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    This is the basic recipe scaled to 100lb. We ran a bit short on the coriander, and no pork belly to boost the fat content into 20% range, but it still turned out great.

     

    Alsatian Jap and Cheese Venison Sausage  
           
    Total Weight 100    
           
      #'s oz's.  
    Pork Butt (25% fat) 50.00 800.00 50%
    Pork Belly (50% fat) 0.00 0.00  
    Venison 50.00 800.00 50%
    Salt 2.00 32.00 2.00%
    Black Pepper 0.50 8.00 0.50%
    Coriander 0.50 8.00 0.50%
    Garlic 0.50 8.00 0.50%
    Allspice dash    
    Cloves dash    
    Cheese 10.00 160.00 10.00%
    Diced Japs 1.00 16.00 1.00%
    Water 2.00 32.00 2.00%
           
           
           
    Total 116.50    
           
    Total fat 11%    
           
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  7. 4 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

    Add in post offices. 

    We once had circuit riding judges delivering justice.

    Now we need "Circuit-Riding Inoculators" traveling from post office to post office delivering immunizations. 

    Not a terrible idea for the rural locations where there is not pharmacy or medical infrastructure. 

  8. 35 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    Or it could force them to do something crazy like come up with an actual distribution plan.  I'm letting everyone I know who is eligible to get the shot at Brookshire Bros to get signed up now. 

    I think going to pharmacies in more rural areas is a good angle. 

  9. 2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    Called doctors who supposedly received the vaccine.  They said they haven't received them.  What a mess. I'm 1B and trying to see if there's a place to go that has it in or around Austin.

    sign up on the tarrytown and 38th st pharmacy waitlists.

  10. 4 hours ago, Gale Snoats said:

    My parents’ primary care doc is telling them to “wait for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine”

    Has anyone else heard this advice or know the basis for it?

    Do either of your parent's have a history of allergic reactions to vax, drugs, or foods?  If not, they should take whatever is first available imo, esp if they are at high risk. 

  11. 7 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Amazon/FedEx/HEB consortium.  I'd say Chick Fil A, but they probably don't believe in vaccines.  

    Yep.  I'd throw a bone to CVS given their broad geographic footprint.  Some extremely high number of American live within a very short distance to a CVS. 

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