Butter and Bread and Sandwiches Oh My!

[brembo]

Which brings me to my next question. I'm a fat man AND I have a DRZ400s, so again, WHY THE HELL WAS I NOT INVITED?

Uh, you are anytime ya wanna go. Warning tho a DRZ isn't going to be much fun where we go. If you ride a bike then you know what trials riding is and that's a main part of what we do. I'm uncomfortably close to 40, so my motocross days are behind me, so now it's lower speeds and way more technical riding. I ride a KTM 525, geared down a good bit with trials tires, riding bud rides a KTM 300 (2 stroke) with trials tires. We try and avoid road riding as it chews up our gum-ball tires, gravel even does them in. We look for slick rock and single track woods lines. The tighter and steeper the better.

[guiri]

Sweet! So, where do you actually live?

[brembo]

West of Asheville, then west of Canton in a little township called Cruso. I believe that it's also called "the sticks". I'd say about 30 mins from Asheville if one was not driving like their hair was on fire.

[Meganoggin]

This is my campfire thai curry with rice - the foil packets are the naan breads...

[Meganoggin]

This one is the chilli marinated chicken with coleslaw - I forgot to take a photo until I had half finished it

[guiri]

West of Asheville, then west of Canton in a little township called Cruso. I believe that it's also called "the sticks". I'd say about 30 mins from Asheville if one was not driving like their hair was on fire.

Ahh, the pretty side of the state

[guiri]

Noggin, that rice is DEFINITELY up my alley

[Meganoggin]

Noggin, that rice is DEFINITELY up my alley

I should draw your attention to the large amount of chilli floating around that Dutch oven! If you ever find yourself over here, I will be honoured to cook for you.

[guiri]

Damn! Time to do that road trip to England...nam, nam, nam..and Noggin, thanks for the invite

[nbp]

George, now we can go to England under the guise of visiting Noggin, and then while we are crashed at his place eating chili lime chicken, we can track down DM and show up at his place! We're coming for you David! Have plenty of snacks and CR123s ready when we get there.

[DM51]

we can track down DM ... We're coming for you David!

You'll never take me alive, copper

LOL

[NonSenCe]

we dont need your life man..
but, in the end, live or die.. as long as we get fed.

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today. i have mostly been eating raspberries.

straight out of the bushes in the back yard.

if i go again.. i might take a bowl with me so i might end up carrying few of them back inside.. and have some with vanilla icecream or something

[brembo]

we dont need your life man..
but, in the end, live or die.. as long as we get fed.

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today. i have mostly been eating raspberries.

straight out of the bushes in the back yard.

if i go again.. i might take a bowl with me so i might end up carrying few of them back inside.. and have some with vanilla icecream or something

Something about grazing is so pacifying. I remember browsing the blueberry bushes and grapevines as a child. Sun-warmed blueberries are heaven on earth.

[guiri]

George, now we can go to England under the guise of visiting Noggin, and then while we are crashed at his place eating chili lime chicken, we can track down DM and show up at his place! We're coming for you David! Have plenty of snacks and CR123s ready when we get there.

Yep! The plan is to surprise the hell outta DM. All hungry 'n stuff

[guiri]

brembo, dunno if you know but they have blueberry pickers that they use when they pick blueberries in the woods in Sweden. Very cool stuff. Lots of that going on up north. Prolly the same in Finland where NonSenCe is.

NonSenCe, have you ever tried hot berries with cold ice cream? Yum, yum. Dunno if I'd do it with fresh berries but like when you buy'em frozen with sugar. Yummy

Just in case someone's curious http://www.blåbär-shoppen.se/shop/blaabar-plockare-40c1.html

[NonSenCe]

yeah those pickers.. we use that solely. (ok if one wants to just sit in the woods and soak in the atmosphere and pick and choose them individually which ones you want to eat.. one is welcome to do so..) but that kind of pickers are convinient way to pick lot of blueberries and lingonberries/cowberries in short timeframe.
its easily 4-10 times faster to pick them up with the "machine" than by hand.. berries just fly into the picker and then you gotta empty it to the bucket. and those
buckets get full in no time if you find a good spot

only downside of the picker is that it does pick up some leaves and twigs and such trash also.. so you gotta clean them berries anyways afterwards.. remove trash and just chuck away the ones that are raw or otherwise no good. (the are systems that help on this task.. like attachment to vacuum cleaner that sucks the trash and too small ones and leave the good ones, or the old type sifter and fan set up.. dont have to manually pick each one out)

and then eat em.. freeze them.. or make them into jam.

i put my berries in fresh during summer.. might even mush them but dont need anything more.
hot berries.. done that too.. they will do just fine.. i just prefer my icecream to be cold.. and then keep mixing it up in the bowl until it melts enough to get that soft ice kind of firm texture and then i start to shovel it in

we do freeze lot of our berries ourselves to be used during winter. (strawberries, raspberries, black berries, cowberries mostly.. cloudberries too) and the straw/rasp/cloudberries we freeze up with spoonful of sugar.. so they have an sweet red liquid too when they come out of freezer. and then melt them up to use them up on what ever one prefers.. put them on cake or icecream or flapjacks.. mmm.. now gotta make flapjacks tomorrow .damn u.

little jam made of all of the berries always too.. for variety. haha.

todays menu: raspberries, raspberries with icecream, sandwich+ butter+ turkeyham, grilled pork steaks and french baguette with cocacola and one gin-longdrink, raspberries that i picked out as i came home hour ago and used my edc flashlight to see which ones are good.. and.. marabou chokolate.

[nbp]

You'll never take me alive, copper

LOL

Oh we're capturing you alive alright! That way we can hold you hostage, accepting as ransom only copious amounts of delicious French treats from the Lovely Mrs. DM51. I am quite fond of crepes...and there had better be croissants!





@Nonsence - Norway sounds really lovely. If I can afford to go back to Europe in the near future I think I'd like to visit the Scandinavian countries. There is plenty to see all over Europe, but being more a country boy than a city slicker, it seems that I would enjoy the culture by you more. I'll take a walk in the woods and some berry picking with a mountainous backdrop over old art any day. What sorts of activities are popular in Norway? Is it an outdoorsy culture?

[guiri]

mmm.. now gotta make flapjacks tomorrow .damn u.

Damn ME? I'm the one having to sit here and listen while you go on about something I haven't had for years...YOU SUCK! I want some! Hey, if you pour the blackberries in a big bowl of water, the bad ones and leaves will float to the top. Take them away and the rest is the good stuff

[guiri]

Oh we're capturing you alive alright! That way we can hold you hostage, accepting as ransom only copious amounts of delicious French treats from the Lovely Mrs. DM51. I am quite fond of crepes...and there had better be croissants!





@Nonsence - Norway sounds really lovely. If I can afford to go back to Europe in the near future I think I'd like to visit the Scandinavian countries. There is plenty to see all over Europe, but being more a country boy than a city slicker, it seems that I would enjoy the culture by you more. I'll take a walk in the woods and some berry picking with a mountainous backdrop over old art any day. What sorts of activities are popular in Norway? Is it an outdoorsy culture?

Of course we're taking you alive DM, who's gonna do the cooking otherwise? Mind you, we DO have some very talented people in here so maybe we'll bring our own chef/s

nbp, the Norwegians, Swedes and Fins are outdoorsy but he's in Finland. Just thought I'd throw that in there.

[DM51]

he's in Finland.

How did you find out I was in Finland?

[nbp]

Of course we're taking you alive DM, who's gonna do the cooking otherwise? Mind you, we DO have some very talented people in here so maybe we'll bring our own chef/s

nbp, the Norwegians, Swedes and Fins are outdoorsy but he's in Finland. Just thought I'd throw that in there.

Sorry, can't read. Finland, Norway... same difference.

[NonSenCe]

dm51.. i think guiri meant me.. but why are you here? -i have no food.. only raspberries.

mountains.. the go to norway indeed.. as you move east from norway the landscape gets more flat.. first sweden. and then us.. and after the next country to east from us you end up looking at the pacific ocean.. and yes.. where ever you are in these countries.. the nature is not that far away.

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guiri: Damn ME? I'm the one having to sit here and listen while you go on about something I haven't had for years...YOU SUCK! ... hahahah sowwy .. dont have any berries there do ya.. that must suck.

i really should re-juvenate my late grandads strawberry field next year.. atleast part of it. they do grow "wild" there stil but they would produce much more if one would take better care of them.. now i just used them as wander in and pick the red ones to fill ones stomach.. there used to be enough of them berries there to fill freezer and maybe even sell to others.. but that was when my granddad was working on them rows. now days the strawberries i put in freezer i buy.. the strawberries to be eaten come from the old field.. the old raspberry bushes offer enough to freezer and feed belly. and if they somehow are not enough.. neighbour has few hundred yards of raspberry bushes in a row growing "semi wildly" now.. he used to grow them to sell in marketplace.. and as he got older decided not to bother anymore few years ago.. his raspberries taste different than mine.. different breed.. his are slightly bigger too in size.. not that im envy.. i just like the fact that his raspberries are growing roots on my side of the fence too. hahahah soon, i will have a good sized secondary raspberry bush segment on opposite side of my yard too. (never too far from a berry bush if i mow the lawn.. too bad the season is so short on them.. only few weeks tops)

[DM51]

dm51, why are you here?

Everybody's gotta be somewhere.

[guiri]

Yes, I meant you and not DM and yes, I hate you for having all these berries and I don't

[nbp]

How did you find out I was in Finland?

Everybody's gotta be somewhere.

I got it! He's a Jumper!

Why didn't you tell us you can bend space and time?

[guiri]

Because he knows that we'd be at his place in a fraction of a second...

[nbp]

Had a couple nice brats for lunch today. Do you folks in other parts of the country and world eat brats? I am under the impression that while they are available elsewhere, their popularity is a regional thing here due to the German influence. Friends of mine are required to bring good brats to their out of town family when they go to visit. They are cookout staples in Milwaukee. Typically they are boiled in your favorite beer first to cook them through and add *beery goodness*, and then put on the grill to get that crispy crackly skin. I like mine with plenty of mayo and Dijon mustard.

[Meganoggin]

Bratwurst is a very german thing, and fantastic at a german beerfest! English sausages are different, usually thinner and with many regional variations. Recently there has been a renaissance in high quality local sausages (also known as bangers).

March Browns favourite store Lidl, sells authentic german brats. I will have to try your beer pre cook recipe.

Tonight I'm going to try to make a decent burger.

[NonSenCe]

we have those here. yeah. whole european influence going on over here too.

my dad loves them. i eat them only rarely. i prefer my food to look edible. hahah (their general appearance and colouring from the package looks too pale and disgusting.)
but after they are grilled they will do.

and yes.. lidls sell very good bratwursts. the general brands sold in supermarkets dont have the flavors i prefer in a good bratwurst. only few small and independent manufacturers can make good ones.. and finding their products take time and good luck (they only sell them in select locations and small numbers.. so they might be sold out before you get there) but like said, i there is no time to "hunt" go to lidl and get a pack. it will do.

and i think i have heard few doing the presteam or beersteam on them.. but as i dont like beer.. i woulndt try it on my sausages.

[guiri]

Beer cookin' sounds good. I used to cook with beer or wine. NEVER used water in any of my cooking. Used to make a stew with red wine and guiness

The only place I know of to get brats locally is a hot dog guy that sells some northern stuff. Great with sauerkraut on the bun

Nonsense, being in Finlandia (vodka) how do you know what Lidl's has?