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[unicornduke]

I'm working on getting some food stuff made ahead and stuff into the freezer. 

I haven't gotten anything into the freezer except ice cream but I can keep trying. 

So last night I made, ice cream base, cheese scones and fettuccine alfredo.

I churned the ice cream today since I worked from home. It was a vanilla base, although I didn't have the vanilla beans. It didn't taste quite so vanilla flavored but I scrape/chopped a whole bar of 72% chocolate into it and it tastes so good. 

Cheese scones, I probably shouldn't have grabbed the one cheese I did because it was a harder cheese and hardened back up. I need to mess with that recipe again. I mostly just chucked it together. 

Then tonight I made brown rice with rice cowpeas with indian spices in the pressure cooker and that'll be dinner tomorrow too. Did I make it too spicy? Yes. So I added some of the corn I had in the freezer and now I can eat it without chugging water. 

I've got Plans for this weekend

1. cornbread  - I need to grind some of the corn I grew for this 
2. more ice cream - I'll buy a quart of cream at the farmers market which makes two batches so ta daaa more ice cream
3. baked stuff - not sure yet but hopefully something I can throw in the freezer - ideas: fig newtons, zucchini muffins, squash pie, hazelnut brownies, lemon polenta cake, mint cookies
4. venison roast - I've got some in the freezer and I want to give it a go. I'll need a side dish to go with it. 

I found a blog about gluten free sourdough starter and bread so one of the things I'm planning to work on over christmas break is that. And getting more deer, but only for grinding. 

Comments

[dragonlady7]

I forgot, you got one deer, or two??
I had two to process, and the grinding was. The grinding. Ugh the grinding. Yeah, if that happens again I am absolutely going to look into getting a freestanding meat grinder because NO that was AWFUL.

Shit, I'm going to go look at meat grinders now. They can't be that much.

I have been on a breadmaking mania kick this week. I wish I cooked more. It's been so weird, being in my own house for so long. Christ, my own actual kitchen is a goddamn disaster.

[unicornduke]

Just one deer and I left a bunch of it as roasts. I also destroyed all the shoulderblade meat when I shot it, hit both shoulderblades and the meat was all bloody. My parents also want ground meat so I figured we'd got two more deer and just grind everything. I think roasts will be not happening too much.

The meat grinder I got was 75 dollars and it went through the ten pounds of ground in like, five minutes tops. It took me longer to assemble than grind and I couldn't keep up with it.

Bread is good! I miss making wheat bread. Maybe I'll do that and just give it to Jade.

I'm being more absent from social media/tumblr and amazingly my productivity has gone up by a lot.

Cleaning is the worst though. I'm so bad at doing dishes.

[graydon]

Do you know about lardons and larding pins and suchlike for venison roasts? (You stick pork fat all over them in little hunks. I personally think layering it in bacon in a closed roaster is just as good and way less work if you're not spit-roasting whole or something on that scale.)

[unicornduke]

I didn't! That sounds really neat! Next time I'll have to try getting some lardon and just sticking it in.

I'm doing a barbacoa recipe from the hilarious named Buck, Buck, Moose book. It seems really awesome and it's a slow cooker recipe so we'll see how it goes.