Awesome new food blog by Trox and myself! Go to http://bttreats.blogspot.com/ to get all our new awesome vegan recipes we are doing! Oh yeah, I went vegan two days ago, and I am doing well. I had been planning on doing so by Decemberish, so I am right on my schedule. I am doing the Engine Two diet, and I am trying to make this a lifestyle change.
ENJOY!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Yeah Facebook has destroyed my blogging!
I should like to start again, but it is hard for me since I don't mind the quick posting on facebook...Anyway went chanterelle hunting today, was awesome! Look on my Facebook for the photos...
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Wow, Time Flies!
It is crazy, but true. I have been working at Whole Foods for almost two months now, and it has been great. I am working steady hours, and the work environment is totally cool.
ALL my free time has been spent rocking our garden areas and trying to reseed the yard. The chicken meat bird experiment last winter was awesome, but we learned that they will eat the grass bare in those scare months. It was good to get a clean slate, but tilling the soil two to four inches deep is a lot of work. The summer weather has been pure crap so far, so been a little discouraged with all the work put into getting new garden plots put in.
With some help from my folks we payed an Arborist to fall this rotting maple tree on our property, which was also blocking quite a bit of sunshine to our back yard. It's nice to see a new back yard view.
Finally, I will blog more soon, but my computer has been "getting fixed" for almost two months now from a friend, and it has disconnected me from my usual computer activities...I have a ton of pictures to post from our yard reconstruction the past few months, so stayed tune, I know all you followers are anxious to see!
ALL my free time has been spent rocking our garden areas and trying to reseed the yard. The chicken meat bird experiment last winter was awesome, but we learned that they will eat the grass bare in those scare months. It was good to get a clean slate, but tilling the soil two to four inches deep is a lot of work. The summer weather has been pure crap so far, so been a little discouraged with all the work put into getting new garden plots put in.
With some help from my folks we payed an Arborist to fall this rotting maple tree on our property, which was also blocking quite a bit of sunshine to our back yard. It's nice to see a new back yard view.
Finally, I will blog more soon, but my computer has been "getting fixed" for almost two months now from a friend, and it has disconnected me from my usual computer activities...I have a ton of pictures to post from our yard reconstruction the past few months, so stayed tune, I know all you followers are anxious to see!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
This is fun!
I am so excited! I have been playing music with my buddy Seth for a number of years now. It has always been cool and enjoyable to write and preform songs with him, and I've always been proud of the music we have made.
Life tends to get in the way of band practice, so some projects got put on the side, but I always made sure to have the time to work out some shit, in our band, Russian Trio, the side project that always stayed in my mind as the band I wanted to be in, if we ever decided to play a show again. So Portland, watch out soon!
Another most exciting thing is the link to http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/russiantrio, where you can purchase our first album! Pretty cool to have that now, it was a blast making it, and the next one is going to be even better...
Life tends to get in the way of band practice, so some projects got put on the side, but I always made sure to have the time to work out some shit, in our band, Russian Trio, the side project that always stayed in my mind as the band I wanted to be in, if we ever decided to play a show again. So Portland, watch out soon!
Another most exciting thing is the link to http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/russiantrio, where you can purchase our first album! Pretty cool to have that now, it was a blast making it, and the next one is going to be even better...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
My New Guitar!
I have been really excited about playing music lately... Trox has started to teach me musical theory and she is also giving me piano lessons! It has really fired me up. So, I decided with a portion of my tax return, I would finally go and buy myself a real nice guitar. After getting my tax shit done, I researched for what I would get as my baby. I came real close to a Telecaster '72 Reissue Deluxe, came real close . However, in the end, the Epiphone SG G-400 Custom won me over. The three humbucker pickup is too cool, and the sound is awesome. At first I was worried, but the strings were new, and had to be broken in. Which I did! I played all night, and had a blast. The tone is sweet clean, and with the overdrive pedal, it blasts! I am real glad I got this guitar. Here is the write up from the Epiphone website:
Elegant and powerful, the classic three pickup SG lives on in stunning detail - even down to the “Les Paul” script at the end of the fingerboard. Our G-400 Custom features three powerful Alnico Classic Humbucking pickups like the original but we’ve added even more flexibility with individual bridge, middle and neck volume controls to allow for infinite blending combinations.
Finally, a few pictures of my axe! Look at Trox rockin' out!
Elegant and powerful, the classic three pickup SG lives on in stunning detail - even down to the “Les Paul” script at the end of the fingerboard. Our G-400 Custom features three powerful Alnico Classic Humbucking pickups like the original but we’ve added even more flexibility with individual bridge, middle and neck volume controls to allow for infinite blending combinations.
Finally, a few pictures of my axe! Look at Trox rockin' out!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
How to go from A to Z (graphic pictures)!
We have harvested three of our meat birds with much success. The killing is done as most humanely as I researched it could be, and I feel very little pain is administered to the birds. Getting all the feathers off is quite a chore, and you must be thorough. After additional research, dealing with the innards and final cleaning became routine to us both. We weren't grossed out, since we had cleaned all the fish we caught ourselves in Alaska, and this was no different.
The first time we finished with a bird, we didn't allow the meat to "ripen" for over twenty-four hours, and made the meat less tender and flavorful. We roasted it whole. It was still delicious, and we ate every bit.
The second time we did two birds and decided to divide it up into sections of meat for later meals. We just tried the breast meat, and made awesome chicken strips out of them, moist and an amazing taste! It was very rewarding after all the work put in, to get a meat that was raised with love and respect, and I feel they had an amazing life before giving up theirs for mine. Still my dark sense of humor makes me post this lonely looking picture of chicken tracks in the snow, with none in frame...
The first time we finished with a bird, we didn't allow the meat to "ripen" for over twenty-four hours, and made the meat less tender and flavorful. We roasted it whole. It was still delicious, and we ate every bit.
The second time we did two birds and decided to divide it up into sections of meat for later meals. We just tried the breast meat, and made awesome chicken strips out of them, moist and an amazing taste! It was very rewarding after all the work put in, to get a meat that was raised with love and respect, and I feel they had an amazing life before giving up theirs for mine. Still my dark sense of humor makes me post this lonely looking picture of chicken tracks in the snow, with none in frame...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
More chickens?
Yep, and they are absolutely adorable! We decided to get four more to add to the permanent flock, and this will be the final fill out of egg layers as long as we live on this property. We continued the old lady name tradition, with the following ladies born on February 19th, 2011:
First we have Mildred, a beautiful Ameraucana chick that will grow to be an exotic looking bird. She will lay a pastel like color ranging from green to pink, so we are excited to see when she lays her first egg!
Next we have Beatrice, a Buff Orpington. These breed are a fluffy looking bird, with a tendency to become broody, or turn into hatch egg mode, frequently. Known to be a very sweet and gentle girl.
Then we have Agnes, a Blue Cochin breed. This bird, again, is a fluffy bird with feathers covering the legs, giving her a very cool look when they are older.
Finally, we have Josephine, a New Jersey Giant. I am excited to see this bird grow, and grow it shall! A full grown hen can grow to weigh as much as ten pounds! She is just for show, however, and we are anxious to see how big she will get. She lays a brown egg said to be pretty big, so that is always a bonus.
This brings the egg laying flock to nine now, which I think is plenty for us, maybe enough to sell some back to the Craigslist community or something!
First we have Mildred, a beautiful Ameraucana chick that will grow to be an exotic looking bird. She will lay a pastel like color ranging from green to pink, so we are excited to see when she lays her first egg!
Next we have Beatrice, a Buff Orpington. These breed are a fluffy looking bird, with a tendency to become broody, or turn into hatch egg mode, frequently. Known to be a very sweet and gentle girl.
Then we have Agnes, a Blue Cochin breed. This bird, again, is a fluffy bird with feathers covering the legs, giving her a very cool look when they are older.
Finally, we have Josephine, a New Jersey Giant. I am excited to see this bird grow, and grow it shall! A full grown hen can grow to weigh as much as ten pounds! She is just for show, however, and we are anxious to see how big she will get. She lays a brown egg said to be pretty big, so that is always a bonus.
This brings the egg laying flock to nine now, which I think is plenty for us, maybe enough to sell some back to the Craigslist community or something!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
The Chicken Process.
I love food. Trox and myself have started to take an interest in not only what we eat, but how the food we eat is produced. We began trying to grow our own vegetables over five years ago, in an apartment complex. We have never had a huge bounty of fruits or vegetables to eat, but it has always been rewarding and a great learning experience through the years.
Now living in Newberg, we find ourselves wanting to take it further, and include our meat into self sustainment on our property. Last November we purchased twelve Barred Rock chicks, and got to the long journey of raising chickens for meat!
It has been a pretty fun process so far. It has been great opening the coop in the morning to find eighteen birds flutter out and set out for the day's delicious pickings. We even constructed a brooder for them to live in, till their true feathers all came in. The garage stank for a few weeks, but soon the coop was home. We didn't name any of the birds, for fear of attachment, but we still enjoy watching them interact with the permanent ladies already in the flock, and feel their lives are lived with contentment and ease.
There is this great article, http://www.albc-usa.org/documents/cookingwheritagechicken.pdf, a little long, but it set our plan of attack for getting some meat done.
Now living in Newberg, we find ourselves wanting to take it further, and include our meat into self sustainment on our property. Last November we purchased twelve Barred Rock chicks, and got to the long journey of raising chickens for meat!
It has been a pretty fun process so far. It has been great opening the coop in the morning to find eighteen birds flutter out and set out for the day's delicious pickings. We even constructed a brooder for them to live in, till their true feathers all came in. The garage stank for a few weeks, but soon the coop was home. We didn't name any of the birds, for fear of attachment, but we still enjoy watching them interact with the permanent ladies already in the flock, and feel their lives are lived with contentment and ease.
There is this great article, http://www.albc-usa.org/documents/cookingwheritagechicken.pdf, a little long, but it set our plan of attack for getting some meat done.
WTF!
Okay, been awhile, and a lot of things have happened and occurred that I could have blogged about extensively! Moreover, people have been waiting anxiously for another bit of my mind...The wait is over!
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Chanterelle Heaven
On Thursday, my buddy Seth and I took off into the woods to go mushroom hunting. It was an awesome time in the woods with the rain coming down on us. I forgot to bring the camera, but the weather was so cool, sideways rain, and a chill wind added to the appeal of the day.
We went in search of the most tasty of fungi, the Chanterelle mushroom, and we found success at each stop, some patches were bigger than the others, but a few could always be gathered.
After a stretch, we decided to head the last miles to the coast for a beer and a walk on the beach. The walk was cold and wet, and amazing! The sea was rolling and crashing with turbulent waves, our clothes instantly wet with the misty rain coming down.
Once our beers were consumed and our bones were warmed, we set out again in search of the delicious mushrooms in the woods. Our last effort was thwarted by darkness, but we found our biggest patches of gold for the day at the last moment! Caring a huge bag of amazing tasting mushrooms home felt so good!
We set out to begin eating them instantly, and I began washing and prepping the mushrooms. It was an awesome day, and I thank my buddy Seth for taking me out there, showing me what to look for and driving us around the beautiful Oregon woods, to wonder about stuff...
We went in search of the most tasty of fungi, the Chanterelle mushroom, and we found success at each stop, some patches were bigger than the others, but a few could always be gathered.
After a stretch, we decided to head the last miles to the coast for a beer and a walk on the beach. The walk was cold and wet, and amazing! The sea was rolling and crashing with turbulent waves, our clothes instantly wet with the misty rain coming down.
Once our beers were consumed and our bones were warmed, we set out again in search of the delicious mushrooms in the woods. Our last effort was thwarted by darkness, but we found our biggest patches of gold for the day at the last moment! Caring a huge bag of amazing tasting mushrooms home felt so good!
We set out to begin eating them instantly, and I began washing and prepping the mushrooms. It was an awesome day, and I thank my buddy Seth for taking me out there, showing me what to look for and driving us around the beautiful Oregon woods, to wonder about stuff...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Trailer Park Boys!!!
Last night we went to the Aladdin Theatre to see Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles. It was a lot of fun! I laughed alot, and we had a good time all around.
Friday, October 1, 2010
A Dirty Dozen!
We have been getting a steady stream of eggs coming in from Ethel, but also from Mabel, our barred rock hen.
We stopped buying eggs in the store about three weeks ago, and although we have been letting them build up the last eight days, we have been eating eggs, and still have a dozen! It just feels good after all the time is put in, you start to get something back.
It feels the same way with the tomatoes. All the work put in, you start to see some tasty results at the end of the season. Since this was such a short summer, I am glad we have got any to eat!
Since it seems the weather is holding on, we are getting ripe tomatoes on all of the plants!
We stopped buying eggs in the store about three weeks ago, and although we have been letting them build up the last eight days, we have been eating eggs, and still have a dozen! It just feels good after all the time is put in, you start to get something back.
It feels the same way with the tomatoes. All the work put in, you start to see some tasty results at the end of the season. Since this was such a short summer, I am glad we have got any to eat!
Since it seems the weather is holding on, we are getting ripe tomatoes on all of the plants!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Pumpkin Carving!
We had a great night carving pumpkins! Mine is a dragon type thing, and Trox did Captain Jack Sparrow! We had so much fun...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Po Ta To!
The season has been kind of a disappointment for our garden. We worked real hard on getting things right, and then the weather screwed us over! We have enjoyed many treats from our labors, though. Strawberries, zucchini, yellow squash, cabbage, and few tomatoes have been consumed and loved.
Last month we had a few organic russet potatoes hanging around, sprouting roots, and Trox decided to plant them to see what happens. Since the season is pretty much over, and we were so late in planting them, we decided to dig them up. To my surprise, we got some tasty looking baby russets! We are gonna treat these babies right somehow, I can't wait to eat them. Also, next year, planting them earlier and taking care of them all year!
Speaking of potatoes, Trox used to go to this website that had funny flash videos, this is one of them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMMw0rnKz4
Last month we had a few organic russet potatoes hanging around, sprouting roots, and Trox decided to plant them to see what happens. Since the season is pretty much over, and we were so late in planting them, we decided to dig them up. To my surprise, we got some tasty looking baby russets! We are gonna treat these babies right somehow, I can't wait to eat them. Also, next year, planting them earlier and taking care of them all year!
Speaking of potatoes, Trox used to go to this website that had funny flash videos, this is one of them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMMw0rnKz4
Thursday, September 16, 2010
E G G !
Well, it has begun! I was at work this morning and Trox called around noon, very excited. Ethel, our Golden Sexlink, produced our first egg! We were so excited, and I couldn't wait to get home to check it out.
The egg was a little smaller than ones you get in the store, but it had a nice shape and real good brown color.
We decided to scramble it with a little salt and pepper, and it was most delicious, very rich and tasty.
We had a celebratory tequila shot, Ethel, here is to you!
Monday, September 13, 2010
He He
I was bored last night, looking through some photos. I came across this bad boy...
I love going to Comic Cons, one of the things I love, is thinking about all the time put into making the props and costumes for these things. Some dude (pud?) sitting there, sewing a Captain America suit while watching Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.
I have gone to several of these things in the North West through the years, but never made any attempt to dress up. Below is what I think something like that would look like...
I love going to Comic Cons, one of the things I love, is thinking about all the time put into making the props and costumes for these things. Some dude (pud?) sitting there, sewing a Captain America suit while watching Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.
I have gone to several of these things in the North West through the years, but never made any attempt to dress up. Below is what I think something like that would look like...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
September?
Man, oh man. I really enjoy summer with all its delights. It always saddens me when it comes to an end...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wilderness Band Photos!
This post is really so my buddy Seth can browse through all the pictures we took on our camera when we were taking photos at Lost Lake. I look like I am from Tron in some of them!
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