Originally Posted by BC30cal
Geno;
Good evening to you my cyber friend, I hope you're doing as fine as that soup looks!

My goodness that's a good looking photo, I can almost taste it. cool

As you and others have mentioned, making soup from a bird carcass, ham bones, etc is a great way to extend the use of that food.

Pearled and pot barley are another thing we pick up at Bulk Barn and I love it in the wonderful soups my wife makes.

While I'm trying to expand my cooking, I'm more of a venison roast and potatoes or sausages and perogies cook, though again I am learning to stretch my repertoire a bit.

When I took up ice fishing we've found that we both don't mind perch tacos for instance and next week I'm attempting some fish patties using mashed potatoes, egg and white fleshed fish which again will be perch.

Not that on any balance sheet it'd pay the diesel for me to drive to the mountain lake where I go ice fishing or anything close, but it does keep me more or less sane and out of trouble.

Again I'll say it's been a grand thread with a lot of thoughtful input - kudos one and all for that - it's nice to see. grin

All the best to you all down in your part of the planet sir.

Dwayne


Dwayne, way up north of me.

I sure wish we had some perch around here. I guess I could get a non-resident license and drive the 100 miles to Klamath Lake and find some in the spring, but that negates the inexpensiveness of the meal. I sure do love that white flesh of them things, better than walleye in my opinion (haters gonna hate that statement!)

Sausages and pirogi (with kraut) can make a tasty and relatively cheap meal too. Reminds me I need to do better with the cabbage next season, bugs got most of it. Didn't make any kraut, I need to address that issue.

My wife didn't like the pearl barley, thought it was "slimy" in her words. I like barley so if slimy I never noticed. Soup was good otherwise, needed a shot of hot sauce stuff though, which made it entirely satisfying.

Hope you all are getting some moisture up that way, as ours has dried up. Unfortunately. Still in severe drought territory, even after the snow and rain in December. Oh well, living in the West has other benefits.

Good evening to you and a fine Sunday tomorrow.


The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)

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