Ooooh FairyChatMom! I wanna discuss haute cuisine. Specifically what the heck I’m gonna do with all of this lamb I have. Nearly forty pounds of lamb, seven or so is ground. So after lamb burgers, and lamb kebabs, what does one do with ground lamb? My family wasn’t so much on the lamb when I was growing up, so I’m deprived in that area. Edjamacate me, peoples.
Rue, I think you should make fake owl pellets. Here’s the idea. Some places you can buy dinosaur bone archeology kits. You dig out a fake bone from plaster or something, pretending to be on a dig in Montana, pith helmet mandatory. So, you could make fake owl pellets that people would pay to unravel/poke with a stick. Tons of cash to be made (I’d buy one) as soon as you figure out where to get a supply of pigeon feet. Tupug?
We need to tie the owl pellet unravelling in with a holiday like Christmas. What about something in March? “The ides of march just wouldn’t be complete without a Rue Brand owl pellet.” Catchy slogan, that.
Re-reading this, I think maybe Swampbear and I are on the same cold medication. Mine is orange, what color is yours, Swampbear?
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I think you should make fake owl pellets. Here’s the idea. Some places you can buy dinosaur bone archeology kits. You dig out a fake bone from plaster or something, pretending to be on a dig in Montana, pith helmet mandatory. So, you could make fake owl pellets that people would pay to unravel/poke with a stick. Tons of cash to be made (I’d buy one) as soon as you figure out where to get a supply of pigeon feet. Tupug?[/QUOTE]
The pigeon foot was a one-time thing but I could probably supply some chameleon skulls compliments of the resident lizard slayer and squatter fire ant colonies.
Mmmmmmm, lamb. Hey, how about you make a lamb loaf basted with the orange cough syrup?
Ashes the daytime stuff is orange and the nighttime stuff is green. I think I finally figured out what Nyquil[sup]TM[/sup] tastes like. It’s rancid creme de menthe and old sweat socks.
Feed the lamb to stray dogs you don’t like. That’s the best use I can think of for lamb. ICK!
I don’t know from Haute Cuisine but I do make some good cheese straws. Does that count?
The red stuff is better than the green, though not by much. The green stuff makes me gag just thinking about it - you know when your mouth gets that warm saliva taste, just before you have t…
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Kellogg’s Cheerihautes.
Hmmm. I thought this was a spoof on The Great Master[sup]TM[/sup]'s comment (paraphrased, I think): “If brains were cornflakes, you’d be General Mills” (which we all know by now are from Kellogg’s) Humor, satire, parody, irony, one of those, doncha know.
Okay, now I know you’re hopped up on the sweatsock de menthe juice! This lamb I got here is the good stuff, tender little baby lamb, not that teenaged stuff from the market. MY lamb is FFA blue ribbon, raised with great care until the little dear was bopped on the head and made into chops.
Chameleon skulls, I dunno Tupug. Are they Kellogg’s brand chameleon skulls? Kellogg’s Chameleo’s, crunchy till the last, emm, gobble, snap? Do owls nibble, gulp, or what?
I have never had a cheese straw, nor a shrimp puff. I am hor doovie deprived.
uh, swampy, I know what cheese straws are. I was making a joke. You know - a funny observation, a witty comment, a clever riposte. Oh, wait, I forget, you’re in Jawja, where high humor involves bodily noises…
Don’t worry about me - really - I’m just sitting up here contemplating the mysteries of the universe and how I can possibly be on everyone’s ignore list.
Yup, nothing to see here - when the reporters come to gawk everyone can say they had no warning and I was always one of the quiet ones…
Please get down off the “P”, sweetie. We know you are here.
And speaking of “P”, And did you know you can purchase owl pellets (vomit) commercially? Something like $25 for a couple of them. But this way you can put together your own small rodent. And they are sanitized for your protection.
My mother made a couple owl-pellets about ten years ago. She’s a teacher, and she went to some workshop about teaching the kids about wildlife, and one part was dissecting a real owl pellet. She thought it was the coolest thing ever, but one of her fellow teachers was really freaked out by it. He refused to even touch the things. So, my mom, being the nice person that she is, grabbed some clay, cut up some poster board to look like bones, mixed it all together, and left one in his office mailbox, and another in his desk. Hilarity ensued.
On the plus side, the school has now added “Make your own Owl Pellet Day” to the curriculum, so the kids can learn, have fun, and (hopefully) freak out their parents all at the same time!
If you’ve got ground lamb you can make Shepherd’s Pie-very tasty. And a good use of leftover mashed potatoes to boot. (Don’t use actual boots-too hard to chew.) Here’s a recipe similar to the one I use. Except I make my own gravy from stock and add peas and generous quantities of garlic.
What a cool school! Best we had was “Make Your Own Tacos” at mine. I did find chunks of gristly stuff and a small bone chunk in mine (federally-mandated school-grade meat).
