And his kids. The son I'm familiar with was free
to follow his interest, which was to be a cop,
which may not be the most advancement-friendly
job that ever was for a geeky gawky kid.

If it's the job he wanted, then he was right to pursue it. When my older

It was his father's cushion that allowed him to
pursue it: otherwise, I'd have said, dream all
you want, but you're not going to go far in
this profession.

brother started college, Mom and Dad suggested he take some teacher
training courses. He didn't, took a number of electives and majored in partying. He didn't finish a degree. Parents never suggested education courses for me but I did take some. Finished my degree, have never
taught professionally. I've no idea what, if anything, was suggested to younger siblings.

Majoring in partying seems to be a valid
career path for some in these topsy-turvy
21st century times.

That could create a number of problems, best left not commented on,

on > this forum.
Just so long as nobody's offensive - I don't much care
for propriety, though; I'm not going to complain just
so things remain low-key and noncontroversial.

I'd rather not get into areas that could lead to controversy so will
back off on getting too deeply into subjects of that sort. Better to
back out and keep my head.

Understandable, but radio was - and so far as I can
tell still is - more worthwhile than television.

Depends on the radio station. We listen to a lot of conservative talk
radio when in the car/truck for local trips. Longer ones, we will have
the same on but switch to music (oldies or Christian) or old radio
shows. We will also put on some of the music we've put on files--that
ranges from Israel Kamakawiwo'ole to Simon and Garfunkle to Glad to
Mannheim Steamroller to The Gettys--well, you get the range. (G) We'll
have the file set for "shuffle" so don't know who will follow what.

Funny - aside from "Hello Darkness My Old Friend" I
don't think there's a single track of any of those
artists I'd be interested in listening to. Tastes
differ widely.

Does he cook or do they have a Plan B?

There's a lot of eating out involved, and there's

Figured that would be a share of it.

It is necessarily so.

always the grill, a manly profession, only Rob
doesn't like beef, so where's the fun in that?

There's all sorts of things that can be grilled, not just beef. We've
grilled pizza a few times. We also do a lot of chicken, don't think
we've done fish but maybe once or twice, done lamb chops, Italian sausage.............................

Those don't fit into the manly profession part!
Well, sausage, maybe.

For sure.

To use someting like McDs as your standard for good taste--bleurgh!

More room for improvement, for the few who
eventually take the opportunity,

Hopefully so.

One can hope for others to widen their
horizons, but "you can't make him drink."

I could make one that I liked, but none of
the standard recipes hold any appeal - not
enough Maillard and generally too starchy.

We did try, and liked, the one in the Israeli cook book but there's
always room for experimenting with others.

I might be interested if one lost the beans
and lost the potatoes and lost the barley.

No, just seeing how fur we can carry this out.

Gotta be kind of husky to carry any more.

Built like a boxer?

I'd rather we didn't keep this up doggedly
and will duck out now.

Duck hot dogs
categories: game, sausages
yield: 2 lb

1 1/2 lb duck or goose meat
1/2 lb duck or goose skin
1/4 lb rendered duck or goose fat, frozen
18 g kosher salt
35 g dry milk
1/2 ts Instacure No. 1
1/2 ts black pepper
1 ts garlic powder
1/2 ts smoked paprika
1 ts dried marjoram
1 Tb sweet paprika
1/2 c ice water (scant)

Soak casings in warm water. When they are soft,
run water through them to check for leaks.

Chop the meat into pieces small enough to grind.
Set the meat in the fridge. Chop the skin into
small pieces. Set it in the freezer. When the
skin is stiff but not rock hard, about 1 hr,
grind them through the fine die of your grinder.
Do the same for the meat. Check the temperature.
The desired temperature is 28 to 32F.

You will now need to work fast, so have everything
ready. Put the meat and skin into a food processor
along with 1/4 c ice water. Buzz it to emulsify,
30 to 60 sec. Add remaining ingredients and process
together for 1 to 2 mon.

Put the mixture into the sausage stuffer, which has
been in the fridge. Put the stuffer back into the
fridge as you clean up. Take the stuffer out and
stuff your casings.

Tie off links at whatever interval you want. It is
important to tie off your links with kitchen string.
The string prevents the links from unraveling when
you poach them.

When all the links are tied, hang in a cool place.
Prick any air bubbles in the links with a sterile pin.

Heat a big pot of water to 170 to 175F. Gently put
the sausages in and poach for 25 min. Be careful not
to let the water temperature get past 178F, or the
links can burst.

As the links are poaching, get an ice water bath
ready. When 25 min are up, shock the sausages in
ice water for 5 min.

Smoke over oak, applewood, etc. for 3 to 5 hr. It is
important that your smoker be as cool as possible.
Once the links are smoked, let them cool on a rack
for a couple hours, and then overnight in the fridge
before you seal and freeze them. They will keep up
to 10 days in the fridge or indefinitely once sealed
and frozen.

Hank Shaw
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Hi Michael,

And his kids. The son I'm familiar with was free
to follow his interest, which was to be a cop,
which may not be the most advancement-friendly
job that ever was for a geeky gawky kid.

If it's the job he wanted, then he was right to pursue it. When my

older

It was his father's cushion that allowed him to
pursue it: otherwise, I'd have said, dream all
you want, but you're not going to go far in
this profession.

How far did he go with it or don't you know?

brother started college, Mom and Dad suggested he take some teacher training courses. He didn't, took a number of electives and majored

in > partying. He didn't finish a degree. Parents never suggested education > courses for me but I did take some. Finished my degree,
have never

taught professionally. I've no idea what, if anything, was suggested

to > younger siblings.

Majoring in partying seems to be a valid
career path for some in these topsy-turvy
21st century times.

My brother went off to college in 1969. He went to a big state
university--went from being a fish in a small pond to a smaller fish in
a huge pond. This was also the time frame when 18 year olds were allowed
to buy alcohol so..................

That could create a number of problems, best left not

commented on, > ML> on > this forum.

Just so long as nobody's offensive - I don't much care
for propriety, though; I'm not going to complain just
so things remain low-key and noncontroversial.

I'd rather not get into areas that could lead to controversy so will back off on getting too deeply into subjects of that sort. Better to back out and keep my head.

Understandable, but radio was - and so far as I can
tell still is - more worthwhile than television.

Depends on the radio station. We listen to a lot of conservative

talk > radio when in the car/truck for local trips. Longer ones, we
will have > the same on but switch to music (oldies or Christian) or
old radio

shows. We will also put on some of the music we've put on

files--that > ranges from Israel Kamakawiwo'ole to Simon and Garfunkle
to Glad to

Mannheim Steamroller to The Gettys--well, you get the range. (G)

We'll > have the file set for "shuffle" so don't know who will follow what.

Funny - aside from "Hello Darkness My Old Friend" I
don't think there's a single track of any of those
artists I'd be interested in listening to. Tastes
differ widely.

Quite so--we found out about Mannheim Steamroller while we were in
Germany; Brudda Iz in HI, Gettys when we moved here. Had grown up with
S&G, inherited some of their CDs from (above) brother. We'e also got a
lot of classical, Southern Gospel and misc. other CDs that may get mixed
in from time to time.

There's a lot of eating out involved, and there's

Figured that would be a share of it.

It is necessarily so.

always the grill, a manly profession, only Rob
doesn't like beef, so where's the fun in that?

There's all sorts of things that can be grilled, not just beef.

We've > grilled pizza a few times. We also do a lot of chicken, don't think

we've done fish but maybe once or twice, done lamb chops, Italian sausage.............................

Those don't fit into the manly profession part!
Well, sausage, maybe.

It's grilling, isn't it? There was a restaurant (didn't last too long)
in Raleigh for a while that did all of their cooking/grilling on a dozen
or so of the Green Egg type cookers. We never went there but the concept
was rather interesting.

For sure.

To use someting like McDs as your standard for good

taste--bleurgh! > ML> More room for improvement, for the few who

eventually take the opportunity,

Hopefully so.

One can hope for others to widen their
horizons, but "you can't make him drink."

Very true, I've seen that quite ofen.

I could make one that I liked, but none of
the standard recipes hold any appeal - not
enough Maillard and generally too starchy.

We did try, and liked, the one in the Israeli cook book but there's always room for experimenting with others.

I might be interested if one lost the beans
and lost the potatoes and lost the barley.

IOW, fuggedaboudit? (G)

No, just seeing how fur we can carry this out.

Gotta be kind of husky to carry any more.

Built like a boxer?

I'd rather we didn't keep this up doggedly
and will duck out now.

Arf wienersehn,

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