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Community => Butchering, Cooking, Recipes => Topic started by: Blacktail135 on March 29, 2021, 06:39:04 PM

Title: Buckboard bacon
Post by: Blacktail135 on March 29, 2021, 06:39:04 PM: Buckboard bacon is on the smoker this evening! Eggs Florentine in the morning with fresh picked (and boiled) stinging nettles instead of spinach. Exactly a year ago I had the same breakfast.
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Post by: DeerThug on March 29, 2021, 09:23:03 PM: Ok so I have gotten interested more and more in foraging. Tell more about stinging nettles. Harvest, handling cooking, recipes. The how to...
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Post by: Blacktail135 on March 29, 2021, 10:49:44 PM: Just a once a year thing for me. An eggs Florentine meal for breakfast and a side of nettle greens at dinner (usually with a ribeye steak). For the breakfast meal I’ll pick a bunch, boil and drain, sauté in butter then stack onto the muffin. For the dinner, pick a bunch, sauté in butter, then serve on the side with slivered sweet onion and diced buckboard bacon. Salt and pepper. Here’s a pic of last years breakfast and dinner.
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Post by: Blacklab on March 30, 2021, 04:49:46 AM: 🤑🤑🤑😉🥃🇺🇸
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Post by: Blacktail135 on March 30, 2021, 06:29:10 PM: No eggs Florentine this morning. Too much buckboard bacon too late at night last night. Plus I had 2 hot mama sausages that I sliced and frien in bear lard.......at 11pm!! ☠️
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Post by: Blacktail135 on March 30, 2021, 06:33:07 PM: I did have some bacon diced and fried in bear lard with nettle greens tonight. Big meal....too big! Early to bed tonight!
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Post by: Blacktail135 on March 30, 2021, 06:37:53 PM: Well krap....happened again (sideways/upside down pics). Tried to preview beforehand. Didn’t workout. Gotta figure this photo posting out as I’m about tired of upside down and sideways pics!! Anyway, grub was good.
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Post by: Blacklab on March 30, 2021, 07:01:26 PM: That looks great😉🥃🇺🇸
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Post by: Blacktail135 on March 30, 2021, 07:08:32 PM: Thank you! Early to bed tonight!
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Post by: jackelope on March 30, 2021, 09:32:55 PM: We do the nettles every spring too. Nettle tea and nettle pesto are big hits here.
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Post by: Angry Perch on March 31, 2021, 08:46:53 AM: So how long do the nettles need to cook/ blanch before they are dis-armed?
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Post by: jackelope on March 31, 2021, 10:37:33 AM: Quote from: Angry Perch on March 31, 2021, 08:46:53 AM
So how long do the nettles need to cook/ blanch before they are dis-armed?

Not very long at all. Pretty much a blanching. 30 seconds.