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The French way of six courses on a weeknight dinner at the Carriage House: Finger foods and champagne. Pumpkin soup, baked in the pumpkin, with creme fraiche and mushrooms. Lauren's deer tenderloin with duck foie gras, served in a sharptail grouse broth and grape compote, accompanied by potatoes, sweet potatoes, and celeriac. Celeriac : 1 root for 2/3, cut into 1 inch pieces, boil for 15 minutes, then butter fried in a pan, masher, and you add butter or/and cream until you are happy with the taste. Salt and pepper. You could mix with same quantity of potatoes if the meal is not game. Potatoes : Mash as usual. Add butter and crème fraiche (better than milk), Sour cream good alternative I used. Then for us 5 I added 4 yolks and whisked the whites to "blancs en neige" and add with a spoon, little by little 3/4 of it until the texture was okay, not too liquid. Season with salt and pepper. (Note-some potatoes are more dense than others, hence no proportions.) Salade with herb vinaigrette Cheese course Lemon meringue pie with tart white wine The .22 Hornet at the ready. For the deer sauce/compote: Just shallots and grape in butter. Slow cooking they have to melt. 1 hour to 1.30. Then add the stock ( I made do with grouse but better use the trimmed meats and bones of the beast cooked) let it evaporate and add the final touch to thicken if you wish ( I had foie gras but corn flour ( maïzena ) + butter fine.
Best advice for improving at darts: Laser focus. Commit to hit. Use your natural drift. Each dart is a new shot. Find a good throw and find a good set of darts and stick with them. _____________ OUR DART SELECTION I have found that a 20 gram old school nickle dart suits me just fine. I also like those of John Lowe's glory years, Unicorn, 21 gram, 35mm barrel, with 8mm diameter, 2ba thread size, and 90% Tungsten, complete with his pear shaped flights. Or, the current model of The Power's darts are made by Target Darts, not his prior sponsor of Unicorn, and are a 24 gram tungsten barrel at 40mm with a G4 short shaft. Swapping out for an intermediate or medium shaft, together with regular flights might benefit most players, as it did me. Our daughter is currently throwing well with 27 gram Femme Fatale by Laser Darts, which goes to show that younger players or women, or both might benefit from the heavier darts (opposite of what you might think as a novice, that lighter is better for beginners), which the heavy throwing pros might find 21 gram darts to be the ticket. The heavier weight of the dart helps get it to the board, which Phil Taylor moved from 21 grams to 26 grams as he got older, saying he "needed a little more help hitting the board." I prefer the intermediate shafts and Unicorn Fin flights. _____________ A GAME FOR ARCHERS Much is speculated but if rumor holds true, the game of darts had its origin during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. It is believed that he told his archers to practice their arching skills all year round
As fox hunting season is start and polo season is wrapping up, this old print seemed appropriate to post.
I recently posted about 12 gauge loads. This post concerns 20 gauge loads. Modern factory shotgun loads are often labeled in "drams equivalent" or "dr. eq." A dram of black powder is 1/16 of an ounce. Dram equivalent means the powder charge in the shell is supposed to produce the same shot velocity as the listed dram equivalent of black powder. So if the box is labeled 3 drams equivilent this means the velocity will be the same as a black powder shell containing 3 drams of powder. For the past 15 years, I have been shooting, nearly exclusively, the Mighty-Lite target load from Estate Cartridge Company, which is the shell favored by Buz Fawcett in his Wingshooting Workshop. Since graduating from the workshop, this has been the shell in my cartridge bags. As luck would have it, Estate Cartridge was a small Texas specialty loader and they were sold to a larger competitor who abbreviated all of their lines. My favorite shells are now a thing of the past, but I was not immediately affected, as we purchased these shells by the pallet, so I had plenty on hand for some time and had first bought them at $3.50 a box, and thought they were expensive when then had gone up to $5. They were excellent for patterns, with high velocity, low deformity, and low recoil. The Mighty-Lite in 20 gauge, was a 2 3/4" shell, with 2 1/4 dr. eq., 3/4 oz. of shot in #8, at 1350 fps. Not wanting to leave any stone unturned, I bought (in quantities) every 3/4 oz. shot shell I could find in 20 -gauge (and it turns out there are only a few): Products Fiocchi Low Recoil Trainer 20LITE, 20 Gauge, 2 3/4", 3/4 oz,
I loved this post, so I had to re-post it here for my daughter to read. Reminds me of several of my favorite Gene-ism's like: Find one thing and learn how to use it. Be a big fish in a little pond. Buy the best, you only cry once. Have a good handshake and shake hands with everyone you meet from the janitor to the CEO. Fast cash makes fast friends. I got four gold coins my boy, here's two and the other two are enough to get you head in a sack, if things don't work out. Fast cash, makes fast friends. Grease the spokes, not just the wheel. He was filled with other practical advice as well, such as when shopping for a shotgun, "Buy the best one you can afford, my boy, then learn how to use it." "Learn one thing and learn how to use it well. That's how you become really good at something. People that are always switching around looking for a new model, whether it's a gun, a car, a wife, whatever, they never really get good at using it well and getting the most out of it." Be a big fish in a small pond. You don't want to be a small fish in a big pond, you never get anywhere that way. Marriage is like, well, imagine prison. Then don't change anything. It only takes five years for the ring on their finger to drop right down around their pussy. Always buy a house with a good view, has an east facing driveway if it snows so that it melts quickly, and make sure their is a liquor store within a 5 minute drive. Yeah, get
We like Precise Naturals Endurance, which we used to buy locally from our Brittany breeder for $20 a bag. It's now costly at $60 for a 40 pound bag. Purina Pro Plan SPORT All Life Stages Performance 30/20 protein to fat Formula Dry Dog Food, which comes at $48 from Amazon and used to be $38 for a 37.5 pound bag. Both are 30/20 ratios, which is great for active sporting dogs. I have a friend who is a nutritionist and scientist for Purina and other dog food manufacturers and he suggests that any medium end dog food from a major manufacturer is going to be adequate, but he thought both of these mixes were very good. The hunt uses Diamond Hi Energy Sport Dog 50# at $26 a bag, which is a 24/20 ratio.
Our new firewood guy brought us some of the best firewood in 2017-2018. He had great mixes of Colorado spruce and Engelmann spruce, split beautifully, along with ash, oak and sugar maple, with some pine ponderosa scattered in, we went through a lot of it. Fatwood is the greatest fire starter you can find. Add about 5 sticks to the bottom of your log cabin stack and viola, great fire, with no paper or other kindling of any kind. ____________________________________ Fatwood From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fatwood is derived from the heartwood of pine trees. The stump (and tap root) that is left in the ground after a tree has fallen or has been cut is the primary source of fatwood, as the resin-impregnated heartwood becomes hard and rot-resistant over time after the death of the main tree. Other locations, such as the joints where limbs intersect the trunk, can also be harvested. Although most resinous pines can produce fatwood, in the southeastern United States the wood is commonly associated with longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), which historically was highly valued for its high pitch production. Coniferous tree sap is a viscous liquid, that contains terpene, a volatile hydrocarbon. Over time the evaporation of the terpene changes the state of the sap; it slowly gets thicker until it hardens into resin. New fatwood leaks the sticky sap, while in aged fatwood the sap has hardened and is no longer sticky. At every stage of the aging process, fatwood will burn readily, even when wet. Because of the flammability of terpene, fatwood is prized for use as kindling in starting fires. It lights quickly even when wet, is very wind resistant, and burns hot enough to light larger
