Store Bought Sissy's

Missy M · #1 02/15/12, 03:23 PM

I'm cooking dinner tonight with items from the garden this summer and it made me wonder about others first time experience with eating home grown food.
I remember the first eggs from our chickens we ate, it almost seemed gross even though I had eaten tons of farm eggs before. It just seem weird they came out of my chickens.

I guess we just get used to the food from the store and it makes home grown seem strange at first.

What did you all find strange to grow and eat at first?

ronbre · #2 02/15/12, 04:23 PM

my paren'ts and grandparents had gardens when I was growing up so I don't remember NOT getting things from the garden

pheasantplucker · #3 02/15/12, 04:25 PM

I didn't find it strange, but I recall the day, I was maybe 7 or 8 and my grandpa made me a sandwich...When I was halfway through it he asked, "How you like that sandwich?" I replied, "Fine." He asked me if I knew what kind of meat it was...I said I did not know. He told me, "Beef tongue"...I liked it fine.

mary,tx · #4 02/15/12, 04:25 PM

Same here. My parents and grandparents raised gardens and animals before me.

Warwalk · #5 02/15/12, 04:27 PM

I know how you feel. Less so with vegetables. But the first time I went fishing with someone I was iffy on eating what we'd caught, on account of it not being wrapped in cellophane. It gets easier tho

jwal10 · #6 02/15/12, 06:14 PM

I was born to it I guess. My parents were pretty selfsufficient. I eat about anything but rats and big rats (opossums)....James

ai731 · #7 02/15/12, 06:46 PM

The first of our chickens that we killed & cleaned ourself was a little weird, but it turned out to be delicious, so we got over that real fast.

Mulegirl · #8 02/15/12, 07:08 PM

When DH and I helped with the processing on the Thanksgiving turkeys, we both looked at the turkey chilling in the fridge a little strangely. It was much more clearly a carcass that year than it had ever been before. We got over it when I started brining the thing, though.

That was also the year that we learned turkey wingbeats can make beautiful, but bloody, patterns on your pants if the farmer does not have killing cones to use on the birds . . .

boundarybunnyco · #9 02/15/12, 08:43 PM

my first baby bottle calves. when we butchered them, it was really weird to eat the steaks for the first few times. I'm worried about that feeling when we do our rabbits too.

Rick · #10 02/15/12, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Missy M

I'm cooking dinner tonight with items from the garden this summer and it made me wonder about others first time experience with eating home grown food.
I remember the first eggs from our chickens we ate, it almost seemed gross even though I had eaten tons of farm eggs before. It just seem weird they came out of my chickens.

I guess we just get used to the food from the store and it makes home grown seem strange at first.

What did you all find strange to grow and eat at first?

Does Venison count? We got through the dressing and cleaning without feeling too much like sissies!

StLukeDuke · #11 02/15/12, 09:09 PM

I can't wait to get my 'stead so that I can go back to eating good food. I was raised on gardens, home grown chickens, and wild game. Pretty much the only thing we bought, when I was growing up, was canned chili, a few veggies in the late winter/early spring, flour, butter (except when we had a milk cow) and some other basics, then mom learned that some of our "weeds" were edible and good herbs. We ate stinging nettles like boiled spinach, it was good, just had to pick it wearing gloves and long sleeves. The juice was good for washing hair as well--though I remember mom gave it up after a couple months, but we ate nettles all summer.

Callieslamb · #12 02/15/12, 10:12 PM

I felt the same way about our first eggs. I wasn't sure if I could eat them for breakfast. I could bake with them, but that first bite of scrambled eggs was a bit difficult. As was eating the first chickens we butchered. I have to say the meat was nasty...we hadn't learned the leggern roosters weren't the best butchering material.

DYngbld · #13 02/15/12, 10:30 PM

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we hadn't learned the leggern roosters weren't the best butchering material. __________________

We have three in the freezer..

Danaus29 · #14 02/15/12, 11:34 PM

Grew up eating home grown food here. I find some store bought stuff to be gross and inedible. Strawberries, peaches and tomatoes are some examples of stuff I think is inedible when purchased from the store.

wogglebug · #15 02/16/12, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Callieslamb

we hadn't learned the leggern roosters weren't the best butchering material.

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Originally Posted by DYngbld

We have three in the freezer..

Slow, moist cooking is your friend. Crock pot for hours, or like that, for old birds or scrawny layer types. Alternatively, pressure cooker.

And me - I feel proud - a feeling of accomplishment, even empowerment, to be eating food I've raised. Why on earth would it worry me? I'm not... oh, never mind.

EDDIE BUCK · #16 02/16/12, 02:49 AM

I grew up with the chickens,pigs and cows and know where everything comes from, and its never been a problem for me.Just put a hand size piece of country ham on my plate,and a little "REDEYE GRAVY"on the rice or grits and a clear path to the plate of hot buscuits,and you won't hear a peep out of me.I'll be to busy.

However I have known a few folks that got a little bit to much attached to that cute little calf or pig, and when it came back home from the slaughter house, no body could eat it.

I know this guy that raised a calf for beef,then swap that calf to the slaughter house man that had another one that was skinned,cleaned and wrapped and ready to go.

My FIL bought and raised two calves for beef and his son helped feed,water and care for them both.Well one of them would always try to but anyone close by, but the other one was real friendly.

After they had made their trip to and returned from the slaughter house,every time they cooked some beef,the son would always asked which one were they about to eat.My FIL would always say the mean one.The son said good,he didn't think he could eat the one that had been the friendly one.

That same question was asked and the same answer was given until their freezer no longer had any beef in it.

geo in mi · #17 02/16/12, 07:38 AM

I can't do brains, okra, or patty pan squash--for various reasons. Anything else, down the hatch......(Well, maybe some shellfish--got sick on some lobster once...)
One should not dress out a rabbit in his Sunday go to meetin' suit, though....Dad and I would go out and dress two fryers just before church on Sunday mornings--to have for dinner when we got back.

geo

Tracy Rimmer · #18 02/16/12, 08:45 AM

I grew up on a farm, so perhaps I don't have as far to go as most, but the first goat we butchered... well, it wasn't as easy as other things we've produced ourselves

Goats are very personable. They like to visit, and they like to be scratched behind the ears. Normally, I don't get too attached to my food animals, but that one was hard.

DamnearaFarm · #19 02/16/12, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by geo in mi

I can't do brains, okra, or patty pan squash--for various reasons. Anything else, down the hatch......(Well, maybe some shellfish--got sick on some lobster once...)
One should not dress out a rabbit in his Sunday go to meetin' suit, though....Dad and I would go out and dress two fryers just before church on Sunday mornings--to have for dinner when we got back.

geo

Try fried okra, it's the only way I eat it

geo in mi · #20 02/16/12, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by RamblinRoseRanc

Try fried okra, it's the only way I eat it

Can't get past the "snot".....even dredged in cornmeal........sorry........

My granddaughters love it!

geo