Making Sausage and Making Mead as Life Skills- Epi-169- TSP Rewind

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2343- Making Sausage and Making Mead as Life Skills and was originally published on December 11th, 2018.

This series of rewinds running from Oct. 19th – 29th will be a skill set based rewind series.  All episodes will be dedicated to improving skill sets and knowledge base.

The following are the original show notes from that episode…

As we head into Christmas time I thought another sort of fun show would be in order.  First I was going to just do a show on mead today but then I realized that not everyone imbibes, so I decided to do a two fer, half on making meads and half on making sausage.  While good sausage and meads do pair well, I figured this show would also pair well with last weeks stand alone show on Making the Most of Winter Down Time.

I also do consider these two things, life skills.  In that if you can make mead, you can also make wine, cider, beer and likely a ton of other things.  When it comes to sausage making, we are talking about one of the oldest culinary skills known to man.  Every indigenous culture has forms of sausage.  I have even seen for instance Mongolians making sausage on the fly when cooking a whole sheep in a traditional style.  Tune in to hear about that today.

Both of these processes remarkably easy but have some mental barriers.  I have found when people get past that barrier a few things occur.  First the creative process opens, would x, y and z make a good sausage, well screw it, let’s find out.  Or would A and B make a good mead, well hell, let’s try a gallon and see.

This then leads to a new way of thinking for many.  Would these two meats make a good stew, hell would that sausage I made go good in a stew, well let’s find out.  It is the second half that is really critical for folks, LET’S FIND OUT!

Now look there are things that a simple “let’s find out” attitude is not a good idea with.  Such as I wonder if I can get that racoon out of my chimney with my bare hands, yea, bad idea.  Yet I have always been amazed when people propose something that MIGHT work and trying it has almost no serious consequences, but they just sit, wonder and never act on it.  Today we seek to correct that in a fun and enjoyable way.

Join Me Today as We Discuss…

  • The basic small batch mead making process
  • Choosing honey for your mead
  • How to make meads sweet or dry
  • Aging meads
  • The beauty of a “core recipe”
  • Some Meads I have going or will be making soon
    • Of Course 3FB
    • Apricot
    • Cranberry Orange
    • Coffee with Vanilla
    • Cucumber Mint
    • Goumi
    • Persimmon
  • The basic sausage making process
    • To case or not to case and casing options
    • Why you should really think before you smoke a sausage batch
    • Tips for perfect grinding every time
    • Why even if you hate liver it probably should go in your sausage
    • Source of fat beyond the typical “pork butts”
    • Thoughts on “texture” and how much emulsification to do
    • Collagen vs. natural casings
    • Some of my favorite sausages to make and try
      • Venison Cherry
      • Duck Armanac
      • Turkey Cranberry – Yea seriously
      • Jalapeno Garlic and Meat of Your Choice
      • Simple Venison Black Pepper
      • Jack’s Breakfast Sausage
    • If you say you don’t like sausage you are saying you don’t like food
      • Meats people don’t think of that make good sausage
        • Lamb
        • Mutton
        • Goose
        • Shrimp or Crawfish – no I am not kidding
        • Hearts – Yep what ever you can get
    • What can you come up with, that is the real point.

 

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I Go to Sanibel – You Get a Sale

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Okay I thought about it and if I am going to spend 10 days fishing you guys should get something too right?  Well, call it a last minute gift for some but how about and MSB Sale?

Okay this will be for new customers only, sorry I really can’t do manual renewals on the road.  However if you have an expired account you can use the code to renew, I just can’t do early renewals.  Trust me I wish I could it is a system limitation that create double billing if I allow it.

Price?  30 Dollars a year and it locks in on recurring.

How?  When you sign up online, choose 12 months for your term and use code beachshark when you sign up.  It is that simple.

If you want to pay with crypto you can and I will honor the rate but it may take a week for me to get back with payment instructions.

If you want to pay by check or silver in the mail we will honor it.  With silver we give more time to cover the discount with a check just adjust it yourself.  But if you pay by mail Dorothy won’t get you set up till se get back.

That is all, now off to catch those sharks!

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Jack’s Cooking Hacks and Cheat Codes – Epi-168- TSP Rewind

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2190- Jack’s Cooking Hacks and Cheat Codes and was originally published on March 27th, 2018.

This series of rewinds running from Oct. 19th – 29th will be a skill set based rewind series.  All episodes will be dedicated to improving skill sets and knowledge base.

The following are the original show notes from that episode…

So as many of you know one of my passions in life is cooking.  To me it is more than just food, it’s understanding other cultures and history.  It is chemistry, biology and science as well.  And to me anyway cooking is fun, trying new things, making something simple not just taste good but look amazing.

Take the picture to the left for instance.  To make that we just took a walk around our property.  We foraged some wild garlic flowers, some lambsquarters, nasturtium, pea tendrils and some veggies from our grow beds.  We made a salad with left over cut up chicken.  Simple, but why does it look so amazing, simply the arrangement.  I can tell you that it also tasted as good as it looked.

So today I want to give away a bunch of what I call me “cheat codes”, these are various ingredients that add amazing flavor with minimal effort.  Additionally I feel if an ingredient is a “cheat code” it has to do more than just what it is intended to do, for instance sure you can make chipolte mayo for a taco with chipolte canned peppers, but you can also make a BBQ sauce for ribs that will blow your mind.

I am also including “Jack Hacks”, little things I have learned over the years to make things work better or to make them easier to do.  Like how about a way to make perfect rice and not even give a damn about how much water you use.  Okay you are going to have to tune in for that.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • Why we should make cooking an e
    ssential life skill in America
  • Some of my favorite “cheat codes and what to do with them”
  • Some of my hacks
    • Cook rice like you do pasta
    • Infuse rice with flavor
    • Par cook bacon that is going to used to wrap something
    • Always do your marinades or brines in a zip top bag
    • If a marinade has water and oil bases always add mustard
    • Mix marinades in a ball jar
    • Partially freeze any meat you want to grind or slice
    • Steam your hard boiled eggs instead of boiling them (Alton Brown Hack)
    • Grill fruit
    • Use water from re-hydrated veggies
    • Salted Steaks and Salted Squash (how to make zoodles)
    • Salt aging steaks (Alton Brow Hack)
    • Defrost meat on cast iron cookware – yes it works
    • Use cast iron to start or finish sear food on the grill
    • Soak skewers in a water bottle (Another Alton Brown Hack)
    • Cook chicken bones/cores in a strainer (I love this pot and strainer from Ikea)
    • Put a lemon in chicken stock
    • The above also makes a great steamer
    • Cook in the oven with a cooling rack and a baking pan
    • Finally, do put some thought into presentation
  • In the end just try stuff, it will often work out

 

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Out Back with Jack – Epi-2978

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Today we we have our Friday show,  “Outback with Jack”.  These podcasts will be generated though back porch live steam sessions done early on Friday mornings.  That will be approximately 0730-0830 CST.

These podcasts will are a lot like old school TSPC episodes on a variety of topics, many quite topical from the news and from social media.  Each show will covers a bullet point list of 5-12 topics that I will handle rather rapid fire.

From there we will talk about what ever the live audience comes up with.  These livestreams will then be converted to MP3s and put out in the standard TSPC Podcast feeds under the new series title of “Outback with Jack”

Today we are all freestyle.  We are joined during the live feed by Nicole Sauce, Charles the Humble Mechanic, Tim “Toolman” Cook and a few members of the audience as well.  We talk about winter preps, reality vs. fantasy and a ton more.  Definitely tune in to this one!

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Out Back with Jack – Epi-2977

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Today we we have our Friday show,  “Outback with Jack”.  These podcasts will be generated though back porch live steam sessions done early on Friday mornings.  That will be approximately 0730-0830 CST.

These podcasts will are a lot like old school TSPC episodes on a variety of topics, many quite topical form the news and from social media.  Each show will covers a bullet point list of 5-12 topics that I will handle rather rapid fire.

From there we will talk about what ever the live audience comes up with.  These livestreams will then be converted to MP3s and put out in the standard TSPC Podcast feeds under the new series title of “Outback with Jack”

Today we discuss crypto rankings, states pushing back, resource shortages, investing in alt coins, pushing back on mandates, primitive diets, finding your path and more.

Today on TSPC we Discuss…

  • Why really caring about Crypto rankings, top ten’s etc by market cap is just plain stupid
  • Gov. Abbott should be renamed Gov. 60 Days after DeSantis, please grow a pair already!
  • Is the resource shortage going to hit almost all other developed nations harder than the US and North America
  • Who should and should not “invest in Flote Token” or anything similar
  • If we want to end this we should, but we won’t, because we don’t, sadly, or do we, finally
  • One more time, it was impossible for primitive man to have sustainably over consumed carbohydrates
  • The ven diagram to find your path to a business or career as I just explained it to my grandson, he got it, do you
  • My Pandora channel this week was based on Meatloaf

 

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Expert Council Q&A for 10-14-21 – Epi – 2976

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Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on liberty, government over reach, generators, heart conditions, diet, log construction, entrepreneurship and more.

Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process.

Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air.

I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming.

Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

  • How every problem with the CoVid disruption is made by & worsened by government – Ron Paul
  • Thoughts on bariatric surgery for those who feel they can’t lose weight – Dr. Ken Berry
  • Dealing with pet waste smell and taking care of your generator – Tim “Tool Man” Cook
  • Thoughts atrial septal aneurysm and what it means – Doc Bones
  • The skinny on “peeling logs” for construction use – Paul Wheaton
  • Writing a business plan and launching an “item of the month” product business – Nicole Sauce
  • “Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg”. – QOTD – Jack

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Council Member and Content Specific Links for Today

 

Websites of the Expert Council Members

 

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The Survival Podcast Announces Official Partnership with The Ron Paul Liberty Report

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We at The Survival Podcast are pleased to announce that we have entered into an official partnership with The Ron Paul Liberty Report.  This agreement will allow us to have Ron and his team featured weekly on our podcast.  While Dr. Paul’s role in expert council shows will be slightly different that most of our members, he will be adding exceptional content for our audience on a weekly basis.

Rather than answer individual questions Dr. Paul’s team will assemble a weekly segment for our Thursday shows focusing on some of the most important aspects impacting liberty in our nation for that week.  We will feature these segments each Thursday to broaden the material we cover on our weekly expert council shows.

This partnership was entered into after we were fortunate enough to have Dr. Paul join us on Episode 2964 of the Survival Podcast.  We reached out to Chris Rossini at Liberty Report and he presented the idea to Dr. Paul who was gracious enough to approve the plan going forward.

We are excited about this partnership and look forward to a long relationship with Dr. Paul and his team.  Truth be known Dr. Paul is a huge reason that TSPC exists today.  Over 13 years we have built our podcast on four pillars,

  1. self reliance
  2. self sufficiency
  3. individual independence
  4. personal liberty

 

It is hard to think of a person who personifies our fourth pillar the way Dr. Paul does.  Indeed we are honored to have him become part of the TSPC community in an official capacity.

If you would like to catch the video of our interview with Dr. Paul just check out the video below.

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Group Hotel Info for TSPC – 21 Workshop

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If you are coming to TSPC Fall 21 and want a hotel room vs. camping we have a group rate negotiated for you guys.  The rooms are held till Nov. 1st then you are are you own after that.

We have 7 King and 7 Doubles held at the Comfort Inn located at 5825 Quebec St. Forth Worth, 76135 which is a quick 15 minute drive to our location.

The rate we have is 84 dollars a night, the contact there is Lucy Kendall and you can reach them at 817-237-2300 and just say you want the group rate with Jack Spirko.  You have to call in to get the rate.

If you want to check out the hotel itself you can find it here.

Don Bradner on Building a Pole Barn House – Epi – 2975

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Don and his family recently left suburbia to build their home and homestead on a mountain in northern Virginia.

They sold their townhouse at the height of the market in 2018 and took the profits to pay an Amish crew to build the shell of a pole barn house, and they are finishing the inside themselves with cash.

Don has been documenting the journey on their youtube channel, Little Mountain Life, showing their home build process as well as starting their homestead with raised bed gardens, meat chickens, and egg layers.

He joins us today to discuss Building a Pole Barn House on Your New Homestead

Resources for today’s show…

 

Sponsors of the Day

 

Don’s Links

 

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K&H Ultimate All-In-One Stock Tank De-Icer – Item of the Day

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Special Alert – No they are not on sale today but do not ignore this item today if you are not already set up with them for your live stock, this includes having at least one on reserve.  Two is one, and such.  Why?  Our supply chains are in a word f&^ked at the moment!  I expect items like this to be hard to come by once winter gets here, that always happens anyway.  So any stuff you need for winter, GET IT NOW, this is just one example.  By mid Nov. I expect much of it won’t be in stock and as it comes back it will be spotty at best.

Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the K&H Ultimate All-In-One Stock Tank De-Icer.  Freezing temps are either here or coming soon depending on where you live.  I love these De-Icers in my view it is the best option on the market.

They come in several sizes including…

  • 250 Watts
  • 500 Watts
  • 750 Watts
  • 1000 Watts and
  • 1500 Watts

 

Why this Item Rocks!

Its in the name, “all in one” that is what you get an all in one solution.  Previously I have reviewed the thermocube, it is a great product and would be ideal for use with many stock tank heaters.  Why have your heater running when it is 50 degrees?

But you don’t need a thermocube that feature is built in.  When your water hits 35 degrees the heater comes on, all by itself and when it hits 45 it shuts off.  So you only draw power when you need it.

Choosing the Right Sized Heater for your Needs

Personally I use the 250 watt models.  There are a few reasons for this.  First and foremost my belief is when you use anything electrical you should use as little power as necessary to do the job. In my climate for a 50 gallon tank 250 watts is sufficient.

I also run two (two is one and one is none you know right) to two separate 50 gallon stock tanks.  If I ran two 500s that would put a 1000 watt draw on a single circuit doing other things as well and could pop the breaker.  These are only useful if they work you know.

In the end you should consult K&Hs great chart right here, just click on it for a full sized view.

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You will note that for my zone (USDA 8) a 50 gallon tank requires a 250 watt heater.  So that works for my needs.  I personally only use mine to make sure there is some water available at all times for my ducks.

These can be used as floating heaters or submerged by removing the foam that makes them float.  This gives you flexibility.  Say you want to keep a poultry watering going you can put one of these inside it and let it sink.  To me for a stock tank you want it floating because it ices up from the top down.

In any event if you want to keep your critters watered this coming winter, check out the K&H Ultimate All-In-One Stock Tank De-Icer today.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com