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Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring was very upset when we got home this afternoon. In fact Aggie Ring cried out, “I’m nothing more than a common criminal now. I’m going to go to jail. Do you have any idea what they’d do to a handsome shiny Aggie Ring in prison? Do you? It won’t be good for me.”
You see, in New Jersey, it’s illegal to buy or sell raw unpasteurized dairy products. If you’ve ever used raw milk or cream to make butter, cream cheese, crème fraîche, cheese, etc… then you know that the pasteurized stuff you buy at the grocery store isn’t really much good other than for putting it in your coffee or tea.
Texas Aggie Ring laughed his trademark “Evil Aggie Ring Laugh™” this morning and told me, “Lets take a drive over to Pennsylvania. I want to pick up a couple of things.
In PA, where it IS legal to buy and sell raw dairy, Aggie Ring picked up a half gallon of raw milk and raw heavy cream. Aggie Ring had me put the two bottles in the trunk. He didn’t want to be stopped at the New Jersey border and caught bringing raw dairy into the state. “They’re not taking this Aggie Ring alive!” he cried as we reentered the Garden State. “Even if you go down with me.”
Although the Aggie Ring was sweating the whole time we were driving back, we made it home without incident. As soon as we walked through the door Aggie Ring said to me, “I want to make fresh raw butter, Now!”
Now I’m sure everyone reading this has made fresh butter and churned their own homemade ice cream. Aggie Ring has certainly done it plenty of times and he’s not even a Dairy Science Aggie Ring. These are just plain life skills that everyone needs to know.
Aggie Ring didn’t want to clean all his kitchen tools twice, so he decided to use the entire half gallon of raw heavy cream. He did two batches because his food processor can’t handle the entire half gallon at one time.
It took about 4 or 5 minutes for each batch of raw heavy cream on low for the yellow butter to form and leave the liquid liquid buttermilk. (Which, by the way is totally different than what comes in a box. We don’t even like buttermilk but we can drink or put the fresh buttermilk on our cereal all day.)
The butter solids were put through a strainer to drain and to prevent them from falling into the fresh buttermilk.
Aggie Ring put both batches of the butter into a large bowl and kneeded it time after time to force the remaining white buttermilk out of the solids. The more of the proteins from the buttermilk you can remove from the butter, the longer it will stay fresh. Once liquid had stopped coming out of the butter, Aggie Ring filled the bowl up with ice water and continued to kneed it to wash it. He did this about four times until the ice water stayed clear. He added a dash or two of sea salt and worked that in
We rolled the butter into a large “butter ball” and pressed it down into a sealable container so it can ripen in the refrigerator for a day or two. Afterwards, Aggie Ring plans to make garlic butter and perhaps cinnamon sugar butter with some of it. We will clarify any that remains so we can have clarified butter for up to 6 months.
The half-gallon of raw heavy cream made a quart of buttermilk and a little over a pound and a half of fresh raw butter.
At the end of the buttery experience, Aggie Ring was covered in a lot of fresh butter and called out, “Who want’s to lick the butter off me?” Then he let out his trademark “Evil Aggie Ring Laugh™” and said, “Just kidding. No one can lick this Aggie Ring!”
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Farm Fresh #6262 (29,293 square feet)
460 Wythe Creek Road, Poquoson Shopping Center, Poquoson, VA
Originally operated November 1980-January 25th, 1998, re-opened August 30th, 1998
Farm Fresh #330 (66,000 square feet)
200 Arthur Way, Victory Center, Newport News, VA
Opened in June 1995, remodeled in 1999
My tomato plants are doing pretty well considering they almost died of dehydration. This might be the most tomatoes I've harvested. Usually it gets cold before they have a chance to turn red.
A salad of fresh greens at a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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Farm Fresh #6262 (29,293 square feet)
460 Wythe Creek Road, Poquoson Shopping Center, Poquoson, VA
Originally operated November 1980-January 25th, 1998, reopened August 30th, 1998, renovated in summer 2016, closed June 26th, 2018, reopened April 1st, 2022
Farm Fresh #6263 (63,000 square feet)
455 Merrimac Trail, Shoppes at Merrimac Center, Williamsburg, VA
This location opened on December 13th, 1981 and was renovated in fall 2004. It closed on October 7th, 2017.
Fresh from Rio, a new art show opening July 29th at FB gallery (NYC) to showcase the talents of Marcelo Macedo, Mateu Velasco and Demian Jacob. Don't miss it!
(368 Broadway #209) fbgallery.net/
When I lived in Toronto, buying veggies in China Town guaranteed freshness. The same was true of the sketchy vegetable markets in Hong Kong. Everything looked so fresh and delicious.
As ever I would like to thank everyone who is or has been involved with identifying my Dad's old negatives. I am really grateful and so glad you are all enjoying seeing them.
Who would have thought that the words would be one of the hardest part?
This is the aluminum fresh from the waterjet company. Looks amazing!
Now to drill and tap around 500 holes, then attach the buttons to each sprung bolt and wire them up, and create the LED boards and wire them up. I was thinking this would be something like 2000 solder points, but I think it's more like 2500. I'll make sure to count.
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe. The cherry fruits of commerce usually are obtained from cultivars of a limited number of species such as the sweet cherry and the sour cherry.
Today, Sunday September 18th, Maureen and I got up early to make a tour to the Krokop fish market. It just had opened, baskets of fresh catch were carried in, and chopped for sale. With a gradual destruction of ecosystems, how many of us will be able to see and enjoy fresh fish?
Fresh Beat Band performs during the second act of the Progressive Skating & Gymnastics Spectacular presented by Hilton HHonors live show, part of the Pandora NBC Skating Series, at Jamestown Savings Bank Arena in Jamestown, NY, on December 15, 2012.
Photo of the day May 01, 2021 - My wife and I bought fresh strawberries from a roadside stand today.
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #33" "Fresh" "Contrast Thursday" These everlastings are growing in a really hot dry part of the garden. Until I put them in nothing would grow there. They have now self seeded twice. The "freshest" flower is at the bottom unless we count the bud. All are at various stages in the life cycle.
Starting fresh, forgetting the past and looking to the future.
Why not start with a small guided tour? Courtesy of Fiona L. Blackwood!
[We spent most of the day finding a new house and furniture.]
A row of fresh fish displayed on a wooden counter, © Derk.
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OEWeek23 Photo Competition entry number 40