Whats in the soup and quail

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

When I was down at the warehouse on the 22nd, someone asked me about the

ingredients in the soup mixes. Many of the beans, lentils, rice, etc. are

organic from up in Middle River. Some of the vegetables are from my garden -

green beans, corn, tomatoes, and oddball stuff. Other vegetables, carrots,

potatoes, etc. are coming from the dehydrating plant in Bagley.

The mushrooms are wild - I use shaggy mane and puffball. Both are easily

identifiable and incredibly delicious.

I think my soup mixes are really good, wholesome food. Just regular foods,

nothing special, except they taste way better than anything in any other grocery

store.

I do the very best I can on buying the ingredients because I eat this stuff

myself. Obviously, I buy in bulk, otherwise I couldn't afford to make and sell

these mixes for the low prices that I am charging. Up here, the fancy little

dried soup mixes cost $5.00 or more and you barely have enough to make 2 cups

(little cups) of soup. I try really hard to keep prices down because I don't

feel right in charging exorbitant prices - it just seems dishonest to me.

I normally use chicken, beef or ham soup base in my soups. If people don't want

this in the soup, just mention to Warren that you'd like to see vegetarian

versions of those mixes. I can easily substitute herb and spice blends. The

Patchwork Soup mix has always been made this way, it has never had soup base in

it.

A few lucky people have gotten to try the quail! They are fantastic, I am

thinking about frying up a few and trying them that way. Or " shake and bake " . I

enjoy the heck out of raising these birds and hope to get production up so that

more of you can have the pleasure of eating them.

Unfortunately, commercial processing still seems to be economically impossible.

I got a quote of $2./per bird from my processor - I can hardly afford to sell

them for $7.50/lb if it costs me $8.00/lb to process them.

Home butchering by the farmer of poultry and rabbits is still legal under state

law. (For direct sales.) I'd like to reassure everyone that I work clean and do

not contaminate what I process by bursting intestines. My cold water comes from

over 100 ft down. My well is sunk into the main underground river that feeds

Deer Lake, which is a mile up the road.

I'll try to give people a little more warning of when I'll next bring down fresh

rather than frozen birds. I don't normally process chickens myself but I will do

up the excess roosters that way. They make nice little fryers.

Back to the birdies, :-)Pat Z.

Back out to the chores, :-)Pat

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