What's Cooking?

[Ham]

Yep that's me, scatological detective.

[Johnsfolly]

1 minute ago, BilletHead said:

Johnsfolly you eating them green?

I have been down that trickery road only once. Wait until all chance of a puckery mouth is gone.

BH - We have picked soft ones from the tree. picked them up from the ground (we have a persimmon tree on the edge of our driveway), after hard frosts. We just seem to catch them at the wrong time more often than not Last year we stripped their pulp and tried to make fruit leather. Was not great.

[MOPanfisher]

I happen to like a good persimmon, however not that interested in using them in anything.  I have eaten persimmon cookies and they were good just not my thing I guess.  I will happily eat them when woods wandering, used to know where the big ones were located.  Any more I am content to work at leaving some persimmon sprouts when brush hogging to try to establish a few persimmon groves, oddly those spots are within an easy rifle shot from my wife's deer stand.  Hopefully they will mature and produce fruit before I am too old to enjoy it.

Pawpaw are not bad, but again not something I would go out and collect.  A buddy picked a bunch one year, and his wife used them to make pawpaw bread, just like banana bread, enough other dices and flavors to cover any off taste of the pawpaws.

[BilletHead]

   We actually wait until way into the winter and hard freezes. Spread a sheet under the trees and go to beating the trees up until it rains fruit. Funnel the persimmons into a cardboard box and then to the next tree.

  As far as paw paws I can eat one raw and that is all I want. We did make cookies out of them before. Not too bad, more like a itty bitty cake. A fluffy green mini cake.

BilletHead

[Ham]

Lol, I took a chainsaw to my knee. Was not great. 

[MOPanfisher]

Ham, that sounds like a terrible idea!

[Ham]

7 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

Ham, that sounds like a terrible idea!

It wasn't my finest hour.

[Johnsfolly]

Ham - don't see a time/date stamp on the photo. Did you just cut your knee or was that some time ago? Doesn't look good.

[MOPanfisher]

Dang, a friend if mine just had surgery to reassemble his tib/fib after a woodcutting incident, dragged a tree out to work on it, cut a limb and he said next thing I knew I was lying on the ground.  Somehow he got one of the limbs "loaded" and it sprung back breaking his leg right below the knee.  He was alone and had to use his saw to cut the tree limb loose, crawl 100 yards to his truck and drive home, (took over an hour) so his wife could haul him to the ER.  He certainly wasn't a novice,  but crap happens.  As of this moment I have had close calls, a few cuts in chaps and coveralls, and a couple scrapes but haven't suffered any serious injury from a chainsaw.  Hopefully you heal quickly and without complications, and are back fishing soon.

[rps]

OMG, we have gone from posting pictures of food to boozing to pictures of wounds. I fear what comes next.