Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Truffles Avoids the Ice Cube

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Apparently baby pigs are scared of ice. Of course now that he's bigger he eats ice cubes.

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

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Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Domestic pigs.

More info: The domestic pig (also swine, in some areas hog) is a domesticated livestock animal, farmed for its meat, known as pork (bacon, ham, sausages, etc.). Most domestic pigs have rather sparse hair covering on their skin, although woolly coated breeds are known (Mangalitsa pig), and some were popular in the past.


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Saturday, January 28, 2012

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Although he has to stay in bed and take the most awful-tasting medicine, Truffles the pig discovers that being sick has its advantages.


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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Let's play Simon the sorcerer part:7 Stroll in the woods

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Alet's play of the good old adventure game Simon the Sorcerer. This is a memory run and we haven't played this game in around 3-4 years so we will see how much our memories fail us..... but we will sort everything on ourselves and thus turn to no guide! Unless its desperate times

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Beyond Reality - Big Brother 11 Recap 7/28/09

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Beyond Reality - Big Brother 11 Recap 7/28/09 Last time Jessie had nominated Jordan & Michele. Beyond Reality - Big Brother 11 Recap 7/28/09 Last time Jessie had nominated Jordan & Michele. Everyone is expecting him to backdoor Ronnie but he has no intention of doing that. Veto Competition - Players - Jessie chose Jeff, Jordan chose Chima & Michele chose Casey. The Host is Natalie. After the houseguests change into pink pig costumes they see the backyard is transformed into a swamp. When pigs fly. Houseguests have to collect truffles that contain points & prizes. They can only keep 4. Theres also a mystery envelope that they can chose to use or not which may contain bonus points, bloopers, prizes or negative points. The houseguest with the highest amount of points wins. Casey wins a margarita party for the house but has to wear a banana suit for the week, Jessie wins 00 cash & Michele wins the power of veto. Veto Meeting - Michele uses the Power of Veto to take herself off the block. Jessie puts up Casey. Next time - Live eviction & Huge Announcement.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Pet Pigs - Pig Care, Feeding and Housing

Pigs are intelligent, gregarious, greedy and hedonistic. They are also curious. Being both fascinating and fascinating can soon prove problematic for those of you who are thinking about retention pet pigs. This is because they will soon find a way to escape their enclosures, no matter how long you have spent making sure they stay in! Once they have made the first great escape they will try again, and again and again. So they are determined puny beasts but they will also give you much pleasure.

Pigs love concentration and will bask in being spoken to, enjoy a scratch behind the ear and a good scrub down with a brush. However, never slap a pig on the rear end, or on the shoulders. Your pet pig will hate this, will be unforgiving to those who endeavor this, and will sulk for days, if not weeks.

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Keeping pigs as pets can be fun, but you also need to be careful with them when you feed them. Many a man can impart a tale of losing fingers to pigs by leaving their hands a puny too long in the trough when spilling out the feed. A pig is a voracious eater and being an omnivore will eat virtually anything, along with your hand if it is everywhere near his feed! So practice caution here.

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Pigs are also perfect producers, have large litters which they are fairly good at in finding after, which makes them a great source of extra wage if you are thinking of selling off the piglets from your pet pigs. They are also good as work animals because their smelling abilities make them ideal for sniffing out black gold; truffles. If you don't have truffles don't despair as you can use your pig as nature's plough for fields that need turning over. In foraging for roots and food beneath the ground they use their strong snouts to phenomenal depths in the soil and make subsequent cultivation of that land very much easier. However, if you find that they are actually damaging the land that you have put them on this foraging operation can be curtailed by having a ring or two inserted into the edge of their snouts. Although this is a fairly painless process it should be carried out while the pigs are fairly young. They love to eat excess whey milk after you have made your cheese, they will also eat vegetable scraps and spent veggie crops, and fallen fruit from the orchards.

Pet Pigs: choosing What to Buy and Why?

Pigs come in all shapes, colours and sizes and dissimilar breeds corollary in dissimilar temperaments. The first thing you should be choosing on is why you want to keep pigs for pets in the first place. After that it then gives you direction as to which pig breed would great fit your needs and the accepted pig care your pigs would then receive.

Pink-skinned pigs like the one in the photo above suffer terribly from sunburn, and so if you don't have any kind of natural or manmade shelter for this type of pig, then this breed would be unsuitable for you. Some pure breeds are coloured, like the red Tamworth and Duroc and black pigmented Berkshire and Large Black. The Saddleback and Hampshire are also black breeds but carry a distinctive white belt over the shoulders and down the front legs. Potbelly pigs are an additional one firm favourite for pigs as pets.

Few population comprehend just how big pigs can grow. Your pet pig could end up weighing in excess of 200 kilo grams! This is an additional one presume why you need to make sure that those fences are strong! If you select a puny pig as a pet their mature weight range could be around 20 - 50 kilo grams. Still no featherweight!

Your pet pigs are sociable animals and therefore would prefer to be in a small group rather than being on its own. Therefore it is advisable to get more than one so that they can keep each other company. You will also find in doing this, that your pigs will get up to less mischief as they will be less bored. However, if you do determine to only have one pig as a pet, there are some advantages. Firstly finding after one pig means that they become easier to manage, especially if this is your first pig. There will be no jostling for position while meal times or bullying and fighting with other pigs. If you buy a singular pig just remember to give it lots of love and concentration that prevent it from being bored, lonely and naughty.

Pet Pigs: choosing which sex to buy

If you are thinking of having pigs for pets you are probably wondering which sex you should buy. Male pigs that have not been castrated are best left as breeders rather than that makes them very unsuitable. If you determine on a male pig, it should be castrated. Female pigs make the best pets whether or not she has had a litter.

Pet Pigs: Purchasing your first pet pig

What should you be finding for when you are about to purchase your first pet pig? First of all you should check with your local municipal council to see if you are allowed to keep a pig in your area. After you have passed that foremost hurdle the next step is to find yourself a reputable breeder who will be there for you for after sales guidance and general guidance on pig care. Do not buy pigs from stockyard sales or at auctions where as a novice you would not know if the animal was sound and healthy.

In order for you to bond with your pig and vice versa you should be finding for a piglet. Look for one that has no signs of ill health. It should be active, have fascinating eyes with a moist nose and a shiny coat. The body should be long and slightly arched, the chest wide and sides slightly rounded. The legs should be strong and well settled with short and well-maintained toenails. Check the whole of teats that the pig has regardless of its gender. You are finding for 12-14 evenly distributed and well shaped teats. After finding at the corporeal aspects of your time to come pet pig you should be finding at its temperament. If it looks at all aggressive, is snapping at its siblings and other pigs and seems commonly a bit on the wild side, look for an additional one that is great natured.

Pet Pigs: Pig Care and Feeding

When you are purchasing your pet pig ask the breeder what they have been feeding them and how much. This will give you a baseline to work off, and any changes or additions to the diet should be made slowly. The basic diet for a pig would be to feed them a composition of household scraps or old crops from your vegetable orchad or orchard combined with pig feed or grain. On average a pig should be given about 2 kilo grams of pig feed or grain a day, and less if you are supplementing with household or orchad scraps. Pigs will eat practically anything, as mentioned earlier. Things that they will not eat however are citrus fruit, capsicums, onions, pineapples and some brassicas. The feed can be given whether all at once while the day, or split into two and fed morning or evening. Fresh, clean water should be available to your pet pigs at all times, and make sure that the troughs that you are using a strong. Concrete troughs that are heavy and unmoveable are ideal.

Pet Pigs: Housing for your pig

Pigs are often maligned as dirty, smelly, unattractive beasts. Nothing could be additional from the truth. Yes, they love to have the odd wallow in the mud bath, but then so do elephants and warthogs, and they have not been tarred with the same brush. Your pig will enjoy a bed of deep, clean straw or litter. If there are other pigs present they will often be seen cuddling up to each other in these situations. They are basically very clean animals, and will not urinate or defecate on their bedding, but will do so in a projection of their pen, away from their bedding.

They also hate greatest weather conditions, be it cold winds and draughts or soaring temperatures and humidity. So ensure that their pens are draught-free and you are able to get a good circulation of air when temperatures rise. Pigs will tolerate temperatures in the middle of 12-26°C. Anything, whether side of these temperatures, and your pet pig will be in distress. This is why in hot weather those mud baths are so principal for your pig to be able to cool down as he does not have the quality to do so through sweating.

Having said all that, a simple three-sided shed is all that is needed to keep your pig happy, as long as it faces away from draughts and prevailing winds. Each animal should have about 8 square feet of space and the floor discontinue should be a concrete screed that has been practically done so that your pig has sure footing at all times. There should also be an area in front of his pen that is adequately fenced off that is also cemented to prevent muddy and smelly conditions. Here the pigs can sun themselves when they need to, get some practice and relieve themselves.

We have already touched on making sure that your pigpen is secure, but this cannot be over-emphasised. If your pig notices just a puny infirmity in the fencing he will be out. And for those of us who have had to catch a pig we all know that it one of those impossible tasks that fast degenerates into something from Keystone Cops! One of the best options is to go with a breeze-block wall around the shed with a sturdy pig-proof gate. Having wire fencing, unless it is electrified, which is expensive, actually is not worth the endeavor as it is largely ineffectual.

Pet Pigs: retention your pig in your house

There are population who keep pigs in their homes quite successfully. It may not be everyone's option of household pet, even for those who may determine on a puny pig soon comprehend that they can get very big. However, for those who have chosen this option your pig is actually trainable with regards to using a cat litter tray. Pigs are the 5th most fascinating animals in the world, and therefore getting them to use a cat litter tray is no dissimilar to training a cat or a dog. You use the same methods. Start with some newspaper and move it closer to the litter box until the box is being used. Remember though that the approved cat litter box it too high for your pig. You will need something that is more shallow, more like 2 inches, and your will need to find these trays or suitable receptacles from your local hardware store. They will get used to walking with a lead and harness if you start with them at an early age.

Pet Pigs: Enjoying your new pet

Keeping a pig as a pet is great fun and they actually do make phenomenal pets. Each has a distinctive personality and you will soon see this after bringing your pig home and getting to know it. If you have the right type of housing, keep the litter clean and contribute the right food and practice for your pig, you will have a actually rewarding experience. Pigs are commonly hardy and have few ailments and are very good at adapting to new environments. So enjoy your new pet, give it lots of love and concentration and you will be loved in return.

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Holly and Truffles have a dandelion-eating race

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Hunting Truffles

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This week we're out in the Oregon woods hunting for truffles. Lately, we've been cooking with truffles for the first time. I'd never knowingly eaten one until recently, but after having sampled them in chicken, eggs and corn chowder, I can now recognize having had that subtle flavor over the years in various restaurants. A little truffle goes a long way, so a good use is to shred part of one and put it into a bottle of fine olive oil. This imparts an excellent flavor that can gently improve almost any food requiring oil. Truffles can be found in both the black and white varieties, white being more rare. Both are scarce, however, and you can see why in this video - it takes a lot of looking to find one. Some truffles sell for almost 0/pound. In France, they use "truffle pigs" to nose through the forest undergrowth and dig up the truffles. Other places use truffle dogs. Here in Oregon (one of the best places in the USA to find them) truffles are naturally eaten by voles who's scat spreads the spores on the forrest floor to create new truffles. (The voles are in turn eaten by the famous "endangered" spotted owl, who then also spreads the spores through it's scat.) Truffles live in a symbiotic relationship with spruce trees, living on the roots and helping them draw in certain processed nutrients, while the roots provide other nourishment to the truffle. The truffle itself is just the "flower" of the plant, just as the mushroom is also a flower of its organism. Young ...

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Monday, January 9, 2012

Remy Eats Truffles (Food Oddities - www.foododdities.com)

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Nobody's talking about chocolate truffles here. There's nothing odd about chocolate truffles. Were talking about the balls of fungus that are so rare and sought-after that they fetch absolutely absurd prices. Not fine dining prices. Not champagne and caviar prices. That's thinking too small. We're nearly talking real estate prices here. Ouch. But the point is, foodies are thrilled to pay any price for them. And they have been for thousands of years. Every once in awhile Remy gets a chance to sample something truly high class. When that happens, he jumps at the opportunity.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

The Fungi Called Truffles

You have in all probability heard about truffles, both the fungi and the chocolate treat. But let's town on truffles as a mushroom. Aside from being costly, what else do we know about them? Truffles are carefully rare and a delicacy in some countries.

Truffles are hypogeous mushrooms, meaning, they need to be dug out. But it's not the entire mushroom or fungi, the truffle is just the fruit. The body of the fungi is the hyphae located in the soil. It is idea that the grounds why truffle mushrooms grow belowground is to protect themselves from forest fires and while greatest temperatures while frozen periods.

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Truffles can be located in countries like France, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, some parts in the Middle East and North Africa. They can also be grown and located in Us, particularly in Oregon and Washington. They can be located under the roots of oak, elm, chestnut, pine and willow trees. There are just few trees that are not related to truffle growth, like maple and cedar trees.

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If they are underground, how would you find these treasures? Truffles, when they mature, would produce a mighty scent which may be noticed by animals. When searching for truffles, small animal diggings nearby the tree roots would be a good indication that truffles are likely nearby.

The scent may even attract animals bigger than the squirrel, like pigs and dogs. In the past, female pigs are used in Europe to look for truffles. It is as that these mushroom finds is said to mimic the scent of a male pig sex hormone. Currently, there are dogs which experience training for truffle hunting. The season for truffle hunting normally lasts from fall to spring.

Looking for truffles would wish patience, as it is attainable that all you might find would be clogs of dirt. Truffles are generally in a size of a walnut to a potato or apple. The world's biggest truffle was located in Italy on 2007, weighing 3.3 pounds. It was bought by billionaire Stanley Ho, when the truffle was put up for an auction in Macau. It was sold for a anticipated 0,000.

There are different varieties and may look different based of their kind. So be accustomed with the different kinds of truffles. There are a few mushrooms which might look like truffles but are positively poisonous. So be cautious, particularly when you aren't positively that knowledgeable about mushrooms. Before you eat a mushroom you have unearthed somewhere, consult a professional first if it is positively safe to eat.

Here are a few varieties of truffles which are a whole lot popular:

* Oregon white truffle - this truffle is firm and may even be brittle. It is white when growing up and would produce an orange-brown color as it matures.

* Oregon brown truffle- it is reddish-brown on the exterior, and kind of grey in the inside.

* Oregon black truffle - it is very dark and would have a pungent smell when mature/ripe.

* Perigord truffle- also called French black truffle that is located in Spain, Australia and Us. Its color is blue-black on the outside and would ultimately go to brown-black as it ages.

* Piedmont truffle - the Italian white which is light-colored and brittle. It would be beige in color and would come to be dark-brown as it matures.

* Summer truffle- located in France, Italy and Spain. It is black outside and off-white internally.

* Tuscan truffle- its color is normally chocolate brown and white.

Including truffles to your menu will positively impress family, friends and even heighten your cooking skills. They may be rare and costly to use frequently, but the culinary feel would absolutely be worthwhile.

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These sort of mushrooms grow underground and are extremely rare. In France they can only be located by trained pigs and dogs. The white variety may be sold at 550.00 Euros per 100 grams, or 5.500 Euros per Kilo. Darker ones are cheaper; who knows why? Music score by Franco Micalizzi (Gennarino's Joke).

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Friday, January 6, 2012

Crazy Trains - Counting on you

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Singer John McLean informs us that "this is a lovely song about heartache and rejection, and all the things that will happen to you eventually". It is dedicated to the "...surly skinhead at the front...totally wasted on him...". The skinhead heckles back that was wasted on the singer too. The skinhead is Pat (Chaos Uk drummer) and 13 years later they team up to make more music totally wasted on people "..truffles for pigs..." says McLean. See The Bad Losers on youtube or at www.thebadlosers.com Meanwhile this song features local guitar/sax hero Mike crawford slipping his bottleneck up the fretboard. Bassist John Chilcott protests at the slow pace of this song by sitting down resting on his amps cab (or has he collapsed pissed?!). The other three members still play together today in The Bones, quoting from the Prom wine bar web site: "The Bones are one of the west country's treasures, one of the few bands that have maintained the feel and attitude that a rock band is supposed to have. They started out as young contenders 'Crazy Trains', knocking the stuffing out of all that went before them, with minimum line-up change they morphed into 'Crazy Bones', and for a time included Seers and Zuma front-man Spider and the ubiquitous Mike Crawford. Having matured into 'The Bones' and playing a mix of Stones type R'n'B, early American style garage and Flying Burritos style country rock, John McLean and co have by no means lost the swagger that inspired them to play in the first ...

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Black Truffles Are Black Gold

The cherished black truffle is at times referred to as; "the black diamond", "the diamond of the kitchen", "black Périgord truffle" or more technically in Latin, the Tuber (lump) Melanosporuma. The truffle is a part of the fungi family. The truffles grow inexpressive very close to tree roots (mostly oak). The fungi develops a close, intertwined connection with their neighbours, the trees. The truffle benefits from the tree's root theory with a consistent contribute of carbohydrates. The tree benefits by technically having a larger root face and as such more potential to discharge minerals and water.

There are of course hundreds of types of truffles. This type of tuber has been a recognized as an exclusive glutton cooking ingredient since the 18th century in France. Truffles are also beloved in the cuisines of Spain, Italy and some other southern Mediterranean countries. World-wide production is almost all from Europe. Although, French production has dropped considerably over the last century, it is still the leader at almost 45% of the global total. Within France the southeast (Provence, Dauphine and Languedoc) make up 80% of that total. The truffle grows all year but generally they are harvested and ready for buy from November to March. Black and white truffles are big business, depending on region, month, size, smell, weight and many other factors these glutton ingredients can trade for hundreds of Euros a kilogram.

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The third Sunday in January is a very auspicious date in Provence. This is the day is the Fete de Saint Antoine or Messe des Truffes (The Truffle Mass). The opening to witness the blessing of truffles in a church ceremony, followed by a collective auction is well worth the effort. On January 16th, we headed to Richerenches to see what it was all about. For nineteen years now this event has taken place in this small community in Vaucluse, France. The truffle farmers (rabissers) in the congregation donated a total of 4.5 kilograms of black truffles. After the Truffle Mass, the Confrerie de la Truffe (the brotherhood of the harvesters), led the congregation and any hundred observers, along with media to the centre of the town. These miniature black glutton treasures were then auctioned off, in a live auction at the Hotel de Ville, the auction tally for the day was over 5000 Euros, all donated to the church.

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The life of a truffle-hunting pig is not easy! Unearthing delicious truffles all day without eating any is too hard for Bianca. After her very first bite, she and her piglets are banished to the forest where they meet up with a wolf. Award-winning illustrator Charles Santore–painting in a new style– has penned an original pig’s tale that feels like an old favorite.


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How are truffles found? Both dogs and pigs have been used for hundreds of years in Italy and France for seeing truffles. The female pigs have an innate potential to smell the "black gold", that requires no training (the smell is similar to a hormone emitted by the boar). The question with hogs is that they Love truffles and it can be a fight to see if the pig or the rabassier (harvester) gets the fungi first. The dogs need to be trained to sniff out the prized truffles, using methods similar to K9 police dog training. They are not curious in eating the truffles, just the hunt.

We followed our sense in January (Truffle Mass) with a visit in February to a working plantation in Valensole. We wanted to round out our insight of how truffles are produced, discovered and sold. Our hosts currently have five dogs of dissimilar ages. Their personal training methodology uses voice and hand commands, no collars or leads. The dogs are trained to work in from the puppy stage, with both the human trainer and the older dogs. By the age of two, the young dog is usually ready to work with one partner in the field. It is startling to see these animals work, they are able to pick up the scent of a truffle either it is at the depth of a concentrate centimeters or much deeper. They start digging in the spot and then back off to allow the harvester to dig out the prize. If need be they are called back to give some additional direction, digging softly with one paw. The dogs are rewarded when the truffle is unearthed.

Do not think for a second that this is an easy trade. The prized black truffles mature in the coldest, darkest months of the year (November-February), so rain or shine the dogs and owner need to go out in the fields. Then there is marketing, sales work, packaging, planning, pruning and a rigorous guard against predators of both the animal and human varieties.

We were very fortunate to have a beautiful day for our visit, a good harvest and more than anything a splendid lunch. We tasted three dissimilar truffles all found the same morning and all with very unavoidable flavours. Then we had scrambled eggs with black truffles, a salad with beets and black truffles and ultimately chicken with a black truffle sauce. So our end is black truffles are in fact black gold.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Truffles and new series update!!

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Yeah :) New series should be up soon :D have some of the videos already recorded so for a little while there might be one or two a day :D

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Monday, January 2, 2012

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