Technology - Liberty - Hunting and How To's

A cellphone external battery pack is something that is very nice to have as when your cellphone gets low on battery power and you do not have a easy access to a power source, these come in very handy. I have a few of them and I will take 1 or 2 of them with me when I am out hunting. For hunting these can be a life saver as if you get stranded somewhere what are you going to do when your battery gets low? If you have an external battery pack, you can charge your phone (as long as you have a cord with you, to which I bring at least 2 with me)

There are a lot of different external battery packs out there that you can get. Some are great and some really suck. I have bought a few that were nothing but paper weights as they failed to charge anything, but they boasted to be great battery packs.

The ones that I like to use are the solar charging ones and they weight about 1lb or so. You cannot fully charge the battery pack on solar, but it can get to about 50% charge via solar and it is a nice way to get some more power when the battery pack runs out of power as well.

I have bought a few off of Amazon, and they were good they did the job. I found a few off of Wish, to which were very inexpensive but they take a long time to get to your house. The ones that I had bought were Lithium Battery Solar Power Bank 100000mAh

The one that I had bought from Amazon is no longer sold but it was similar to the one above (I did find one at amazon similar Battery Pack

They have 2 outlets for charging phones, so you could charge 2 phones off of this. I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, so it has a pretty big battery and I have charged my phone to 100% from 20% with one of these and I still had some power to spare. If I am in a deer stand and I have something to set them on or a way to hang them from by backpack, I will usually hang them on the outside of my backpack so that while I am charging my phone (if I need to) that the battery pack is also slowly getting some more power as well.

Once I return to camp, I am able to charge the battery pack(s) back up all the way again. I will also use these when going out and about if we are going to be gone for the whole day such as at a fair or something.

This entry was posted on January 13, 2017 at 12:09 PM and has received 1109 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Here is a very easy recipe to make some Keto Friendly, low carb, gluten free fake mashed potatoes. I am not a big fan of cauliflower, but this recipe I really do like and this is my go-to when ever we need mashed potatoes for something. This is very easy to make gluten free as well.

Ingredients.

• I head of cauliflower
• 1 8 ounce package of cream cheese
• 2-3 Tbsp of butter
• garlic powder for taste

Directions:

1. Cut the cauliflower up into 4 or 5 large pieces and add it into a large pot
2. Add enough water to fully cover the cauliflower and boil unitl the cauliflower is tender.
3. Drain the cauliflower into a colander
4. Once the pot is drained and you have shaken all the excess water from the cauliflower, add the cauliflower back to the pot and turn the stove onto a low setting.
5. Add the cream cheese and butter into the pot.
6. Using a hand blender / immersion blender, blend up the cauliflower until it matches the texture of mashed potatoes.
7. Add in any garlic that you may want for seasoning and or any more butter.

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Some may say "The smell of bacon cooking does not make the house stink, it enhances the aroma of the house!", while I do agree with that my wife does not. She does not like the smell of the bacon frying and the grease burning in the pan, so if you do not like the smell or want to cut down on the smoke from frying bacon here are a few other ways that you can cook bacon.

I will usually cook bacon in the oven especially if the recipe that I am making calls for cooked bacon. There are a few benefits to doing this. 

1. You are free to work on other things while the bacon is cooking in the oven. It will take about 15-20 minutes for the bacon to cook. 
2. You have free time to do other prep while the oven is pre-heating. 
3. The oven is already hot, especailly if you need to use the oven when you are done cooking it. 
4. The grease drains nicely from a cookie sheet to where you can easily pour it into a glass container to use for other purposes. 

Cooking bacon is not just limited to the oven or the frying pan. You can also cook bacon in your grill, to which I will do when it is really hot outside and I dont want the air conditioner to be working harder than it should be. It's already hot outside, so just cooking the bacon on a sheet of tinfoil works.

• One way is to cook it in the microwave. I don't like to do this as it gets your microwave all greasy, but there are people who like to do it this way?
• Cook it in the oven. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees, take a cookie sheet or a rimmed baking sheet and line it with aluminum foil. Line the baking sheet with the bacon and cook for about 20 or so minutes until the bacon is as done as you want it. You can then save the bacon grease in your fridge for later use
• Cook it on the grill, which this I will do most often. Take some aluminum foil and make a sort of rimmed baking sheet with it and place the bacon on this. If you make it with rims, the bacon grease will not drip into the fire causing flare ups. Cook on a medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes or until the bacon is cooked the way you like it. You can also save the grease from this
• You can even cook bacon in a Power cooker (pressure cooker)

Below I have a video that I did of going over the process that I do for cooking bacon in the oven. I was making another dish at the time and needed some bacon cooked, so I thought what better time to do a short video than now. 

There are just a few ways that you can cook bacon without "stinking up the house". If you have any other ways that you like to cook bacon, comment below

This entry was posted on January 12, 2017 at 6:04 AM and has received 4788 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Reuben pizza has to be one of my favorite pizza's to make as I like reuben's and it seems to be easier to make this shortly after St.Patricks day as there is a chance that you may have some extra corned beef left. The best part about this is that it is low carb, gluten free and keto friendly.
Even if you do not have any corned beef left over, this is a good excuse to make some corned beef so you can either make a few pizza's or you can make other dishes that use corned beef for another night.
If you do not have any corned beef in the fridge that is cooked, you can buy a cooks corned beef briskets and cook it in your slow cooker for about 8 hours on low. If you want to make this gluten free, do not use the spice packet that comes with the brisket. Instead of cooking this in beer, you will want to cook it in just water only
After the corned beef is cooked, let it cool and either shred it into small pieces or cut it up into small pieces.
Ingredients:

• Either make the Cream Cheese Pizza Crust or make another one that is Keto friendly or one that is Gluten Free
• Make some Thousand Island Dressing
• 8 ounces of shredded Swiss cheese
• 8 or so ounces of shredded mozzarella cheese
• 12 ounces of Franks Sauerkraut or some other gluten free Sauerkraut, drained

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees
Once you have the pizza crust of choice, spread the thousand island dressing on the pizza crust for the sauce. Add a few ounces of swiss cheese and then a bit of mozzarella cheese on top of the sauce. Add 2 - 3 cups of the shredded or cut up corned beef to the pizza, spread out. Add the sauerkraut to the top of the pizza and then add the rest of the Swiss cheese and add any more mozzarella cheese that you see fit.
Cook in the oven for about 20 minutes or so.

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Here is a recipe for Thousand Island dressing that is not only Gluten Free, low carb but it is also Keto Friendly. This works as a great substitution to buying store bought as you have some more control as to what goes into this and you also do not have to worry about the possibility of getting sick off of it if you have celiac disease.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Mayo
• 1/3 cup sour cream (Daisy sour cream is Gluten Free)
• ¼ cup walden Farms Ketchup or some other gluten free, sugar free ketchup
• 2 tablespoons sugar-free relish
• 1/4 tsp black pepper

Directions:
In a mixing bowl add all the ingredients and mix with a wire wisk

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Here is something that I have and is something that is nice to have that you can mount on the rail of your rifle / shotgun if you want to have a light source that wont break the bank.
I will do a video of the flashlight that I use on a different day to which I may add to this post or do another post on the flashlight itself. The flashlight mount that I use is nice as you can use different flashlights with this mount, to which I had purchased off of Amazon. The mount is OFF SET TACTICAL Weapon Mount For Olight M20/M21/M30, Fenix TK11, TK12, TA21, JETBeam M1X/M2S/JET-III M/RRT-1/RRT-2 and many more 1" Diameter size Flashlight to which it is under $5.00. This you can add and mount any flashlight that you can buy from any store, but I had mounted a flashlight that is extremely bright and it can also be focused.

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If anyone buys one of the Samsung Gear Live smart watch (they are the android smart watch) off of Amazon or other retailer and you find that some apps do not work on it, such as changing the watch face or that WiFi does not work, or anything does not work on it. The reason that I found at least with mine is that the ones that were sold were "developer" editions of the watch
Since these were in developer mode, this prevented from most apps working correctly and it also prevented the Android OS from updating to the latest version of the Android OS that Samsung released for this watch (mine has Android 6.01 on it), it is not just your watch and it is not you.
There are some steps that you need to do to remove the developer edition of the watch. If you are used to "rooting" an android phone, this should be no issue for you. I have rooted a few so far, so I was able to go thru the steps quite easily. I had found all the steps on a Reddit page, after some searching as to why nothing worked for it.
Head over to this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidWear/comments/2rgx1p/no_update_on_gear_live/

After I was able to remove the "developer" edition of Android from the watch and then update it, the watch has worked perfectly fine for me. In another post I will do some tricks that I will use my watch for.

This entry was posted on January 10, 2017 at 9:52 PM and has received 1308 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Patrick Henry, one of the founding fathers of the United States was a man that has some amazing quotes and has written some very powerful writings.
One of his quotes

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

A lot of people will use the term "I have the constitutional rights" or "they have the constitutional right to..". Technically that is false, nobody has a constitutional right to anything. The constitution was put in place not do define what the rights of the people have,but what the Government cannot do. Government uses delegated power, and that power comes from the people. Government just does not invent what it can and cannot do, the power had to come from somewhere.
By reading the federalist and the anti-federalist papers, this becomes very evident. As Thomas Jefferson said "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." [X Amendment] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition."

I know the title of this post says Patrick Henry and his quotes, and yet I quoted Thomas Jefferson, it helps illustrates the point that Patrick Henry makes.
Another really good quote that he has is "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." What this quote is saying is that history always repeats itself. If you want to see what the future holds, just look into the past as governments and people will keep making the same mistakes that past generations had made. As Edmund Burke wrote "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

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Here is a cake that is not only Gluten Free (as long as you get the Gluten Free ingredients of course) but it is also low carb and keto friendly.
I dont have any photos or a video of this yet, but I will be making a video of this soon, and it is very easy to make. It does not rise like a traditional cake will as there is no yeast in this, but it is still good. I am not a big coconut fan at all, and I have no problem eating this

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup coconut flour (may want to sift it)
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 5 eggs, save 3 whites on the side
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup Splenda, sucralose, stevia or Erythritol
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Directions In a bowl , mix the coconut flour, salt, baking soda, and splenda (sucralose or stevia). Mix until no clumps are left. Combine the olive oil, vanilla extract, butter, 3 eggs yolks and 2 eggs until well blended. Combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients.
Beat the remaining egg whites with a Kitchen Aid Mixer or a handheld mixer into soft peaks and gently blend them into the batter.
Grease an 8 inch cake pan
Place a piece of parchment paper in the bottom
Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 to 30 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool 10 minutes before taking it out of the pan. Let it cool for 1 hour before frosting it.

Frosting : 

• 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream chilled
• 8 oz. neufchatel cheese softened
• 1/2 cup Splenda, sucralose or stevia
• 3 tsp vanilla extract

Whip the cream until stiff. In a separate bowl, beat the cream cheese until very smooth, then beat in the Splenda and vanilla. Combine and mix lightly.

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Here is a pretty generic all purpose flour recipe that is gluten free that you can use.
The part that surprises me the most with this recipe, that just does not seem to fit in, but actually makes the recipe work the best is the dry milk. I would have never imagined that dry milk would either make or break a flour recipe, but this proved me wrong, especially with a recipe that I have for biscuits, to which the dry milk completely makes the recipe

• 4 ½ cups plus 1/3 cup white rice flour
• 1 2/3 cups brown rice flour
• 1 1/3 cups potato starch (NOT potato flour!)
• ¾ cuptapioca starch
• ¼ cupnonfat dry milk
• 1 tsp xantham gum

Using a wire wisk all ingredients in mixing bowl until combined. Transfer to air tight container and refrigerate for up to 3 months.

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