Miscellaneous

Runnin’ berries

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These are a bunch of pictures I took with my phone to show the process as best as I can. Some are from Wednesday and Friday when we tested, some of Saturday when they started production. I’ll go through in order of process. So here we go:

 
1st truck shows up and starts backing into the truck dump ramp
 
A couple pics of trucks being unloaded… as you can see they just pick them up, really high! 
 
 
This is some berries flowing out of a truck into the first set of storage hoppers.  From here they are let out onto a small vibrating conveyor and then fall through a space where a fan blows across them to separate light debris from the berries (we installed 2 sets of the vibratory conveyors and the air cleaners)
 
 Berries being conveyed uphill immediately after the air cleaners.. about to be dropped in the main storage hoppers.  We installed both of the conveyors shown here, and one more to the left of the frame (and 6 more further down the line that you will see)

Berries being conveyed across the top of the storage hoppers to be dropped in

Lots of berries being stored in the center row of the storage hoppers
 
2 of the 6 incline conveyor carrying berries from other end of the hoppers into the building
 
 
 
 Berries being run through shaker table (1 of 6) after dropping out of 1 of 6 of the inclines shown in the previous picture
 
1 of 6 rock traps… I can explain to you how these work, theyre pretty cool and very simple.  This is downstream of the shaker table shown in the last picture and is the last thing in the process that we changed.  I’ll add a couple pictures at the end to show the rest of the process and the building, etc.
 
 
 
 
 
Dinner, Recipes

Dirty Rice

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Ingredients:
1 pound ground beef
1 cup black beans
2 1/2 cups water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil (optional)
1 package ZATARAIN’S® Dirty Rice Mix, Original

Directions:
1. Brown ground beef in large skillet on medium-high heat. Drain fat. Set aside.

2. Bring water to boil in medium saucepan. Stir in rice mix, black beans and ground beef; return to boil. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 25 minutes or until rice is tender.

3. Remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes. Fluff with fork before serving

Recipes

Banana Bread

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Ingredients:

  • 1 ¾ cup flour 
  • 1 ½ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup oil
  • ⅓ cup sourmilk (add a tsp of vinegar to regular milk and stir; let it sit for a couple of minutes)
  • 1 tsp of vanilla
  • 2 ripe bananas mushed up

Directions:
  1. Preheat the oven to 350
  2. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl. 
  3. Mix in the wet ingredients.
  4. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top,
  5. Spray pan and pour in the batter.
  6. Bake for 40-45 minutes.

Optional: put walnuts in it 

Chris + Rachel