Sunday morning is "Do the dog's nails" day, specifically Strut's and Spring's. They're black, Strut's are rock hard, Spring's grow amazingly fast and especially the outside ones curl. We do their...
It's snowing fluffy seeds, and unlike poor Colin I have no allergies. It's in the mid 60s in the shade and I'm sitting in the sun on the top balcony out of any wind with my coffee. Life Is Good
Dog's nails are done, hams are out of the brine and soaked overnight in water, cracked rye is soaking in near boiling water. Time to relax. Sitting on the deck watching the snow storm of fluffy seeds...
Today's brunch. Quartered white mushrooms gently fried in parsley infused olive oil with some thyme added, refrigerated until it is a solid, then the lardons fried in it with a bit of extra bacon...
I found a cheap cast iron loaf pan with lid. It was shoddily seasoned so it spent 8 hours at 500+ degrees in the oven, then got a no-knead rosemary thyme parsley garlic dough. It is really good, and...
My lunch yesterday. Irene made buttermilk biscuits so I split two - ate one half with Kerrygold as a taste test 😉 - fried up in butter thin slices of the last of the ham I made from the pig we had...