My cooking sometimes gets a touch out of hand. I saw some beef stock in the fridge ... So tonight's dinner will be French onion soup (I'll make chicken stock from scratch to supplement the beef...
It's been a while since I had to clean up a trail of blood like that. Spring cut her paw last night: she clean sliced off the inside side of her outside pad on the left front paw. It bled. She ran....
Working on seeing if I can make frites in winter. I kept the Russet potatoes out of the fridge for a minimum of three days in case they'd been frozen. Then Irene peeled the potatoes, I then cut it to...
Good weekend: I made 9 pounds of freshly smoked bacon (wet brined in apple cider, molasses and salt, cold smoked 10 hours on apple and cherry wood) and 70+ eggs pickling (apple cider vinegar, my own...
Tomorrow I'll be cold smoking a 100-ish hard steamed eggs, thin slices of cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, and 9 pounds of wet brined pork belly. I'm thinking apple wood. After that we'll switch to...
Getting ready for house guests at SuperBowl: this is nine pounds of pork belly, as it came into the house, rubbed with ground red and crushed black pepper, and brining in apple cider, molasses, salt,...
