Last night crossing the strait to Canada, we got caught in a squall. The wind jumped from 20 knots to 34 and beyond (I saw the wind meter as high as 38.6, but I was a bit busy), against a 3 knot tide...
Christmas Dinner: smoked turkey, wet brined, coated under the skin with a maple bourbon herb butter and rib rub mixture, the skin brushed with the same in melted form. All the bits and some mirepoix...
Christmas Eve dinner. We have house guests, local guests, and Colin, so I went with a 12 pound rib eye steak, rubbed with olive oil, covered in my own rub and smoked fir 4 1/2 hours over a hardwood...
Our (day after) Thanksgiving feast. Sauerbraten, with a gravy thickened with ginger snaps, spaetzle fried up in butter, with cheese and bacon, sweet and sour red cabbage with apples and red onion,...
