I pan seared two filet mignons in garlic butter sauce for about 2 minutes per side before transferring them to our grill. Made roasted potatoes in the oven w/garlic, salt, pepper, parsley, onions, olive oil, and paprika. And made fresh asparagus w/butter and white wine as our veg.
Just pulled a blueberry cobbler out of the oven. The last of last year’s frozen blueberries. My plants are loaded with immature fruit now. Another month and I’ll have fresh fruit.
We grilled ribeyes, and had asparagus, and onions and mushrooms tonight. It’s really the best cut of steak to grill. So much flavor.
Totally agree on ribeyes. They have just the right amount of fat in them, and they are always nice and tender, no matter how well they are cooked.
That said, I had pizza.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Ive been eating way too much chips/salsa lately. It’s one of my favorite snacks
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Jeudy is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Tillman is flanked out wide to the right. Judkins and Ford are split in the backfield as Flacco takes the snap ... Here we go."
I've been lucky enough to have lived with two pretty great cooks - my wife and my mother - for my whole life until the last couple years. At first I got by with Chunky Soups, Stouffers frozen dinners, sandwiches, and Door Dash, but that got a little old (and expensive re: Door Dash). So now, 2-3 times a month, I make a big batch of some favorite dishes and freeze them in these 1-quart Rubbermaid containers. I usually get 5-6 dinners out of each time I do this. In the last few months, I made:
*Spaghetti sauce with meatballs and Italian sausage *Hamburger Stew *Beef Stew (chuck roast) *Boneless chicken with cream of mushroom soup, fresh mushroom slices (slow cooker) *Baked chicken with rice (pilaf) *Breaded pork chops *Pasta Fazool (my mom's variation on Pasta E Fagioli, which is a soup made with pasta, beans, and bacon that she converted into a casserole) *Baked ziti with gr beef and Ital sausage
Sometime in the next couple weeks I'm going to cook up a mess of Italian sausage, with onions and and green peppers in a large electric roaster. I'll store that in the basement freezer along with some bakery sausage rolls (in freezer bags). (Remember - Rule #1 of Church Festival Sausage Sandwiches and loaded hotdogs: You must "cave" the roll, or else that stuff is going everywhere when you bite it.)
Anyway, in this fairly grim time we're in, I find that "big cooking" gives me a small feeling of accomplishing something, plus I save some $$ by not dropping $25 on Door Dash and also by buying "family pack" quantities of meat. It also makes the day go a little better when you know you have something good for dinner that involves very little prep or cleanup.
Nice where did you get the natural wood? Did you go out and find it yourself, I am finishing my basement and have been considering doing a natural top like that for the bar I want to build.
Edit: how you gonna be doing all these project and have a missing outlet cover. smh
Nice where did you get the natural wood? Did you go out and find it yourself, I am finishing my basement and have been considering doing a natural top like that for the bar I want to build.
Edit: how you gonna be doing all these project and have a missing outlet cover. smh
Check with a local sawmill.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Nice where did you get the natural wood? Did you go out and find it yourself, I am finishing my basement and have been considering doing a natural top like that for the bar I want to build.
Edit: how you gonna be doing all these project and have a missing outlet cover. smh
lol! I pulled the outlet because I'm tapping off of it to install a clock outlet in the wall above it.. good eye, though
I got the live edge wood on Facespace Marketplace, of all things. Some random guy was selling it for $20/slab, so I kicked him an extra $40 to deliver eight of them to me. The black walnut was bought at the "local" Woodcraft store off I-271. If you search Marketplace for "slab wood", you will be inundated with sources. Some stupidly expensive, others ridiculously cheap. The cheap ones are usually wet wood; freshly sawn. The more expensive are already dried and sometimes planed and sanded flat. That can be valuable if you don't have the tools or ability to flatten a slab yourself, though if you have a router you can make a very simple jig/sled system to do it if you just take your time.
Note: you likely will NOT find slabs for $20. Most are in the ballpark of $150-$350 depending on thickness, length, type of wood, etc...
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Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
You should consider a vacuum sealer. I make a large batch of chili, the wife and I love it. Using freezable mason jars, my vacuum sealer has a mason jar attachment. I seal land freeze those and they are good, seemingly forever. A couple of years anyway, but we never let it go that far.
Jealous. I've been wanting to get back out into my shop because health issues had me benched from late last fall until COVID. Now that I'm off full time oxygen and regained much of my lung capacity with this new medication, i want to get back out there. I've spent most of my covid 'extra time' on 6 months worth of my wife's honey-do list and vehicles maintenance. Hoping for a solid stretch of sunny 70 degree days to do some primitive bowl power carving.
A lathe is the one thing I don't have, yet (or carving tools). Would love to get something soon, but probably not for a while, yet.
I've already told my boss that I'm watching the forecasts and as soon as we have a week of sunny weather, I'm taking the week off. This quarantine thing wouldn't be so bad if it was sunny and warm with no rain every day!
Glad you're doing better!
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
The easiest and cheapest way to get into power carving is to get grinder discs, they start at about $25-40 and up. One or two is all you need to start, then your sanders to finish. It's the most fulfilling, relatively easy, and somewhat pure creative (not much thought, deep concentration, or planning needed) woodworking you will ever do. Having a chainsaw is helpful too, but I have stopped at random wood piles all over town when I see what might be a well figured piece of wood and asked for them. I've yet to find somebody that wasn't glad to just give me all the blanks I wanted to carve. And when I see some downed wood I scan it for the same thing. You can use dry or greenwood with a board butter finish. As long as the pith is removed you will have very minimum checking (if any) while drying or curing with that finish.
I haven’t been in my shop since March 31st. I miss it tremendously. The robot project we’re working on was moving along nicely. We had the torso and much of the head built. We were just starting to fabricate hands and the legs. Our deadline got pushed out until 2021 so time isn’t an issue... but damn I miss fabricating. Creating in that way. I should have been in Vegas this past weekend doing repairs on one of our robots there. My nursing career put the kibosh on that. No out of state travel without a 14 day quarantine upon return. Could got to Vegas for 3 days to lose 10 days of paid time off. My buddy went without me. I’m hoping to get back into the shop now that we both have supplies of N95’s. We can work together, masks on, big doors open, distanced unless we really need to be. (Steel is heavy.)
Hope you get back to your shop soon. It’s therapeutic.
The weather is supposed to be amazing later week. My girlfriend has been pushing for a ‘catio’ for our fur beasts. So I’ll be building something this week out in my barn. Scratch the itch for creating.
This has been a busy period for me. I make and sell a ton of planters, outside benches, tables, arbors, etc.
What is important to me is to put out products that are different from what customers can purchase in stores. I don't staple anything. I used plunge and pocket screws. I make sure everything is solid. I use unique color combinations.......yes bro, I do know the color wheel, but I am no tight ass.
I know this might sound weird, but one of the best outdoor color stains I have used is Rustic Mahogany w/black gloss trim. It's sharp as can be and people are loving it.
I am also really big into upcycling. I score pallets, old windows, iron, etc from folks who are throwing them away. It's kind of demeaning to dumpster dive and pull things off of recycling piles off the side of streets, but I have moved past that because I feel I am easing the landfill waste and creating something beautiful out of things that people don't want. Thus, it's a combination of art and trying to do right for the planet. Not sure if I am expressing that correctly, but I feel good about it.
Well I pumped up the tires on my mountain bike and went for a ride today.
It’s been so long, the gears won’t shift and the padlock on the chain won’t work. Lol
That’s okay though, I can old-school it.
Besides, I need some exercise and fresh air, and I hate jogging. Cycling forces me to concentrate on not wiping out, so I can ignore the noise pollution from traffic and the monotony from hearing/feeling my feet hit the ground.
I’ve also been playing my guitars a lot: I haven’t been this sharp in years. Not that I had a high bar to jump over.
But I have been working on my fingerstyle technique. Playing John Prine and Queen songs lately.
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