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2024 - Week 10 Cooking Results

Sausage

The other hot dogs in the pack. All Pork, All Good.

Sous vide Pork Loin (Sunday)

First off I modified something I found the internet, and by modified I basically used their ingredients and modified that and ignore the rest.

  • 1 cup yellow mustard

  • 1 cup Dijon mustard

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar

  • 1 tsp black pepper

Mixed together.

I then added a good chunk of that the varied sizes of pork loin that I cut down (before putting them back in the freezer, put that in the vacuum sealer and sealed them up and heated them up to a bit under cooked.

I took this out of the bag, brushed it with a bit more sauce and put it in the oven to finish off. I made some mashed potatoes and served it over that with mustard. I ate leftovers several days afterward.

Chicken Scarpariello

I got a rough day text message and we got something else, so this’ll have to be delayed a bit.

Chicken Juk

Simple, I used stock instead of water. I used sambel olek, since I have more then one container again.

Hamburger

Pork! a few spices and going from there.

Flogging Molly - Road to Rebellion Tour - Val Air Ballroom - 3/5/2024

With Amigo the Devil plus Gen and the Degenerates.

I took today off cause I decided I’m to old to work the next day after a concert. I thought about getting up when my alarm went off, but turned it off instead and slept for another hour and half.

We met up with Jenny and Nathan at Either / Or and had dinner. Afterwards I went off with Jenny and Nathan and Shannon headed home.

The venue, itself, which I haven’t been to in a while (Fall Out Boy maybe?), is definitely improved and more modern. I was reminded in the bathroom of how terrible it was before the remodel. The ceiling is covered in sound dampening tiles, which will help reduce the escape of sound, which made the neighbors a bit annoyed. A good refresh and I’m looking to go to more shows there.

The show opened up with Gen and the Degenerates, which, was not for me. I don’t want to rule them out yet, but I’ll listen to some of there music. Second was Amigo the Devil, which after a song that we didn’t get, immediately was definitely for me. Enough so, that I went to go get a shirt, even after my first exposure. Unfortunately, they didn’t have anything close to my size, so I ended up with a bumper sticker. I added a bunch of the music to my library to parse and dive into.

Flogging Molly, my first time seeing them, came on and just put on a solid fast paced show. It was quite fun, energetic and even overrode the general body complaints that the rest of me started to feed back. Came away with a shirt, even after an explicit discussion from Shannon that I really need to filter out some t-shirts as they are taking up an entire closet and are packed in.

Organized closet

So I have been looking for my camera stands, not that hard, but a bit. so I ended up cleaning the front hall closet. I separated each of our gloves and winter hats in boxes, and there is a box of scarves. A separate box of non winter hats (ball caps that I can’t remember the last time I wore, and other sun protections). I demoted some coats to the back.

2024 - Week 8 Cooking Results

Hamburgers

Lamb! Added a bit of herbs and spices, salt and pepper and some deliciousness.

Baked Potatoes

Used the rest of the potatoes that were in the bag I bought, before things started to grow to much. Bacon, butter, sour cream, salt and pepper.

Mac & Cheese

They had some Beecher’s Hatch pepper mac and cheese at our last visit to costco, so we picked it up. As a note, Beecher’s is part of the Sugar Mountain family of companies, which includes The Butcher’s Table, where my brother has worked for quite a while.

It was quite good, they make a pretty good mac and cheese.

Grilled Cheese

Much to my own failing memory delight, I accidentally ordered 3 loaves of bread. I knew I would have bread to make the grilled cheese, but as things started to come together on Friday, I had one through the food coop and two directly ordered from a baker. So I dropped two in gallon freezer bags then put them in the freezer used the third to make grilled cheese with beef bologna. Good sandwich.

One-Pot “Mary Me” Chicken and Noodles

I skipped over a couple of items. The sun-dried tomatoes, the chives. I replaced the heavy cream with half and half, cause I thought I has already used the only recipe that needed it. I got annoyed by the directions a bit. I juiced the lemon in and poured it in a glass, with the intent to mix it with some elderflower to have a nice drink, only to find I needed about half of it. But since it says, one lemon, zested, I just assumed it wanted the zest only and not the juice.

Even so, it was a pretty good meal. Since we are already married, I guess it works?

Buttermilk Pancakes

Good as always.

A conversation with a friend reminded me that I had some cinnamon soaking in vodka for a bit. My notes about it were simple:

83g cinnamon sticks
706g vodka
Started late 11/21/2021

I took them out on 2/23/2024, meaning it was soaking for 823 days. I sampled a bit and it has a strong cinnamon scent, but is not as spicy as cinnamon “whiskey" I’ve had.

2024 - Week 7 Cooking Results

Hamburgers

Beef, a bit of simple seasoning and good to go.

Taco Salad

I used the last Guacachile on mine between that and the leftovers, it was a nice add. I may have to thing about making the salsa my own.

Egg & Sausage Muffins

Good as always.

Breakfast Egg Bake with Sausage and Potatoes

The nose tickling continues! Even so, this came together well. I threw in some of the leftover jalapeño and green peppers from, the taco salad. Everything else came together quite will. I also used the green onion sausage, which is not quite breakfast sausage, but it still worked.

Creamy Peanut Noodle Soup

Made quickly before heading off to area 515’s game night. It was quick, easy and pretty good. The game night was fine, meet some of the people there, got a tour.

2024 - Week 1 Cooking Results

Apparently I caught a stomach flu grocery shopping last week, and I passed it to Shannon later. It had about the same incubation time for each (a day or two or so) before it expresses itself. While I recovered faster, it did change out things quite a bit.

Turkey Lasagna (this is what the Matta’s had for dinner and it sounded quite good)

I substituted 1.5 pounds of turkey sausage, with 2 pounds of Crooked Gap Italian sausage, and I used smoked mozzarella, instead of sliced. I ended up using feta, since I hat forgotten to pick it up in my normal trip, and it did add a bit of fine goat cheese flavor to it. I had to short out that last 1/4th cup of parmesan since, I had to save some for the garlic bread I made, without parsley. It was quite tasty and made for a nice thing to do on New Year’s day.

Sausage

Brats, Good, like fire.

Burger

I dug around in the freezer for a bit, before shopping and couldn’t find anything, so I picked up some grass fed beef at the store. Added some herbs and spices and cooked them up.

I kept it down just fine, my dear wife, not so much.

Hot Honey Peanut Noodles

Delayed! I planned on making this on the night after the morning I emptied myself, but clearly did not.

Irish Stew and Soda Bread

Delayed!