Boers Beef Hamburgers (Black Angus or Black Angus X, combo of pasture grazing and corn finishing, beef is 85-90%)
This turned out pretty well, I think, the beef tasted pretty good. I was certainly more satisfied with it, perhaps there is some justification with everyone and their grandmother switching to Black Angus. I don't know if i my search is done though. They told me the age their meat, which is good. I'll keep looking. But this was a positive finding.
Ground Goat Burgers
I've been buying from La Ventosa Ranch off and on for several times. For this I thought that the strong taste of the goat meat could work well with the strong, but tasty flavor for the Milton Prairie Dawn and it really did. It was a very good combination. Is in describing how I thought this would taste, I tweeted, "You have this which is rarr and that which is rarr and you put em together and they are RARR!!".
Penne Alla Vodka (RC June/July 2011 Cook's Country)
This came together well. A nice tasty simple recipe. Rarely do the Cook's people fail to impress though.
Deviled Chicken Thighs
The chicken was from Foxhollow Poultry Farm, which I failed to mention. It made for a good quick meal, but proved without a doubt that I need a vent fan (in theory, there is a chimney, but I have my doubts that it works at all). Simple, though I did have to adjust mustard a bit, because, well, I ran out of Dijon (though it took less then a day for me to replace it). I supplemented some yellow mustard (maybe 1/4th of the mustard required) It was a bit messy to eat (as thighs can be).
Fried Ham, Eggs and Cheese Sandwiches
What to do with leftover ham? Besides the lunch sandwiches I had almost every day? Fry it up and put eggs on it! A favorite of mine. I love ham, or at least good ham.
For Saturday I ended up making two pizzas for ourselves and the Mattas while they were our guests. I did one with pepperoni and one with a nice pepperoni, Italian sausage, and smoked mozzarella. Nathan helped out quite a bit by making the sauce and the putting things together. It certainly made it go a lot faster. It was nice meal after a day at the zoo. I did forget to take a picture of the less kid friendly pizza, but it still looked good.
The next morning I made a "small" breakfast with rhubarb compote, sliced strawberries, pancakes, bacon and sausages. I was pretty happy with the way that the rhubarb compote turned out, and seeing that it was that wickedly easy to make, I will to be making more compote as time goes on. We feasted and then headed over to the Science Center of Iowa. We ate a late lunch at Gateway and they headed home and we did a little shopping and headed back to our house. Good weekend.