Sausage

We had a smoked pork sausage from The Good Butcher, and it was quite nice.

Smoked Chorizo Tacos

I wasn’t exactly sure what to do with smoked chorizo, which was one of the other sausages that I got from The Good Butcher, but this seemed fitting. The Smoked chorizo infused the beans and onions that I combined them with a nice mildly smoky flavor. This was a pretty simple thing to put together.

Chicken Jambalaya

I made this last night, which was pretty easy to do. The combination of the water and the rice makes me think that they wanted to get a lot of starch out of the rice but I’m not totally sure, I should probably read the article. Boiling the 3 quarts of water took the longest. Even though I had Andouille Sausage in the freezer, I used the one I picked up at The Good Butcher, rather then the chicken one they had called for. I had everything else before the rice finished cooking. That being said, it still turned out quite good. I added a bit of Lola’s to it and was quite happy.

Macaroni and Beef

I used mass market ground beef, for this, rather than defrosting some beef. Since I planned on making it Sunday after seeing back to the future and I wouldn’t have time to defrost beef (I don’t like doing a forced defrost, just a nice gentle slow defrost in the fridge). I used the whole pound of noodles and adjusted as I saw fit, which made something probably a bit different. Still good though.

On the home front, we had to escalate some home repairs from yeah we should do this, to this must be done ASAP. The one segment of the electrical panel melted and created a bit of a fire. This was related to the split breaker that powered both the bathroom upstairs and the family room in the basement, where I work from. After getting electricians out to check on things, they moved the wires from the fried breaker to the garage breaker and stated that they were not sure how long this would last.

We put in temporary rules to make sure that we don’t overload that breaker, and so far, so good. There is a heavy duty cord, that I had used for the window unit air conditioner, in the past, and Shannon runs that from something on the main circuit through our bedroom and into the bathroom to use here high energy devices. We’ve shut down most non-essential things in the living room (extra work laptop)

to prepare for replacing our electrical panel, our exhaust flue for the water heater was moved to be further away from the panel. The fine electricians did a double check after my photos to make sure that everything was ok, and now we are ready when our energy company is ready. This should be quite the update, and I’m looking forward to having something that is labeled correctly, and not having a panel that has been stated by multiple electricians as “those are untrustworthy”.