Journal

2024 - Week 34 Cooking Results

Sausage

Back to Crooked Gap skinless brats. Excellent.

Ham & Egg Muffins

Broke out a ham from the freezer decided it up to start eating it, some back in the freezer, and some into the fridge. I made this while my temporarily third internet provider was pulling fiber around the house. I brought dinner down to Shannon and Wait upstairs to be needed.

Spam & Egg Ramen

Night quite what I had in my head, and I fudge the eggs a bit, but over all still a good meal.

The Devil’s Ham

Home from the trek to pickup from Blue Gate, I pulled this together. I swapped sweet pickle relish with sweet and spicy (only one of the shelf with real sugar), cayenne with chipotle powder, sweet paprika for smoked hot and the rest remained about the same. I then ran off to get buns and a side and while I was really craving some sea salt kettle chips, I didn’t want them in the store brand they had and especially the size of the store brand that they had.

After resting in the fridge for quite a number of hours, we had this on pretzel buns with hickory smoked cheddar. I had some pickles on mine. Quite good.

Baked Ziti with Sausage and Peppers

I used the Crooked Gap version of their Italian Sausage, not to sweet, not to hot, but nice. And ti worked out pretty well. I used a bit more mozzarella than called for, because I used the whole ball that I bought.

Chopped Cheese Sandwiches

This worked out well. The combo of the Lawry's and other seasoning made for a nice flavor. I might do this to a sloppy Sammy’s mix. I didn’t have tomatoes, due to my refusal to buy tomatoes not directly from a farmer. In theory I could do it this next week, but probably won’t.

This week, I added a third internet provider for a short amount of time. I’ve had fiber for 5 years and 5.5 months about. And generally, everything has been fine. Recently, with a catastrophic outage, I added a backup provider (fiber) and then pondered how they were basically coming from the same power pole, the same above ground area.

So after quite a bit of internal debate, I decided to replace the provider I’ve had, with a new one, since they come in from a separate pathway and are underground.

So for about 30 hours I had two from the phone pole and one from the ground and a total of 2.04 gigabit. Now I’m back to an over performing 1 gig (usually 1.1-1.2 gig) and a much slower backup connection. Once we have the money to replace the wires in the house, I suspect I add ethernet through out, but as it stands, I am unwilling to upgrade to wifi 7, until the prices come down quite a bit.

I did a bit of kitchen reorganization this weekend, and cleaned quite a bit. I put into use some magnetic shelves that I had bought previously for water bottles. I have two more and used them for spices. I moved most of the non-food items to one wire rack and mostly food items to another wire rack. Part of me has already had to adjust some automatic tasks (while the trash bags are further away from the trash cans, it’s fine (based on usage). Food should be a bit more visible to me, cause things will slip out of my head if I don’t see them.

We’ll see how this turns out, fiber and kitchen-wise.