Looking forward to our next Disney trip (still months away) so for some "Disney hype" I made a copycat of the Le Cellier Canadian Cheddar Cheese (and bacon and beer) soup with pretzel bread bowls 🍜🍽️

I was disappointed in the bread I made yesterday, but if you toast it and top it with a bunch of stuff, it tastes great!

Cut up a pork butt today for carnitas and steaks! I think I'll also try to render down some of that fat too...

Good morning!

Long time, no post, but I'm still cooking. Made buns yesterday for burgers and used the leftovers for egg sandwiches. I'm also contemplating looking for part time work in the food industry, if anyone has any advice... 🍜🍽️

Random reminder that I've written a couple of nonfiction popular science books that I think are fun! You can find them at your favorite bookstore. Or Amazon.

We did two stuffings (dressings), two cranberry sauces, two potato dishes, two veggie sides, two pies, and two meats...is that too much for two couples?

I took a car load of cardboard to the recycling center yesterday and I just realized I missed the perfect opportunity to listen to Alice's Restaurant

This is a helpful chart!

Started cooking today...all poultry bones from the fridge and freezer are in a stock pot with roasted veg. I'm trying to make a lot so I can also make demi glace (never done that before)

Go birds!

Yeah! Topolino's is a departure day tradition for us

Beignet thread! I made sure to eat at least one order of beignets everyday in New Orleans and I have thoughts and questions. First thought: it's fried dough covered in powdered sugar, so any beignet is a good beignet. Got these at the cafe du monde in the mall

My bag got flagged once for having the game Bananagrams

I do have more New Orleans food pictures...but I eat, then I get full and tired

Down in New Orleans and we are eating good! Got our first (of many, I'm sure) beignets, a muffuletta, and ham and Brie sandwich. Tonight we're going out for fancy dinner, but I'd take any recommendations for good/fun/tasty stuff if you have them

This is cool

Our friends were on vacation and we got their CSA allotment...so we had a totally locally sourced dinner. Kale, potatoes, and garlic from the CSA cooked with local sausage I had stashed in the freezer. 🍽️🍜

I cut up a pork butt today for various future meals: shoulder steaks, carnitas, ground pork, and fat for rendering. I think I'll freeze the steaks, cook the carnitas today, and see when I have time to grind and/or render 🍜🍽️

My chili pepper plant made the move in a bucket to the new house...and kept growing/ripening! Not sure how hot these will be, so I'm not sure how to use them, yet

After school activities force Wednesdays to be easy dinners normally. So when my brother came into town tonight, I tried to stay simple and just add volume: soup, bagged salad, and build your own sandwiches 🍽️🍜

Family trip to the zoo today and got some Great Lakes Nosferatu with my chicken tenders

Tonight's grill adventure was doing hasselback potatoes on the grill. I gave them a head start in the microwave, then stuffed the slits with garlic and asiago before grilling. They cooked up pretty good, but I think an oven might give better crisp? Worth trying again 🍜🍽️

Baguettes are my bread making nemesis...

A friend sent us a house warming gift...a cutting board that he made! I cut up some mir poix for soup today and it is so nice to cut on

I forgot that I was going to make a peanut sauce for this! I think I'll do noodles in a peanut sauce to serve with the leftovers

We've got a thai basil plant in our kitchen now, so I want to put it in everything....tonight it's in a meatloaf with garlic, ginger, onion, bell peppers, fish sauce, soy sauce, Sriracha, and oyster sauce. On the side we've got broccoli slaw and mashed potatoes 🍜🍽️

Thinking about buying beer brewed in/around the cities of teams in MLB playoffs this October...or maybe just the teams the Phillies play...I'll have to do some shopping

This is cool news. I very much enjoyed "The End of Everything"

I don't have pictures, but the last two nights dinners were spaghetti and meatballs, then jambalaya. If I can get lasagna done for tonight's dinner and pulled pork for tomorrow's tailgate, then I'll be successful in fully pre-planning a week of food!

Spaceballs 2 announced the start of production with a table read photo that calls back to The Force Awakens. The parody has started early.

Tonight we tried a new dough recipe, with a new tomato source (my garden), in a new oven...and it went pretty good. The broiler situation on the oven is a bit odd but the pizza got cooked. Ended up with two pizzas and a calzone(stromboli?) that may have been a messed up pizza 🍽️🍜

Last night was burger night! Did bacon cheeseburgers with caramelized onions on homemade buns 🍜🍽️

Continuing the weekend cooking extravaganza...we did breakfast for dinner! Cooked up the breakfast sausage from yesterday as both patties and gravy. Did some sourdough discard biscuits to go with the gravy. Then bacon, eggs, and sourdough rye toast to round out the meal. 🍜🍽️

Yesterday was a frustrating fail at making baguettes (again). So today I made sourdough buns and ground chuck to make burgers for the buns. Since I had the grinder out, I ground pork for a pound of breakfast sausage and two of Italian. And there's a loaf of rye proofing in the fridge...gnight!

But with those orange umbrellas...did anyone else's brain jump to "they put a Spirit Halloween in there?!?"

We have a griddle in the middle of our new stove, so I used it to make tortillas tonight.

I've been busy with moving, but I do want to share that I successfully grew tomatoes this year! The plants may have toppled over due to lack of support...but I got some good sandwich tomatoes 🍽️🍜

Cookies and beer are a good pair. Imperial Stout and chocolate chip is my favorite

Might need to try this...

My wife to our diapered toddler: did you poop? Toddler: no W: did you toot? T: yes...also I pooped

In an effort to drink down my bar stock, I'm mixing aperol with leftover party beer (that I wouldn't normally drink). It's a nice little drink (pretty much a spaghett)

Grilled peaches to make a salsa for pulled pork sandwiches. I think I'll use these leftovers with the leftover tortillas for a pretty solid lunch tomorrow 🍜🍽️

Woke up my sourdough starter (named Henry) from it's refrigerated slumber and used the discard from the first feed to make tortillas 🍽️🍜

I can hear this gif

On vacation and using a gigantic bottle opener

It's been a bit since I've shared anything here, so how about we work on some #NanasRecipes! I found a clipping and an index card written by my Nana for apple dumplings. They are slightly different, but I'll use the newspaper (and some googling) to fill in the gaps in her recipe

Saturday 19 July… Four climbs, four beers of the same (or similar) ABV, open the beer at the start of the climb, and have it finished by the end. Repeat. And enjoy!

Is #DrinkTheGradient a thing here? If not, we’re doing it, and let me know if you want more details #TDF2025

Tonight's dinner was some leftover beef with broccoli and asparagus plussed up with a couple of poached eggs and some Sriracha 🍽️🍜