I got a rep bitching about not including the recipe... @jdoogie ... no recipe required. Take a bunch of black pepper corns, and a bunch of rosemary, and blend the fuck out of it in a spice grinder until you get a fine powder. It basically turns into green pepper. I also took a bunch of that and infused it in a half stick of butter to baste the prime rib while it was crusting up on the bbq (after a 6 hour sous vide).
The big win for the day was the au jus / gravy. Followed Chef John (from Food Wishes dot com) recipe and it was amazing: Roasting the fuck out of the bones and the veggies, then slow simmering them all day... the depth of flavour was amazing, with little to no fat.
Friend of mine was supposed to go to a convention in Long Beach today. The convention is on the waterfront, and they're not canceling and not issuing refunds. They turned off comments on their instagram because they were being flooded by comments from angry ticket holders.
We had some smoke yesterday around here. I pulled up a fire map, it's no wonder. We are overcast today and it's hard to tell if it's smoke or cloudy cover. We rarely have clouds in the summer but my app says clouds, not smoke, so who knows. I, for one, am excited as the prospect of .09" of rain that probably will miss us. Bring it, son.
@bewildered , as much as your map shows a ton of fires in your area, it's shocking at just how minor it looks on the big picture map. Shit's on fire, yo. So glad I'm over here in SW Ontario where we're raining and cooler weather, with the occasional hot day and high humidex. Today is a high of 36°C/97°F but it's going to rain for the week. Yay?
I was in Wyoming a few years ago, and visibility was so reduced that you could only see the mountain you were abutting; you couldn't see the next peak in the range. The nearest fire was two states away. Crazy how much smoke those things can put out.
I love me some lazy Sundays and YouTube. I follow a John Deere Master Tech channel called ZK MasterTech... and the last 2 videos were of him removing a huge transmission from a monster tractor... and it's incredibly interesting. Especially with a refreshing G&T or 2 to enjoy it with, while it's a stifling 36°C outside. It's insane how big and precise these things are.
Something that really disappointed me about my current job is that we don't do in-depth repairs on the machines like that; management doesn't want us tied up on one machine for too long. I was really hoping to get my hands on some tractor/ power equipment transmissions.
But don't you dare work on them yourselves! We have to crack our Kubota transmission open as it has a hydraulic leak. Ugh.
So, this should be interesting... I posted in the Pet Thread a couple days ago of some butcher bones that were delivered for pennies on the dollar for Zoe. Owner of the butchery(?), the Butcher, who dropped them off with his young daughter, gave me a price sheet for some other stuff they sell direct from farm to house, delivered themselves. I ended up ordering some beef, chicken, and pork stuff from him that shows up on Wednesday, at about half the price of Costco. I feel like this kind of thing might be a solid hack against the rising food prices in the stores... severely cut out the middle men on the processing and distribution. It's even cheaper if I want to drive 30 minutes out to his shop and pick shit up myself. Here's hoping this works out well!
In the US they call this Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA. I was a member of a beef CSA up in Paso Robles for a while. I just got a simple beef box once a year, but you could order other stuff, and I know some CSAs will let you order by the fraction of a cow. Wasn't objectively cheap, but was cheap for the quality you got. Hand-raised grass fed beef for about the price of grocery store meat.
My wife and I have been buying half a cow, half a pig, and some chickens for several years now. The cost difference has easily paid for the freezer in the basement.