Theresasitia and I have a hankering for some of that there bacon and potaters soup. We got some good ideas and thought maybe, just maybe you could look over our ideas and give advice. so the cool part is we got a ham hock smoked bone thing from Hollenbeck Farms last time. We are gonna […]

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That there is a fat separator. Strangely it is not easy to find one of these here in our fine city. I had to go to Amazon for this little fella. They did have a 4 cup version, but I figured 2 cups would suffice. We make broth from every chicken, and occasionally make beef […]

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Was feeling under the weather this weekend (running a fever), but still made some raw fish to eat. Not too sure how smart that was, but it was pretty darn good. I asked for some info over on the forum and got lots.

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Look at the size of that thing. It did not even fit on my cutting board. In the package frozen it looked comically huge, but after opening I was stunned. We go through a lot of beef. We get really cheap steaks to make fake hot beef, stew, and stroganoff. I asked JR of Hollenbeck […]

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The island is coming along, but till then we have this tiny counter for all we do. It was really under lighted (lit?) and made cutting a bit scarier. We had a battery powered light, which really made no difference at all. Made our way to home depot and saw the florescent jobbies. I inquired […]

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Those are supposed to be baguettes, well they kinda are. I slept so much this weekend. I woke up Sunday so early I had no clue what to do with myself. Not wanting to spend money and already took the dog for a ride and hit the rollers I needed to find something to cook. […]

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So cute with Fuggles hugging her snake. Maggie can’t get it that way.

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We have tried au gratin taters a few times before, but this recipe worked well this time. Tried some pork cutlets from Hollenbeck. Different than I thought, but good. Will bread these next time with some gravy.

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