Shelby

Happy Anniversary!!!!!!!!

I'm not above sneaking them on your porch.

The onslaught has begun

Chicken gizzards, gravy, zucchini, slaw and tots

Ribs taters and zucchini last night

More striped bass with cucumbers from the garden

It isn’t dry . We have sandy soil— good for farming and gardens. yes we have a well Carol is exactly right. Ronnie rigs up sprinklers and places them around the garden.

Thank you! I planted 3 rows of lettuce and nary a sprout. It must have been too hot already I guess. And this year the collards didn’t come up either. They usually replant themselves but they just have run out of oomph. Meh, like the wise dcarch said, weeds don’t hurt a thing. Don’t be ashamed of all of your hard work! i hope you are in on the mend!!!

Took garden pictures today. Beans and and cucumbers and two zucchini plants (we thought they were cukes lol ) potato patch. They look so good on top...I hope they are making taters underneath peppers okra tomatoes corn and in the background zucchini and watermelon onions Eggplant And then this is the upper garden— Ronnie planted a bunch of old seeds that we weren’t sure would grow More beans, zucchini, pumpkins, cantaloupe

Pickage today. there were 5 cucumbers until Chum helped herself to one

Chicken quarters in the cso with the first zucchini of the year

For @HungryChris picked the first zucchini yesterday—yours will be soon

I really like that bacon. We used the seasoning bacon— it’s cut into smaller pieces but it still tastes amazing. Very smokey.

We don’t do this often but after working in the garden all morning we wanted waffles, eggs and Father’s bacon Started with mimosas

Oh Kerry how I love those peony pictures!

I’m doing this for the first time from my iPhone. I can read and drool over all of your meals but until now I didn’t think I could post pictures using my phone. Still no internet — I’m not sure I can make it until Tuesday lol. Ronnie went to Texoma for a couple of days to fish so the first night he was gone I just had a piece of cheese and wine for dinner. No dishes to clean up! the second night I was hungry but still didn’t want to go to much trouble so I thawed out a couple of sausage rolls and ate them with leftover salad and and egg the night ronnie got back we had venison tacos with the first banana peppers from the garden last night I cleaned up the striped bass from the fishing trip and then fried some of it salad with the first cucumber from the garden

I want everyone one of those dishes. And a double order of fried clams.

Yeah it called for toasted almond slivers but I didn't have anything but pecans.

Brussels sprout salad, fried shrimp and frog legs

Yeah then I'll throw it on the smoker for a few hours and that should get my melty fat going.

The fat wasn't melty enough--the meat itself was nice and tender. Good idea on keeping more of the jus in.

Pizza and salad on Sunday night Yesterday was my first attempt at brisket along with fake crab salad, potato salad and beans

Next time this is going to go a little more smoothly I think, but for my first try, I am pretty happy with how this brisket turned out. I sous vide it for about 27 hours at 155. Mr. Brisket getting ready to have his ice bath. After cooling There was a lot of "jus" --it tastes really good. I saved it for gravy making. By no means was this brisket dry, though. We had the best intentions of putting this on the new grill and finishing it on there, but it was so hot that it was just easier to throw it in the electric smoker for 3 hours. It turned out very smokey but I wasn't happy with the doneness so after the 3 hours I put it in the CSO on 275F for about an hour. 'Twas perfect after that. Like I said, next time I will do it on the grill and that way I know it will be done and I won't have to use the CSO.

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