March 19, 2023
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Fishing Poles Racked Spatchcock Chicken Dinner

Was able to get most of my fishing rods off the garage floor. The large surf rods I ended up breaking them down in half. I also got my most used rods closer to the ground. I still have some work to do to get my stragglers plus my telescopic rods I’ll just hang off hooks.

Now getting ready for a late Sunday evening dinner with a spatchcock chicken. I did a brine with orange zest, rosemary, apple juice, salt and pepper. Then after washing the brine off today seasoned with butter, garlic, paprika, salt and pepper under the skin and on the skin.

January 8, 2023
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Site Down Temporarily Due to Atmospheric River Storm

During the “Atmospheric River” storms here out west in California I lost house power where I run my systems. I have not established a geographical fall over for these sites when my home systems go down as it hasn’t been a priority. I do have some pages setup but I haven’t visited that in a while.

After the power was restored one of my power supplies in my C7000 chassis didn’t come up. Due to that power supply not coming up I couldn’t bring up all my server blades online. I chose to keep my music server off and let my 2 blades I use for virtual systems to stay up though I didn’t bring the virtual servers online. My NAS storage came up just fine once again as well. I decided to take care of things like lining up estimates on damaged fencing instead and then watched some football.

Coming back into my computer room this evening I noticed the music streaming system booted up and the power supply was back online. This is the second time this happened, the last time being the prior storm on New Years Eve that took power out. I’ll pick up a couple of spare c7000 110v (398026-001) power supplies that I have already run down from a local source.

Outside of that back up and running as usual.

December 8, 2022
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Rack of Lamb Smoked

I wanted to smoke this rack of lamb Sunday or the beginning of the week but couldn’t get to it .

Turned out very good and I will be doing this again. I rubbed down with olive oil, then rubbed on salt, pepper, a little garlic and sprinkle of cumin.

For sides eggplants, poblano peppers, tomatoes sprinkles of rosemary from the garden, smoked along with the rack of lamb.

I used my Meater block meat probe thermometer along with my Traeger’s thermometer to get used to it.

December 6, 2022
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Cooking Journey

A cooking journey for the past month. Beef shanks mid-November, Thanksgiving juicy tender brisket and smoked Turkey. Monday red pepper/honey wings.
Then reached into the freezer for vacuum packed pulled pork (tasted like I just cooked it after boiling the bag and opening)from February 2 2022 and made soup today with late squash and herbs from the garden. Perfect for the cold weather. Was feeling picky about what I wanted to eat.

This is a repost from my Facebook page to test my updated WordPress mobile app and site.

Beef shanks with vegetables.
Hot wings.
Brisket
Turkey
Vacuum sealed pulled pork.
Quick soup made from pulled pork.
Beef shanks on Traeger

July 31, 2022
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Filet Mignon and Garden Vegetables

Quick mix of garden vegetables eggplant, tomatoes, basil, mad hatter peppers, onions with some filet mignon with two different seasonings for each steak. Also made a dip of clarified butter, sea salt, powdered mustard, garlic, Worcestershire sauce etc cooked on my Traeger Ironwood. Reverse seared filet mignon, first smoke @ 200 on Traeger and then seared on gas grill next to Traeger. Tomatoes were the surprise vegetable stars they were so sweet. Steak was like super tender and tasty with a smoked taste you cannot duplicate.

I had two different seasonings on each steak, one salt pepper and garlic and the other a store bought Santa Maria tri-tip mix seasoning.

July 11, 2022
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Garden Produce and Uses in Meals

Just a homage to my productive garden and just a few of the many uses.

An evening’s harvest.
Another Evenings harvest.
Needed some basil, rosemary and a bell pepper.
Pickings of cabbage, tomatoes and eggplant
Another vangate of the bounty I’m getting on a regular basis.
Swiss Chard, pear tomato and beefsteak tomato.
Garden purple gourmet beans, blackberry, and tomatoes.
Prime rib with swiss chard, tomato, rosemary and basil salad.
Homemade pizza with my garden vegetables on the Traeger.
Pizza is done.
Quick garden medley with pulled pork and noodles in my wok.
The finished product of pulled pork and garden veggies.
Tacos of prime rib and pulled pork with my veggies.
This is the start of my BBQ sauce with my garden tomatoes.
My BBQ sauce start with celery, jalapeno peppers, poblano peppers, garlic and onions base.
Babby back ribs that will host my homemade BBQ sauce
BBQ sauce cooked down and in a jar now. I missed photographing some steps.
Vegetable medley with eggplant, yellow pear tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, rosemary, basil, garlic,gourmet purple beans and pasta stuffed with spinach with my ribs covered in my homemade BBQ sauce.
The meal!