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[ronott1]

You guys are probably starting to get your beans ready, so I thought I'd share today's dinner as inspiration. The store had some beautiful steaks, so I whipped up some bacon beans and steamed potatoes fried in bacon fat to go along with it. Yum!

What is on the dinner table around the globe tonight?

Tonight is Broccoli chicken Stir fry with fried rice.

 

[ozexpat]

Tonight is Broccoli chicken Stir fry with fried rice.

I had Udon noodles with msg LOL

 

[vehve]

Quote: That sounds like a culinary experience rivaling Michelin star restaurants.

 

[ozexpat]

That sounds like a culinary experience rivaling Michelin star restaurants.

its one of the things about living on your own. cooking for one is tough. I normally cook two or three dishes on a sunday for the week. If i dont feel like a repeat well...

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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I like bald heads ...

Is that the inspiration for your avatar?

Nope, we didn't. I left a bucket out to see how much we get, 1 millimeter was about what was to be seen on it's bottom. That's 1/25 of an inch. I'm still hoping that we would get some more, but the rain clouds seem to have switched direction and are moving east now. But even this little amount helped a bit, and at least it cooled the air down a bit again.

The weather is working for boosting egg laying though. With Wilma's first egg, and the others making a deposit too, we got our first day with 5 eggs today. Karin made a nice arrangement with them in the nest and took some pictures.

Beautiful eggs.

It's been a little dry of late and very little in the forecast. Starting to water the garden. It was a pretty wet spring. At least we don't have the west's drought. Such a shame the old infrastructure wasted 20 million gallons of water in California.

Was the plant a volunteer or started from last years seeds? Most plants today will not reproduce pure plants since they are hybrids.

When I was a kid we planted a bottom field in cantaloupes, watermelon and cucumbers. We ended up with cucalopes and watercumbers.

You guys are probably starting to get your beans ready, so I thought I'd share today's dinner as inspiration. The store had some beautiful steaks, so I whipped up some bacon beans and steamed potatoes fried in bacon fat to go along with it. Yum!

What is on the dinner table around the globe tonight?

I harvested some wax beans, yellow squash, tomatoes and red cabbage. We'll figure something out.

.... I normally cook two or three dishes on a sunday for the week. If i dont feel like a repeat well...

We do the same. Sunday is a big cooking day and it makes many meals through the week. This time of year there's a lot of grilled kabob veggies, in shuck corn, ribs, pork steaks, brats, steak, wings, tenderloin, chicken wings.

I only have 8 eggies next to my ovation name. At least they're the color of my birds' eggs.

 

[vehve]

Oz, you should bite the bullet every once in a while and make a huge batch of something you can freeze. Mac&beef, cabbage&beef casserole, lasagne, ragu, tuna pasta casserole, and meatballs are good examples of stuff that's easy to make in large batches that can then be eaten at a later date from the freezer. Or the Finnish läskisoosi (a good translation would be blubbergravy, made with pork belly strips, onion and a bit of rye flour to thicken it, eaten usually with mashed potatoes).

 

[chickisoup]

@ChickenCanoe thank you for taking the time to post the entire report. Really was some interesting reading.

 

[vehve]

@ChickenCanoe thank you for taking the time to post the entire report. Really was some interesting reading.

I agree, and they've been pretty thorough.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

This euthanasia and exam was done at the Mizzou vet school in Columbia, MO. They spent a couple days on it. I feel that the price was reasonable. Considering my situation, it was essential that I did it.

 

[vehve]

This euthanasia and exam was done at the Mizzou vet school in Columbia, MO. They spent a couple days on it. I feel that the price was reasonable. Considering my situation, it was essential that I did it.

I think the price is very reasonable. Here you would pay a lot more for just the euthanasia. Getting the autopsy for that price too is pretty amazing. It's possible that the food health authority would pick up the bill for something like that here though.

But the results are probably a relief.