August, 2017

I bought my old lawnmower (on the left) in 1997 — one of the first rechargeable electric mowers. So it didn’t quite make it to drinking age before being retired. I was hoping it would last out the season, but its list of issues became too long when a repair I’d made a few years ago failed. So earlier this week I bought a new mower — also rechargeable electric, of course — and used it for the first time today. The technology has advanced significantly in that time, I have to say. But I hope I get 20 years out of this one, too.

2 lb bone-in pasture-raised ribeye steak, sous vide @ 130.5°F for 10 hrs, finished over a “am I missing an eyebrow” charcoal fire. Yes, there are advantages to having belonged to the same meat CSA for the past 8 years. Oh, and there’s another one in the freezer.

There’s only one thing that tastes like bacon and that’s BACON!

I made this recipe

The verdict: perhaps not as good as I was hoping. Definitely good, but perhaps not 3.5-pounds-of-cherries worth of good.

A sauté pan full of cherries… what could this mean? Stay tuned.

Ferrous always seems somewhat alarmed to see me on the wrong side of the screens.