Author: doug

First snowfall of the season

Ferrous likes to be on the back of the couch in the loft because the heat comes up from behind and makes it a very cozy spot. Two pictures today, each more adorable than the other. Facebook friends, click through for the second.

Our current stick of butter has a little void in it. When I cut a pat for my toast this morning, the hole was in the shape of a kitty!

I walk by these every day on my way into/out of work. Should I be concerned?

Lis’s knife at dinner tonight was quite strongly magnetized.

Among our other treats today, we roasted and ate this Cthulhu Fruit, which normal people call a celery root.

Trying out my new trussing needle. This is MUCH easier than tying!

I brought up three quarts of turkey stock today, made the day after Thanksgiving last year; there’s another 3 pints still in the freezer.

In the mid 19th century, as mechanical milking of dairy cows became a thing, veal was much cheaper and more widely available than chicken. Thus was born the “veal bird” or “city chicken”, a recipe designed to simulate poultry. One of my favorite dishes as a boy, I make this recipe semi-frequently, though I usually make “pork birds”. Today, for the first time, I brought it full circle and used chicken breast, thus making the amusingly-named “chicken birds”.

Sometimes they do get along. Especially if the weather is getting chilly.