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[LordGreenWood]

one more service :smoking:

 

[LordGreenWood]

come with a good bottle

 

[Dr.Bubbles]

Omg bro , that was so good

A BBQ in winter ... something wronk when its 25°C at sun doing a bbq ...
Lets go for next one HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM BBQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ !!!!

Isn't 25°C like 77°F? That's dope growing and shorts weather 'round here. We fire up the charcoal when it's 25°F sometimes. Just cause it's winter don't mean ya can't eat off the grill...the smoker doesn't work too well though, that's a battle.

THEY'RE called KAAAAHBS Joe's dad's stuff

 

[frgrower]

Isn't 25°C like 77°F? That's dope growing and shorts weather 'round here. We fire up the charcoal when it's 25°F sometimes. Just cause it's winter don't mean ya can't eat off the grill...the smoker doesn't work too well though, that's a battle.

THEY'RE called KAAAAHBS Joe's dad's stuff

Hey Dudy, i tryied to translate in google, 25°C is like 77°F like you said
but it's in winter right now, not spring or summer...

We enjoyed our first bbq with LordGreenWood

 

[MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea]

It ended by me scarfing down a bowl and not taking a picture... oops lol I will probably reheat some for lunch in a couple hours since it snowed here again though, good thing I ran out of room to freeze it all!

@MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea

ur recipe is looking good

how its end?

 

[LordGreenWood]

well
where is mY bottle?

 

[Mossy]

We have started eating vegetables with breakfast. I mean a lot of vegetables.

That is why we have soup for breakfast @Mañ'O'Green .....last chicken soup I made I had 13 different veggies herbs and spices in..much better than your 5 a day..

espresso of course

Get @Mañ'O'Green to tell you about his coffee addiction...

A humble offering from the Ribbz house, on this fine sunny sabbath, a little pork cheek, ginger, 5 spice, honey, soy sauce, chilli and a few other goodies. Jasmine rice, and fried cabbage, bean shoots, broccoli, baby sweetcorn. Pork cheek braised for 2 hours after some colouring in the frying pan
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Pork cheek @Ribbzzy ...sweetest meat............

It's a good habit to know where the deals are, especially for staple meats...always go by the pound/quality. Then you'll know when you see a ridiculous deal. I scored 14 pounds of boneless skinless breasts last year for $1.29 a pound. Thats the cheapest I've ever seen em. Anything under $1.99 is fair though. Buy 5# packs to get the deal, it cuts the price in half. It really pays to be an educated shopper.

Pays to know your prices @Dr.Bubbles ......or you never know if an offer is genuine or not

Another shopping wanderer here. Find myself lately going to the grocery store almost daily. Not really big on planning meals days in advance, because almost always when I do by the time that day gets here I'm not in the mood for whatever it was anymore. So I tend to plan only today and maybe one days out worth of meals. Frequently find myself wandering up and down the isles just mostly looking for ideas of stuff to make. Hardest part of cooking for me is figuring out what do make every day, and wandering the store helps.

We are shopping dodgers.....more likely to go shopping when the dogs run out of food than us...

When you have your own chickens..you always have a meal...

This mornings breakfast. If I was wealthy I would have this ten times a month.

YUM................

Scallops for brekkie...Yes please ..
Supper..
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I'm looking @Duggy thinking..where the scallops.....then I saw Man0...

 

[Mossy]

gaaaahhhhh, why do I keep coming back here, it's only torment!

Me too @Waira ..me too...I Always seem to end up here when I have the munchies.........

hmmmm

Wait a minute..maybe I Always have the munchies..

Bone broth to start...

Great start @MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea

Then make art and food...

Love it..

Heritage carrots..?

Tonight's fare....parmesan crusted baked tilapia, garlic parmesan green beans, and some box kit couscous.

Nice @Ozone69

Looks good Ozone! Cooking is about as much fun as growing weed :smoking:

Amen..

Now I'm going to have to find something to eat. Guess it's some leftover beef stew unless I can find something else.

Beef stew gets better the longer it stands @bushmasterar15

 

[MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea]

They are some heirloom varieties I picked up at the local market. The purple ones are so spicy, delicious. Pretty sure the grower companion planted them with serranos cause that's the initial taste I pick up when biting into one. We are part of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) as well, but the winter share just finished and it's back to shopping for a month or so. I downsized yards in the fall, but hopefully can get back to doing some veggie production at home, even if there is not much room for canna plants. Just dug out my veggie seeds, they were kept dry, so hopefully still viable. Might even get one of those little greenhouses here shortly and start a ton of veggies to just give away to whomever wants them passing by. Good way to go through the old seeds. Make a few friends in the process and I will be sprouting them auto flowers for their patios too in no time! Then maybe they will bring me back some weed brownies to say thanks lol

And I believe you are the creator of Jem's, correct? Thank you for that, I have four germing in the closet as I type and am hoping for at least one male to dabble with out of the crew. I intend to make edibles for my wife with those to help her keep even keel in times of anxiety and stress. Got the regular comfort food covered, now just need a good caramel recipe to keep her grinning.

Me too @Waira ..me too...I Always seem to end up here when I have the munchies.........

hmmmm

Wait a minute..maybe I Always have the munchies..



Great start @MordecaiAlliVanAllenOshea



Love it..

Heritage carrots..?




Nice @Ozone69



Amen..



Beef stew gets better the longer it stands @bushmasterar15

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Hummmmmm.......... I cannot believe I have not talked about coffee in this thread. Ok take a seat this is a long winded story. I used to suffer from tachycardia - an electrical problem in the heart circuitry. The circuit had extra connections that allowed a pulse to travel in a circle instead of the normal horse shoe shape. So the electrical pulse that causes the heart to beat would just travel round and round causing a heart rate of 200 plus beats a minute. The heart is not efficient beating like that and it can cause a whole host of problems including stroke and detached retinas even death. A lot of time I could stop it by just bearing down like trying to shit a big one. Other times I could lie on the ground and put my arms and legs up in the air and the increase in blood pressure on my core would stop it. People really stare at you when you pull off the road and lay down on the ground and put your arms and legs up in the air . The slightest bit of caffeine could trigger these episodes so for many years I did not drink coffee, tea, sodas or anything with caffeine. Talk about Pavlov's dogs - I was properly trained. The medical condition got to the point where I had a catheter ablation done. They go into your heart with probes One from the neck and one from the groin while you are totally awake. You need to tell the doctor when he stimulates the spot that triggers the event. Then they burn a small spot in that electrical circuit opening a spot making it a horse shoe shape instead of the circle. The procedure was a complete success and the Doctor told me I could drink coffee again. Well that was all fine and dandy but that conditional training was strong. Several years passed without a tachycardia and I stumbled across a web page talking about roasting coffee in a popcorn popper. It intrigued me so I went to the thrift store and picked one up. I ordered some green coffee beans form Sweet Maria's because they were close to me in Oakland CA. I roasted some beans. Ground them up in a spice mill and made a cup of coffee with it. I could not believe how good it tasted. Far better than any store bought pre-roasted pre-ground coffee ever tasted. This sent me down the path to coffee snob. I built several iterations on the popcorn roaster. Then I built a computer controlled fluidized bed roaster. By far the best roaster I have owned but an electrical surge fried it. I have a Behmor drum roaster now but it is not as good as the one I built. I have pictures somewhere?

Any how as my pallet improved so did my equipment. The heart of gourmet coffee is the grinder. It is particularly important (pun intended) that the grains be precisely equal in size for a perfect brew. I use a Baratza Vario $500. Then I went through a couple of espresso machines and settled on the Rancilio Miss Silvia $750. It is not the best machine out there but it fits in the space I have available on the counter and does a good job on both the extraction and frothing milk for my wife's Lattes and Cappuccino. I drink 1 Long Black a day. A long Black is a double espresso (15 grams of ground coffee) with a 2 oz extraction pulled into a cup that has 2 oz of hot water in it, 4 oz. total. This is not to be confused with a double Americano. That is a 2 ounce pull into an empty cup and then 2 oz of hot water is poured into it. I know you are saying same thing right - wrong. An Americano tastes like a cup of strong coffee and a Long Black tastes like espresso huge difference. If you do not believe me try them side by side some day.

Sweet Maria's turned out to be the best source for green beans. The buyer travels the world continuously seeking small farms and co-ops to buy the best beans. They pay the farmers a better price than they would get elsewhere and I like that idea of supporting the farmers! I buy blends and Single Origin to blend my own. I really like African beans blended with Brazil. The possible combinations are endless. Sometime single origin is very very good. I like my beans roasted to just past Full City (just into second crack) for espresso. Occasionally I roast for french press coffee and I roast to city + for most of those. After much experimentation I have determined that coffee 8 to 10 days off the roast stored in bags that allow off gassing of the co2 is prime. It can be a little too bright prior to that and then stales quickly afterwords.

I am quite sure I qualify as a coffee snob.