June, 2023 ~ As it warms up the grills appear!

We have a concert to attend tonite so we had an early dinner.  Pork chops with mushrooms and a mustard sauce over mashed potatoes. I was really happy with now this came out.

During the day I baked a loaf of sourdough bread swirled with cinnamon sugar and craisins. A friend stopped over right when I took it out of the oven. So instead of giving it to the person I made it for, I gave it to her. Now I need to make another to give away. Tomorrow….

Thanks! It's going to be a fairly quiet day. Son Michael and DIL Amy are on a Mediterranian adventure for their 20th. wedding anniversary, so it will be son and DIL Danny and Lisa and I going out for dinner somewhere. The chance of me eating lots of cake, however, is somewhere between slim and none! Cake of any kind is really not for me, just not into sweets. But, we'll see.

I was going to take a drive to Niagara Falls, check out some of the wonderful gardens, but it has started to rain. That's ok too, we need the rain. Don't know where they plan to take me, but I hope they have a great steak on the menu! LOL

I smoked some ribs today.

[size=18]Wow! Those wings are Jimmy Eating kind of looking.
I have wings, and I will suggest it to Tina tomorrow. Ooops! Nope. She has to go to uncles tomorrow. Unless I do them. She was at uncles today also. He hit 101 years old today. The kids went down to sing HBD. He was cranky because the cake was served in the living room, and he was worried about crumbs on the floor and chairs. BTW... he has severe OCD.
Years ago, when the kids were little, he would yell at the kids because they would step on the lawn and bend the grass blades. LOL. He reminds Tina to turn the coffee cups in the cabinet, with the handle sticking out towards the front, and all spaced the same.

Enough of that silly crap!...... I had noodles and chicken broth for supper. Breakfast was pork roll egg and cheese on a bagel. I just cooked breakfast for tomorrow. Frittata, with ham, cheese, mushrooms, and broccoli. I've got my Dave's 17 grains bread, and tabasco hot sauce; all ready to go!

bethk wrote:Did you smoke the beans, too?  They look delicious!

Ever since I started really paying attention to YOUR rib pics I find myself trying to find the meatiest racks I can.

This bean recipe came from Ollie Gates (Gates & Sons BBQ). It is one of the oldest and highest ranked BBQ restaurants in Kansas City. It is cut down from restaurant size and altered for home use and says to add liquid smoke.  I usually use hickory smoked salt instead but the last two times I made it, I put it in an open container in the smoker for the smoke taste.  I think it tastes better that way.  I have read that Mr. Gates puts them on the rack under his brisket to catch the smokey drippings from them.  I add chopped brisket to mine when I cook brisket. Last time I added some cooked, crumbled bacon.

Fun, unexpected dinner with friends tonight. We have a problem in the building right now. Somebody seems to not like one of the members of our 5 person board, and has started an action to get her removed. Vote for the removal is tomorrow, so I stopped in to see one of my neighbours to talk. We had a glass of wine, another neighbour stopped in. So, we're all of the same mind of keeping this person on the board and were discussing what's going on. Time went by, and Anne (hostess) said she would put some chicken wings in the oven, and I said that I had a pot of marinara sauce with a lot of vegetables on my stove, all ready cooked. Then she said she had some frozen meatballs that could go in the sauce. She cooked some pasta, and voila! Dinner was done. I love being part of a community like this. I hope tomorrow works out well! No pictures!

I had a friend who “dropped a hint” that he adored coconut cream pie and I found out yesterday was his birthday so I made him a pie. unfortunately I has to bring it down to Phoenix. I didn’t eat any but people went nuts over it. At least it didn’t melt on the way down.

From Lore:


"Tonight. Piece of sirloin tip roast done in the airfry feature of my oven. And a salad using the lettuce, basil, a bit of mint from the hydroponic “garden” that I have in my kitchen. Steak was done perfectly med rare!"

[size=18]It was a damp and breezy rainy day today, so upon wakening, I saw that Tina had a small pot of chicken soup cooking. We enjoyed that with no objections at all.
We had some rye bread to soak up the juices.

I just made fried peppers; eggs , with potato slices, onions and cheese for breakfast tomorrow.

No cooking again last night for me. We have a large room at the top of my building called the Observation area. It's not used much, because the elevator doesn't go up there. Yesterday, after my shift at thrift, I went up there just to take a picture of the sunset from there, and heard voices as I walked in. Lo and behold, there was a party going on. I had seen a notice on the bulleting board in our lobby a couple of weeks ago about having "Tapas or Happy Hour" up there on a Friday afternoon, but thought that it was only a one time thing.

Well, it's hopefully going to keep going, I saw people I knew, met a couple of new ones, there was sooooo much food and lots of wine. Fun time. My leftover dinner is still in the fridge! LOL