The year started off nicely. No, it wasn’t the fact that I finally washed the casserole dishes from the dinner Penny cooked at C&C’s last week. And it wasn’t the trip to the mall to take advantage of a 50% off sale. It started nicely because Penny and I had lunch at our favorite restaurant.
Penny has wanted to go to Harbordocks all week. I thought that she just wanted to have lunch out and that’s what our Slick Mick’s lunch was about on Monday. But as we were walking into the mall today she again broached the subject. She really wanted to go to Harbordocks. So we did.
It was cold and mostly cloudy but the view from the restaurant was still interesting. There were several cold cormorants; each perched on its own pier piling, a half dozen sparrows feeding in a hanging basket and I even spotted a dolphin swimming in Destin harbor. The food, as always was perfect. Yes, I had cheese grits.
Once we were back home I prepared the 10 lb pork loin and 2 big chickens for smoking. This was the first use of the new smoker I got on Black Friday. The smoker is extremely easy to use. I’m never going to want to go back to the old style smoker. Here’s what it looked like loaded.
The smoker is insulated. It has electronic controls and turns off automatically when the set time is reached. It did a great job smoking the meat and right now our house is full of the tantalizing aroma of smoked meat.
Penny cooked up our mandatory ration of New Years Day black-eyed peas and ham hocks. We also got a small serving of black-eyed peas with our meal at Harbordocks. The waiter explained it was for good luck. I thought that was nice for them to do. Somebody has to teach their cook how to prepare the peas, though. They weren’t up to the standard of food you get at the restaurant.
One year when we made the black-eyed peas a cat showed up at our back door. It loved the peas and stayed at our place after that. It was an orange cat that sounded like a rusty door when it meowed so we named him doorknob—only kidding—we named him Rusty. I gave some peas to Brie; she just looked at them and walked away. I gave some to the outside cats. They sniffed them and then went on to the chunks of ham hock and ate them. Rusty was a strange cat indeed.
Now I have to get that meat put away.
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!
Penny has wanted to go to Harbordocks all week. I thought that she just wanted to have lunch out and that’s what our Slick Mick’s lunch was about on Monday. But as we were walking into the mall today she again broached the subject. She really wanted to go to Harbordocks. So we did.
It was cold and mostly cloudy but the view from the restaurant was still interesting. There were several cold cormorants; each perched on its own pier piling, a half dozen sparrows feeding in a hanging basket and I even spotted a dolphin swimming in Destin harbor. The food, as always was perfect. Yes, I had cheese grits.
Once we were back home I prepared the 10 lb pork loin and 2 big chickens for smoking. This was the first use of the new smoker I got on Black Friday. The smoker is extremely easy to use. I’m never going to want to go back to the old style smoker. Here’s what it looked like loaded.
The smoker is insulated. It has electronic controls and turns off automatically when the set time is reached. It did a great job smoking the meat and right now our house is full of the tantalizing aroma of smoked meat.
Penny cooked up our mandatory ration of New Years Day black-eyed peas and ham hocks. We also got a small serving of black-eyed peas with our meal at Harbordocks. The waiter explained it was for good luck. I thought that was nice for them to do. Somebody has to teach their cook how to prepare the peas, though. They weren’t up to the standard of food you get at the restaurant.
One year when we made the black-eyed peas a cat showed up at our back door. It loved the peas and stayed at our place after that. It was an orange cat that sounded like a rusty door when it meowed so we named him doorknob—only kidding—we named him Rusty. I gave some peas to Brie; she just looked at them and walked away. I gave some to the outside cats. They sniffed them and then went on to the chunks of ham hock and ate them. Rusty was a strange cat indeed.
Now I have to get that meat put away.
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!
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