Ooo-kayyyy

[ksmith]

My Twitter feed has vanished, at least in my view of Recent Entries. I know some of you don't care, but others do comment on the links and such every so often. Don't feel like picking through it today, though, so. Heck with it.

Dinner was a hot mess. Leftover roast chicken and chopped deli turkey breast fried up with chopped shallots and green pepper. Added chicken broth and yellow rice and broccoli *and* two cans of Rotel tomatoes with green chiles. Tasted spicy but flat until I shoveled in dried herbs--basil, Penzey's Bonnes Herbes mix, and ground coriander seed. Not the best thing ever, but not too bad.

I have some overripe bananas to deal with, so I will be making a loaf of b-bread for the freezer. Tomorrow, I pick up my beef/chicken order courtesy of the Flying S Ranch. Looking forward to filling my freezer with some grass-fed beef. Looking forward to the weekend, during which a thick steak will play a role.

Hawks about to start playing. Oy.

The leaves are almost all down, and there's been frost on the roofs the last few mornings. The squirrels have hollowed out one of the front-step pumpkins, and are taking aim at the other one.

Enjoying the hell out of the updated SHERLOCK. So sorry that there's only one more episode. So much verve and spark amid a sea of *shrug*.

Oh well. Time to bake and pray for the Hawks.

Comments

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

We got a chest freezer for our first grass-fed local beef purchase last month.

<3 <3 <3

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I bought my chest freezer--7 cu ft--a year and a half ago. I love being able to take advantage of sales--fish, meat, even good bread and rolls. Cook batches of sauce and soup. I just wrap like crazy and make sure I date everything.

I had been buying grass-fed beef from Lasater for the last few years. It's good, but it's expensive, and the shipping charges would practically double the cost of the order. I hunted for a ranch in Illinois for a while. Some sold grain-fed, while others sold grass-*finished*. If they sold 100% grass-fed, they didn't sell anything smaller than a quarter, which is way too much for me. Flying S sells eighths. And they sell chickens. The freezer will be good and packed.

[mindyklasky.livejournal.com]

There was an LJ update that said something about auto-tweeting; I didn't pay attention, because I don't tweet. I *think* it said that the auto-tool would no longer post a certain category of tweets - retweets, maybe?

I don't know if that's your situation, but I offer it up as a possibility...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I'm about half/half tweet/retweet. I probably received the update and ignored it. I'm not too concerned. Just wondered what had happened to half my posts.

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to source local chicken right now...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I just finished loading the stuff in the freezer. The chickens are huge--6 lbs or so each. They're labeled as fryers, but they look like roasters to me. Can I roast a fryer? I know there's a difference in the tenderness of the meat.

The beef selection is at least a third ground beef, which is fine. I love meat loaf. Chuck roasts, short ribs, sirloin steak and tip roast, round steak. One 6-7oz filet, which has Sunday dinner written all over it. Soup bones. I have enough bones that I may try to make beef stock. I know it's a pain, but I would rather have stock than soup, I think. I mean, I can always use the stock to make soup.