It was just another one of those days… got around and had some shopping to do… damn dogs… they eat up all that food so I have to go get more every other month… Well I made my trip to town early today and it took me most of the morning to get it done. Had a bit of breakfast on the way, then off to the getting place for dog food. Picked up the food and a new toy for the dogs that squawks , they would like that… also got some treats there. On my way out I saw the big sign at the new Academy store… says it will open June 19th… oh boy we are going to be up-town… left there and started home but figured I better fill up with gas… so cheapest gas was at Food Pyramid express? they have been cheapest for a few weeks now. strange to be cheaper than Walmart’s Murphy but I go with cheap…
Then as I was about to head home… and I was so close, why not hit the Farmers Market and get some more fresh Asparagus? so I did… Once I was done here I had to stop at Edward Jones to deposit a check on the farm stuff and by then it was about 10 am and I got on home with out any more stops… once I got home I found some more visitors in my yard… if not the duck it has to be the Geese… and they are supposed to be wild but they didn’t seem too wild to ,me…
In fact they hung around most of the morning and were still there when I got back after lunch…
Well, I got in and started the motor home for the monthly engine run, and generator run… since it is not on the road I try to run it at least once a month for about 45 minutes… check all the oil levels and such and check the leaking air conditioner Freon… so far it is holding up a bit better by running it a lot more… anyway, I probably should have just taken it out for a spin around the block but wasn’t into unhooking and then having to back it in the shop…
I got all that done and it was time for lunch so back to town and picked up Sherrie and off to lunch… called an old friend and he said he would call me back cause he was balancing up on a ladder? Humm, I forgot to tell him it was dangerous to balance on a ladder, paint and talk on the phone at his age… oh well…
I had to make a stop for meds at the pharmacy, boy we are keeping them well healed lately… although the for most of the stuff the insurance covers pretty good… then on home… I needed to get by Walmart for some spray paint but was late as it was as I had a guy coming to pick up some more of my “for sale” stuff… With that done and a few more pieces of the “new airplane” plan cut out and a little radio during the afternoon I waste the rest of the day… although about 3pm I went in and stirred up the left over mashed potatoes for dinner… I was going to try some experiments with them… took them, mixed in a few spices, little milk to get them thinned up a bit, chopped up some onion and mixed that in with some garlic powder and they were ready for the muffin tin.. yep, muffin tin… it would get baked on the wood grill later…
When it got close to dinner I treated the chopped sirloin patties with some Applewood spice… put a big slice of onion and some Cajun peppers and green peppers and a few stalks of the asparagus on a tinfoil tray with some butter spray to keep it from sticking… then cut up two pieces of bacon into 3 inch pieces and put them on the meat plate… I put it all on the grill and moved the bacon to the grill till it got nearly full done and then put it on the asparagus stalks… and the onion and the peppers so the bacon drip would flavor them… on the potatoes in the muffin pan… I sprinkled on some grated parmesan cheese and put it in the grill too… set the grill to 375 and had it on for about 30 minutes… moved the sirloin to the veggie foil when it was bout done so it wouldn’t dry out so bad while the potatoes continued to cook down and get a little crusty on the edges…
It wasn’t too bad for an experiment…
I may have put a little too much seasoning in the potatoes but it was still pretty good and the peppers and onion that got the bacon drip… boy they were good…
What the potatoes cakes looked like… and they popped out of the tin perfectly… they were kind of like loaded twice baked but with a bit more spice to them…
Of course if you put bacon on it , everything tastes great, right?
So tomorrow? not sure… I need to work on that can airplane a bit harder… I am not moving very fast on it… but need the black spray paint for the bottle caps to build out the jet engines on the sides? so maybe tomorrow I will get a can of paint for that part… maybe some pictures of it when I get it half way together…
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