Faye and me recently spent a wonderful two plus weeks in England and Wales, and over half of our nights were in bed and breakfasts.
As you see, the full English breakfast, toast and coffee (or tea) is a hearty one indeed. It sustained us right past lunch all the way to dinner!
Todays’ late season bounty, before the late afternoon rain arrived.
Marinated vegetables and bacon/sun dried tomato sausage. All of the vegetables were grown in Ontario, some within 30km of home. The sausage was made in the grocery store right here in town.
As my blog title states I used to live in Texas. Like most, if not all, folks who grew up in, or lived for a substantial part of their life in any part of the world, there were traditions.
One of those traditions was eating ham and black-eyed peas on New Year Day, because it was a kind of tradition in the southern US that this meal was thought to bring good luck in the new year.
Carrying on a tradition can provide familiarity and a sense of ease in unsettled, unsettling, times. So we had ham and black-eyed peas for dinner yesterday. Behold.
And it was good. Although the presentation was different from my childhood plate, the gist – ham and black-eyed peas – was there.
We will see what 2022 brings. I hope it brings you good fortune.
Faye and I paid a visit to Traylor Parker’s Real Texas BBQ. I had the Smoked Brisket Sandwich with Potato Salad and McCaunaghey’s (vinegar) Cole Slaw. Faye had the Smoked Turkey with Cornbread Stuffing Sandwich with Baked Beans and Creamy Cole Slaw and a side of Cranberry Compote.
Everything tasted much better than it may look. We will be back.
I smoked a chicken recently. Spatchcocked it, applied Simon & Garfunkel rub, into the smoker, and finished on the grill to crisp the skin up.
It was marvellous, as was the smoked potato salad and grilled asparagus.
We got take-out from a Jamaican place. On the left (from left), jerk chicken, rice and beans, coleslaw, pork rolls with a spicy dipping sauce. On the right (from left), the rise and beans, coleslaw, dipping sauce with the pork rolls, and curry goat. Delicious.
Oh and at bottom: Lucy expressing a desire to expand her culinary horizons.
Twenty minutes’ time yielded this bounty from the Chocolate Cherry Tomato patch.
A beef brisket, shortly after I put it in the smoker.
Wishing all of my US readers a happy and safe 4th of July.
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Based on what I see I believe our redcurrant bush will be very prolific this year.
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