Here I sit in my new office and look out on the morning fog... there are birds chasing each other and the sun is beginning to burn through so everything has a golden glow. The grass sparkles with dew. My chickens are out puttering for their early morning foray into the meadow to search for bugs and other interesting edibles. I'm eating a nice breakfast of fried eggs (fresh from the hens butt) and Cheerios. My tea is steeping nicely on the clean counter in the kitchen. Lovely!
Hubby returned home last evening to a nice supper of Jambalaya.... which I had thrown in the slow cooker yesterday morning. It was delicious. He then went to work and put up some more of the paneling in Daughter #1's bedroom. He worked until 9 p.m. and then we took a run up to some friends house who live in the back of beyond. (They have no electricity and no running water. They live like pioneers.) We had to go to pick up a canoe for the canoe instructors course that Hubby is attending. The course instructor is short one canoe. Ours won't work because it has a keel. Anyway we had a lovely visit with our friends and stayed until 10:30 at which time we came home. I cleaned up the bathroom where I had knocked out the wall earlier in the day and tore up some of the linoleum. We brushed our teeth and hit the pillow and were snoring in no time. It was a nice interlude from the constant work that has to be done here.
Today I am painting the vanity for the bathroom.... second coat... and clear coating the ceiling in Daughter #1's bedroom. If there's time I have one more board to remove from where the door is going in the bathroom and then I start to rebuild the framing for the door. Then I have to get supper.
Meals have become a real process in our house. I try to cook out on the deck on the barbeque as much as possible but it isn't always possible. We have things that will grill easily like fish fillets and hot dogs.... nice ones, if that's possible... and pork steaks and beef steaks (that doesn't happen very often). Tonight we are having dog turds!
I know I know.... that sounds disgusting but actually all a dog turd is is a lump of meat that tastes like a hamburger but is shaped like a hot dog. When Hubby and I first married I tried making hamburgers out of ground beef that were shaped like hamburger patties, but they always shrunk on the barbeque till they were dwarfed by the bun. I started making them bigger and flatter but we were finally eating half pound hamburgers and nothing seemed to work. I even tried that nifty gadget from Tupperware to flatten the burgers out but they came out too small..... So one day in a fit I made them shaped like a weiner and grilled them with Hot Dog buns instead. (It is also easier to make hot dog buns from bread dough than hamburger buns.) When I served up my weiner shaped hamburgers Hubby told me they looked like dog turds but he liked the idea of eating a sensible sized chunk of meat regardless of the shape and they tasted good. I've been making them that way ever since. And so they are known in our house as Dog Turds. We use everything from ketchup, mustard relish, lettuce, tomato, onion, avacado, cheese, or cheese whiz, barbeque sauce, etc... and they are yummy.
Here's my recipe:
Dog Turds
-package or ground beef. (pref lean)
-chopped onion
-pepper
-dill
-egg (or two depending on how big your package of meat is)
-garlic cloves chopped
-a little barbecue sauce or sometimes I'll use honey (it helps the meat stick together)
-bread or cracker crumbs or cereal crumbs (I use bran buds lots for extra fibre)
Mush this mess of ingredients altogether in a large bowl. Shape into turd type shapes a little longer than your buns (not those buns! the ones in your fridge!!!) Grill on barbeque till done, and insert condiments and extras on buns. Insert dog turd and voila.... summer supper with no hastle.
Hubby once told me that I could use condoms to make a bunch and freeze them.... just make sure the condoms are clean..... don't choke now!
Kitty is hiding in the grass waiting for a mouse and he looks really cute, all orange in this lovely sun through the fog. I'm off to get my brushes out for a day of finishing the ceiling.... I hope you try Dog Turds... if for nothing other than the shock factor.... serve them to guests and don't tell them what they are. Ha ha ; }
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