Homemade bacon

Honey-cured hickory smoked. Awesome flavor.

Paella!!

Flo made some awesome paella (I was just the sous chef. Here it is, bubbling away.

Home honey cured, hickory-smoked bacon

...a particularly fat slice.

New Year's Eve

Quick shot of the spread for New Year's eve...

Homemade pancetta, about 4 weeks dry after curing.

Home cured pancetta; 4 weeks drying time at 40F. Looks nice, haven't tried it yet. I'm experimenting with various apps to blog photos directly from my iPhone; hopefully, this will improve the flow from pic to blog.

Testing...

Wow...that's pretty much all I'll say about the iPhone.

Wow.

I'm testing a blogwriter app here on my iPhone; this lite version is text only, so no food pix today.

If it works well, I'll buy the full version, take my food pix with the iPhone, and just post right from the phone too.

// mark

Weinerschnitzel and garden goods

Well, I've decided to start posting my stuff on a 'real' blog rather than on myspace so it's easier for people in my family and others who don't 'myspace' to see what's going on at home, in our garden, kitchen, etc.

I figured a nice place to start would be a recent meal where everything on our plates except for the weinerschnitzel was from our garden.

The pictures are in a funky order; I'm still learning how to get things the way I want on blogger.


At left, some stuff from the garden...rainbow swiss chard, a genovese squash (italian zucchini type), some tomatoes.

















Cooking chard, early in the process.













Here are some heirloom tomatoes from our garden - lemon boy, Mr. Ugly, Russian Black Krim, some cherry tomatoes, basil, and a small cucumber. It's a pickling type, but we didn't really get enough to pickle this year. I mixed up some spicy Thai fresh pickling liquid to use on these for a quick pickle with meals.

Tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella.












Cooking weinerschnitzel.













Cooking chard, later in the process.

Welcome

Am I here yet?