Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

TMI!!!!!!

 

Tonight will be clean out the fridge.

 

After seven hours of painting (second coated the woodwork: wide baseboards, two doorways, two LARGE openings, and picture rail. Also cut in and rolled a second coat on the 10' high walls) I am now enjoying an adult beverage or should I say beverages. In a bit I will get ready to grill some really thick NY strip steaks. They are about 2.5" thick and lucky for me everybody likes medium rare and nobody wants to to make theirs well done as that should be a crime. Not a high crime nor a misdemeanor, but a crime nevertheless.

There are tricks to getting the middle medium rare without burning the outside to a cinder on thick steaks. I am thinking that these are thick enough that I should do a reverse sear, this is sear at the end instead of searing at the beginning. Actually this method is easier on a kamado style grill as it is easy to ramp the temps up, but it takes forever to to lower temps.

 

Try making this:

Guacamole Taquero: Taco-Shop Guacamole

It is really good.

I make it a lot. Usually when I am making carnitas.

Epazote does not taste like cilantro. I prefer the epazote version, but it is still very good with cilantro. Finding epazote might be hard. I have a source in Gainesville.

And use serrano peppers instead of jalapenos. It is a little hotter, but a much brighter flavor. And serranos are more uniform in their heat. Some jalapenos lack heat while some pack some punch. You never know. Serranos are almost always the same so you know what you are getting.

 

Simple tacos tonight.

When working at my rental house I have to wonder why the cover plates for both bathtubs were removed. 3 of 4 screws were snapped off so it will be a royal pain to replace them. I hope that PB blaster works its magic, but one is snapped off inside the thread. That will be a drill job.

Last time I had to totally fix up a rental I wondered why all the aerator screens on the faucets were missing until it was suggested to me that they needed new bong screens. That made sense. All the screens on the house were new and fiberglass and not metal.

Another time I wondered why a door was taken off its hinges and the hardware removed. Later I found out that it was used as a base for a ping-pong table.

I can't figure out why in the world they needed the overflow cover plates.

 

Justifiable homicide?

 

I did that yesterday at one of my rental properties with a HUGE yard for the middle of town (3/5 acre) and lots of things to mow around. My pedometer on my phone clocks in with over 5 miles when I mow that yard.

 

I had to drill out all three snapped off screws. The one that I thought would be a pain was easy. The other two I had to dremel off flush and then drill into a blind hole. Lucky for me I already had a 1/4 x 20 tap to run new threads.

Later today I wanted to listen to tunes. And in one speaker (I have a pair of B&W DM7's that I got for cost from a stereo store that was closing one of their locations) the tweeter fuse was blown and the internal wiring was loose somewhere. By a miracle Ace Hardware had the right fuse (500 mA, 20mm x 5 mm). Took the passive radiator off and removed a lot of foam sheets to get to the wiring and tightened it up. It was a loose nut on the back of a female 4 mm DIN plug. I guess after over 35 years the nut was allowed to loosen up.

Time to listen to the B side of Traffic's Mr Fantasy. My wife bought me the new boxed set of their studio LPs on heavy vinyl and really mastered well.

Sorry that this is more "What are you fixing?" instead of "What's cooking?"