Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Started some kimchi today with leftover napa cabbage and diakon radish. I even had the correct Korean red pepper flakes/powder from making Korean ribs. You either think that kimchi smells great or smells like a sewer. I like it. Now it needs to sit out for about 5 days fermenting.

Opening Day! Time for some unhealthy ballpark food.

 

Could not cook today. I had to go to the Gator baseball game and then the Gator basketball game. @WESGATORS can attest that my season basketball tickets rock, but are not as good as my baseball seat. Much of the rest of the day was spent dimensioning the best pine I could find for making some screen doors. I was hoping to find some Douglas fir but didn't. I settled for some tighter than normal grain southern yellow pine. Making screen doors out of 3/4 inch wide wood does not work. 1" wood does.

My wife woked a huge batch of Chinese vegetables earlier so I had some decent grub after the basketball game. I ate the worst ever nachos between the baseball and basketball games. I will never make that mistake again.

Tomorrow I will be cutting tenons and mortises for making the door in the morning before taking the pilgrimage to the Mac for a one o'clock game. Maybe I can cook something after the game.

 

I caught a shirt and gave it to Mrs Oblivious. I first checked it out to see if it was a special shirt because of that half-time guy whoever he was, but it wasn't. I think that I have caught 6 shirts so far this season and one game I caught two. I tell my wife that The Dazzlers like me, LOL. I kept one and gave the rest away.

The Friday night blue had a HUGE strike zone, but was consistent. The Saturday blue had a bigger than normal strike zone and was consistent. I didn't get to see the Sunday blue because we had a niece in town visiting and I had already spent a lot of away time and I thought it was going to rain.

 

Last night I roasted pork tenderloin in a sesame teriyaki sauce and my wife cooked the Chinese greens she didn't cook earlier in her wok.

Tonight it will be take-out after attending the basketball game. I am guessing El Indio or Dick Mondell's.

 

Ate crappy food at the baseball game last night. Tonight I am making sauteed rapini with grilled sweet Italian sausage.

 

The Gator basketball team BBQed some pork on Tuesday night. It left a good taste in my mouth.

Speaking of pork, Publix had pork shoulder/Boston butt on sale so I picked up a seven pounder to cook this weekend. Now I have to decide between pulled pork and carnitas. Both are yummy.

 

Escarole soup with leftover pork roast, garlic, oregano, and orzo tonight.

Setting the alarm for tomorrow at 6 AM because a 7 lb pork shoulder takes forever to smoke: at least 10.5 hours before a one hour rest. I will prep the KJ today so all it will need is to be lit. I would have liked the piece of meat to be out of the fridge longer than it will take to get the KJ up to operating temperature and settled, but I just ain't getting up any earlier.

The newest addition to the household (a two year old miniature Australian shepherd) will keep me company. A friend of my youngest son asked us to take care of her. He got left with it when a house full of roommates broke up and he can't give her the attention she needs. I walk her 6 to 7 miles every day (once in the morning and once in the late afternoon) and she is still a little ball of energy. Very cute dog and smart as a whip. I keep telling my youngest that he should walk her because she is a chick magnet and I am happily married and too old for many of the ladies that admire her.

 

Change in dinner plans. Got a call from my wife that steaks were on sale at Hitchcock's in Alachua and that I need to get the KJ ready. This will both delay and shorten my afternoon dog walk.

And that makes prepping the KJ tonight for tomorrow probably not in the cards. Set the alarm for 5:30?

 

I like to eat dinner about 7 so even getting up at 6 AM is really not early enough.