Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Of course.

I just got to miss the in the freezer stage

 

Tonight I am grilling thick pork chops on the KJ. We have lots of really good sauerkraut (Bubbies on BOGO!) to go with it. I am also doing a spinach sauté.

 

Today I mowed the lawn in the hot afternoon sun. I was a bit scared to do it because I had pulled a lower back muscle a few weeks ago digging and pulling up some saplings causing sciatica. I have had sciatica due to a muscle spasm impinging the nerve before as opposed to a spine injury causing it and it sucks and takes a long time to get better. It got a lot worse last time I mowed the lawn. I did have a therapeutic massage that helped a lot but didn't totally fix things but I am on the mend.

Anyway after a morning of walking my dog (only up to 2/3 of our usual distance with my leg issue), watching the Vuelta (Tour of Spain) bike race, and mowing the lawn (half an acre with a power mower without self propel) I was ready to rest. Tonight is some kind of take-out and my youngest son's choice. Either Cuban food from Mia Apa, gyros from Gyros Plus or Thai food from Wah-Ha-Ha.

 

I used to have worse lower back muscle problems when I still played basketball. Working hard in the paint is hard on the lower back. I remember seeing Larry Bird laying down on the court trying to stretch his back out.

Lucky for me I have never had spinal issues. It has always been muscle sprains and spasms.

 

<joke>But it isn't Sunday!</joke>

 

Yesterday I made "hot" Thai noodles with peanuts. The noodles were actually from Vietnam from my local Asian store.

 

Yesterday I didn't have the luxury of freezing something before garbage day. There was a dead possum in the yard. Had to dig a pretty big hole for it.

Tonight is what I call boring tacos (Tex-Mex hard shell style) but also making twenty jalapeno poppers and margaritas (way fewer than 20) for the dinner beverage.

 

Do you drink mimosas with that? LOL.

 

Blackberries do really well in Florida. And in the right locations blueberries as well. I hear that there are some wild strawberries near Tally but not something I think about in Florida. I used to get them when I lived way up north. Really small and very tart.

Wild raspberries were common in the upper Midwest and really tasty.