Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

We always tell our friends and family we would love to have them visit, but if it's July 1-Sept 30 they are on their own

 

After a 34* start it has warmed up some but a brisk wind has kept some bite in the air. Tonight it’ll drop substantially as the low in the morning is predicted to be 27*......

That said, we are going to have a pot of white chicken chili tonight. We do add black beans and diced Rotel tomatoes to ours for a little added flavor.

The back porch will afford us a perfect setting for enjoying the afternoon and evening (sunset included) This goes hand in hand with both ice cold longnecks and chilled wine.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

I have shrimp and chicken wings in the fridge for later tonight and tomorrow. Made more baked potatoes earlier for potato skins as I now have the other ingredients needed, except green onions.

I have 3 large Coconut palms planted in my yard - each one about 15-20' in height w/3' of clear trunk. I've been formulating plans to protect their growing points (the heart) from a potential freeze. Right now I'm using C9 Christmas Lights and have a couple temperature monitors to help me with analysis. So far there's a 5 degree delta (50 outside and 55 inside the lights). We'll see what happens as the night wears on. My temperature device has recording capability for min-max so I'll know more in the morning. Our low is supposed to only be 37 tonight so this is more for those nights when the forecast is for a freeze.

GO Gators!

 

@GatorLurker I am afraid that you have created a monster in @Bazza with the baked potatoes and turned him loose on Gator Nation.....

 

LOL......actually I have a bag of Russet potatoes I want to use up. Some are spouting and I hate when that happens!

In the past, whenever I buy a bag of apples, onions, potatoes, etc....I start off by giving some away right off the bat. I live alone so it takes a while to consume that much of one thing.

This time I didn't do that so I'm on a spud run!

 

If you like to cook breakfast you can shred up as many as you want for making homemade hash browns, or cut them up for home fries. You can peel’em, cut them up thin for frying your own tater chips for lunches/snacks.

 

Today I will be smoking a shank portion 10 lb ham over applewood smoke on the Egg. (Honey Baked Ham makes a multi-bean soup mix that we will take full advantage of at the proper time.)

Our sides will be Ms. Jan’s homemade potato salad, fresh zipper peas, BBQ baked beans, and deviled eggs.

Cooler weather today with sunshine and blue skies makes for great back porch time including ice cold longnecks and chilled wine.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Thanks, Bill. Haven't done the fried chips but have the hash browns many times. I still kept too many this time - my mistake.

Potato-overload.....lol.....

BTW, the Christmas light thing worked pretty good last night. Our low here was 34F and inside the light blanket next to my palm heart it only got down to 48F. Not bad at all!

 

Friend of mine here does Smoked Mullet and dip as a hobby. His career has been with the city's utilities department. He posts on FB and has a huge following with his Mullet cuisine. I dated his sister back in the 80's. She drove an MGB and was a lot of fun.

I had my shrimp for lunch and it was awesome! Had it cocktail style with a fresh jar of Heinz cocktail sauce. This was the Great Value (from WM) brand - "Colossal" size & cooked with tail on. I used to get the same thing from Aldi (they call theirs "Jumbo") but it became hard to get, so now I just but WM's.

Wings are on tonight's menu while watching the game. GO Bucs!

 

The shank ham turned out really good last night. (The ham n’ cheese omelets weren’t bad this morning either) Looking forward to our other meals to come from it.

Tonight we are going to be working on the left over white chicken chili.

Beautiful day here today, started out at 35* and has topped out at 60*.
Back porch ice cold longnecks and chilled wine are a must wrapped around the sunset.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Good weather right now for dogs!

 

We will be continuing to work on and enjoy some of the leftovers that this weekend created.

Tonight we will be having smoked ham, homemade potato salad, deviled eggs, and fresh zipper peas. Ms. Jan will also be baking some fresh yeast rolls.

Another beautiful day here starting at 31* this morning and reaching a sunshine blue skies high of 68*.

The back porch ice cold longnecks and chilled wine are definitely in play this afternoon and early evening.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Picked up more shrimp from WM today! The Extra Large was on sale so elected to get that size instead of Colossal. It was almost half the price and still fairly large.

Also got some green onions for my potato skins.....wohoo!

Go Gators tonight!

 

I gotta say...those green onions made ALL the difference in the world....zing!

Didn't hurt that we thumped Tennessee by 26 in basketball either. And that's with a couple starters out.

Tempered by the news of course of Don Sutton's passing....