Neil and Cody catch up on recent travels, the joys and dangers of home landscaping projects, cooking, recent reads and current TV viewing habits.
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@MerchCzar for future sausage/hot dog grilling. pretty fool-proof method here. slowing heating them up in liquid in the tin foil and then you just grill for color/flavor.
i’ve done a version of this for 25-30 people, cooking nearly 100 sausages where i just pop a few big trays in the oven on a super low temp for a couple hours then bring those out to the grill once we’re ready to eat and start charring them up. the best way to cook for a crowd.
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Neil calling for a reboot of Law & Order, as if that train will ever stopped rolling.
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Mea Culpa here. I’d love a re-imagined Law & Order concept!
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Second on Kenji’s books and youtube channel. Great teaching with easy to implement techniques.
He doesn’t contribute anymore, but Serious Eats has a ton of his great recipes and techniques with good guidance on what’s must do and optional.
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@MerchCzar I could not have related more to your woods cleanup journey. And the nature cam. I started cleaning up the woods behind the house specifically for my nature cam. Last night i got my first owl and I am fired up. Didn’t even need the coffee this morning.
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Lawn: figure out your region code and sq footage. Take pics and describe the lawn to chat gpt. It will give you a plan of what to do, what to buy, when to apply and how much and how to mix it all up. I did this and then basically told it to give me the most bang for my buck (from a time and $ investment standpoint) and my lawn looks so much better than it did 2 years ago.
Grill: Using the thermometer is half the battle. The other half is just learning to budget 50% more time to the cook than you think it’s gonna be. The chicken cheat code is just avoiding breasts completely and only grilling boneless skinless thighs.
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The trail cam is so sick. So far I’ve caught pictures of a fox, two raccoons, and I this bear snooping around last week.
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Oh hell yeah, we very rarely get bears around here in northeast Mass. Had one rumbling around the neighborhood last year but didn’t catch it. That’s my white whale.
