I will get one of those bags of bacon ends and pieces, cram it into 8 oz jars, pressure can them. The fat renders out and basically results in a confet. When I want bacon but don’t need strips I dump a jar into a pan and crisp it up. In the process it crumbles.

Like Taco Bell?

I needed some kind of acid or brine to help cut all that fat so I decided green olives would do the trick.

They aren’t chives. They are very young green onions. I didn’t even know if any were growing. I just went to go check on where the green onions are supposed to be located and found out that some had recently come up.

That’s not even all of it. They gave me some stuff to frog too.

I had scrap wood, stain, paint and decided to go for it to break in my new miter saw.

I can’t really control my house temperature right now. Tomorrow it will be 108f outside. I have two window units, one of them is as far from the kitchen as it can get and the other has no thermostat option. If I turn either one off the house becomes unlivable. At the end of this month things will change dramatically. Being able to reliably proof bread will be an option again.

I’ve been doing a lot of pan breads like naan and tortillas lately. I’m waiting for the temperature to drop before I start baking again. I think on the next round I’m going to be doubling down on meals where bread is the main course and sauces and dips create the diversity.

I listen to Black by Pearl Jam on occasion. It’s the only song that has ever made me tear up.

I go years between listening to Nevermind and then wonder why I wait so long.

I owned Use Your Illusion I ended up giving them away because they really couldn’t stand up to Appetite For Destruction. There’s some great songs on there but then there’s some filler that ruins the whole thing.

Never was a Soundgarden fan. But I did see them open for some band called Nine Inch Nails and realized that I know a lot more Soundgarden songs than I thought I did.

I had Blood Sugar Sex Magic. It started to great on my nerves. It wasn’t as good as their earlier albums. Not enough funk. Too quiet. Mother’s Milk also started to go sour on me.

And of course there’s The Black album by Metallica. I was a huge metallic fan. And this album really ruined it. Some of the songs individually were good but as an album it couldn’t live up Justice For All. The songs were shorter, less classical in their orchestration, All the last messages of Cliff having a hand in the composition were gone. And probably worst of all someone thought they could teach Kirk how to sing. He’s a shouter, not a singer. Someone stole the tape from me about a month after I got it and I didn’t feel any sense of loss.

Other albums released in that time frame:
Psalm 69 by Ministry.
Shorty the Pimp by Too Short.
Dirty by Sonic Youth.
Soul Of A New Machine by Fear Factory.
Dirt by Alice In Chains.

Some of these have stuck with me a lot more than some of those.

I think the average height was something like 6"2’. Even the short people were tall.

My thing was that his clothing being a dead match for the color of Kyra’s uniform. And unless she is standing next to Quark, Nog, early Jake or someone like that she is relatively tiny compared to just about anyone else in the show.

I thought he was regular sized and the other guy was a giant. Just like when Kyra stands next to Worf.

Why does the guy on the left look like Dollar Tree stunt double for Star Trek DS9s Kira Nerys?

The next time I Foster a litter of kittens I think I’m going to name them after The Prodigy songs. This cat is definitely diesel powered.

It’s 106° outside. No one wants to be out in that. I had a mild case of heat stroke a year ago. I definitely don’t want to be out in that. If I turn my oven on it’s not going to heat the house to 106°. Conservation of effs to deal with.

Sabertooth Tomcat.

I normally make my mashed potatoes from scratch but sometimes you just want to do it in 10 minutes and it’s more about calories than nutrition so if I can instant on sale for a $1.25 I pick them up.

And I always leave the skins on when I make them from scratch.

Pork is generally cheaper than beef but it’s about how much pork you have to buy. A tenderloin you can buy in a 1 lb unit. A shoulder roast is 6 lb or more. When you’re cooking on a budget for just two people, you either have to plan to eat the same thing six times and have the money up front or you go with the least expensive right now option.

Then you understand the problem of cooking outside. I set up an area under my car park with a butane stove, a smoker and a grill. It’s just way too intense to be out there right now.

Pork loin comes prepackaged in one pound units. Shoulder requires buying a much a larger number of pounds. You go from a $5 purchase to a $30 one. Hard to justify for two people.

I don’t think you appreciate how hot it is outside. Today it was a wet bulb temperature of 106°f outside.