Tastes great and less filling.

Oh this was so good. A little too much on the pepper side of things but none the less very tasty......

Some good eats.

Ok, I am not the biggest foody out there but man oh man do I know a great steak, filet, piece of meat. We belong to a winter CSA this year and we go to a local farmers market all summer long and have been for at least two years now. At this farmers market there is a lady who does all kinds of meat products and she dabbles in fresh eggs and some herbs and such. Since buying our meats from her I have been taken back a fair bit and some what turned off of eating steaks or others means of meat out at a restaurant as I know that I can get a better one and make it just like I want at home. So I have sent her a couple pictures before of what I have done to the filets. I am now going to post some of them up here on my blog and am going to try to do this often. Every time I will prepare them a bit different.

This time I made a marinade of olive oil, some red wine, rosemary, thyme, Italian seasoning salt and mint. I let the marinade sit over night while the meat defrosted. As I write this my mouth is watering. Later tonight I will grill them. I will keep a water bottle handy to keep any searing flames down and also to keep the inside of the grill nice and moist. This helps to keep the moisture in while cooking. I do this with just about every type of meat that we cook on the grill as it can get very dry. I do this for Chicken, steaks, hamburgers, dogs you name it. Even with vegetables.

I hope you enjoy and come back for more later.

The start of a great garden.

Well as promised and it may be a bit late here is the start of the wonderful garden my lovely wife has started. She has been keeping an eye on it like a hawk.

Still wondering. How is it.

As I sit here this fine day that is partly cloudy and with lots of wind and just coming back from a MeMaw's birthday celebration. I wonder still how it is that I came to be who I am and what it is that I am doing these days. I know my father, not as well as I would like to know him but yet still know him none the less. What it is that I wonder is how it is that I am the way that I am and how it is that I think the way that I think and how my mannerisms are they way they are. I wonder why I like the things that I like and act the way I act. I still wonder if the reason I like to tinker on things more than anything else or like to do lots of different things is because that is how I perceive my father to also be. Having your hand in tons of different things and yet not an exact expert in any one thing. For instance one of the things that is different between my father and I is that he like beer and I do not. We both like wine, we both like / love flying, we both like to do all kind of different things and we for sure have opinions on all kinds of things. I do know that I am at least smart enough to not get into an argument with the man as I know that it will be an uphill battle and no one will win per say. We are both very strong headed that way. As I sit here writing this I am reminded of how much I miss him and just talking to him. Although we talk via technologies like Skype it is still not enough some times. He has this grandiose scheme to move to Canada far from civilization it seems to be on his own land and work it to feed a family and just live happy and content by him self. Although his thoughts are also to have me, my wife and two children also live with him. I know it would be the happiest thing for him for all eternity and I also know that it would just about drive me and my own wife to some happy spot but up the wall at the same time. I know that growing up I always have a missing link in my life for that "father" figure and until now it seemed that no one wanted to fill that role and be an active part of it. Now that I have it I am not sure what to do with it or how to handle it.

I know again that my thoughts and how I write are random and jump around but again remember the title? Random Very Random.

RVR.