Alternate title: when you buy ten pounds of pork belly… …you have some options.   For 2/3 of the portion (about 6-7 pounds?) I made a rub and Kyle grilled it for 70 minutes keeping the grill at 300 degrees. The rub had 2 tsp chili powder, 2 tsp garlic powder, 2 tsp onion powder, 2 tsp smoked paprika, 2 tsp salt, and 2 tsp brown sugar. I attempted to score the fat side, but I didn’t really know what I was doing so who knows if I successfully did that.  In any event, I did try to cut a… Read more >

I’m just going to say from the get go, summer is awesome.  And even though it’s taken me a while to recap our 4th of July, I figured better late than never because these memories are so worth capturing in print. Kyle had Friday off so we invited friends over for breakfast.  I made a plum clafoutis based on this recipe, but I accidentally changed it rather significantly when I dumped an entire can of coconut milk (as opposed to the 1 cup of dairy liquid called for) in the batter.  I tried to compensate by adding… Read more >

It’s kinda silly categorizing this post “the weekly menu” considering the week was only, like, a second long and I already blogged about the first half of it, but it is what it is. To recap, Monday we did melon, avo, and butter lettuce salad with poppyseed dressing.  Legit. Tuesday we had crock pot stuffed bell peppers. They were based off this recipe but then I made them completely different to meet all of our families allergy requirements and preferences. Wednesday we skipped market (again) and cooked in.  The weather was forecasting 108 again but it was only mid… Read more >