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jazznut · 11-09-2017, 10:40 AM

I have a big pot of homemade chicken & vegetable soup simmering on the stove for this evening. Given that there's the possibility of some overnight snow in the local forecast, it somehow seemed an appropriate meal.

BigO · 11-09-2017, 10:45 AM

We're nowhere near as cold as you are in Montreal, but it has been so warm this fall that the change of weather here in Atlanta is still a bit of a shock. We tend to have very short springs and falls, especially in La Nina year like the one we're currently entering.

grtrx · 11-10-2017, 06:44 AM

made a chick pea and pork stew... too much salt, which must have been in the Peruvian sausage and ham. It was still good, could have been better.

jazznut · 11-10-2017, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by BigO

We're nowhere near as cold as you are in Montreal, but it has been so warm this fall that the change of weather here in Atlanta is still a bit of a shock.

Here too! The leaves didn't even really begin to change colour until last month, and many are still hanging on the trees (and that despite a series of strong wind gusts over the last little while).

One thing for sure... It IS a tad on the cool side today. The forecast high is -4ºC. At least it's bright and sunny.

BigO · 11-10-2017, 08:35 AM

I don't know how you do it, Doug. I don't think I could live in a cold climate anymore. I didn't much like it as a kid in Illinois and Indiana. You're even colder in Montreal.

Makes me shivver thinking about it.

As for what is for dinner tonight, stir fry of sirloin, broccoli, asparagus, red onions and red peppers in a spicy garlic brown sauce. Tomorrow is going to be Thai green curry pork with bamboo shoots, onion and water chestnuts in a rich coconut milk green curry sauce. Gonna take a break from the brisket for a couple of days.

grtrx · 11-10-2017, 02:16 PM

it was 16 degrees just at dawn here this morning, a few flurries. The city got a 1/2 of snow that caused numerous accidents.

I had to turn the heat on this morning, there were insufficient layers to put on to get warm. I had hoped to do 2 full months without AC or heat, came up almost 3 weeks short on that.

After a kick to the groin day at work I think I will either eat out or get carryout.

grtrx · 11-15-2017, 06:35 AM

last night was brussel sprouts pan roasted with pancetta and white wine, potatoes roasted in butter and olive oil, and cod roasted atop the potatoes for the last 12 minutes. Pretty dang good. Hard to decide which smell was better... the butter roasting in the oven with the taters or the pancetta frying up before adding the sprouts...

BigO · 11-15-2017, 08:19 AM

Commercial frozen lasagna. I think I would pass out if I tried to make something from scratch tonight. Might enlist the girls to put together some brisket tacos if they are interested.

vernonator · 11-15-2017, 10:22 AM

Got a call from my meat supplier (retired cattle farmer) that he is taking cattle in for processing late December - which means I need to eat up some beef (Getting another 1/2 early Jan). So tonight it will be Ribeye steaks with mushroom gravy, roasted potatoes and corn (frozen from the garden).

Last night was a roast in tomato gravy with rice....lots of beef to eat AND I am due for another hog in a month or so. I have 4 whole shoulders in the freezer that will be going on the smoker next week for pulled pork thru the winter.

BigO · 11-15-2017, 10:53 AM

Wow, what a windfall!

11-09-2017, 10:40 AM	#121
jazznut Managing Editor Emeritus Herf God Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 26,082	I have a big pot of homemade chicken & vegetable soup simmering on the stove for this evening. Given that there's the possibility of some overnight snow in the local forecast, it somehow seemed an appropriate meal. __________________ My whisky adventure began at the age of nine. Good things DO take time!

11-09-2017, 10:45 AM	#122
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,756	We're nowhere near as cold as you are in Montreal, but it has been so warm this fall that the change of weather here in Atlanta is still a bit of a shock. We tend to have very short springs and falls, especially in La Nina year like the one we're currently entering. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

11-10-2017, 06:44 AM	#123
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	made a chick pea and pork stew... too much salt, which must have been in the Peruvian sausage and ham. It was still good, could have been better. __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

11-10-2017, 08:35 AM	#125
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,756	I don't know how you do it, Doug. I don't think I could live in a cold climate anymore. I didn't much like it as a kid in Illinois and Indiana. You're even colder in Montreal. Makes me shivver thinking about it. As for what is for dinner tonight, stir fry of sirloin, broccoli, asparagus, red onions and red peppers in a spicy garlic brown sauce. Tomorrow is going to be Thai green curry pork with bamboo shoots, onion and water chestnuts in a rich coconut milk green curry sauce. Gonna take a break from the brisket for a couple of days. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

11-10-2017, 02:16 PM	#126
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	it was 16 degrees just at dawn here this morning, a few flurries. The city got a 1/2 of snow that caused numerous accidents. I had to turn the heat on this morning, there were insufficient layers to put on to get warm. I had hoped to do 2 full months without AC or heat, came up almost 3 weeks short on that. After a kick to the groin day at work I think I will either eat out or get carryout. __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

11-15-2017, 06:35 AM	#127
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	last night was brussel sprouts pan roasted with pancetta and white wine, potatoes roasted in butter and olive oil, and cod roasted atop the potatoes for the last 12 minutes. Pretty dang good. Hard to decide which smell was better... the butter roasting in the oven with the taters or the pancetta frying up before adding the sprouts... __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

11-15-2017, 08:19 AM	#128
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,756	Commercial frozen lasagna. I think I would pass out if I tried to make something from scratch tonight. Might enlist the girls to put together some brisket tacos if they are interested. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

11-15-2017, 10:22 AM	#129
vernonator Herf Meister Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Is this Heaven? No it's Iowa Posts: 5,290	Got a call from my meat supplier (retired cattle farmer) that he is taking cattle in for processing late December - which means I need to eat up some beef (Getting another 1/2 early Jan). So tonight it will be Ribeye steaks with mushroom gravy, roasted potatoes and corn (frozen from the garden). Last night was a roast in tomato gravy with rice....lots of beef to eat AND I am due for another hog in a month or so. I have 4 whole shoulders in the freezer that will be going on the smoker next week for pulled pork thru the winter. __________________ We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile

11-15-2017, 10:53 AM	#130
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,756	Wow, what a windfall! __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

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