Brew Day!

It’s about time to have the neighbors over for another round or five to get room in the keg fridge for more batches. I can’t wait to have BBQ’s this summer you bring some food to share, we supply beer! A little backwards but hey I like doing things differently!

Brew days are always great days J can tell not only from the smell of the wort but also from my jumping all over the place. Now I’ve been doing this for years so I really should not get this hyped but there is something about the smell of cooking grains and hops that turns me into an energy ball. Today’s brew is a summer wheat brew, I’d like to run some experiments with this one but as I have never made it before I thought I would be better off just letting this one run it’s course then playing with the next one (hopefully soon) it’s a wheat as I have said and it includes orange blossom honey and Whitbread yeast. The yeast should be fruity and bring out the orange flower in the honey. Now I read somewhere that you can’t taste such flavors in honey but the meads that I tried to make (aside from needing more experimenting and serious help) taught that there were distinct floral small and slight taste to the wild flower wild flower honey and well the buckwheat honey (J’s idea) well definitely tasted like buckwheat, not a great flavor for mead. So is this going to taste like orange or flower? Sigh four weeks until I find out. The next one I’m adding orange or lemon zest to the fermented wort and maybe even juice (not allot) to see how that will turn out 5 gallons I should be able to do all with a control. This weekend Irish Chocolate Stout! I wonder what J will do for a glass…

Hell has frozen over...

Dinner tonight was to be chicken and veggies with rice. Since I forgot to thaw out the chicken the night before (opps) J decided that he would have leftovers well I still wanted my veggies and rice. Lately, I’ve been experimenting with the morning farms chicken strips to get more protein in my diet. I decided to add that to my meal, they are great. As I’m stirring the rice and dishing out my own platter J comes up behind me and steals my tofu chicken so it’s on the way to his mouth and I freeze. I’m in shock my husband is eating tofu. “you know that’s my chicken right?” (Like he could possibly be mistaken in the matter). “it’s not bad” my jaw hit the floor, I literally didn’t know what to do. So after a few minutes I get over my shock and dish out my dinner and let him do the same. I go sit with my food and J comes and he’s got MORE tofu on his plate... He at the tofu I was going to have for lunch as leftovers.

For those who don’t know my pork, I mean meat, loving husband. He teases me relentlessly about my vegetarian ways. I used to cook him nice dinners for editing my school papers (I know I should have him edit these as well). The first nice dinner I made was a great meal completely vegetarian of course. The salad comes out and he says “looks nice where’s the bacon?” as he examines every inch of the bowl for signs of his beloved bacon. He loved every dish of the meal and asked for bacon with every one (yes that includes desert). At the next meal I served and abundance of bacon - we all had a great time making fun of J.

TV Night

I haven’t blogged in a while my life has just been too boring. Although I had a job interview with key bank Thursday and I think it went well (wish me luck).

Today has been great slept in until 8:30! Ran errands all morning looking for a bathroom rug since the last one got shredded in the washing machine (oops!). The rest of the day was spent cleaning (fun).

Tonight it’s Absolutely Fabulous, I love this show. This great show is about the fashion world specializing in Champagne, sex and dysfunctional families. Tonight’s episodes feature gigolos, orgies, bulimia, drugs, and books called “Sex with myself - sticky fingers” I’m thinking I should really write a book with this title it could be fun! I really think every one should see this show, make sure to have lots of cheep Champagne on hand.