Yes, day two was actually yesterday (Friday). The natives are getting restless and claiming I am trying to starve them out. Yesterday I cooked a six-pound pork shoulder–Kalua Slow-Cooker Pork–so obviously they are right.
The pork was good but I really wanted to pour a bunch of barbecue sauce on the side! It was just so terribly porky. Pork has dark and light meat, and sometimes that dark meat has a flavor that is really strong. I also fixed cole slaw with that homemade mayonnaise, baked potatoes, broccoli, and assorted fruit. Yes, obviously starving.
One thing I realized yesterday is that, without sugar as an option even as a seasoning, flavors can go to the tart side really fast. The homemade mayo is amazing, but tangy, and the coleslaw really needed another flavor to balance out the tart. I think now I might have grated a little apple with it, but without sweetness flavors can be one-dimensional. I need to think about this more.
Today I am fixing a huge pan of chicken drumsticks for the kids to munch on. And I’m putting on a pot of Vegetable Soup to simmer as soon as I can get to the grocery store. I’ve made the vegetable soup before and it is like salad on a winter day. It’s also a good foil for added protein of all kinds. And–confession time–I’m going to use store-bought broth. I haven’t gotten around to making the chicken broth at home yet, so this will have to do.
What about the beef broth? Nasty. I was going out on a limb when I added ox-tail bones to the soup. What part of the cow is the tail near? Yes, that is what it tasted like.
Another problem is that I hate being consumed with what we are going to eat. On a regular week I make our schedule out, shop, boom, done. But I feel like this is a kind of experiment, so I am buying and adjusting as we go. We have eaten 22 eggs in four days, and I think we would have eaten more but I ran out.
So, off to the grocery store!