BUTTLOAD

Dig this bad boy.  Been playing around with pork butt steaks, shoulder butts, and any variation that I can buy for under two bucks.  And today, I landed me a big ol' buttload.

So far I've made butt steaks with fried eggs and breakfast potatoes.  Pork and beans and butt soup.  The soup was my favorite, so far.  I'll take pictures when I make it next time and post the steps.

Meanwhile, I'm off to my Cinderella shift, but thankfully, we close at eight.  And tomorrow, I get to play with all this meat.  That's right, break out the FoodSaver, it's party time.

Cheers and boogie boogie.

Today's Bake

I wish you could smell our kitchen.  Cheese, onions, roasted potatoes and roasted corn.  Absolute heaven. 

Up next, smoked ham with a real maple, brown sugar and butter sauce.  So frickin' good.  And I'm not a big ham fan.

Then after that, it's off to my Cinderella shift at work.  There's four in the lineup this week, but the good news is, none of them followup with an early morning open shift.

And when I get grumpy at work today, I'll just think about tomorrow's bake.  What shall it be?  What shall it be? 

Until then, stay safe and eat well.

I made six personal sized potato bake bowls. 

What Shall I Bake Today?

That's the question I woke asking myself this morning.

How 'bout some cheesey bread?  Maybe a nice onion roll that I can shmear cream cheese on later.  Haven't had those little chocolate cookies in awhile - those don't sound bad.

Or maybe I'll opt to make a potato, onion, corn and cheese bowl bake, with a side of brown sugar maple ham.

So many choices, and only one tiny oven.

Mister Egg & Lady Cinnamon

Now ... I bring you Mister Egg and Lady Cinnamon.  Overall, wee bit too much crust and not enough innards, making the cinnamon egg dipped breads a tad dry.

That being said, the flavor was very good and I can see where I want to go with the second draft.

I love that.

Sliced (no Mister Egg)

Dipped in Mister Egg

With a Bit of Icing Sugar
and Served with Real Maple

Crank-Be-Gone

I'm not cranky anymore (see last post).

And dig my mini cinnamon breads.  They're on the rise a wee bit more, before I pop those babies in the oven. 

Excited to slice them open and see the swirly part.  And then dip the pieces into egg and then toss those suckers on the griddle.  Breakfast at 10ish, so don't be late.

Cheers and boogie boogie.

Raw, shaped, and almost ready for baking.

I'm Cranky

Been a long shift at the pizza shoppe.  The girl that did the Cinderella shift last night missed lots of stuff, and set me WAY behind, before I even started.   So I was a bit agravated and cranky.

I hate being cranky.

Thankfully now I'm home.  And the oven is preheating while I type.  Soon to make toasted garlic bread shmeared with butter, garlic, good cheese, salt and parsley.

As for the chicken knees, as Tim calls them (see last post), those are done.  All I gotta do now is make cheese sauce.

Then after supper, it's time to get to that cinnamon bread so we can enjoy it for tomorrow morning's French toast, with GOOD bacon and homemade breakfast potatoes.

Nothing like baking to let go of the day's crap.

You Boogerbutts have a good night. 

Guess What I'm Eating?

A homemade everything roll with maple sausage and smoked provolone.  So frickin' good.  Then tonight for supper it's brown organic orzo with a chicken-kneeeee cheesey rosemary wonderfulness with a side of homemade garlic bread.  Yum yum.

Meanwhile, I gotta go to work.  Although my first day back yesterday wasn't so bad because I've been baking and that's my bliss, which really helped balance out the day job stuff.

And, and, and, no Cinderella shift for me tonight.  Noppers, I'll be home in time to eat at the table with Poopyhead.

Life is good.

I Don't Wanna go to Work

After having a few days off in a row, I don't want to go back.  Noppers.  Not even a wee bit.  I'd rather stay home and write bakes and then put them in the oven.  But I gotta go, so I might as well quit my griping.

Meanwhile, here's how overage works.  Overage is when an item is less than the value of the coupon.  In this case, floss at 97 cents, with a coupon valued at a buck.

Wally World pays overage which means they will either cash out the three cents and pay me or, if there's other items on the belt, apply that three cents to the rest of my order.

You'll see here that at the end of my receipt, the total was negative 6 cents.  But since my tape had a 6 cents tax, the overage covered it, making the entire transaction free.

And that's how we stockpile.

Stay warm and eat well.