Thanksgiving
Nov. 27th, 2019 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI know we already had our Thanksgiving, but one of the benefits of marrying an American girl is that I get to celebrate it twice in the same year.
I will be trying my hand at a walnut-cranberry stuffed pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon. I've watched a video on how to prepare it a couple of times, and though it looks easy, I have identified a number of places where I am likely to fail. I was going to grab a tenderloin when we were shopping on the weekend, butatara suggested walking down to the local butcher shop for it during the week. I did that on Tuesday, and while I was there I decided I may as well pick up some bacon as well.
The chef who showed off this technique was adamant that you should purchase the cheapest bacon available, since thin slices worked the best. I was concerned when I saw that the butcher only had impressively thick slices available for purchase, but when I told them what I needed for, they immediately shaved of some thin slices for me. There is something to be said for buying your meat from a butcher rather than a generic grocery-store meat counter.
On a whim, I also bought a pound of ground pork that I saw in the display near the till. In all, the total bill for the bacon, tenderloin, pork and a couple of treats came out to ... cheap. Buying pork and chicken tends to remind me of why the meat in our diet consists primarily of pork and chicken.
On another front, I have finished the first draft of the second chapter in my latest story. This story won't be everybody's cup of tea since it is light on action, and heavy on character interaction. This chapter was a bit of a slog to get through, but I'm down to smoothing it over and polishing it around the edges now. Fortunately, I expect the next chapter to be a bit shorter, and much less intense. One of the things I am doing on my editing pass of this chapter is to lighten the mood a bit since poor Giblet is having rather a rough go.
This story might actually give some character-development to a couple of characters I've used in many stories over the years.
Or it could be a total, snore-fest of a flop.
But at least it will have lots of words and stuff.
I will be trying my hand at a walnut-cranberry stuffed pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon. I've watched a video on how to prepare it a couple of times, and though it looks easy, I have identified a number of places where I am likely to fail. I was going to grab a tenderloin when we were shopping on the weekend, but
atara suggested walking down to the local butcher shop for it during the week. I did that on Tuesday, and while I was there I decided I may as well pick up some bacon as well.The chef who showed off this technique was adamant that you should purchase the cheapest bacon available, since thin slices worked the best. I was concerned when I saw that the butcher only had impressively thick slices available for purchase, but when I told them what I needed for, they immediately shaved of some thin slices for me. There is something to be said for buying your meat from a butcher rather than a generic grocery-store meat counter.
On a whim, I also bought a pound of ground pork that I saw in the display near the till. In all, the total bill for the bacon, tenderloin, pork and a couple of treats came out to ... cheap. Buying pork and chicken tends to remind me of why the meat in our diet consists primarily of pork and chicken.
On another front, I have finished the first draft of the second chapter in my latest story. This story won't be everybody's cup of tea since it is light on action, and heavy on character interaction. This chapter was a bit of a slog to get through, but I'm down to smoothing it over and polishing it around the edges now. Fortunately, I expect the next chapter to be a bit shorter, and much less intense. One of the things I am doing on my editing pass of this chapter is to lighten the mood a bit since poor Giblet is having rather a rough go.
This story might actually give some character-development to a couple of characters I've used in many stories over the years.
Or it could be a total, snore-fest of a flop.
But at least it will have lots of words and stuff.
