Falling Behind

Yikes, only three posts in and I'm already slacking. Time to put the nose to the grindstone while I eat some late night oatmeal and make an update. This is going to be pretty photo heavy, because I've got some pup and cooking experiments to post.

The roomie went back overseas at the beginning of February, so the pup and I have been getting used to being on our own again. This apparently involves us driving around a lot, especially to the park, and me devouring new Netflix Watch Instantly shows like a fiend. I've been going out with work friends occasionally on the weekends as well, which is better for my mental state than my hydrated state, I'm sure.

And the cooking experiments, thanks to Trader Joe's. This was last weekends:

Brining ingredients, including awesome natural honey

Giblets for the puppy! 

 Taking a 12 hour soak

 The other stuff that went into the Dutch Oven at roasting time: fingerling potatoes, shallot and WA wine.

 Ready for the heat.

 Trying to beg off some more giblets. Sorry kid, we're out.
(Boxes behind are the 'I've been too lazy to make a Goodwill run with ice all over the ground' residuals)

Roasty goodness. 

Successful experiment.

The dark meat all got left on the carcass and turned into awesome soup two days later. I'm going to freeze some because I don't think I can down a couple gallons of soup in a good measure of time. 

As promised last time, the pictures of the pup from (midway through) our decently big snow of the winter:

That's about it, for now...