So, this morning, on my way to work, I had to walk down the street. We got 5 inches of snow last night, and the sidewalks haven’t been shoveled, and the plows pushed all the snow onto them.
So, I grabbed the shovel at the office on the way home for lunch and shoveled my way home. I had lunch, and shoveled my way back to work. I cut through 5 snowbanks. The deepest one, up to my elbows.
During lunch, my apartment complex shoveled the sidewalks. They do it with a 4wheeler with a plow. Works great. Except that they don’t plow the sidewalk on my way to work. No biggy, I understand, that they are WAY to busy to shovel the sidewalk that only a few dozen residents use on any given day to get to the bus stop, to Pop’s Pantry, or to work like me. I had just shoveled through the snowbank, and the SOB pushes his snow right into my path I had made. I didn’t make a spot for him to push his snow, I made a spot so I can get to work.
Had a good weekend. Picked up some venison sausage from hunting. Helped dad cut some wood for the house. Tested dad’s new 4-wheeler. He sold the old one as it didn’t have reverse in it. The new one is 4 wheel drive. I pulled some trees out of the ditch and into the driveway so dad could cut them up. We pulled the rewind off to get a peak at the starter as it doesn’t sound quite right. I pulled the transmission plug, and the tranny fluid is white. So, it needs the transmission oil changed.
I saw some pilliated woodpeckers at a friends house.
Dad and I went and got a live Christmas tree. Mom said we needed a real one for the new house.
I got a sheet of plexiglass to use to cover up the windows as they are very drafty. Gonna see how that works.
I took a few photos while I was hunting with Dad. He had the gun, I had my camera. I think I got a few good photos.Hollow stump against some mossy rocks.
Some birch bark laying in the oak leaves.
I think this is a muskrat den in the middle of the pond.
Forgive me, for this is the long version of the story.
Two weekends ago, I decided that I wanted to have some fried food. So I filled my Carbon Steel WOK and give deep frying in a wok a try. Let me tell you, it’s almost as good if not better in some ways then those fancy basket fryers. Here I am fying up some french fries. With the curved sides of the wok, you can drop the food in along the side, and it just slips right in without creating a splash. No burned hands! I made some fried taliapia. I batter the fries too, just for something different. They turned out pretty good. Looks like a square meal to me! Fish, fries, tarter sauce, and Mt. Dew. I love my plates! I even tried making some fried tortellini. These didn’t turn out so hot. The reviews where quite polar, either the people loved them or they hated them. Mine came out pretty dry – I think I may have over cooked them. I think they also needed more stuff inside to work well cooked up this way.
Anyway, yet more ‘not what the title of this blog is about’. Last weekend, I had gotten a beef roast. Pretty large, a couple of pounds. So I cut it into thirds. Two of the thirds I used as roasts. I had one in the crock pot this last week. Not my best work.. but I digress. One third I cut up into thin little strips like you get at a chinese resturaunt. I fried up a batch of these in my wok, as I love it, and it is always on the stove as it doesn’t fit in a drawer. Well, bits and pieces of the meat stuck. I had cleaned it too well from the deep frying sessions. Well, tonight I cleaned it proper. You need to season a carbon steel wok the same you would cast iron to make it non-stick. Carbonize a very thin layer of fat/oil onto the surface. Well, because it had traces of that good beef fat, I set it on the stove tonight and cranked it up. You can see I got it good and hot. A little too hot, my fire alarm didn’t like it. I even had the exaust fan on. I guess the last few times I seasoned the wok, I had the windows open. I finally shut those – it’s 32 degrees out and their is snow on the ground. I haven’t turned on the heat yet, waiting for it to get cold. LOL.
