Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Dinner of champions

Once again the heat wave continues but this morning it's heading out for a little bit. Running is so hard right now, no matter how hydrated I am or how much I drink on the run, my body can't keep up. I'm a sweat machine.

I can eat really well in hot weather. If I really wanted to make something in the over I would use the solar oven. The grill works great, so last night was grill night. I posted I would have this a few days ago but the meat at the store looked horrible. I don't eat steak often, and I certainly don't buy $9 a pound steak but I was feeling frisky and went for it.
Those bad boys were over an inch thick. I trimmed a lot of the fat off and I ate the entire steak. Someone else has half of theirs in the fridge for lunch. They only took 45 minutes on low heat to cook, but it was worth waiting for.
When grilling, why not grill some veggies from the garden. Seasoned with dry Bavarian brown mustard seed, rosemary, garlic, thyme, bay leaves and sage. I made some noodles but everyone knows what noodles look like so no pictures. No picture of the finished product and no picture of me content and full laying in bed sleeping like a cat in the sun.

My corn is about ready to start earring (I wonder if that's the proper term), my beans are going to pop in the next week, my pumpkin has crawled out of the fence and is heading for the hills. I love to shoot pumpkins so I'm guiding it around the watermelon and under the fence edge. 100 pound pumpkins should be fun targets. I've got jalapenos that are ready to be picked and my pepper plants are still producing nicely. The tomato plants are busting out, one is almost at eye level and I'm no dwarf. Cucumbers are climbing around and should start producing in the next few days.

The only work for the garden now is making sure I direct everything in the proper direction and a lot of water. In SHTF I would be hauling water and using rain water for the garden if it was kind enough to actually rain. It's not hard work but it's time consuming.

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  1. MattJuly 25, 2012 at 8:54 AM

    At least you are in shape to haul water. There will be many many people drop dead from trying to do this as we ( yes I include myself here ) are too fat and out of shape to do much of anything in heat that involves heavy work.

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    1. MaxJuly 26, 2012 at 3:07 PM

      Never too late to make a change. I'm not a health nut and if I actually watched what I eat.. well I would be in amazing shape. I like food too much so I get out there and make a go of it. I started small and it doesn't take long.

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  2. What if it's today? - A survivalist's blogJuly 28, 2012 at 9:55 AM

    That meat looks wonderful. Please tell me you DIDN'T accidently overcook it. We don't get enough rain during the entire winter that I could store to water everything that I grow. Fortunately I have a hand pump for the well but the thought of having to hand pump to water everything...it would kill me! And I'm in pretty good condition.

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    1. MaxJuly 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM

      Well done isn't overcooking to me, so no, not overcooked at all.
      Hand pumping for everything sucks, that's how we did it growing up but it would be better than hauling it around with a wagon and buckets.

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  3. kymberJuly 28, 2012 at 2:35 PM

    the meat looks great but i am loving the veggies - wish you had have taken a pic of those veggies after grilling - i looooove fresh veggies from the garden grilled with some olive oil and sea salt - yummeh! our corn is 6-8 inches - no tassling or ears yet but still looking decent. we have a nice long growing season (until end of sep.) so i have my fingers crossed. hoping for a zucchini soon and am admiring yours in the pic. actually have tomatoes now and just waiting for them to grow and turn red. we don't really do any serious harvesting here until around mid-august so everything is looking good. do you have a gutter/rain barrel installed? we had one back in the city where it rained alot less than here and i used the rainbarrels for watering those gardens.

    your friend,
    kymber

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    1. MaxJuly 30, 2012 at 1:19 PM

      I have 220 gallons of rainwater collected, since it finally rained enough to fill them all. Last year they were always in use, and it takes 110 gallons for the garden/lawn.
      I'm looking forward to using them for the rest of the year if the rain keeps coming.

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  4. jambaloneyJuly 30, 2012 at 4:56 PM

    oooooooohhhhhhhh... rib, cap-off - LOVE 'em, veggies look awesome too!!

    kymber always has leftovers, me??? yeah, right!!!

    where do you haul water from?? if you doing it manually, try one of these:

    http://www.dbestpump.com/

    cheers!

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    1. MaxJuly 31, 2012 at 9:20 AM

      I'm not hauling it right now, but if I had to I would use my wagon and containers. I'm less than 100 feet from a creek if needed. For the rain barrels I have a 12 volt pump. It takes about 2 hours to get the whole garden and yard done, but it's time well spent.

      I like the pump but at $200 it's a lot for what I use. Growing up we had an old fashion hand water pump. It sucked in the winter and only a little less in the warm seasons, but the water was amazing.

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