Looks wonderful, makes me hungry and I just ate a big breakfast.

I just put on a vat of ham and lentil soup. A great recipe, it simply all goes in the post at once with no prep. It's hearty.

Ham hocks or ham bones, carrots, onion, celery, a cinnamon stick, bay leaf, water, beef broth.

I love lentil soup! Never tried a cinnamon stick in it, sounds interesting, must try it next time.
Though I use a couple of whole cloves and a bay-leaf or two, from the laurel tree by my south window.

Your meal looks delish, lilod!

I've never been brave enough to try cooking a whole bird, of any kind. LOL I'm kind of a chicken when it comes to the kitchen.

Last night I made little individual meatloafs and was running low of ketchup. I fretted about having to use BBQ sauce, even though I know tons of people who make meatloaf that way. LOL I'm just not good with change.

I quite eating game hens, they call them game hens but they have never been game and they aren't all hens. They are cornish cross chickens butchered at two to three weeks old. These chickens have been bred to mature at sixteen to twenty weeks. They have to be meat birds because they grow too big for their bodies. What gets me about them their legs are as big as a layer chicken's get at that young age. These chickens got to move around and were fed 2x a day rather than stuffed 24/7 so they had texture and not fat.

Variations on a theme.

Cornish cross tonight, have to make do with factory game, as it's the only game in town.

Simplicity itself. Roasted bird, roasted potatoes, green beans and whole wheat bread toasted with a bit of garlic and mucho butter. White wine to wash it down, home brewed, of course, where I'm from it ain't real unless you make it yourself. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Did I ever tell the tale of one of my relatives, the firefighter who ran a still out back behind the fire house where he worked? Can't remember....

Would love to raise some free ranging birds, but the local wild life such as coyotes, possums, raccoons and raptors might think I am opening a deli just for them, not to mention my own pack.

Hmmm, if we are free enough and well-off enough to be picky about where our food comes from, we must live in a remarkable country.

As that former Russian comedian was wont to say,

What a country !!!

Elia

I don't know how it happened, but I've got a note on side of fridge with list of what's in meat drawer and
"use by" dates so I don't wind up tossing a packet. I've got two packages of thicksliced bacon getting close so whatever we have will feature bacon...LOL I'll lay it all in roasting pan in 425 oven and then freeze most.

Bacon and eggs sounds good...with cheese toast. josh

dh gone, dd's choice to dine out - Chinese.

I've always kind of wanted a still...

I'm also pretty sure the only times I've had bird that fresh have been meals in small Mexican towns. For a late lunch/early supper, I killed off the soup I had made with the leftover turkey carcass, white beans, garden tomato (from the freezer), white-flesh yam, garlic and spices including lots of fresh smoked paprika. Since I don't really love turkey, I wasn't expecting to love the soup...but I did. Dinner after that was popcorn.

And for breakfast: tamales from the lady from Guerrero.

Pot roast, slow baked all day; surrounded by potatoes and smothered with onions. Green beans and mushrooms on the side. This sort of meal is a rarity, I usually use meats as a seasoning, not as an entrèe.

Made pumpkin pie for dessert; an experience in itself. I usually buy the cans of already-pureed pumpkin, add the eggs and condensed milk, and season to suit myself. For some reason, I put "can of pumpkin for pie" on the list for DH to get on his next grocery trip. So I pick up the can of puree to see how many eggs, and their recipe doesn't list any sugar or spices. I'm puzzling over un-spiced pumpkin pie when my gaze focuses on the label which plainly states: "Pumpkin Pie Mix". All I can say is that the finished pie looked okay and was edible. And, next time, I'll buy the pumpkin.