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I love lamb but the only time I see it is at Aldi on occasion. Bought the equivalent of mini t-bones once and had to put some away in the fridge before the boy ate it all. I'm getting closer all the time to having enough grass to swap from goats to sheep. Ham with white beans seems so overdone but I can't think of anything else that would pair as well. Maybe those smoked pork chops that they sell or smoke some light pork cut like loin/tenderloin.

Maybe Bacon Explosion. Insanely unhealthy -- loose breakfast or other loose sausage wrapped in weaved bacon and smoked or baked. Even has it's own wikipedia page for becoming an internet phenomenon. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_Explosion

The Bacon Explosion is made of bacon, sausage, barbecue sauce, and barbecue seasoning or rub. The bacon is assembled in a weave to hold the sausage, sauce, and crumbled bacon. Once rolled, the Bacon Explosion is cooked (either smoked or baked), basted, cut, and served.

If I did white/chicken chili, it would have to be really spiced up chicken. Maybe blackened chicken with a plenty of freshly ground coarse black pepper.

Grate are locked in place to prevent a food tragedy.

Great White, Pinto, Kidney, red, black. Probably 25 lbs total that need to be rotated out.

Gonna try a quick soak and cook on those beans that I don't really know the age of. I guess I should start dating the containers, duh. Need to make up some pork rub, bbq sauce and salmon brine now that I have all the ingredients. Need to do a few more dishes including the new set plus the new dutch oven. Plastic plates will go in the travel trailer.

If the beans are good, I'll be able to make Provencal beans, bbq/baked beans, ham bean soup, chili with beans and a batch of some kind of beans for canning. Ball canning book with 400 recipes and nothing for beans aside from general processing for dry beans or as one ingredient for veggie soup. Even USDA/UGA has them with tomato or molasses sauces.

I suppose low acid pressure canning times of 75/90 minutes would do most any kind of bean recipe. Chili Con Carne from USDA/UGA is 75 minutes for pints and has ground beef. Just follow the other rules of no thickeners/pasta/rice, nothing that might disintegrate and never hurts to add some acid. I've got about 30 clean empty pint jars and a few quarts and half pints. Got some canned items that need used or dumping out because I didn't like it however many years ago I canned them.(more dating of things needed)

All I wanted to do is smoke some meat. Then I bought the dutch oven and things seem to have snowballed from there.

Other than mowing the place Monday (& ‘eating’ a lot of dust because it was windy & very dry), the only thing of note accomplished that was garden related was deadheading some of my California Giant zinnias to collect next year’s seeds.

Yesterday, I left at 8:45 to take an elderly cousin to a cardiology appointment & I didn’t get home until 2:30 (she treated me to lunch, which was nice).

Then it was a ‘consultation’ with mom on what to have for lunch & dinner today, plus breakfast & lunch tomorrow .... one of my brothers is visiting & spending the night. Then it was grocery shopping for what we didn’t have.

After watering my RoS bushes, I got mom going with the cordless blower so she didn’t have to sweep the patio. The blower suddenly quit (initial research is not promising on a ‘fix’) so there’s that to deal with in the near future.

Fortunately, there was a good tennis match on until almost midnight so I had something to listen to/watch while doing food prep in the kitchen. I pickled a red onion (going in a salad), trimmed up green beans, made a lemonade pie, & cut up a watermelon.

This morning, I have cleaned the downstairs guest bathroom & my bathroom upstairs (which I have to share with overnight guests). I made a 6:30 am run to Walmart & got some new washcloths & a dish drying mat, all of which are in the washing machine & about to go in the dryer. The house is in good shape otherwise.

This brother has a cordless pole saw with a 3’ extension. He’s supposed to bring it & help trim up some trees. If he brings it this trip, I’ll be hauling tree debris the rest of the week.

My cousin’s farmer fiance is going to try to find me straw bales for next year’s straw bale garden ... for free, if he can or at least cheaper than the farm bureau price ($6.59 + tax). I would like to get the bales this fall so next spring, I’ll be ready to go! I have room to store them on one of those 2 pallets I got the roofer to leave for me :-)