Roast.

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The roasts from the cow I helped butcher were okay, at first.  But... the flavor was a bit odd.  It's just different.  And I started... cutting back eating it.  The hamburger could be mixed with other hamburger to blend it out easily.  Not so with the roasts.  Well, tonight, I figured the roasts out.  Pressure cooking them, with a bit of garlic powder, salt, pepper, and oregano.  Forty minutes later and... that roast is as good as any pot roast you could think to buy anywhere.  Sliced thin it will make one of the best sandwich meats you could buy.  Even the texture isn't off, and with no artificial beefy "natural" or not flavoring (which I simply don't like).  I am loving that pressure cooker.  Before I am finished for the night, however, I do believe I will pressure cook another meat, a pork roast from the hog I had butchered.  That reminds me, I need to order another hog.  It takes about three months for one to be ready, which is just about right.  They aren't as heavily smoked, the smoked parts, as I am used to.  But that is both good and bad and balances out.  There really is such a thing as too smoky, at least for me.  And mild, you know, I think on even those things with which I like extra smoke?  I think it will grow on me.  I'm sort of easy, if it may not seem like it.

The goal, of course, is to have everything cleaned before I go to bed.  It may be another day or two before I can hit any real work.  I have the rug shampoo and steam vac ready, I just need to find the clear plastic runners so I have a psychologically (and physically, hate wet socks) path to walk.  But I can tinker in this time.  I might try to make some egg noodles tomorrow, and leave them out to dry, for a beef or pork or beef and pork noodle special Wednesday.  It'll be an experiment.  My mom used to make them once or twice a month.  It's a lot of work, but not heavy or hard work.  Mostly, at least for a guy.  Cleanup is what will hit me in the pocket.

I have been working on sudoku.  Improvements have been easy to see.  At the easier end I am doing okay, but not really improving.  It's at the middle and upper levels where I am doing much better.  I am actually in sudoku training mode.  So, actually, right now, I am not worried about times.  I am taking my time to try to pick through spotting things, just with the eye.  I hate doing minutia analysis.  Not my thing.  I want, and really need, to do things on the fly.  It's how I work best.  I have noted, at the very highest levels, I may or may not be able to train up quick mind-eye-hand responses.  The... methods and... patterns... might be too complex.  We will see.  I've only been at it a few days.  Perhaps I am being a bit too hard on myself?  Ah well, I'll... know more... about the truth of these things and more... someday.

Later.