A reasonable dinner.

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About the most expensive meal planned.  Ribs, beef and pork, this time just salt and pepper.  As well, potato salad.  This is the first more complex meal I have attempted.  And on a timetable.  Usually I can start cooking when I am hungry, then cook it until done to my tastes.  Having a time it needs to be done, for something that takes hours...

Actually, even being my first time with ribs this way, and with many changes in plans, it worked out okay.  Too salty, the ribs.  That can be adjusted.  Slightly overcooked, both ribs, which is also easily adjusted... I actually have new cooking timetables and an altered salt and pepper volume in mind.  The mustard and vinegar merinade mix was perfect.  Barbecue sauce wasn't available, nobody could get it in time. I'd like to attempt a keto ketchup recipe from which to try to then craft a bbq sauce.  Though... we will see.

The potato salad was a definite hit.  And the beef ribs were next.  The pork ribs weren't bad though.  I will get better.  Next time, smash burgers, hotdogs or chili dogs, and coleslaw.  I really would like crafting keto replacements for things.  Non-keto neither know or care, as long as it doesn't taste terrible.  Though tastes do vary no matter.  I may even try keto waffles or such, with eggs, sausage, and bacon some time.

I used duck eggs.  You absolutely can't tell.  A few days ago, I suggested I would do so. The Boss's eyes became nervous.  Not sure if he tried them and didn't like them, or if he is simply jumpy about new or different foods.  Then again, duck eggs honestly aren't my favorite fried or otherwise cooked plainly.  Something is a little to a lot different, depending on the day.  Even knowing, I couldn't tell.  All good.

I did let the ducks out today.  No problem getting them out this time.  And, opening the pen tonight, as dusk descended, I found, I think, all of them safely and happily tucked in.  I put there food in, and freshened their two water troughs while opening up.  Their hay needs changed much more often, but it is worth it.

Oh, did I mention?  Muskovy ducks eat mice?  So very awesome.  The indian runners would kill them, for whatever reasons, but only if a particular mouse offended.  No more mouse problems, winter or summer, is my guess and hope.  I might buy live feeder mice, to help train them.  Plus, nothing like watching a pest go down an appreciating gullet!  Without a mom to show them, they may just not realize the delectable nature of mice?

Tomorrow I hope to install the last post, for the clothesline.  Hmm... not sure if the saw needed is here?  If not, I will work in the cave.  I've been slipping.  But a good, even slow, week could catch me up.  And a few three to four day weeks at three to five hours per could see me much further along.  He... is still arriving... His time.  I must be, will be, ready.  Good night.