Ah, finally.

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Not a lot.  But a second load of laundry in, after a shower.  Oh, and a spot of dishes going.  I cooked spaghetti and meat sauce earlier, and it will be my meal for the day.  Absolutely not keto.  Absolutely necessary once in a while.  Tomorrow stew, the day after taco salad, then I have to begin fresh with something else.  I'm thinking pulled pork, again, some of which will be used for stew, some for other things.

Which means I best get another pot or two of beef stock thawing.  And... I should begin planning my next stock production.  Though, this time, I'd like to make both beef and chicken.  Not together, mind you.  Though I will be adding pork hocks, potentially to both.  Those really add the gelatin and a few other things.  As well as chicken feet, if I can find them reasonably, if just for the chicken stock.  I might even add tripe, at least to the beef.  If with intentions of eating that, after it is cooked well enough for my liking.

I looked for alternatives to hominy.  Chickpeas, I was told.  Well, okay, that might make a perfectly fine replacement... in a non-keto diet.  But it has more carbs per cup than the hominy, which is pretty heady that way as is.  So... I'll keep looking.  But everything else can go in, for menudo.  A hot fat-meat based soup, with pork hocks, usually menudo, and some other stuff, often topped with a bit of onion and cheese, and can be made mild to stratospherically hot.  I like it medium, if my medium might make you pass out.  I just used scotch bonnet in my spaghetti sauce and can barely taste it, with chipotle as a backer.

It looks like I'll be waiting until the evening, after final chores, to go on to bed.  No nap.  I should go check the waterers.  It reads about 20 F out there, so below freezing but not terribly.  Still, I want them to drink.  Especially after the disastrous day for drinking yesterday.  A good number of good days before that, but...  One really bad day, and hard weather?  I don't want them dying.  I don't even want them stressed.  It's just, there are limits to what I can do.

Later.