The Buddy System: All before 1PM Today....

All before 1 PM today…

I wish all weekend days were as productive as today. I have already started a fire, put out a fire, made a sauce, made a proper pot of chili, eat a bowl of chili, taken a half hour walk, and started to pull my pork. I literally mean the pork I bought at the grocery store yesterday, not, shirk me girk, you perv.

So, over the last few weeks as the temperature has dropped, I decided I needed a robe, to where in the morning and late evenings around the house. Of course for years I have wanted a robe, but a very specific robe. A large black one, complete with hood, way if I ever needed to go into Witch-king of Angmar, man in black, or Sith Mode I would be prepared. So, when last week on King Size Direct a black Robe showed up that was large and hooded, you know I had to by it. It came yesterday and this morning was the first morning I got to wear it. It was super soft and warm. And in my mind this is what I look like in it:

I’ve also been really excited for this a.m. because I was going to finally try the sweet potato has that came with my meals. I am not sure why but I thought for sure the sweet potato hash would be really good. So of course I wore my black robe while cooking my sweet potato hash. I am not 100% sure what happened. It was either I used too much oil. Some of the soft sweet black robe got caught in the pan, or just bad luck, but when I dumped the sweet potato has into the saucepan with the extra virgin olive oil, I will god damned if the pan didn’t burst into flames. No, I shit you know. It burst into flames. I was not sure what the hell to do. I had never been in a kitchen fire before. Well that isn’t true Mom Carol caught a pan on fire once and she dumped something all over it, was it flower? Sugar? I don’t recall. What I do know is I sort of panicked and picked the burning pot up off the stove and started to run out of the kitchen with it. When I was like that isn’t a good idea. I started to move towards the sink and dump it in there. However, I was like I am not so that is a good idea. I think I blew on it next. Then I picked up he spatula and started to smack at the fire. Honestly, it all happened so fast I am not 100% sure what I did, to put it out. I just know it went out the hash was burned, and the saucepan, well it was toasty to say the least. I am still soaking and have tried to scrub it clean twice already. It might be the end of that pot. This isn’t such a good way to start of a Sunday in which you are planning on preparing food for the week. I think most people would have stopped in the kitchen if they had almost started a fire just warming up stuff form the fridge. No me, I am not that smart, and I had a pork pull after all, paleo style.

Next on my list was to make the sauce, the BBQ Sauce. There is nothing in life I love more than a BBQ sauce. So, after eating some turkey sausage, which was a poor substitution for Sweet Potato Hash, I went back to it. I will be god damned if I didn’t make a BBQ sauce:

I have to admit, I am pretty proud of myself!

Then it was time to play with the pork! The recipe called for onions only, but I was like fuck that. I am using the slow cooker, so I am going to add some sweet tators, and carrots. Why not have some good root veggies with my pork. I got it all put together, doesn’t look to bad does it!

Even used my own sauce to cover it!

Next, it was time to make a proper pot of chili. I used my fancy new toy I got at Safeway last week to help dice the ground beef, while I sautéed the carrots, celery, and onions.

Then I combined it all into the pot and made a kick ass pot of deep kettle chili, which I portioned out for the week and added a little guacamole to, and bam! We have five meals for the week: