Well, it has been a busy time in our home the last couple of weeks.  That combined with a crazy week at work, and I haven’t had much chance to do anything here.

Kathy and I have decided to sell our home, and downsize a bit.  Anytime one makes such a decision, there is a lot of work that comes along with preparing for listing.  Oh… and I guess we need to find a new home too.  It will (may) all happen in good time, but at the moment things are just a bit busy.

One of my periodic projects, is to cycle thru the contents of the deep freeze.  Frozen prepared meals resulting from past projects and experiments, as well as ingredients for something yet to be created hang out in the cold waiting to be called into action.  As most things only last so long before the process of freezer burn renders them less than useable, I do try to work thru the contents from time to time.

Then once the space is created, it is back to stocking the upright freezer with new creations and ingredients.  For the last week or two we have worked thru the meals, and this weekend is ‘Meatapolooza’ – the celebration of taking various meats out of the freezer and running them thru the smoker.  Todays projects were pork chops and chicken thighs, as well as a couple of sausages that were left over and begging for a hit of smoke.  Tomorrow will be a dozen of my Italian burger patties and a handful of Turkey Burger Patties.  Then I have about half a prime rib roast that will see some smoke, just not this weekend.

Part of the motivation for doing a Meataplooza  is that I need to begin to prepare my digestive system for next weekend – Ribfest!

I will post from the Ribfest, as my gooey fingers allow.  We have two major events next weekend, a great car show called Hot Nights in the City, as well as Ribfest which I refer to as Meat Sweats in the Park.

Alright, off to pull the chicken from the smoker.  Take a minute if you have time and check out todays culinary creation, Savor Apple Sauce.

Enjoy!