My take on this whole Cooking thing I see posted here and there.

@cherokeepatti I have had a few women try that when I dated and I set it straight right away, your house your rules and vise verse! It was always a woman (Go figure) LOL.

You asked!

@WillaKissing if there are herbs or spices where I can see them I am tempted to go sniff them. My grandpa had a bath house (no inside plumbing). It was painted white and really bright. He had a shelf that ran along the top and I would reach up and get his jar filled with dill weed and inhale that fragrance. I was a dill weed sniffer at a young age.

@cherokeepatti Now that is cool!

@WillaKissing Made me want to grow herbs and I love the flavors too. I wish there was a green dill weed essential oil, maybe there is. That would be a nice one to put in a diffuser. I love to cook with it, adds a lot of flavor to basmati rice for example. And I make a salad dressing using quite a bit of it.

@cherokeepatti Once my home build is done. I have plans for a little herb growing green house, and year-round tomato's I got ya.

@cherokeepatti I have had more than a few friends ask me over to cook for parties they hosted back in the day, I'd give them a grocery list. I have even had culinary school trained chefs compliment my cooking, my late ex fiancee's little brother was one that had his own fine dining restaurant in New Castle, Delaware, and wanted me to cook for him.

@NativePortlander1970 Impressive.

@NativePortlander1970 Impressive indeed!

@cherokeepatti Thank You :) I thought about it but turned it down, I would have been the only non school or aprenticed cook there, so I wouldn't have been paid as much as the others per union rules.

@WillaKissing Thank You

@NativePortlander1970 You would be an acceptation to the rule when invited in to have your cuisine, I was talking about that women that always comes over and has to improve in her mind on your project! I never had a single guy and I host plenty of hunters on my farm to try the takeover.

@cherokeepatti I Love dill weed :)

@WillaKissing yeah it’s rude to act that way especially if someone knows how to cook well, it’s an insult actually.

@cherokeepatti Yes! Yes, you understand!

@WillaKissing What impressed my late ex fiancee and her Chef little brother was my tweaking their late mother's pork and sauerkraut she served every Easter. I rinsed the sauerkraut of all brine, chopped up some sweet yellow onions and mixed them in and put them in the seven quart dutch oven, browned the Boston butt in evoo with salt and pepper, put it on top of the kraut and onions, added in sweet Italian sausage links with the casing removed, then added in each a half cup of apple cider and grape juice, then slow simmered it for eight hours.
After it was plastic fork tender I removed the bone, removed the pork and sausage, drained the juice to reduce for a sauce, then caramelized the kraut and onions in butter and served with mashed potatoes and glazed carrots.

@NativePortlander1970 I need the address to this restaurant! LOL

@WillaKissing He lost it to the pandemic

@NativePortlander1970 I was referring to your house! LOL

@WillaKissing Have you seen my pinned comment for my chili?

@NativePortlander1970 Yep!

@WillaKissing I have a feeling you'll want to try it

@NativePortlander1970 It just became the plan for today!

@NativePortlander1970 Going to use deer burger and tenderloin though.

@WillaKissing 😭 I want that.

@WillaKissing Tenderloin and ground venison is good as well, I have a 2.6lb rump roast in my freezer for my next batch within the next week and a half that I'll dice down the night before. I usually use strip steak or sirloin roast, when I can afford them.