Only 2 meals today but boy they were worth cooking and eating. Got to spend some quality time with my main squeeze and my son.

For brunch (In Alabama we call it a late breakfast) we cooked us up some stone ground grits from North Carolina, some smoked, uncured, organic turkey bacon made from the thighs of virgin turkeys. We served it with homemade fig preserves over toasted and buttered sprouted grain bread. It was some count. That bacon is like turkey jerky.



Despite having to get up at 0300 this morning and having to work from home monitoring a plant start-up, we still had time to run some errands and make it home to have some fun fixing a nice Italian country style soup tonight with:

Smoked sausage, dry beans, kale, carrots, sweet onions, celery, chicken stock, fresh garlic, red pepper flakes and spices. We served it with warm, fresh baked, crusty Italian bread, soft salted butter and a nice Cabernet. Nice dinner on a cold winter night.