Bluefish on a bed of kale with blue potatoes

Blue potatoes
Alaskan Bluefish (from a friend)
lemon
olive oil, s/p
Russian Kale

Bake at 400F for 30-45min~

Hatch Peppers and taco stuffers

New Mexico Hatch Peppers

Baked in the oven at 400F with olive oil, s/p for 20-30min~

Grilled zucchini (olive oil, s/p), taco meat (ground beef, cumin, tomato, onion, s/p....)

Custard Apple Pie and Oven Baked Apples

8 apples
brown sugar
cinnamon, nutmeg
grand marnier
flour
eggs
milk
butter

Sautee apples with sugar, a touch of water, grand marnier, cinnamon, nutmeg.  I made a homemade pie crust and layered the apple slices.  Make a custard and pour over the apples.

Bake at 325F for 30-45min til custard is cooked through.

Cut apples in half and core.  Stuff with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sprinkle grand marnier.  Bake in the oven at 325F for an hr.

Harvest and easy grilled dinner

Grilled sausage and zucchini, caprese salad

Cukes, spearmint, sage, thyme, peppers

Red Russian Kale

Serrano Peppers

Hickory Smoked Ribs

Hickory Smoked Plum Carnitas

8.5lb pork shoulder bone in

Homemade spice rub (will post recipe separately)

Honey, Yellow Mustard, Cumin

It was in the smoker for 8hrs at 250F using hickory wood chunks.

Internal Temp 187F (typically I'd prefer 190-195F for pulling, if I were to serve it as is--but I knew I was going to continue cooking this meat)

Let cool for a solid 30min to 1hr.

I pulled some of the pork and left some large chunks also.  Dump the meat and the bone into a large foil baking pan (double the foil pans in case of leak).  

Pour in 2 cups of wine, 

4 plums(halved and pitted), 

1 lime(squeeze over the dish and then drop it in), 

2 quarts of homemade pork stock(from last shoulder I cooked, partitioned, and froze), 

onion(rough chopped)

3 garlic cloves

Bake at 350F for 1hr

(on the left) Leftover Thai yellow curry paste, coconut milk, some of the plum pork stew, and potatoes.

(on the right) Sautee some of the pork with a little bit of the juice on high heat until crispy.  

Caprese Salad

Tomatoes, Fresh Mozz., Basil(from deck), bed of Russian Kale from garden, s/p, olive oil, Balsamic vinegar