I set a twelve-hour pot roast to slow cook this morning, but I should have put in my contact lenses first because now I’m not sure if my fingertips touched those chipotles or not.
TAGS: pot roast, fingers, cooking, chipotlesLast night I flew out to the east coast to share an excellent pot roast dinner with Steve and his wife (with potatoes, I might add, and by this I naturally mean the dinner, of course, because it would be silly to say that Steve’s wife is “with potatoes”, although now that I’m thinking about it, I bet a woman who could give birth to potatoes would be pretty popular with the men, once word got around).
TAGS: wacky ideas, pot roast, potatoes, dangling particlesOnce the notion takes hold of you that you may have just met a woman capable of giving birth to potatoes, you have little hope of stopping the whirlwind of unexplainable behaviours you will find yourself engaged in over the course of the next 24 hours, which in my case, meant waking up this morning in Oregon and realizing that I had somehow just bought a house right next door to Steve and his wife…. and their pot roast.
TAGS: wacky ideas, pot roast, oregon, unexplainable behavior“The idea, Keith, is that you and I will travel around the country together eating pot roast, writing about the places we see and the people we meet along the way, as well as any thoughts or insights we might have about the pot roast, which we’ll then publish as a coffee table book.”
TAGS: books, adventure, travel, wacky ideas, pot roast, roadtrip, writingThe van pulls out of Boston early with the three of us - me, Steve, and Steve’s wife, who we’d both thought would be staying home, but surprises us with her enthusiasm for the pot roast tour when she quietly slips into the van this morning, slides into one of the back seats and says only, “My bags are on the porch,” which I’ll admit I first thought meant bags of potatoes, but of course ended up meaning her clothes and things, which luckily, ended up wedging between the leftover coolers just fine.
TAGS: adventure, pot roast, potatoes, roadtripTo think that until just the other night I’d never even been east of the Mississippi River, who would have been able to guess that I would suddenly find myself pulling away from one of the countries most historically rich cities with two nearly complete strangers, my hands gripped tightly to the oversized steering wheel of a used Snap-on delivery van, in search of America’s pot roast?
TAGS: adventure, wacky ideas, pot roast, roadtrip, mississippi river“Thauutss auu shauum,” said Steve about the Bay Area meltdown, his mouth stuffed full of pot roast.
TAGS: pot roastKeith’s stomach grumbled and gurgled at the thought of those delicious breads, pot-roasts, potatoes and that Belgian organic brioche.
TAGS: bread, pot roast, hunger, potatoes, briochetoday i shall make pot roast.
TAGS: pot roastHaving just eaten his body weight in pot roast, Hank barely had room for desert.
TAGS: pot roastSo, I’ve packed one box of books, which means that all that’s left to do is pack or sell everything else, clean up so I can contact a realtor and sell the house, somehow get rid of two acres of nursery stock, relocate the business while finishing up this year’s projects before the fall rains set in for good, and find something for dinner tonight.
TAGS: pot roastPot roast for dinner tonight, which begs that old question: if I roast it, will they come?
TAGS: pot roastyes, i am aware that october lacks yet a day, but it is sunday, and lovely, and all is well and so it is in honor of young buxtehude that i make The Season’s First Pot Roast; and Pie! don’t forget the apple pie.
TAGS: pie, pot roast