I don’t have a blogroll, I don’t maintain the links page I have hidden, and I certainly don’t announce any new food blog that pops up. If you’ve read at any length here at Meathenge, you know this to be true.
But this time it’s different. About 3 years ago someone stumbled in to Meathenge and has been here ever since. Keeping things alive both in the comment section and co-hosting many posts. But don’t think he’s some groupie, oh no sir. He’s been in quite a few newspapers, won many a cooking competition and cooked on TV with our local hero, Joey Altman. Who is this rockstar I speak of? That’s right, our very own Chilebrown.
Ol’ CB snuck off the other night and got himself a blog. Been uploading posts, pictures and laying down some prose. And I have to say, once the guy finds his voice, his flow, he won’t remember our names. And now, without further ado …
Chilebrown and his MAD MEAT GENIUS.
Biggles

This just in, from yesterday afternoon, directly from Jlee. She spotted Ted!
You see, back in September I started a series called Where’s Ted? This would be Ted of Highland Hills Farm. Anyway, I realized that time and time again I’d run across either Ted and/or his famous rancher truck (beaten and muddy). Jlee had spied him on occasion, traveling at great rates of speed with hay flying in all directions. OH, it’s such great fun to find Ted.
This is where our story takes a dreadful turn. You see, while Jlee did most certainly find Ted, his truck was no wheres to be seen. Ted said he’d sold it, shudder. And you know what? He’s not saying what he replaced it with, no sir. Jlee wasn’t able to get it out of him. It’s a mystery!
Please if you’ve seen Ted, help solve this mystery. I can’t go on much longer not knowing what he’s driving, how will I know if I’ve seen Ted or not? The world needs to know.
Biggles

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You bad ol’ drain. I find myself doing major chores here Thanksgiving morning. Last night’s meal needed cleaning up after and the turkey isn’t completely defrosted, yet. We’ve lived here now nearly 8 years and only now you decide to back up on me?
Biggles walks away from the drain, only to turn and say, “Ha !!! I got youuuu! I win! Meathenge Labs isn’t hosting this year!” Clog if you want to, you bad ol’ drain. You don’t bother me!
xo, Biggles

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Well, the sore bones in my face and teeth have finally begun to go away and expect to be 100% in another week or so. Sorry for Meathenge resembling a dead slug withering in the August heat during a drought. Shudder.
What you’re looking at up there is called a “Living Rock”, I don’t know the Latin name. It’s a succulent and it’s blooming!
xo, Biggles

Tiny E was down last week, Z has been pretty much face down since last Sunday. I started down the slope later Monday. About a month ago Z started having some stomach cramps, came and went. Figured it was lactose, then maybe wheat? Now the cramps are coming inbetween food and yesterday he popped a decent fever. Have an appointment was awesome doctor this morning. Eyes are running, coughing up small furry animals, brain dead, that’s me!
Food? Any food we have is slowly rotting in the fridge. For dinner was chicken noodle soup and I had nalley’s chili. I went all out and put the chili in a bowl this time instead of eating it out of the pot. Ugh! Dishes have been in the sink for usually 2 days before I get to them. COUGH.
xo, Biggles

You, “Hey slackass! Where’s the chile verde post?”
Me, “Um, I can’t find the pitchers.”
You, “Whaddya mean you can’t find the pictures, moron.”
Me, “I uh, well, like I checked boffe computers and they ain’t there.”
You, “Find them asshole.”
I’ll keep looking, I’ll bet they’re here someplace. I think my computer is too big, too many pockets.
I snapped this shot last night while laying down some corn oil for to sear some pork steak action. The colors on the little screen on the camera were even bright and happy. The only photoshopping I did was jack the contrast a bit. Pretty cool, eh?
Biggles

I absolutely adore fussing with a large pot of something stewy. I don’t cook this way using a recipe, more along the lines of ratios. Ya know? Such as, if you have 3 pounds of pork shoulder, then you use about half that in tomatillos. And how many green chile peppers do you use? A lot, about *this* much I’d say.
All ready for a chile verde post? Me too, but maybe tomorrow. Ha ha. Nope, today I just stopped by because I had great fun in blackening the chile peppers. I made this pot of green love last night, after work, after picking up the kids from school. I was a little impatient and didn’t feel like roasting the peppers one at a time. See, usually I just toss the suckers on a burner, jack the heat and use my giant tweezers to rotate the little guys. “What to do, what to do?”
Tinker and Tanker knew what to do! They grabbed the fire ring from the wok, tossed on a heavy gauge cooling/baking rack and made a little grill! It was awesome and the picture is pretty too. Ah, the simple things in life make the propeller on my straw hat whirl. And um, if you’ve been doing this for years, don’t point & laugh too hard, eh?
xo, Biggles

it ain’t spring, gone
garden brown, no meat here
bright red love stay, juicy sweet
Biggles

Guess who I found early this morning, as the sun rosed up?
Says here today is considered a day of rest, don’t have to ask me twice. And since I’ll be resting, won’t have the time to be roastin’ up Rocket J. this afternoon.
Oh beautiful squirrel,
Your meat, my grill. We are one.
Tomorrow, I must eat you.
Biggles

Along with a little vegetable garden some citrus and a fair amount of weeds, I planted a sunflower garden. Here we find a nice happy at about 8:25pm tonight. It was handheld, 800 iso, auto everything with a 70-300mm zoom all the way out. Jacked the levels a tad, then hit the contrast even less. I wish you could see the original. The bokeh was fricken amazing with the light on the right.
xo, Biggles

Run vegetable, RUN !!!

Last night at sundown I headed out to catch the last few rays of the sun as it slid down over the Richmond skyline (old houses and power lines). The pumpkins and maters are coming along nicely, the latter reaching nearly 6 feet wide and 4.5 feet up. I figured I’d set my sights on the volunteer sunflower plants that found their way through the flax & chile pepper plants.
Sitting my cuttoffs squarly on the hay & dirt, I pulled my knees up to prop the camera and sat for a while. This is when it all changes. You don’t have to concentrate on standing, crouching or thinking about falling over. The angle of view can change dramatically, I’m 6 foot 2 inches. At this point the tomato plants are over my head, the coyote brush is now clearly a tree. It’s rich, oily perfume falls down I suppose, cause it’s pungent down here. The ground is kinda warm from the day’s sun. The wind is getting brisk and the little leafs wave back.
When peace starts to creep up from behind, the bright yellow/green finches return to their seed sacks. Slowly I turned, brought the camera to my eye bone and carefully snapped off a few rounds at this little bug dood. When you least expect it, it all comes back. Ain’t that cool?
xo, Biggles

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Hi Everbody!
I wanted to stop by and apologize for the complete Lack. The boys are now out of school and am looking forward to some actual cooking. And by that I mean, you get to share in our meals.
The garden is alive this year and doing exceptionally well. As you can see the volunteer pumpkins are coming right along. The tomato plants are 4′ across, 4′ high and climbing, jeez. I have time to water and snap a few shots for fun.
xo, Rev. Dr. Biggles PhM
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The other day we had the post about how badly my lemons suck here at Meathenge Labs. Sure it has a lot to do with my lack of the green thumb and attention to said tree. But even when I was fertilizing it, the lemons took years to turn yellow.
What does one do when such failure is evident? That’s right, plant more citrus! A grapefruit tree to be exact.

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