Kaimusailing

I decided to make an Azorean soup, but with some changes due to not being able to get the proper ingredients. Instead of Portuguese sausage I used kielbasa and referred to a Martha Stewart recipe for kielbasa and kale soup.
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In a large stock pot went diced kielbasa and a diced onion. 8 cups of water and two tablespoons of veggie Better than Broth paste. A large bunch of kale was deribbed and chopped. In it went along with a bag of 15 bean soup beans along with the contents of the cajun spice package. In went a bag of baby carrots and sliced mushrooms. I added a couple teaspoons of liquid smoke and a couple tablespoons of minced garlic. In went a 28 ounce can of Cento crushed tomatoes. The now almost full pot was brought to a boil and simmered for 2 hours.
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There are many who do not like kale and many who do not like beans. I ended up sharing the soup with Big Dave. Afterwards I ended up with 4 quart freezer bags of leftover soup. It will be better the next day, but tasted wonderful right out of the pot.
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My switch to T-mobile as my phone carrier got me free Netflix, but up till now I haven’t seen any shows there that I would care to watch. This morning I had a prompt that a new show was available and I took a look. That show, I can’t even remember the title, didn’t appeal, but there was a series called “Ancient Apocalypse” hosted by Graham Hancock, who I was very familiar with. I began watching and binge watched to the end. Hancock does not pretend to be a scientist or archaeologist, but says he is a journalist. He tries to tie a multitude of ancient myths together and I think he succeeds. He focuses on the Younger Dryas event at the end of the last ice age. Perhaps that event helped end the ice age.
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While cleaning the condemned communal kitchen, a quite awful place, I noticed large black palmetto bug in the trash bin. Later after dark I went in and turned on the light and a large brown palmetto bug was up on the wall in a corner. I decided to try Combat anti roach gel and applied a strand of it beneath the bug who did not move while the light was on. I also put dime sized blobs on the counter. The next day all the gel was gone and that evening I applied another bunch of blobs on the counter. The next morning they too were gone. The third evening I applied more and the next morning they were still there. I presume the gel did its job and the roaches were no more.
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I kept eating the bean soup and in the mornings my sore hip was not sore. It seemed that maybe the soup was remedial or maybe my practice of lounging around and not doing anything was beneficial. We went shopping, I was out of almost everything, but after going through stores and lugging groceries, my hip protested. I wanted to make a chicken dish, so I shopped for chicken, of course, and other ingredients to go with chicken. Also my breakfast larder was almost empty and ham and cheese and eggs were purchased. I was very happy to get some of the square ciabatta rolls which later, one of, paired well with peanut butter and burgundy.
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I will watch the semifinal soccer matches in the World Cup and repair my deflatable dinghy, now that the adhesive has arrived thanks to Amazon. The weather has to cooperate, the repair is on the bottom where it attaches to the tubes. If that fails, I go into the drink with my burden, or my burden goes into the drink. If you have an inflatable dinghy, you are dependent on the adhesives that secure the bottom to the flotation tubes. This time I will follow instructions.
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A sturdy vessel was hauled out and put on the hard right near me and the other land bound vessels in our corner. The skipper is a year older than me and hard at work with rust and anchors and chain, not like me. I feel I could be a detriment to this fellow, I have been slacking a lot and maybe I am healing, but you can’t take it too far, you have to get back into work and get back into the sea. If he follows my example he would quit after slacking off. Got to be careful here. You have to be very careful.
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The weather chilled a bit and I decided to make the chicken cacciatorre. The chicken consisted of four leg quarters which I skinned and then roasted in the Omnia oven in a niche in the woodshop. I prepped about a cup and a half of celery to match my bag of baby carrots, then sliced a large yellow onion.
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While the legs were roasting I watched the semifinal soccer match between Argentina and Croatia. The soccer was very exquisite and at the half I found the legs were very well roasted. I set them aside to cool and then began roasting the veggies, seasoned with black pepper, Italian spice, and garlic salt.
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After the match was over, Argentina winning 3-nil, I added a 28 oz can of Cento crushed tomatoes after letting a couple tablespoons of minced garlic stew in the sauce pan. The can was rinsed out with about a half cup of burgundy.
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The cooled legs and thighs were deboned, diced, and added to the pot and the mixture was mixed and tasted. Not bad. It was soupy, so it was simmered with the top off to reduce. After a while my new neighbor, whose name is Phil, stopped by to see what was cooking. He had a plastic bowl and we had a chat, but he retreated to his sturdy vessel to consume the chicken. I think it could have used a bit more garlic salt.
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The leftovers produced four quart freezer bags of chicken cacciatorre. The image is a shot of the pan, I think it’s 6 quarts, cooking.