FOOD, man cannot live by whisky alone.

@RianC, you are a brave soul cooking outdoors with two toddlers, Here is a pic of pan fried bacon...with no toddlers around.

@Hewie, the finished product… and yes, there is butter on the bread. lol

@paddockjudge Those tomatoes from the garden?

@paddockjudge Absolutely perfect

@paddockjudge - mmmmm bacon!

It was only a small portable bbq and we orchestrated things so that, once lit, I never moved from my cooking spot, which also allowed me to act as as a human shield. Downside was my eyes seemed to be permanently in smoke. My eldest is almost five now, and he's reasonably well behaved and predictable, so his 'job' was to keep an eye on the youngest (who's completely wild like Bam Bam from the Flintstones).

Yeah, it was stressful ha ha

Pan Fried Lemon Pepper Trout with Brown Basmati Rice and Asparagus...

@Nozinan, the tomatoes are from the garden, so many tomatoes!

@YakLord Now that do look tasty.

@paddockjudge A pan full of streaky bacon: That could be the Canadian flag.

@BlueNote It would have to be back bacon!

Garden is into extra innings!

Different colours this morning

@paddockjudge nice! our chili's have been coming in strong this month.

@paddockjudge as has the okra, my favorite. your tomatoes look excellent. ours a getting mature and soft too quickly.

@paddockjudge we made some home grown stir fry with everything the other night.

@casualtorture, your garden has yielded beautiful produce! I don't have any experience with okra, but I'm looking forward to a taste from your crop when I make a visit to TN. I have a hunch I may not be alone...

@casualtorture, I am infested with tomatoes, four varieties. Reducing (pun intended) my tomato inventory with a pan of simple chili, all ingredients are local.

@paddockjudge Don’t let the ump catch you using a little tomato juice on your fastball.

So many tomatoes! A friend has left us so many boxes of tomatoes over the past week... I've made tomato sauce, mango and pineapple salsa, and a tomato and lentil curry (pictured below). Still to come: more tomato sauce and a tomato and eggplant curry.

Haven’t BBQed in a while. Probably because e rest of the family was away for lots of the summer and then I’ve been busy.

Tonight we celebrated the second night of Rosh Hashana. My brother and his family came over and my sister in law marinated some flank steaks which I grilled. The asparagus are tossed in olive oil, balsamic and kosher salt then grilled as well. Not seen in this photo are my aunt’s pickled salmon and my mother’s challah.

The disparity in the cooking levels of the steak was achieved by starting the last one on the frill as I flipped over the first two…

I ate well…

@paddockjudge A bowl of that chili would make an excellent accompaniment to the infamous meatball sandwich.

Sunday Morning BBQ

@BlueNote, oh yeah, chili and burger… straight to meat rehab sessions.

@paddockjudge If that was my BBQ one of those sausages would never make it to a plate. I’ll see you at a Meathounds Anonymous meeting.

@BlueNote, I packed is a lunch for that meeting

@BlueNote, perhaps next time.

I guess it would be cruel to show this to my vegan friend.

@paddockjudge Is that a "Broilermaker"?

@Nozinan I like that you refer to your grill as “the frill”.

@MRick simply. A typo with this virtual keyboard.

I miss my blackberry