I guess people get so used to dogs and cats eating carbs that they forgot what their original food is supposed to be…? Still, it’s so weird from a vet. Yes, the dogs changed during the time they spent with humans, I’ve read dingos can’t eat/use kibble and dogs can but I don’t think it means that meat wouldn’t be the best food for a dog…
And how anyone can mess up meat? Ouch. I feel so lucky I very rarely have that. Never for normal meat. Sometimes I buy a not tasty sausage with too chewy gelatin cover and this almost head cheese smells off (it tastes fine so it’s not spoiled, it would smell even worse than anyway and I wouldn’t taste it… but I don’t like it. the taste is meh) but these are small processed items. Okay, once I bought a slightly bad tasting (not spoiled, never bought spoiled “fresh” meat, Alvaro’s Mom did once, ew) chicken, just a tad worse than nothing… There was the chicken frame that made a bad soup but the meat was okay… And that’s it. I don’t like the meat I buy the same every time but it’s always very much edible and enjoyable.
I almost didn’t eat the homemade fresh sausage with a ton or rosemary, I can’t forget that, I talked about that one a few times here and it was quite a few years ago… But the meat itself was very very good, lovely home-raised pork, it even tried to fight off the rosemary, unsuccessfully but made a valiant effort and I kind of could taste it…
The smoked stuff here is softish, I never bought a truly hard, dry one. Even the smoked ham that was lean where it didn’t have the fat layer, was quite soft. I actually would have preferred a very traditional, harder one. Still lovely and not too hard but firmer.
And I only buy the fattiest smoked pork from the pig farm and that is soft too. And very yum. We need to go and buy more this weekend if the weather allows it (we will have rain, weather forecast says. we actually need some).
It’s so good I can buy cheap wonderful farm smoked pork. I don’t have a way to smoke meat and anyway, theirs is superb. And I don’t understand their pricing… Smoked ribs for less than supermarket fresh ribs…!
It would bother me too but it’s not throwing out food when our body just can’t consider it food 
So I wouldn’t feel guilt at all, just sadness. Messing up some originally edible meat, it’s sad. But if poor thing would have been some plant, the chances of spoiling would have been greater… And how bad is that? All that land, water, energy to go to waste… This fact was considered in a video I saw about the various kinds of cost of food, meat vs plants, and with good reason. It totally matters.
I wonder if I made many thighs (or wings if they go on a great sale, maybe), could I use it as a nice bite in need? I usually roast a few and don’t have peace until I ate my share in its entirety… Maybe if I made more pieces and more often, it would get better. I just very much enjoy tender, spicy chicken sometimes. It’s so easy to eat. It’s irresistible when I make it.
Odd day. I had 2 meals this far, not even close to each others but I ate very little before I couldn’t anymore… What is with me?
I suppose it doesn’t help that I don’t like my egg stew particularly much now… I had problems with the pork liver too (I forgot I have a bit - only a bit as I fried not very much and it was Alvaro’s main dish), I think I will avoid all kind of liver for a while, I got bored of it and it affects its perceived taste, apparently.
But no problem, I just have more meals today again and I surely will use new items for dinner. I already made my jellied fluff. I opened a box of cream today so it will be the really good stuff, butter is nice but cream works best.
Sometimes I eat dessert because I want dessert. Sometimes I eat it because I don’t have something better (now I had to use up some days old raw egg whites in the fridge too). I really need to buy some meat tomorrow. I forgot that I actually have proper meat, pork shoulder with skin but I don’t want to roast that alone, I want 3 chicken legs next to it… 2 for me, 1 for Alvaro. Whenever I make 2, I eat up one, he takes his sweet time and I get envious as I want more… So I will use 3 in the future. I still can fit a little fatty pork into the small oven pan.
Sunny day but cool. We still heat a tiny bit. I walked in a t-shirt but walking generates heat. I saw a swan today and an egret yesterday.
The garden changes every day and probably the forests too but I don’t notice that so quickly. The walnut trees have tiny leaves now, only the black locusts are bare at this point. That tree is super late. But it will bloom soon, Alvaro says, he remembers time related things way better than me. Our strawberry plants are blooming since some time, it’s early. No problem, I can resist them very, very easily in May, not my favs and Alvaro appreciates fruits more anyway. Except I totally adore them and watch the developments in my garden. It’s fun. It’s apple bloom time right now. Our still young Granny Smith is the biggest fruit tree in the garden (it can’t compete with the very big linden tree, the pines let alone the silver birches… but the linden is wider than the others) so it’s quite pretty now with many big white-pink flowers. It doesn’t have much fruit for some reason but it has many flowers every year. The quinces are getting ready, oh that is spectacular as those flowers are really big. While the trees (the accidentally happened young one is more like a bush :D) are small. Now they have lots of pink buds. And I need to enjoy the tulips as long as I can, they all bloom around the same time in my garden so I don’t have them for long.
Lilly of the valley season has just started. And I see very very many lilacs during my walks, they are everywhere next to the road and almost everyone has them. It’s like walnuts, they are absolutely everywhere. We have 3, 2 white and a purple one. Maybe more purple, I don’t remember but only one kind of purple… There are light, dark and pinkish purple lilacs, I love them all but I love variety the most.
Sorry I wrote so very much today again, I try to keep myself from commenting again today…
… if i had heard the chap right that they did owe me … so i tentatively opened the envelop and yes it does say they owe me … phew 
i ate nearly half and put the rest in the fridge. I will try some cold but may have to re heat in the fry pan with some lard to get the taste i need! 
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How did you do this weekend with the 4 birthdays? I know how important this is to you, are you still consulting with Dr Cws? Yeah you’re my hero with the sous vide oven and the magic slicer, and all your wonderful animals. I’ve missed you 
and yes there is absolutely no reason not to be active at any age … the earlier you get into the habit of moving, especially doing something you are passionate about the easier it is to continue … Raymond is totally clinging 9n to his youth with such determination it defies his age… it is his love of dancing that motivates him to bounce back from all his issues 