Hey everybody! Just checking back in from my hiatus. It's been a wild past year but things are finally settling down and getting back to something resembling normal.
We've taken the past year to get ourselves back on our feet financially, mentally and physically and things are great! I started a new job in October that doesn't involve being gone all the time, my wife has settled into her job and we've both started rediscovering the things we used to enjoy. I've built a cinderblock smoker, a UDS, a "wok" out of a John Deere plow disk, and if monsoon season ever ends in Illinois I want to start on an outdoor woodfired pizza oven. I also set my Weber kettle in a stainless steel prep table so I've got room to work next to the grill.
It's been a year since I closed the barbecue trailer and the stress relief has been substantial. I loved cooking for people but the workload was just too much and the financial/mental strain was more than we wanted to bear. We learned we greatly prefer the stability of steady income and predictable hours with free time to do the other things we enjoy. We're happy.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting back in here more often and seeing what everyone else has been up to while sharing what I'm up to!
Right now I've got a pair of pork tenderloins, a small tri-tip and some chicken on the UDS and it's going to be great!
We've taken the past year to get ourselves back on our feet financially, mentally and physically and things are great! I started a new job in October that doesn't involve being gone all the time, my wife has settled into her job and we've both started rediscovering the things we used to enjoy. I've built a cinderblock smoker, a UDS, a "wok" out of a John Deere plow disk, and if monsoon season ever ends in Illinois I want to start on an outdoor woodfired pizza oven. I also set my Weber kettle in a stainless steel prep table so I've got room to work next to the grill.
It's been a year since I closed the barbecue trailer and the stress relief has been substantial. I loved cooking for people but the workload was just too much and the financial/mental strain was more than we wanted to bear. We learned we greatly prefer the stability of steady income and predictable hours with free time to do the other things we enjoy. We're happy.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting back in here more often and seeing what everyone else has been up to while sharing what I'm up to!
Right now I've got a pair of pork tenderloins, a small tri-tip and some chicken on the UDS and it's going to be great!
