My high-school teaching life has been all consuming recently. After 7 years of teaching, I have come to expect that a teacher, in the month of May, will accomplish one task: work my tail off until my students graduate from high school. Consequently, progress on the jPod is merely a nice idea. The only actual […]
The Camp Cook Forum is having a little competition making dutch oven desserts (see the thread here). I haven’t made a dessert in the Dutch ovens yet so I thought I’d toss my hat in the ring. It seems pretty obvious that I don’t stand a chance though. I also thought this would be a
You may think that the title of this page has something to do with the jPod. Well, you’re somewhat right. It is that time of year when a teacher gets a few days off for spring break. Of course, as it is with most teachers, I have a lot of work to do on my
The high school that I teach at has an annual Spring Arts Festival. For the evening, the student’s creativity is put on display. There is quite a list: welding, photography, quilting, cooking, pottery, painting, gymnastics, instrumental numbers, singing, and much more. This even pulls in about 500-700 people. For this year’s festival some co-workers &
Last Friday night was stuffed food night made with power tools that I usually use on my jPod trailer build. Senior Management & I made stuffed peppers. Here is the recipe: Stuffed peppers: 4-6 Red or Yellow Bell peppers 1 cup of rice (dry) 10-12 mushrooms 1 tsp. Mongolian Fire Oil Smoked Gouda Cheese A
My father-in-law just had a birthday. For his 60th, the family celebrated by hanging out with 50 or so of his friends. He is one of those people that I hope I can be when I’m 60. He is an Ironman triathlete and plans to do the Coeur d’Alene Ironman again this coming June, 2009.
The glue dried on the galley hatch & I opened things up this morning. It looks really nice. It fits the curve of the trailer perfectly. I also did some sanding and other fine adjustments. I am pleased with the outcome. As far as this blog is concerned, visual impact is minimal (See: galley). However,
My latest work on the jPod occurred last weekend. I decided to rework the galley hatch a bit. I felt that the skin could work better for the shape of the trailer & line up on the hinge better than I had it. In the end, I strapped everything down, shimmed the entire inside of
After finishing off the Cowboy Pot roast, Senior Management and I decided that I must make another Dutch Oven dish. This time I made “Chicken Dumpling Stew” (A few Pics Below). It turned out really well. I used a recipe found in the cookbook “Texas Treasury of Dutch Oven Cooking“. The corn was processed &
This past weekend, Senior Management treated me for my birthday. She made a spectacular breakfast Saturday Morning & scheduled the rest of the day just for the two of us. It was my first day off in 18 and a welcome change from daily life. Sunday morning was spent with family & then we all