Our barbecue did not work here – all the
fittings are metric and I could not find any adaptors. So along with almost
everything else we own - it has gone into the loft until we land back in a
country with 240 volts and metric measurements.
It hardly seem possible but there is now
more stuff in our basement and loft than there was in our basement in Vienna.
So – anxious not to delay our foray in to
the world of ‘cook outs’ we bought a new Weber gas barbecue which we could use
to both barbecue and smoke our food – using wood chips to add flavor to the
meat.
I was rather skeptical about this but it does seem to work and we have
had one success so far. I hope to hone
my skills trying a range of recipes from our meat smoking cookbook. So far I
have acquired alder, apple and hickory woodchips.
Tonite I am smoking some beef and will use
hickory wood chips - and have high hopes. And yes I do have a variety of wooden
planks that I can use to cook fish.
In the meantime we decided that we should
have a bird feeder and a squirrel feeder so that we could watch the local
wildlife in action. These were acquired and met with instant success – except
that the squirrels ate the entire contents of the bird feeder and totally
ignored the squirrel food.
