From time to time, people have said I'm a good cook. But I think of it more as finding good recipes. Recipes that don't have super complex ingredients and deliver good flavor. I enjoy the search. For the last few years, we typically will get a bulk order of beef from a friend that raises steers. We are going to eat beef and it's our modest effort to buy local and lessen the impact. When you buy in bulk, you end up with some cuts of beef that can be a bit tougher to turn into something yummy that the family will enjoy. So I'm often searching for new recipes for those cuts and a thick and lean Sirloin Tip Roast can be in that category. We are approaching that bulk purchase time of year again so I'm trying to empty out the freezer and decided I'd pull said roast from the freezer and look up a recipe. It was a rainy weekend so it seemed like a good chance to fill up the house with that classic pot roast aroma. This recipe from Sunday Supp Movement reall
The last few days of July, I began to feel a tightness in my chest. I had no other symptoms besides feeling pain in my chest cavity if I took a deeper than normal breath. So I chalked it up to being old and possibly have tweaked a muscle or cartilage in or near my rib cage. But it worsened. It really felt like there was a harness strapped around my chest that was preventing me from taking deep breaths. Amazingly, I think my body was able to shut down the need for yawns or sneezing for 2-3 days while I was experiencing this pain. Then I started to look up some COVID-19 symptoms as this clearly was more serious than a muscle pull. I noticed some folks would say it felt like someone was sitting on their chest. As it relates to trying to take a deep breath, I would agree with this. I was growing pretty concerned about my inability to breath normally. This was something I had never experienced before. By now, it was Saturday, August 1st. I felt like I had made a slight impro