4/3/24
Today, I finished the latch batch of one pan meat dinner, and cooked the next batch.
By cooking a few pounds of meat at a time in the oven I can have at least most of two, and up to four full days of food pretty easily.
The base is whatever meat sounds good with onions.
I’m likely having steak or sausage, or steak and sausage, sometimes it’s gonna be leaner overall and have chicken breast included as well.
There’s a million ways to have carbs, so what I do there varies.
The pan may just be two or three meats and onions, no carrots, celery, or potatoes.
Or it might have it all.
There’s a million ways to have carbs, so what I do there varies. Haha, I just said that.
Potatoes alone offer a few easy preparations ; over baked potatoes (which cook nicely in bulk), cubes of potatoes included in the pan, instant mashed potatoes/dehydrated potato flakes used as a thickener, etc.
Otherwise, ramen under it when it’s reheated, or rice cooked in bulk – and I have access to both a steamer and instant pot.
Note that the steamer is better for rice, burn notices are the nemesis of instant pot cooking, and no ignore/override setting on it was a design flaw.
Steam your rice if that’s an option and you’re eating less rice than peak bodyweight brian shaw.
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I didn’t use the largest pan, which was a mistake.
I’d have gotten better browning on the sausage had I more available surface area in the pan.
400°, about halfway through I stirred everything around, cooked it all for about forty five minutes total, and while it set went outside (in winter mix) and did a little extra soccer ball dribbling play with a couple stacked bell 36kg (20+16) rack carries.
I went probably 15yds on one of them.
I LOVE heavy rack carries.
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This batch is a little more than a pound of cubes of steak, a little under a pound each of both kielbasa and andouille sausage.
Close enough to 1:1:1
Meat and onions.
I’m on a kick, though this feels sustainable.
How to live my lifting life…
Eat like this and press heavier and heavier kettlebell combinations bottoms up with the same applied to kettlebell juggling as well.
Fit, densely muscled man is developed like so.
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Dribbling the soccer ball has all sorts of little muscles in my hips working.
Even if there’s no quote unquote “point” to it, start developing some “pointless to an adult” physical skill like dribbling a basketball in your off hand, throwing with your off hand (grandpa always threw a football equally from both sides when we were in their tiny southern california front yard (now had I that front yard I’d bench in it)), writing with your off hand, do a cartwheel, or a handstand, the world is your oyster – pick something.
I chose dribbling a soccer ball.
Persistence & Tenacity