Mahindra 4540 4WD

Thanks T.Jeff Veal and Well Seasoned , we're loving this weather.

 

Since tomorrow will be a rainy day, I'll be making spaghetti sauce in the morning and the stuffed shells for supper.

After I get done the sauce, the wife is making some Utica Greens, this is really good.

UTICA GREENS

This recipe for Utica greens comes from Janet Chanatry of Chanatry’s supermarket in Utica, which has held strong against larger competition.

1 large head escarole
2 tbsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic, chopped
4 thin slices prosciutto, chopped
2 Italian long hot peppers, seeded and julienned
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup pecorino Romano cheese, grated
1 cup chicken broth
salt and pepper (to taste)

Clean and rinse escarole twice; chop in large pieces. Boil down for 5 or 6 minutes so it’s tender and wilted.

Place olive oil in a saute pan and heat. Add chopped garlic and prosciutto and render for 2 or 3 minutes. Do not burn garlic.

Add seeded peppers and cook another minute or so.

Add the escarole and all the other ingredients in the pan. Gradually add the bread crumbs and grated cheese, tossing gently until blended. Taste for final salt and pepper seasoning. Place in a casserole; sprinkle a little of the bread crumbs.

Place under a broiler for 3-4 minutes. Serve hot.

 

The spaghetti sauce is simmering and the shells we'll make later on.

 

Before they came out of the oven the wife was sitting at the table so I took them out two minutes early. The stuffed shells and the Utica greens were excellent, this was the first time cooking the stuffed shells, we'll be cooking them again.

 

Looks great Well Seasoned , we were brought up eating meatballs that were cooked in a thinner sauce.

 

I didn't take any pictures today but I got rid of 3 small pines and took three loads of branches (most branches were from some previous work) to the wood dump.

With a bunch of rain coming in, tomorrow I'll move more wood over to the fireplace so I can get rid of it after the rain.

There's a bad accident up in our area, three different squads are at the scene with the road being shutdown.

The last I heard, two were stable and the third was still getting CPR.

 

I used the 4540 with the forks and I took two trailer loads of pine branches and downed pine to the wood dump. The area in front of the 4540 down to the dirt is opened up for a tractor or UTV trail.

This area will be used for snow storage so our driveway doesn't get narrow down on that end if we have a a lot of snow.

 

Looks good,

 

It's been a great fall but I was hoping that I would be burning more pine since we have a chit load. Our first three years living here, we didn't have enough room for all the snow so like an idiot, I filled in the lower driveway without even thinking if we had a fire how the FD get to the other side of the house. Hopefully we won't need the FD but if we do, the lower driveway will be wide open.

 

The 4540 has 970 some hours on it and the last storm had rain and then over a foot of snow so all those extra areas I made for snow worked out pretty good.

Just a couple of not so great pics of night plowing.

 

Not much at all, we've only had the sleds out twice for a total of 40 miles, what have you been doing this winter?

That dish is chicken and potatoes in a chicken broth, my grandmother on my father's side would make it with fresh baked Italian bread.

How has Dawn been?

Any coronavirus in your state yet? We have a private college about 20 miles from here that are bringing back 15 kids from Italy but are sending them home, we have a few kids from this town that go to that college there but I'm not sure if they have been in Italy, stay safe.

 

Picture 0056 & 0057 is the newest snow storage area I made last fall, usually that snow would be at the end of the driveway, 0058 was made last fall but I still need to remove a few stumps so I didn't use it much for snow storage and 0063 is down in the woods past the new garage and 0064 is behind the garage above the garage.