You know what I mean! Mark Brown May 4, 2023 I haven’t made a brisket in awhile. The last time I made it I simmered it to make Mexican pulled beef. That was a couple of years ago. For a special occasion I decided to break out the meat curing skills I learned years ago. …
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Don’t Be Afraid To Let Fruit Ripen
Be patient with produce Mark Brown March 30, 2023 Grocery stores are good at stocking most everything a person needs and/or wants. Meat, vegetables, fruit, snacks, baked goods, spices, medicine, cleaning supplies, and other items are all things found in a well stocked grocery store. Bigger chain grocery stores will have all of that while …
Lessons From The Home Buying Process
And some from home owning as well! Mark Brown March 23, 2023 This is intended to be an addendum to my essay about how being a home owner has changed me. Instead of being released as one solid essay, I will be posting a couple specific lessons at a time so I can get into …
Black Peppercorns
Whole or Ground Mark Brown March 8, 2023 Black pepper is the spice I used the most in cooking. It is only rivaled by kosher salt in terms of overall use. The combination of freshly ground black peppercorns and kosher salt creates a dynamic flavor that offers just the right level of heat for what …
Building a Better Home Gym, Part 3
Even MORE Lessons! Mark Brown January 25, 2022 Lesson 5: Specialty bars are luxuries. The ultimate gym accessories are specialty bars. Yes, lat pulldown machines, t-bar rows and landmines are all very useful accessories but they don’t compare much to bars in the grand scheme of things. I use those 3 specific examples because they …
Building a Better Home Gym, Part 2
More Lessons Experienced Over the Last 2 Years Mark Brown January 19, 2023 Lesson 3: Take inventory of the resources that can be thrown at the project before buying anything. The word budget tends to call money to the mind, but it applies to everything that can be called a limited resource. It will determine …
2022 Year In Review Part 2
Squat Development Mark Brown December 27, 2022 Going into 2022, the squat was the weakest of my main lifts. I restarted squatting in summer of 2020 after a year and half break from it. I have been doing it much more consistently since the summer of 2021. During a 12 week program that was more …
2022 Year in Review
Part 1: General Overview Mark Brown December 25, 2022 This year has been a period of progress in my strength training. It also saw multiple shifts in my thought process towards lifting and everything that goes into it. Certain areas and lifts saw more improvement than others did. I will detail them in subsequent entries. …
Critically Thinking Through Programming, Part 1
Evaluating Programming Mark Brown October 12, 2022 Value has been a dominant thought in my mind recently, as evidenced by the 2 part essay that I released over the last couple of weeks. I seek to put value in a different light this time. Value is best stated through actions taken. That inherently involves making …
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Research and Development, Part 3
Mark Brown August 16, 2022 Supplemental lifts are what is the bulk of any training session that takes place are made up of. I do spend a lot quite a bit of time on the main lift because of the raw volume that is involved, but it is far from the majority of the time …
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