Submitted Friday, 05FEB2010
This is an open thread.
Happy TGIF Blogmocrats! Another week has been put in the books, Obama is still failing in the polls, the Right is gaining, and the Saints are in the Superbowl. I know, the Colts are there as well, but the real story is the Saints. We also have a massive snowstorm for the Eastern Seaboard, FEET of snow are predicted in some areas. We are going to get 8” where we live and we have a tradition when it does this, we BBQ. On the left are the ‘snowbirds’ smoked and spiced chickens, on the right are two brisket flats (butcher was out of the big cuts). One of those brisket (briski?) will be cubed super small and use in chili. I am a Yankee Smoker(c) so I use cherry, apple, and maple wood.
So, back to the topic, making great drinks and ‘happy hour’ food in your home. Good booze is not rocket science, nor does it have to be expensive. A very small amount of prep time, a little attention to detail, some creativity, and bingo: cocktails after work for you and yours, or you and your friends. You will need, the right equipment, yummy finger foods, and some great drinks. The internet is replete with recipes and methods so I wont bother here. Don’t let terms like muddle, strain, and garnish intimidate you. An orange can be garnished and made into ingredients in seconds. If you screw up a drink too badly, it can always be tossed out. (that was a difficult sentence to type)
The equipment is easy, a nicely equipped bar need some shot glasses, a strainer, a peeler, a sharp knife, a spoon or two, a large shaker, and some BIG ice cubes, little and commercial ice melts too fast and waters down the drink, you paid for booze, and booze you shall receive. Shaved ice is for margaritas, not martinis. BIG ice doesn’t melt as fast and cools the drink much quicker. The ice and the shaker are the trick, alcohol-forward drinks like martinis should be ‘stirred’, or the ice should be gently swirled around in the shaker. If you shake the hell out of a martini, the ice slams up and down and shatters in the shaker and dulls the drink. If the drink is citrus based or sours some gentle shaking is in order, but don’t shatter the ice and water down the drink. A little agitation with BIG ice will do the trick.
The booze will be determined by what recipes you like. I will add this bit of advice. Cheap booze is just plain bad. Top of the line booze, is usually too expensive and really not that much better than the above average stuff. I like to get average vodka like Smirnoff or Danaka and infuse it with chilies or cinnamon or pepper corns. The chili and the pepper vodka are great ingredients in a Bloody Mary. If you are going to make a James Bond style, no-flavorings vodka martini, use the best vodka you can get. If you are making Screwdrivers, average vodka will do. Same goes with whiskey, gin, rum, und zu weiter. Don’t wreck the expensive booze with heavy mixers.
The food does not have to be extravagant either. For example, most grocery stores carry some very nice cheeses that may get overlooked as ingredients in main dishes. Washed-rind cheeses with capers on stout whole wheat crackers are nice with whiskey based drinks, aged Gouda or simple Vermont Cheddar on thin slices of toasted baguette are great with fruity drinks. Now, with martinis I prefer a Pecorino or Chihuahua (the cheese, not el chupacabra’s avatar) with a little anchovy on toasted baguette. If that’s not your style, plan ahead a little, make your own pizza dough ahead of time and make individual pizzas to order; cook wings and let your guests make their own sauces or spice powders, or better yet have them bring their favorite topping.
The possibilities are endless if you just take a little extra time to plan and make yourself experiment; If you are in the mood for wine, try a malbec or some type that you have never had instead of your house vino, try that cheese that you never heard of, randomly select a drink and make it. Get out of the rut and try to do something new.
With a little effort, anyone can make a great drink.
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Tags: Drinking Thread, Open thread
Don’t tell us you’re already snookered for Super Bowl Weekend!
WHO DAT!
two words: blue label!
WrathofG-d wrote:
blue label is fine stuff
use these so that ‘rocks’ dont dilute all that hard work.
coldwarrior, your photos are great. cluck needs to move over.
what is that little tiny pie looking delicacy on the lower left. also, the photo of the orange? martini makes me just want to pick it up.
Macker wrote:
me?
nope, i have had one martini in the past 5 days.
but now i am going to have another.
Ok, I’m going to make myself an apple martini.
(poof! I am an apple martini…)
@ chickadee:
that little thing on the lower left is a thermometer.
bbq needs to be at about 225F
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
good luck!
what ingredients do you have?
I’m not a sweet cocktail person,so nothing but top shelf will do for moi!
When it comes to drinking straight up is the best.
But I must admit that the Scotch needs the rocks to melt a little.
And never never never put rocks in wine or it will kill you.
/yeah yeah yeah I know but really don’t you deserve to die if you put ice in wine?
@ unclassifiable:
And furthermore warm sake is underrated as a winter drink.
@ unclassifiable:
Used to love sake.
Those briskets looks good.
But I has issues with smoking and tinfoil…
I like tinfoil free range BBQ.
LOL!
Pecan gets overlooked as a smoking wood, its very similar to Maple, but a tad lighter in smoke flavor yet still kinda sweet. I also like Alder.
“Now, with martinis I prefer a Pecorino or Chihuahua (the cheese, not el chupacabra’s avatar) with a little anchovy on toasted baguette.”
Dang. Had to put that qualifier in parentheses, eh?
@ bar:
Your avatar, lololol!
vagabond trader wrote:
copy that
Ok, I must run for Shabbat…..and since this is a drinking thread I offer some good ‘ol drinking music!
@ bar:
NICE!
@ WrathofG-d:
joyous shabbat, wrath
@ coldwarrior:
Dekuyper Sour Apple Pucker
Smirnoff Vodka
sour mix
I don’t own martini glasses, so I’m using an oldfashion glass. I don’t own a jigger or a shot glass, either, so I used my kitchen scale (in grams) to get the proportions correct.
I think I inadvertently made a double, though–how many grams in a shot glass?
and for tonight…
Y’all are cruel! I have nothing to drink except ginger ale. Wah. Oh, well, it could be water.
@ bar:
pecan is nice, but hard to get up here.
we have cherry and maple coming out of our ears.
The anti-intellectuals over at 1.0 are of course against the idea of a civics/literacy test before people can vote. I agree with Tom Tancredo, and think that Obama might not have been elected if such a test had existed.
A good portion of the people who voted for Obama are obviously not so bright (and neither is Obama – “Marine Corpse”), and with the great number of foreign immigrants coming into this country (legally and illegally), people should have at least a basic understanding of American civics and literacy. Those who fail to pass the test should not have the right to vote. And the test wouldn’t have anything to do with race, it would be based on pure knowledge, nothing else.
As the populace becomes more dumbed down (liberals who think not with their brains but their feelings), it’s probably only a matter of time before the American public would elect a “Mugabe” type dictator. All the candidate needs is the right skin color and a few bumper sticker slogans that gullible morons can believe. 0bama is proof of that.
@ unclassifiable:
Looks good, must try. Maybe tomorrow.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
dont use the sour mix.
use a tablespoon of sugar.
pucker is very puckery!
@ coldwarrior:
I’ll try that next time, but it’s pretty good as I made it!
Iron Fist wrote:
I have tequila. hmmmm margarita..
@ coldwarrior:
I forgot you are using real wood.
I have to use these “Flavor Bisquettes”, it’s the trade off I had to make for really good consistent yet lazy BBQ and I can “cold smoke” stuff.
The Brisket beef jerky I made last weekend, came out really great.
Mad Mullah wrote:
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
ok then!
enjoy
sorry mad mullah I messed up that post. wasn’t me it was them.
@ vagabond trader:
From my latest MRI
/
bar wrote:
i’ll use both, i aint proud
The Colts and the Saints. Two teams I couldn’t care less about. But I will be rooting for the Colts because I hear Teh Won™ is rooting for the Saints. His friggin’ Steelers won last year, beating our AZ Cardinals, a double defeat for AZ after that miserable election, so I hope Payton Manning and his boys give the Saints a scourging and send them back to Naginville and the flooded busses.
Now as to weekend drinks, traditionally Friday night I go out for sushi…so that usually means Sapporo and/or Sake (hot this time of year, cold in the summer…) but I may just start the weekend off early with a toast to Lech Walesa and Adam Andrzejewski…some ice cold Luksusowa Polish potato vodka.
goddessoftheclassroom wrote:
print this and make some, trust me
go buy a shot glass at target and a martini shaker and a martini glass.
freeze the booze
1 shot of decent vodka (smirnoff, svedka, stoli)
1 shot STOLI APPEL (no substitution)
1/2 shot vermouth (any kind)
put those ingredients in the shaker with one ice cube and a cinnamon stick) roll it around in the shaker till it all gets cold.
pour into a frozen martini glass and use the cinnamon stick as garnish
@ The Osprey:
i have a 1.75 of Luksusowa in the freezer.
excellent stuff.
@ Mad Mullah:
i hope it hasnt come to that yet.
I am happy for the Saints, they have never been to the Superbowl before. HOWEVER, the Vikings really should be there instead. Yeah, I know that N.O. won the game, but the Vikes gave it to them with a stupid penalty. Favre and company moved the ball at will, and beat them in most every aspect of the game.
@ coldwarrior:
I have been wondering if they will let me into a BBQ competition with my electric smoker? I call it, “my lazy suburban BBQ.”
Only problem I would have is, no smoke ring. My pit is smoke ring free.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yes, and it is really a bargain compared to Chopin. You aren’t paying for the fancy frosted bottle. And I like the little picture of the Winged Hussar on the bottle cap.
@ The Osprey:
Grasovka Bison Grass vodka ?
@ Mad Mullah:
Did you hear that Obama is cutting our border defense budget.
Boy Bush was criticized left and right for not spending more and securing our borders, Obama, not so much!
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
@ coldwarrior:
From my personal experience.
Get a shaker that is metal with a actual glass, glass.
I have an all metal shaker that is impossible to get apart after shaking.
@ bar:
good question.
Guggi wrote:
I’ve seen that, and apparently it is quite popular in Poland. I need to try that next time I buy a vodka.
Poland is the only country where European bison still live in the wild, in a forest preserve that is on the border with Belarus.
I’ve only had it once before but it was in a mixed drink that is popular in Poland in the summertime, Bison grass vodka mixed with apple juice and ice. So, I need to see what it tastes like straight up, without the apple juice. Oddly enough I had it at an Israeli restaurant!
Grimcargo wrote:
All I have is beer, all this dam wet tasty beer
bar wrote:
i have a shaker/stirrer that s from the late 1920′s. it prohibition era speakeasy lead crystal with a nice shiny metal top.
i love it!
@ bar:
Boy Bush was criticized left and right…….., Obama, not so much!
“0″(pronounced zero) could put ice cubes in his Chardonay, and the Elite Liberal Left would consider it avant-garde.
/ok everyone, pour 3 fingers and have a drink for me.
The Osprey wrote:
we used to get that in berlin.
good stuff, i dont know if they sell it here
Coldwarrior you sound like the perfect host who knows how to show guests a wonderful time. And, the little article wrote belongs in a fun or fancy magazine! Actually, it would be a wonderful article to read in one of our local weekly’s since this is pretty much THE city for bars.
@ coldwarrior:
Ummm, bison steaks, we had those earlier this week. Delish!
Deleted “you” by mistake
The first batch of what could be 3 feet of global warming has started falling on us here in MD. The ride home was rather dicey. I had to stop by the liquor store and pick up a case of Sierra Nevada Summer Ale to enjoy while I watch my wife shovel the driveway. CHEERS!
@ vagabond trader:
how were they, say…compared to beef, i never had them
vagabond trader wrote:
I have a freezer full of Moose, Venison, Striped bass and Salmon. Oh ya and trout.
@ teacake:
well, thank you.
it doesnt take much effort to go the extra distance in the drinks/food thing.
@ Truck Monkey:
wow! 3 feet.
we havent had that mush snow since ’93
pgh area is getting 8 or so tonight
I’m headed home! On Friday’s we make pizza at home. Everyone loves it.
Who’s playing in the SuperBowl anyway?
BTW, #1 marine son got married on Monday. 2 down, 8 to go.
@ IslandLibertarian:
cheers!
@ The Osprey:
You can drink the vodka like water
but be careful when you stand up 
– no hangover, no headache the next day.
father_of_10 wrote:
congrats to you and yours!
coldwarrior wrote:
The blizzard of 78 was the blizzards of all blizzards
@ coldwarrior:
“cheers!”
sure, “Go Rams!” aha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
coldwarrior wrote:
The estimates of what we are going to get has been increasing by the hour. This should be fun. Maryland actually has both of their snow plows out clearing the roads tonight.
BBEV wrote:
oooh, i do remember that.
@ coldwarrior:
I think they were New York strip steaks,not sure.Husband lightly marinated them overnite. Wonderful clean flavor,tender and low fat/cholesteral.If you didn’t know, they taste like high quality cow.Recommend!
Also,the medallions and ground bison=outstanding.
@ Truck Monkey:
‘both snow plows’
vagabond trader wrote:
i ask becasue we can get them in a specialty shop, and they weren’t too expensive either.
the farmers up by my parents raise bison too…maybe i’ll get some from those cats.
ummm,ummm,ummm.Love smoked salmon and trout.
coldwarrior wrote:
I made a lot of money as a kid shoveling out driveways on that storm plus the school was closed for a week. Good times
@ coldwarrior:
Ooooo, if you can buy it reasonable and fresh try it.Kind of expensive here but its one luxury we don’t deprive ourselves, good food.
IslandLibertarian wrote:
rams!?!
you gettin too much sun out there in paradise?
vagabond trader wrote:
All right here from New Hampshire
@ BBEV:
Yeah, there won’t be another one like that in my lifetime.Drifts up to the second floor, snow banks along the road 6 feet high. I don’t think it melted until the end of April.
BBEV wrote:
ditto, i was the paper boy/hedge and grass cutter/snow shoveler…i made some good coin in my teen years.
vagabond trader wrote:
my parents live 30 miles south of lake erie in PA. its flat and many many dairy and cattle farms. several have bison herds. i will be up there next weekend and will report back with my findings!
@ coldwarrior:
Born in Los Angeles, fan since age 3, there is no cure……damn…..
IslandLibertarian wrote:
in that case, therapy will not help you.
@ IslandLibertarian:
Did you hear, they are trying to get them (
RLams) back to LA?LA must be filled with sadomasochists or something.
@ bar:
@ IslandLibertarian:
it always amazed me that the LA area cant support a football team…its huge, what gives?
@ IslandLibertarian:
This didn’t even cure it for me.
And that is some bad stuff.
vagabond trader wrote:
The snow was so high in the driveway that it was like throwing it to the second floor of a house. The snow blower on the family tractor broke from the weight of it also it was not that nice fluffy stuff.
the chickens in then above pic are done…
plates are on the bar->
@ bar:
For a while, I called them the Anaheim Ra
mts……But I had left LA long before them….and Iron, therapy can’t help with a lot of my demons…..but I wouldn’t change a thing.
@ coldwarrior:
it always amazed me that the LA area cant support a football team…its huge, what gives?
ever been to the Colosseum?….L.A.?
@ coldwarrior:
It wasnt about support so much, it was about a crazy woman owner not getting a new stadium on the tax payers dime. And its not like the Rams had a lot of winning seasons, so of course nobody was supporting them.
IslandLibertarian wrote:
i was talking about market share. LA is what, the #1 or #2 market in the US?
why cant they get 70k to show up for a game? pittsburgh does it every sunday and all we have left is a few yinzers and some camaro-driving mullets.
@ bar:
ooohhh….ownership issues.
that’ll kill support right there.
coldwarrior wrote:
I never was a paper boy to much work for the return. At 14 I would go into old liqour stores and buy there old signs etc. and sell them at shows by the time I was in High school I had the nicest car in the parking lot
bar wrote:
the saints survived for how long without winning?
BBEV wrote:
creative idea! i wasnt that smart
the paper route allowed me daily access to an expanded customer base for other jobs…
@ bar:
i just talked to my dad, he has an electric smoker and he uses wood shavings in a pan to make smoke. so you can have smoke rings if u do that…
@ IslandLibertarian:
Those were the days. I loved listening to them on AM radio, KMPC with Dick Bass.
Memories….
coldwarrior wrote:
I can understand that but talking about it makes me think that I should do it again.
@ BBEV:
is there a market? thats the question
My dad always had the radio on when they played….I’d check in for the scores…….and the lucky days of getting to go to a game! bliss…..
hey folks
cw… great post, love the open thread
lets hope the admins let this puppy roll all night long!
@ rain of lead:
thanks, but there are so many other posts in the line to get to.
@ rain of lead:
Admins never stop threads, they just schedule more on top. You can keep on going if you chose. Remember the thread at the other place that went something like 5000+ comments? People with weak computers and dialup had to bag it.
@ coldwarrior:
My feelings aren’t going to be hurt if they want to push that stuff into tomorrow, but that may create a traffic jam tomorrow.
ok file this under:I did not think my jaw could drop any further
Obama: ‘She insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt’
Yes, those are the words of the president, last night at the Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Washington. After listing his administration’s accomplishments and vowing that “our most urgent task is job creation,” Obama pledged to keep fighting for a national health care system. “We knew this was hard,” Obama said. And then he described a letter he received from a campaign worker who suffered from breast cancer and has since died:
I got a letter — I got a note today from one of my staff — they forwarded it to me — from a woman in St. Louis who had been part of our campaign, very active, who had passed away from breast cancer. She didn’t have insurance. She couldn’t afford it, so she had put off having the kind of exams that she needed. And she had fought a tough battle for four years. All through the campaign she was fighting it, but finally she succumbed to it. And she insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.
Many observers have noted that the president often seems extraordinarily self-referential. It’s all about him, they say. But even those critics might be a little taken aback by the “buried in an Obama t-shirt” remark. Is it really that much about him?
wow *just shakes head*
@ coldwarrior:
My smoker will only take those Flavor Bisquettes, there is really no way to use chips in it. It has a heating element and a Bisquette burner which are separate and thus the ability to cold smoke. By using only the Bisquette burner only.
The Bisquettes that I use are wood, just not solid wood. It’s a chopped and formed wood product. It produces lots of smoke, so smoke itself is not the issue.
coldwarrior wrote:
Ya there is.
Oh, shiite. The curator of the BVoAF is digging in for a fight with Breitbart. Snicker.
Note the backpedal built in to that.
Chuckles, bow to your superior. It’ll be easier that way.
@ snork:
Just because he’s wrong doesn’t mean he should retract. That’s something he learned from that old hand “journalist” Dan Rather.
Pam G has a huge smackdown at big Journalism
@ snork:
no traffic jams, i am all about schedule…and we cant let these get too long anyway.
they load too slow
I really wonder if cluck does this for attention.
It is how he gets noticed, by causing trouble and making an ass of himself.
Otherwise who would give him the time of day. . . at this point.
@ snork:
chuckie the clown need to give up and stick to ‘vanity blogging’.
snork wrote:
5000+? I do not remember that
@ bar:
got it!
now i understand
@ rain of lead:
I was just thinking that the O’Keefe thing is very much like the Geller/Spencer six-degrees thing. Obviously she saw that, too, and decided to go for the jugular. Good.
@ rain of lead:
that she wanted to be buried in an obama t shirt story is creepy.
the height of narcissism, bordering on the insane
chickadee wrote:
unclassifiable wrote:
unclassifiable said it best
snork wrote:
can okeefe sue shitheadthebikingclown?
coldwarrior wrote:
I think he’d have to go for One People’s Project (I’m not shitting, that’s what they call themselves) first.
LGF - Charles Johnson Hearing Goosesteps Again by Pamela Geller
(I just want the sirens and flashing lights to go off)
Andre Linoge may be busy tonight
born of sin come on in
Oh.Snap!
Hannah Giles just fucking kicked Bob Beckels ass.
Does Beckel have a problem with women?
.”
bob,bob,stop…stop while you can!
oops.. too late
damn,it gets worse
hehehehe read it all
@ rain of lead:
beckel’s an ass.
i shut off the tv if he’s on…for equal time sake, i cant stand oreilly either
mjazz wrote:
the dude needs to stop before he gets in real legal trouble.
look up the word “libel” chuckie
@ coldwarrior:
Oh I agree, I did not know about Bob and his whore, having Miss Giles
slap his stupid fat ass all over the internet was just awesome!
rain of lead wrote:
i had no idea he had a hooker either.
it should not surprise anyone tho, he’s a democrat, its what they do. they exploit, and sometimes murder women
oh and more proof that Beckel is a frakin moron….he paid the whore with a check…..:0
rain of lead wrote:
WHAT!!!
wait, he’s a democrat, that means he can do whatever he wants to women and it doesn’t matter…clinton raped at least two women and got away with it, teddy murdered one…
go to the link I posted and read the police report
hahahah he paid with a check
hahahaha
rain of lead wrote:
here it is from the smoking gun
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/beckel2.html
@ coldwarrior:
How do you like your brisket, sliced or pulled?
Do you trim any it before you smoke it?
I am still trying to figure brisket out, I can do pork-butt, baby backs, spare ribs, beef ribs and get very good and consistent results.
But every time I do a brisket, it comes out different.
rain of lead wrote:
too funny!
rain of lead wrote:
There really are people that stupid?
How does somebody that stupid get up in the morning? With an instruction manual and a parrot to read it?
@ coldwarrior:
that’s why Robert Spencer call him “the libel blogger”
bar wrote:
i slice mine, real thin no trim ahead of time. they have to be cooked for ever…i mean more than 12 hours at >=225f. after about 4 hours of smoke i wrap them in foil and add a little water to keep the hydrated. you cant pack any more smoke into them at that point and the water helps cook them.
most of the time i use brisket as an ingredient in chili or as a lunch meat. it slices much easier when cold.
when i make it for guests, i do the above, and then let it cool in the foil for at least 30min before slicing or it comes apart to easily.
serve on home made buns.
mawskrat wrote:
well, there you are!
snork wrote:
coldwarrior wrote:
Jery Springer did the same with a hooker when he was in
city of Cincinnati council
jerry….my spellin is bad tonight
mawskrat wrote:
that’s right! i forgot about that one.
He pays by check so he can tax deduct it as a medical expense?
Speaking of hookers, this guy just won’t go away:
Democrats don’t know the meaning of the word shame. And dude’s wife just keeps taking it. What is it about Democrat women? Hillary is still with Bill, after all, rapist that he is…
I do not understand this – Glenn Beck has his own show on Fox, yet O’Reilly has a weekly segment with him called “At Your Beck and Call” – I mean find someone else as a guest!
excellent! start getting nasty.
Iron Fist wrote:
Notice that Mark Sanford’s wife refused to stand by him at his press conference. Spitzer will not be elected to anything. The man is psychologically deranged.
@ Iron Fist:
being a democrat means you get to have different rules than everyone else.
@ coldwarrior:
The last brisket I did was a whole brisket 9lbs total cut in half to fit the smoker. I cooked it for about 14 hrs or so at 220, smoked it for maybe 4-6 of those first hrs with Oak. Never wrapped it in nothing. No towels, no beach coolers, no nothing but the pit.
It wouldn’t slice, it just fell apart and was my first accidentally pulled brisket. It sure was some really tasty stuff, it made an excellent BBQ beef sandwich.
I have been unable to duplicate the feat in my last attempts.
@ Iron Fist:
a few years ago I read the book Blood on Wall street. it was about the dot com bubble bust. Spitzer went all out to get convictions and stepped on a lot of toes. my thought at the end of the book was that
the people he prosecuted were gonna get back at him in time.
coldwarrior wrote:
Whenever Beckel is on Hannity’s “Great American Panel” I turn the channel even if it is to the Cooking Channel.
bar wrote:
when they dry out too much they shred, spaying them with a little water helps. the only thing i found that prevents the shredding is foil wrap and some water.
its still great stuff tho,
Speranza wrote:
i’m with you.
fox looses me for the rest of the day if that ass is on.
i shut off hannity on the radio for weeks as well whenever beckel is on.
Speranza wrote:
dem women are weaker than republican women?
some psych questions there.
just went outside to tend to the bbq
those are some big snow flakes. heavy shovels full.
@ coldwarrior:
Global Warming!
Iron Fist wrote:
its gonna be global heart attack!
this stuff is dense and heavy.
Guy doesn’t know track from tract?
The wisdom of the BVoAF:
So racists don’t know that they’re racists. The must need to consult a consensus of experts to find out if they’re racists.
@ snork:
It is a cult! Charles is now putting out tracts for the One!
Dang, that’s a pathetic place.
Speranza wrote:
NO more client #9. He is as crazy as a bed bug. And the wife too, for standing by him.
I like this thread… food and drink… the BBQ looks great!
@ bar:
#146 – that sounds SO GOOD! I am glad to hear that your beef jerky from last weekend turned out. Once I get my Traeger grill/smoker/BBQ’r thing I will be able to make some awesome stuff like you guys…
hey SG
how you doin?
@ coldwarrior:
Dry out!
Bite your tongue, my brisket is never dry.
Even my pulled brisket is moist and tasty.
LOL.
That woman who died and got buried with the obama shirt…….
Did anybody do an autopsy on her? There is a good chance that she suffered from some sort of mental illness or perhaps they found a large, cancerous tumor growing on her brain. Surely, no person of a sound mind would ever want to be buried in a t-shirt with a picture of a narcissistic liar on it, and a person whose intelligence is greatly exaggerated.
chickadee wrote:
And he kept his black socks on when he was having sex. He ain’t normal!
@ Iron Fist:
@ snork:
How can you guys stand the torture of even peeking over there at the sewage plant?
What does that stand for?
Speranza wrote:
Yeah, I’ve been meaning to talk to my shrink about that.
@ rain of lead:
Hi ROL – hanging in there, thanks for asking. Glad it is Friday night. Home and relaxed, get to sleep in tomorrow, things are looking up. Been quite the week…
wow! the snow is amazing, my wife an i just took a quick walk in it…
rate is about 1.5 inches an hour
bar wrote:
ok
how about greater than expected protein denaturization!
@ coldwarrior:
Never dry, as long as you stay “fat side up”!
That is what I would name my BBQ crew, fat side up.
[...] 3- Make a Good Drink Good booze is not rocket science, nor does it have to be expensive. A very small amount of prep time, a little attention to detail, some creativity, and bingo: cocktails after work for you and yours, or you and your friends. You will need, the right equipment, yummy finger foods, and some great drinks. The internet is replete with recipes and methods so I wont bother here. Don’t let terms like muddle, strain, and garnish intimidate you. An orange can be garnished and made into ingredients in seconds. If you screw up a drink too badly, it can always be tossed out. (that was a difficult sentence to type) –The Booze Thread Pt 2: Happy Hour and Making Great Drinks. [...]