Tonight I’ll be grilling chicken halves seasoned with coarse black pepper and Everglades seasoning—and you guessed it Pat’s Homade on the last two turns. Our sides will be fresh bi-color cob corn, fresh steamed yellow squash and vidalia onions, and left over Mac & Cheese. Pure summertime day here today topping out at 84*...just enough breeze to keep it bearable. Finished all the weed-eating this morning so the yard looks good. Ice cold longnecks and chilled wine are certainly available on the back porch this afternoon. Life is good in Gator Nation!
Not cooking tonight. I have been waiting all day for a shipment of wine from Rhys via UPS that needs a signature and well after 6 PM it still isn't here. I still have not taken a shower. But enjoying a Guinness stout now.
This is the corn meal mix product I bought today - I figured with the buttermilk it would taste pretty good.....
Spaghetti with black olives starter and then chicken piccata and a roasted broccoli side. Or just throw it all one one plate and not do it the Italian way. LOL.
We will be getting on the road back up to Jasper, Ga., tomorrow for our Granddaughter’s third birthday party (Magnolia Grace—her fast pitch softball name will be Mags!) That said, grilled hamburger steaks from a freshly ground boneless chuck roast with baked potatoes on the top rack and a fresh Romaine salad topped with vine ripe tomatoes will be our supper tonight. That will be both good and an easy enough clean up in the kitchen. Another typical Panhandle summer type day—60* for a low/72* for a high and a light rain shower about 3:00pm. Ice cold longnecks and chilled wine will work on the back porch this afternoon and evening. Life is good in Gator Nation!
No grandkids for me as of yet. We waited a long time and by a lucky mistake had our first child when I was 37. He is now 29 and not married, but has a very serious GF that he cannot see because of Covid. I hope that I live long enough to see a grandchild let alone play catch with them.
But not like having your first child. I still remember driving away from the hospital and my wife asking "They just let us go home with this?" Fortunately my parents drove through the night to be there. My dad was of no use, but my mother was awesome. She raised five kids and knew what to do.
Got an eight pound pork shoulder/Boston butt defrosting at my MIL's place getting ready for either a Friday night or Saturday night overnight smoke. It was one of those $0.99 per pound ones that you can get every once in a while from Winn-Dixie. Really fatty, though. Bought all the fixings for a Carolina vinegar based slaw.
Speaking of grits I used to ride the southern version of TOSRV. In Ohio it was the Tour of the Scioto River Valley and a bike ride from Columbus to the Ohio river one day and back the next day. 100 miles each day. The guy that started that ride moved to Tally and started a TOSRV South: Tour of Springtime and Rural Vistas. Several times the ride went from Tally to Albany, GA and back the next day. One time the breakfast stop on Sunday had just amazing cheese grits. Really great.
Well although I was born in California, we re-located soon after to Norfolk, but it wasn't until we re-located to Oak Hill, FL (population >1K) that my southern cuisine journey actually began. Cheese grits were a REALLY big deal! Watching a bit of the TV show "Food Factory" today and really like it. Interesting how much effort (both labor and technology) goes into the manufacturing of food items!
I love cheese grits and I love the many versions of posole (or pozole) that I have eaten and cooked. Posole/pozole is Spanish for hominy. Hominy is a type of grits but treated with an alkali. Man, it is all good and not what I grew up in the midwest. Anyways, tonight is leftovers. The chicken piccata was the bomb.
Raining here on Alan’s mountain this evening—we’re going with White Chicken Chili tonight. Ice cold longnecks being Dos Equis Lager Especial, and chilled wine for the girls. Life is good in Gator Nation!
XX Especial is a decent brew. My favorite Mexican beer is Bohemia, but it is hard to get where I live. I remember getting them for a peso way back in the 1970's.
