Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Making a Mexican style squid salad tonight to go with baked mahi-mahi with lemons and olives.

 

The last of the "lasagna suspended in deep freeze" (10CC reference. Life is a Minestrone.) tonight.

Tomorrow will be a mission of mercy. Making dry rubbed ribs for a friends' family. Dad is out of town and mom is a vegetarian and has no idea how to cook meat. Her sons are DYING for some meat.

 

Just put a drizzle of orange blossom honey on the ribs as they will be taken off the KJ to rest in about 30 minutes. Tonight's dinner wasn't special enough for tupelo honey and I am getting low on that. Need to find an excuse to go to Wewahitchka some time soon.

 

I wish that I could remember the name of the student that brought me the totally awesome tupelo honey from Wewahitchka. Stopping at the local gas station and dropping the family name might give me an in for the really good stuff. I am sure that they don't sell that to just anybody.

 

No cooking tonight. Meeting up with a bunch of guys that all played pick up and intramural basketball together for dinner and a beer or two before the Mississippi State game. Got to find one of my old team T-shirt jerseys.

 

My 28 year old son still lives at home. What is this "left over pulled pork"?

 

So many ways to make rice for Mexican food. The Chipolte lime and cilantro rice is pretty good but not really authentic Mexican but who cares if it tastes great. I will make that with the right main course. Black beans with either while or red onion is tasty with white rice. Very traditional. I also make white rice with datil peppers. I have no idea if this is a St Augustine thing and "authentic" but it is really good. Made my own recipe.

 

Is the BGE part of the home sale or are you moving it? Pretty hard to move them. Very heavy and breakage of the ceramic is a concern. I suppose you can remove and package the ceramic safely. And I know that it is an old friend.

But with two with you an Alan it opens up a lot of possibilities. Cooking steaks with a high temp sear and then a much lower temp finish is tricky on a Kamdo style cooker. Or reverse sear as well. Takes a long time to ramp up the temps for a sear on a ceramic cooker. With two you can set it up cleanly: one high and one low.

Or you can get a KJ. Pretty much the same thing but without the cachet. I like mine. Got it on a good sale at Ace Hardware that also carries BGE. Folks think that getting a KJ is like getting a Chevy and getting a BGE is like getting a Buick. I don't mind getting a Corvette or a high end Camaro.

 

Good man. I personally don't believe in an after life but I live my life like there is one because living a life to help others is what we should do as humans. If there is one you got bonus points.

I have never used a pellet smoker but the concept of an offset smoker appeals to me. Old school. I have been thinking about getting one.

Weber kettle grills are actually very great and underappreciated. You can smoke with one if you know what you are doing and you can do regular grilling on them as well. I miss mine. It was stolen from my yard.

 

The Weber Kettle is one of the best designed things ever.