Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Nice to see a Caesar salad on the menu. I think it is celebrating its 100 year anniversary. Invented south of the border IIRC.

 

Tonight is hot dogs. Using Hebrew National instead of defrosting some of the Vienna Beef dogs that I brought home on my last Midwest trip. But I have lots of correct pickle relish and sport peppers and celery salt. Also tomato, onion and dill pickle spears. The buns don't have poppy seeds but still pretty good. And no ketchup! Only little kids are allowed to put ketchup on a proper dog.

I kind of miss the old days when I visit Chicago. Now Portillos and Gold Coast Dogs dominate the market for Chicago dogs. When I was a kid it was all mom and pop shacks and they all were a little different. They are being driven out of the market.

And the Gold Coast char dog is OK it isn't what I crave from my youth.

 

Tonight is a chopped salad.

 

Tonight is stir fried green beans with pork and chilies.

 

Don't know what Belgian pickles are but as a former bike racer I know what Belgian toothpaste is. When racing in wet conditions on roads with fine grit you get a mouthful of Belgian toothpaste. Nasty.

 

Google Eddy Merckx to find out how big cycling is in Belgium.

Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen) is one of the one day "monuments" in bike racing.

 

Tonight I am cooking chicken thighs on the KJ using Stubbs Original (it was on sale and Pats HoMade is no longer around) and shucked some yellow corn. My better half said that she would bring home some Sonny's baked beans as that is the best thing that they make.

As an homage to our early years in Austin I bought some Shiner Bock.

 

My wife found a little bit of Pat's HoMade sauce deep in our frig whilst I was grilling the chicken. We used that in combo with the Stubbs. It will be awesome.

Pats was really good especially at its price point. I would have paid $1 more for Pats.

 

Tonight will be red Thai curry with chicken.

Here is something funny. Doing final prep on our only remaining rental property and noticed that four outlet cover plates were not installed and in the corner of the room. The screws were all missing. I can buy the screws for $0.58 each or I can buy the cover plate with the screw for $0.52.

 

Getting the KJ ready for some thick pork chops. Redskin mashed potatoes and broccoli.

 

Tonight is chicken piccata.

 

Spaghetti alla Puttenesca tonight. My wife will be working late but she requested this because it stands up to a reheat in the "Science Oven".

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Smoking a chicken, green beans and redskin mashed potatoes.