Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Damn.

I waited until 28 until getting married and then cradle robbed a much younger girl.

 

I think you are cribbing a Rodney Dangerfield joke here.

 

And in previous years it was almost always a party.

But one year I was working on painting our dining room all day and my MIL and FIL took our kids for the night and my sons wanted to go because there would be fireworks. My lovely bride and I had a nice take-out dinner and watched a noir cold war thriller. I cannot remember which one.

One year we were both sick with the flu and had to beg off from a planned dinner party at a local restaurant by some of my work colleagues that I liked. We didn't know at the time which restaurant.

By midafternoon we were feeling much better and made dinner reservations.

Of course it was the same restaurant.

Much hilarity ensued and we all retired to a colleague's house for the rest of the evening.

For some reason we were driving my FIL's car and one of the headlights was out.

Of course we got pulled over. I felt sorry for the poor trooper that had to work New Year's Eve.

Because we both had the flu we totally abstained from any alcohol that New Year's Eve.

I got a warning ticket and had to send a receipt for a new headlight to avoid a citation.

 

Almost a Brown Betty or an apple crisp.

Reads like a delish recipe.

 

Turkey is smoking. Because I had to drive my MIL to an eye appointment involving shots into her eyes and things were delayed I am smoking at a slightly higher temp (240 F) as opposed to my usual (225 F). I think it will be fine.

Basting with a melted stick of butter, one tablespoon of lemon juice, and one teaspoon each of dried sage, thyme, basil, and rosemary leaf.

 

The turkey cooked faster than I thought by a lot. By the time I tested it (two hours sooner than what I thought it should be done) the breast meat was already overcooked and somewhat dry, but the dark meat was perfection. I swear that I should have a second KJ with one for cooking the dark meat and the other for cooking the white meat. They don't get perfect at the same time much like a porterhouse steak: the NY strip side needs more cooking than the tenderloin side. I am thinking of setting up my KJ so that half is indirect and the other half is direct and grilling some porterhouse steaks with the tenderloin side being indirect and the NY strip side being direct.

Still the plan is to use the white turkey meat in enchiladas with a mole sauce so it will work. The sauce will rehydrate the meat and the meat has a wonderful apple wood smoke flavor.

 

My in-laws did something like that to hide the fact that MIL was pregnant at the time of the wedding. They lied for years about the year they were married.

My wife and I checked the county records and verified it.

And then they gave shade to one of their daughters that married whilst pregnant. They should have been much more supportive as they went through that and had a successful marriage. And my brother and sister in law have just recently celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary.

 

Funerals sucks.