Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Tonight we are going with bone-in country cut ribs grilled indirect over cherry wood smoke. Ahh, yes—Pat’s Homade on the last two turns.

Inside we’ve got fresh green beans and new potatoes and BBQ baked beans for our sides.

The back porch is well equipped with ice cold longnecks and chilled wine. Please enjoy the evening.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

LOL—we will socialize and grill out there but we will take advantage of the inside comforts of central heat and air for our meal......

 

I made some killer baked potatoes last night.

Oven set to 450......smother taters with butter, season, poke with fork....cook on rack for 20 minutes. Remove, turn over, smother again with butter and seasoning and cook for another 20 minutes. Done!

Tomorrow I'll pick up some stuff to make skins.....

 

I can't take all the credit. I watched several YT videos before getting up the courage to try it!

 

Made the classic onion soup meatloaf recipe. For variety I use two types of ground beef—this time chuck and round (@ 1 lb of each). Oatmeal instead of breadcrumbs. By far the best part—cold meatloaf sandwiches for lunch for a couple of days

 

We were well pleased with our newest local pizza parlor (Fat John’s) when we tried it out a couple of weeks ago—so— we are going to try them on again this evening.

They are on the east side of town which makes them very convenient to us—it’s only two miles from our house.

This means the back porch longnecks will be ice cold and Ms. Jan’s wine chilled and ready to go.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Tonight it’s going to be fresh fried catfish, cheese grits, and Ms. Jan’s homemade coleslaw.

Typical panhandle weather today—5:30am this morning it was 32* with heavy fog. Now at midday it’s sunshine and blue skies and 60*. The very first thing I remember about the weather here when I moved here in 1970 from local folks was “If you don’t like the weather here in the Panhandle—just hang around 15-20 minutes, it’ll change......
That still holds true today.

Back porch time today will yield a beautiful sunset with all the pleasantries of our adult libations.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

I don’t have her recipe in front of me or know it from memory, but as honestly as I can answer you Lurk—I’d have to say both. She uses some Mayo, white vinegar, fresh squeezed lemon juice, celery seed, and sugar among other things I’m sure.

 

Vegetarian pizza from Manny's tonight! Cook gets the night off!

 

Watching "Beat Bobby Flay" some more tonight. That guy has a great personality - especially perfect for this show. If not for his personality it wouldn't work.

Of course, you never know how a person's TV personality compares to their away from TV personality. But he seems like he'd be a cool dOOd to hang out with for a few minutes.

How cool is it having a a restaurant named "Shark"? I wonder how much influence he had in coming up with that. Probably a story on the Net somewhere about it.

Fun show!