Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

The KJ is being fired up to grill some chicken thighs over high (distance, not temp. Aiming at 350 F) direct heat finished with Pat's and a salad.

Early dinner tonight as we are visiting friends that have grade school kids so it is always an early evening.

 

This afternoon I made a corn/tomato/scallion "scramble" to be as a side for grilled Johnsonville brats and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale's for watching the Gators against the Crimson Tide.

You know, I always thought that a red tide was a bad thing.

 

I made a lot of them and only one is left.

I think that my son ate four.

 

Tonight my wife is having dinner with a fellow lady lawyers. My MIL suggested we eat Thai take-out and who am I argue against that?

Off topic, but we just signed a contract to sell one of our rental houses. Got more for it than I thought we would, so maybe this housing shortage I have been hearing about is real.

We didn't take the best offer, but we are selling to a young couple that lives nearby that need more space with another baby on the way. Really wanted somebody to live there and not knock it down and build several duplexes like has happened in the neighborhood where I live (near downtown Gainesville where there are half acre lots and high density housing is allowed).

The bad thing is that I parked a 1967 Chrysler Newport convertible with the high compression 383 there that needs work. Talking to my brother that is a gear head (he has a 60's Shelby Cobra and a lift in his garage and restoring cars is his hobby) about maybe doing a restoration together and split the proceeds. Many years ago I helped him rebuild his first car: a Fiat 850. We lifted the engine out by hand. Ain't no way we are doing that with that huge Chrysler big block.

Added in edit: The house needs work and the husband is a cabinet maker so he has the skills to do a lot of it.

 

Yep.

He is a car nut and a big exec for Cummins so he makes a lot more money than I ever did as an engineering prof at UF.

Added in edit:

I saw it in 2014 when I was in the Dallas/Ft Worth area for the Final Four. It was blue with a white stripe. But it was raining so no chance to take it out for a spin.

 

This manner of cooking prime rib is the way to go.

My mother was an RN and always overcooked prime rib because she was worried about contamination. Such a waste of beautiful meat.

 

Memorial Day weekend. What should I cook?

I do have to take the tarp off of the car and take pictures for my brother.

 

So lard?

 

Better with lard.

 

Smoking a chicken today. Just got the KJ lit.

 

My dad was a bombardier on a B-24 flying out of China during WWII. For every combat mission they flew they had to fly over The Hump three or four times to India to get enough fuel and bombs.

He would only talk about his service if I got him drunk. Once we went through some photos he had and he was telling me how almost everyone in the photos died.

He did go to China late in life and visited Kunming, but my mom said he would not go out to visit the airfield. The memories were still that bad.

Added in edit: He did have a picture of a softball game where General Claire Chennault was pitching.

He had all these pictures because he was the guy in the darkroom developing the pictures from the bombing raids so he could also develop his own pictures.

I did find online a photo of the "nose art" on his B-24 "My Achin' Back" but for some reason I cannot post a link to it.

 

I have a nephew that went ROTC through UVA and was a Marine officer.

When I told him that my dad had two Presidential Unit Citations he was astounded. Very few units had two. Those guys in the Army Air Corp in China went through a lot of grief and almost nobody knows what they had to go through. No mail for months on end. And no movies about them after the war. I bet most people don't even know that the US had men in China during WWII.