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Holepuncher

northGAcock said:

Trying to figure out why I am the only one on my street with these in their yard? Must be a fungus among us.



....and these......

you must be the "fun guy" of the neighborhood.

Lit

Just woke up to my 4 day weekend. Gonna straighten up the garage then gonna grill something for lunch. 

SonVolt

Coupla recent cooks..

One of my new favorites for an easy side dish... slice up some russets, toss with butter and heavy dose of salt and pepper in a cast iron skillet, arrange the first layer all pretty then dump the rest on top. Cover with foil and set over the grate for 10-15 minutes until a toothpick inserts without resistance. Remove foil and cook for a few more minutes until the bottom is as crusty and browned as you prefer. Invert onto a plate and slice into triangles. 




Mexican style grilled leg quarters with rice 'n beans... huge hit


Grilled shrimp & halibut... 

Sea2Ski

Those potatoes look incredible. 

SonVolt

Thanks - pretty fool proof and can be cooked on the egg while it's preheating. Takes about 3 russets for a 10" cast iron skillet. 

Lit

SonVolt said:

Coupla recent cooks..

One of my new favorites for an easy side dish... slice up some russets, toss with butter and heavy dose of salt and pepper in a cast iron skillet, arrange the first layer all pretty then dump the rest on top. Cover with foil and set over the grate for 10-15 minutes until a toothpick inserts without resistance. Remove foil and cook for a few more minutes until the bottom is as crusty and browned as you prefer. Invert onto a plate and slice into triangles. 




Mexican style grilled leg quarters with rice 'n beans... huge hit


Grilled shrimp & halibut... 

Those potatoes might be dinner tonight they look great

ColtsFan

Stuff 

YukonRon

Testing my brisket chili prior to college football season.
Go Cats! BBN! Blue World Order

northGAcock

YukonRon said:

Testing my brisket chili prior to college football season.
Go Cats! BBN! Blue World Order

......and obviously have a few bottles of your best.

kl8ton

ColtsFan said:

Stuff 

3 day weekend then?

YukonRon

northGAcock said:

YukonRon said:

Testing my brisket chili prior to college football season.
Go Cats! BBN! Blue World Order

......and obviously have a few bottles of your best.

Admitting you have a problem, is the first step.

I have more issues than a magazine rack at the airport.

CPFC1905

Ahoy-hoy lads…. it’s game-week 4.  Liverpool with a full 9 points lead the pack and there are 10 teams in 5th place.  Its still early days.

Let’s pile in to the fun for this weekend;

Lunchtime Saturday is Ole’s ’burst dream gang’ heading all the way down to Southampton.  A splendid fixture this as last weekend the mighty Palace smashed Utd - just as I predicted (not) and Saints gave the dirty Seagulls a proper learning,  well done them.

Utd will be stung by last week but are fragile.  Southampton can be good, but are shorn of Nathan Redmond through injury.  Tough to call.  I’m going 1-1.

Frank Lampard’s Chelsea welcome Sheffield Utd and there will be gaols.  Both teams seem to like attacking and are less concerned about defence.  3-1 Chelsea.

The mighty Palace host Aston Villa.  Considering Palace’s home form, since like forever, we’ll score one goal at the absolute most. (possibly for the season!)  Villa won’t score more than one, if at all.  Almost certainly jinxing things, but I am going for a 1-0 home win. 

Leicester v Bournemouth could be a belter.  Two genuine top 6 contenders I reckon.  An early test of those credentials for both.  I’ll go Foxes in a close fought 2-1.

This week Man City will beat….. Brighton 782-0, hopefully.   I must encourage you to locate a clip of the outrageous sending off achieved last week by Florin Andone of the dirty Seagulls.   As he steps right over the ball and in to the other players’ knee there is a stunned silence around the ground and then an audible groan.  Which is football code for ‘WTF has he just done that for?  Get off you muppet!’. 

Naively optimistic Newcastle welcome a hapless Watford.  Toon managed to beat the dysfunctional Spurs last week and Watford are now both horrible and useless.  Sadly it means that Toon will probably get more points.  Liking neither team that much I’d prefer them both to lose.  Can’t happen so a tedious nil-all is my desire. 

West Ham are to be visited by the Canaries, this season’s helter-skelter lets all run around and have fun brigade.  There will be goals here too, possibly 5 and mostly to West Ham.  3-2.

In the evening is Burnley up against the sprightly Liverpool, the visitors have struggled here in the past but really are on tippy-top form right now.  Hard to not see a Reds win, possibly just 1-0 with a nervy last 15 minutes as Burnley press hard for a leveller. 

Gloom corner now,  Stoke pop to near neighbours at Birmingham.  Been a tough season already for the Potters - well for @Eoin mostly.  The Blues aren’t exactly setting the place on fire but will probably have enough for this one.  A resounding away win would perk up our dear friend, though - so perhaps we should call it lucky pants day and see if that sparks the recovery? 

Sunday;

Everton have Wolves around for late lunch.   The latter have secured progress to the next stage of the Europa League so will be buoyant, though sooner or later exhausted too.  Everton are just a bit ‘meh’.  1-1.

Closing out the week-end is the North London derby.  It’s come at good time for Arsenal, with Spurs in something of a funk and a muddle right now.  It’s at the Emirates and whilst this match operates outside the rules of ‘form’ I think its got home win all over it.  Could be 8-7,  more likely 2-0 the Gunners. 

Stay groovy!

Eoin

CPFC1905 said:

Ahoy-hoy lads…. it’s game-week 4.  Liverpool with a full 9 points lead the pack and there are 10 teams in 5th place.  Its still early days.

Let’s pile in to the fun for this weekend;

Lunchtime Saturday is Ole’s ’burst dream gang’ heading all the way down to Southampton.  A splendid fixture this as last weekend the mighty Palace smashed Utd - just as I predicted (not) and Saints gave the dirty Seagulls a proper learning,  well done them.

Utd will be stung by last week but are fragile.  Southampton can be good, but are shorn of Nathan Redmond through injury.  Tough to call.  I’m going 1-1.

Frank Lampard’s Chelsea welcome Sheffield Utd and there will be gaols.  Both teams seem to like attacking and are less concerned about defence.  3-1 Chelsea.

The mighty Palace host Aston Villa.  Considering Palace’s home form, since like forever, we’ll score one goal at the absolute most. (possibly for the season!)  Villa won’t score more than one, if at all.  Almost certainly jinxing things, but I am going for a 1-0 home win. 

Leicester v Bournemouth could be a belter.  Two genuine top 6 contenders I reckon.  An early test of those credentials for both.  I’ll go Foxes in a close fought 2-1.

This week Man City will beat….. Brighton 782-0, hopefully.   I must encourage you to locate a clip of the outrageous sending off achieved last week by Florin Andone of the dirty Seagulls.   As he steps right over the ball and in to the other players’ knee there is a stunned silence around the ground and then an audible groan.  Which is football code for ‘WTF has he just done that for?  Get off you muppet!’. 

Naively optimistic Newcastle welcome a hapless Watford.  Toon managed to beat the dysfunctional Spurs last week and Watford are now both horrible and useless.  Sadly it means that Toon will probably get more points.  Liking neither team that much I’d prefer them both to lose.  Can’t happen so a tedious nil-all is my desire. 

West Ham are to be visited by the Canaries, this season’s helter-skelter lets all run around and have fun brigade.  There will be goals here too, possibly 5 and mostly to West Ham.  3-2.

In the evening is Burnley up against the sprightly Liverpool, the visitors have struggled here in the past but really are on tippy-top form right now.  Hard to not see a Reds win, possibly just 1-0 with a nervy last 15 minutes as Burnley press hard for a leveller. 

Gloom corner now,  Stoke pop to near neighbours at Birmingham.  Been a tough season already for the Potters - well for @Eoin mostly.  The Blues aren’t exactly setting the place on fire but will probably have enough for this one.  A resounding away win would perk up our dear friend, though - so perhaps we should call it lucky pants day and see if that sparks the recovery? 

Sunday;

Everton have Wolves around for late lunch.   The latter have secured progress to the next stage of the Europa League so will be buoyant, though sooner or later exhausted too.  Everton are just a bit ‘meh’.  1-1.

Closing out the week-end is the North London derby.  It’s come at good time for Arsenal, with Spurs in something of a funk and a muddle right now.  It’s at the Emirates and whilst this match operates outside the rules of ‘form’ I think its got home win all over it.  Could be 8-7,  more likely 2-0 the Gunners. 

Stay groovy!

You clearly missed our return to form during the mid week cup game, 3 points are in the bag this weekend.

CPFC1905

Tomorrow's breakfast.  
CI skillet and Egg still warm after our steak dinner. 
Decent bangers and 2 lbs of 'cooking bacon' - all the off cuts and mis-shapes. Mix of smoked and unsmoked, big bits and small bits, but all bacon. 

Sea2Ski

CPFC1905 said:

bacon' - all the off cuts and mis-shapes. Mix of smoked and unsmoked, big bits and small bits, but all bacon. 

Then it is all good! 

bucky925

My wife baby-sat for her pretend granddaughter today.  She sent me a text and asked for country fried pork chops, cream potatoes and gravy.   Sometimes you just want what you want.  

Botch

Celebrating!  A small thing, but something I haven't been able to do for years.
 
Yesterday, bought a rack of baby backs for this weekend.  Tonight, removed the cryopak to remove the silverskin and salt, and then wrap in Saran Wrap and let drybrine overnight.  
I've learned to let any ribs come up to room temp before removing the silverskin, and to separate the membrane and the ribs in the center of the rack, not a corner; and this time I slid the table knife along a rib bone center, not the meat/skin interface between the bones.  
Even though I poked thru the membrane a couple times, I was able to pull the membrane completely free, all the way across the rack; squeezed my fingers in, and pulled the entire silverskin free in one pull, no paper towels/pliers, and the whole process took me 20 seconds!  Yay!!
 
I salted both sides, wrapped in Saran Wrap, and back into the frig.  May post the cook tomorrow.  But, yes, a clean and quick pull of that damn silverskin!  

Cornholio

2nd time doing cast iron pizza on the egg, kids love it.

HeavyG

Botch said:

Celebrating!  A small thing, but something I haven't been able to do for years.
 
Yesterday, bought a rack of baby backs for this weekend.  Tonight, removed the cryopak to remove the silverskin and salt, and then wrap in Saran Wrap and let drybrine overnight.  
I've learned to let any ribs come up to room temp before removing the silverskin, and to separate the membrane and the ribs in the center of the rack, not a corner; and this time I slid the table knife along a rib bone center, not the meat/skin interface between the bones.  
Even though I poked thru the membrane a couple times, I was able to pull the membrane completely free, all the way across the rack; squeezed my fingers in, and pulled the entire silverskin free in one pull, no paper towels/pliers, and the whole process took me 20 seconds!  Yay!!
 
I salted both sides, wrapped in Saran Wrap, and back into the frig.  May post the cook tomorrow.  But, yes, a clean and quick pull of that damn silverskin!  

You could be on a roll. The next bag of charcoal you open could be that miraculous smooth pull on the string. Fingers crossed!

milesvdustin

Nothing like that single pull of the charcoal bag string 

fruitguy

Enjoying my morning with our two crazy dogs

DoubleEgger

Mixing concrete. This really blows. 

NorthPilot06

DoubleEgger said:

Mixing concrete. This really blows. 

I don’t envy you. Hope the weather is cool where you are

thetrim

DoubleEgger said:

Mixing concrete. This really blows. 

Good for the traps.

Lit

Made some sausage and grilled cheese sandwiches for the kids on the Summit. Tri tip following it up.

lkapigian

Setting up for Rib Cookoff 

Lit

Tri tip turned out

Sea2Ski

lkapigian said:

Setting up for Rib Cookoff 

Go get’em Larry! 

JohnInCarolina

Making one of those truffle mac and cheese casseroles, but with pulled pork instead of brisket.  I think it’ll still be edible.

lousubcap

@JohnInCarolina -given your location the pig will always win and I am biased against using the cow for anything other than pure brisket goodness.  So, great choice and you can continue to use it and the universe will be better for your restraint.