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An attempt at entertaining guests tonight.

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Jeremiah
Jeremiah Posts: 6,412
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So now that we have a mostly finished deck, we've started entertaining the neighbors. I got the wild hair to have a couple couples and their kiddos over tonight.

Boy what a learning experience.

Before I go further, there's no pics, so bite me.

I started early this morning with a 3 lb chuck roast for pulled beef sliders. Set it where I thought it'd be good and left for work. Got home at 1 and it was done. I thought really past done. Wrapped it in foil with coffee and wine. At 3ish it was the best Chuck roast I'd ever done!

And that's where the train derailed.

Me being a dumbass I put it in a Tupperware in the fridge. Cleaned the house and prepped the abts. I then got behind, and I knew it as my guests were arriving. Abts were also burning as I forgot a drip pan.

The chuck roast was still in the fridge.

What was dumbass number one doing? Oh I was frying fries in my cheap-ass undersized electric fryer....

Really the only saving grace was the incredible salsas I found in the lettuce section at Publix. Yeah it was good.

Everyone was polite and had a good time but I know I just sucked tonight. 
Slumming it in Aiken, SC. 
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,948
    Jeremiah said:
    I know I just sucked tonight. 
    Brother Miah, my hunch is that you are being to critical of yourself. I'm sure that the food was just fine. More often than not, we are our own worst critics. 

    Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.

    Status- Standing by.

    The greatest barrier against all wisdom, the stronghold against knowledge itself, is the single thought, in ones mind, that they already have it all figured out. 

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  • blasting
    blasting Posts: 6,262
    Sorry man.   I'll bet it all came off a lot better than you're thinking.

    Pour yourself something and go to your happy place.
    Phoenix 
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  • johnkitchens
    johnkitchens Posts: 5,234
    I would have enjoyed it no matter what Jeremiah! Look it as a dry run. Your next party will be killer!

    Louisville, GA - 2 Large BGE's
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  • Dyal_SC
    Dyal_SC Posts: 6,487
    You do suck... But it's only bc I didn't get an invite.   ;)
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  • Chief9
    Chief9 Posts: 144
    If all else fails, take em to grumpys.  From my one trip to Aiken..
    Carrollton, Va
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  • Fred19Flintstone
    Fred19Flintstone Posts: 8,174
    I agree with @SGH.  Your line "...there's no pics, so bite me."  Made me laugh because I think we've all been there.  Cheer up and cook something good tomorrow.
    Flint, Michigan
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  • ksmyrl
    ksmyrl Posts: 1,050
    Dude...I cooked on a 10 yr old gasser tonight...so bite ME. I bet it was awesome. 
    Fish, Hunt, Cook....anything else?

    1LBGE, 1MMBGE, somewhere near Athens GA
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  • Jeremiah
    Jeremiah Posts: 6,412
    Thanks yall. Definitely got to plan the next one better. 
    Slumming it in Aiken, SC. 
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    That's a bold move frying fries for a crowd without a big fryer. I'm so going to do a chuckie soon as it's a cut I haven't tossed on the egg yet. 

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,181
    I bet, a cool evening hosted by you, and any food for the folks you invited, was way better, and much more dialed in, than any option your guests will ever have. You are an Egger, you made their week !
    Right on, my man!
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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