Sauscutapalooza (AWSS5 - the final conflict)

texaswig

Man yall have doing all the good. Nice work. 

20stone

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

20stone said:

Sliced up the mortadella.  It is AWESOME (though a little high in salt.. easy to fix for next time).  I'm pretty stoked to do it again for Muffalettapalooza.

For those playing at home, mortadella is (supposed to be) an emulsified sausage (thing "hot dog" or bologna"), that is stuffed in a huge casing and poached (or, in this case, bagged and cooked in the SV).  This just turned out fantastic.

Wow! That looks awesome. 

One of those rows is yours if we can schedule a shady La Grange parking lot meat swap.

Foghorn

Presumably, some of that is headed my way as we speak?  If my son doesn't eat it all?

The Cen-Tex Smoker

20stone said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

20stone said:

Sliced up the mortadella.  It is AWESOME (though a little high in salt.. easy to fix for next time).  I'm pretty stoked to do it again for Muffalettapalooza.

For those playing at home, mortadella is (supposed to be) an emulsified sausage (thing "hot dog" or bologna"), that is stuffed in a huge casing and poached (or, in this case, bagged and cooked in the SV).  This just turned out fantastic.

Wow! That looks awesome. 

One of those rows is yours if we can schedule a shady La Grange parking lot meat swap.

This week is good. I may need to come to Houston anyway to work with Academy. Do We still have meat at Smithville? I can probably grab that and with er meat you (see what I did there) or bring it down if I have to come for work.

lkapigian

Wow!!

Legume

Holy crap that looks great!

caliking

That sir, looks beautiful.  I even left enough pistachios for it to turn out well.

In other news, I'll be in Austin next weekend, so I can smuggle some meat across county lines. Y'all gonna be around, CT?

20stone

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

20stone said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

20stone said:

Sliced up the mortadella.  It is AWESOME (though a little high in salt.. easy to fix for next time).  I'm pretty stoked to do it again for Muffalettapalooza.

For those playing at home, mortadella is (supposed to be) an emulsified sausage (thing "hot dog" or bologna"), that is stuffed in a huge casing and poached (or, in this case, bagged and cooked in the SV).  This just turned out fantastic.

Wow! That looks awesome. 

One of those rows is yours if we can schedule a shady La Grange parking lot meat swap.

This week is good. I may need to come to Houston anyway to work with Academy. Do We still have meat at Smithville? I can probably grab that and with er meat you (see what I did there) or bring it down if I have to come for work.

We have meat in Smithville.  It is paid for, but would be great if you picked it up.  We could either do a swap, or if you and @TFJ come to Houston, stay at Chez Jonz, and we can all get together one night.

20stone

Foghorn said:

Presumably, some of that is headed my way as we speak?  If my son doesn't eat it all?

Yes, there is a sleeve of it with your name on it, presumably heading your way.  That being said, once we loaded up the cooler, it wasn't clear if they were going to turn left or right on I-10.

He got both stub ends, and was eating out of one like an ice cream cone.  If he comes up light, you should kick his skinny a$$.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

caliking said:

That sir, looks beautiful.  I even left enough pistachios for it to turn out well.

In other news, I'll be in Austin next weekend, so I can smuggle some meat across county lines. Y'all gonna be around, CT?

Yessir!

The Cen-Tex Smoker

20stone said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

20stone said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

20stone said:

Sliced up the mortadella.  It is AWESOME (though a little high in salt.. easy to fix for next time).  I'm pretty stoked to do it again for Muffalettapalooza.

For those playing at home, mortadella is (supposed to be) an emulsified sausage (thing "hot dog" or bologna"), that is stuffed in a huge casing and poached (or, in this case, bagged and cooked in the SV).  This just turned out fantastic.

Wow! That looks awesome. 

One of those rows is yours if we can schedule a shady La Grange parking lot meat swap.

This week is good. I may need to come to Houston anyway to work with Academy. Do We still have meat at Smithville? I can probably grab that and with er meat you (see what I did there) or bring it down if I have to come for work.

We have meat in Smithville.  It is paid for, but would be great if you picked it up.  We could either do a swap, or if you and @TFJ come to Houston, stay at Chez Jonz, and we can all get together one night.

It would be just me. Possibly coming for work but not sure yet

Foghorn

20stone said:

Foghorn said:

Presumably, some of that is headed my way as we speak?  If my son doesn't eat it all?

Yes, there is a sleeve of it with your name on it, presumably heading your way.  That being said, once we loaded up the cooler, it wasn't clear if they were going to turn left or right on I-10.

He got both stub ends, and was eating out of one like an ice cream cone.  If he comes up light, you should kick his skinny a$$.

He made it with presumably all the meat intact. 

Thanks for gifting him with that bottle of Chimay quad. I’ll resist the urge to drink it and post pictures of me doing it on the Internet - like you guys do with my beer. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Foghorn said:

20stone said:

Foghorn said:

Presumably, some of that is headed my way as we speak?  If my son doesn't eat it all?

Yes, there is a sleeve of it with your name on it, presumably heading your way.  That being said, once we loaded up the cooler, it wasn't clear if they were going to turn left or right on I-10.

He got both stub ends, and was eating out of one like an ice cream cone.  If he comes up light, you should kick his skinny a$$.

He made it with presumably all the meat intact. 

Thanks for gifting him with that bottle of Chimay quad. I’ll resist the urge to drink it and post pictures of me doing it on the Internet - like you guys do with my beer. 

Chimay Quad is legit. 

caliking

Foghorn said:

Thanks for gifting him with that bottle of Chimay quad. I’ll resist the urge to drink it and post pictures of me doing it on the Internet - like you guys do with my beer. 

“My beer” he says. That’s so cute. 

20stone

Foghorn said:

20stone said:

Foghorn said:

Presumably, some of that is headed my way as we speak?  If my son doesn't eat it all?

Yes, there is a sleeve of it with your name on it, presumably heading your way.  That being said, once we loaded up the cooler, it wasn't clear if they were going to turn left or right on I-10.

He got both stub ends, and was eating out of one like an ice cream cone.  If he comes up light, you should kick his skinny a$$.

He made it with presumably all the meat intact. 

Thanks for gifting him with that bottle of Chimay quad. I’ll resist the urge to drink it and post pictures of me doing it on the Internet - like you guys do with my beer. 

The sausage game has come along. This should be the best batch yet. The masalawurst is experimental, but should be awesome. Tasso is fully cooked. Throw a slice of that into a pot of beans or other veg.  Fair warning, it is aggressively spiced.

Obviously, mortadella and Genoa are ready to eat.   Please give us flavor notes for next time around.   

Foghorn

The tasso was a nice addition to some asparagus I cooked on the grill tonight (wrapped in foil).

Foghorn

Enjoying the fruits of our (mostly your) labors. Breakfast sausage with biscuit by the side of the Guadalupe River with my son during his spring break.  Yes, the biscuits came from a can. 

Foghorn

My son says it tastes like “America”.

20stone

Foghorn said:

My son says it tastes like “America”.

I just want to smack that store bought biscuit right out of his hand (and catch the sausage in the air, if I was that coordinated).  He was served better on Sunday (I trust... I didn't eat one)... a proper biscuit, made with butter and lard.

That being said, I have eaten my share of canned biscuits (IIRC, the one pictured is out of a can of Pillsbury Grands), though probably not in the last 10 years.

If you don't think enough of your children who travel a long way to visit you, and stop by a stranger's house to pick up sausage for you to make them biscuits from scratch, send them back this way.  They are good kids.

Foghorn

I'm going with the "we're in a rustic cabin with limited resources" defense.

20stone

Foghorn said:

I'm going with the "we're in a rustic cabin with limited resources" defense.

If you were going to do that, you should have 'shopped out the playscape and the volleyball courts.

Foghorn

20stone said:

Foghorn said:

I'm going with the "we're in a rustic cabin with limited resources" defense.

If you were going to do that, you should have 'shopped out the playscape and the volleyball courts.

Yes.  But the cabin is rustic.  It has not pots or pans and we didn't want to bring any.  The last time we stayed here we mixed up some cookie batter in the coffee pot because it was the only container available.

Legume

@20stone you might be a glamper if...you insist on small batch heritage lard for your biscuits while camping.

20stone

Legume said:

@20stone you might be a glamper if...you insist on small batch heritage lard for your biscuits while camping.

Not if I rendered it myself.

Nothing says "getting back to nature" as much as cracking open a can of factory fresh bread product.

If we are talking about @Foghorn, we know a cooler is involved.  If there is a cooler, there can be buttermilk and butter (and even those can "rough it" in a pinch).  If there is buttermilk, butter and lard, there can be proper biscuits.

....just sayin'

That being said, @Legume, while not a glamper, I recognize that I represent the edge of the distribution on this one.  Also, I would, without hesitation, eat instant oatmeal under such circumstances.  Instant coffee, though?  GTFOH.

Foghorn

@Legume, you are onto something. Even when we camped in a trailer at the pig farm as this entire process was getting its start, his requirements for what he considered a satisfactory mattress were legendary. 

20stone

Foghorn said:

@Legume, you are onto something. Even when we camped in a trailer at the pig farm as this entire process was getting its start, his requirements for what he considered a satisfactory mattress were legendary. 

@Fog, I admit I may have been a little "Princess and the Pea" regarding sleeping arrangements.  However, between the multi-species feces, the bucket-o-porn and the "relaxed" donkey, that first effort out at the farm was miles, and time zones, and light-years away from "glamping".  

theyolksonyou

What that biscuit needs is a friend with some homegrown honey from you guys next venture into bee keeping. 

Foghorn

My son and I agree that honey on that biscuit sounds good @theyolksonyou.  Although I'll still play the "rustic setting" card and be OK with storebought.

And for the record, that's not a volleyball court in the background.  It's a gravel path to the water's edge.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

20stone said:

Foghorn said:

@Legume, you are onto something. Even when we camped in a trailer at the pig farm as this entire process was getting its start, his requirements for what he considered a satisfactory mattress were legendary. 

@Fog, I admit I may have been a little "Princess and the Pea" regarding sleeping arrangements.  However, between the multi-species feces, the bucket-o-porn and the "relaxed" donkey, that first effort out at the farm was miles, and time zones, and light-years away from "glamping".  

confirmed.

Foghorn

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

20stone said:

Foghorn said:

@Legume, you are onto something. Even when we camped in a trailer at the pig farm as this entire process was getting its start, his requirements for what he considered a satisfactory mattress were legendary. 

@Fog, I admit I may have been a little "Princess and the Pea" regarding sleeping arrangements.  However, between the multi-species feces, the bucket-o-porn and the "relaxed" donkey, that first effort out at the farm was miles, and time zones, and light-years away from "glamping".  

confirmed.

Agreed.  But didn't that make his "tenderness" stand out all the more - by contrast?  The rest of us were essentially ready to crash on the ground wherever there was a feces-free spot under the tree.