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YukonRon

Last night our neighbors hired a chef, to celebrate our retirement, teaching us how to make dumplings. 

It was so much fun and the end results were very much ornamental to a delicious filling. We learned so much. 

The filling was pork, shrimp, ginger, scallions, mushrooms, water chestnut all mixed together then wok fried after a quick boil.

My Beautiful Wife did marvelous, and it was an experience that I and Suzy thoroughly enjoyed. 

I served a very nice Sauvignon Blanc to go with the meal and luckily it checked all the boxes. 

I will do this again, and will do it on the egg.🥚 

last night when we got in I took a pork butt out of the brine, patted it dry, and added a very spicy rub, then covered it with peach preserves, put it on the egg indirect at 225°F. 

It is doing all right. 

alaskanassasin

Wow what a cool gesture! Looks like you nailed it.

shtgunal3

That’s awesome Ron. Congrats on the retirement!

johnmitchell

Congratulations Ron on your retirement and what a great gesture by your neighbors. I must admit I was a bit taken back as I thought your neighbor was Mitch 😉

GrateEggspectations

Grand slam, right there. Beautiful, Ron. Congrats on your retirement. Joining an exclusive crew along with @lousubcap and @johnmitchell!!

lousubcap

Great way to kick off the "every day is Saturday" lifestyle.  Such fun to learn something new.
And that butt looks ready to enjoy!
BTW-@CTMike just joined the party as well.  

Florida Grillin Girl

Congrats!! And your dumplings look fabulous~

Botch

That looks like so much fun!

fishlessman

YukonRon said:

Last night our neighbors hired a chef, to celebrate our retirement, teaching us how to make dumplings. 

It was so much fun and the end results were very much ornamental to a delicious filling. We learned so much. 

The filling was pork, shrimp, ginger, scallions, mushrooms, water chestnut all mixed together then wok fried after a quick boil.

My Beautiful Wife did marvelous, and it was an experience that I and Suzy thoroughly enjoyed. 

I served a very nice Sauvignon Blanc to go with the meal and luckily it checked all the boxes. 

I will do this again, and will do it on the egg.🥚 

last night when we got in I took a pork butt out of the brine, patted it dry, and added a very spicy rub, then covered it with peach preserves, put it on the egg indirect at 225°F. 

It is doing all right. 

those dumplings look crazy good

kl8ton

For the love....

Off the charts.

YukonRon

johnmitchell said:

Congratulations Ron on your retirement and what a great gesture by your neighbors. I must admit I was a bit taken back as I thought your neighbor was Mitch 😉

Yeah, Senator McConnell was not here, I did not know where he was and I later learned that he was busy falling down in DC. It was ok, because he did not know where he was either. 

The only time I know he is home is when the security rolls in. That has become less often. 

Thank you for the congratulations, hoping we can hook up again in the not so distant future. 

YukonRon

alaskanassasin said:

Wow what a cool gesture! Looks like you nailed it.

It was a very cool gesture. We were lucky to land a house in a neighbor hood of cool and hip folks. 

Thank you for the kind words. 

YukonRon

shtgunal3 said:

That’s awesome Ron. Congrats on the retirement!

Thank you sir, it is decadent these days, and we are here for it. 

YukonRon

GrateEggspectations said:

Grand slam, right there. Beautiful, Ron. Congrats on your retirement. Joining an exclusive crew along with @lousubcap and @johnmitchell!!

Thank you for the kind words, it was a couple of days of incredible food. 

I am honored to be among ‘Cap, John and CT. Life is good. They are incredible folks, just hope I don’t bring it down a few notches. 

YukonRon

lousubcap said:

Great way to kick off the "every day is Saturday" lifestyle.  Such fun to learn something new.
And that butt looks ready to enjoy!
BTW-@CTMike just joined the party as well.  

It is difficult not to plan for the weekend anymore, and thank whoever it is that invented cheap watches that tell you date and time, notifications, and what a loser I am for not getting in my miles per day.

thank you for the kind words. 

YukonRon

Florida Grillin Girl said:

Congrats!! And your dumplings look fabulous~

Thank you for the kindness, however, Suzy turned out to be the dumpling chef for our house. I will prepare the stuffing, she will build and fold. She was very good at it, so I stepped back…

YukonRon

Botch said:

That looks like so much fun!

It was fun. The guy with his back to everyone at the counter is a sommelier and does the best bourbon tour in Kentucky. He is always busy and was late getting to the party. My gosh, if there is a funnier guy on the planet I want to meet them. The couple that hosted the party are among my most favorite people, ever. Cool folks, that I am fortunate to hang with. 

YukonRon

fishlessman said:

YukonRon said:

Last night our neighbors hired a chef, to celebrate our retirement, teaching us how to make dumplings. 

It was so much fun and the end results were very much ornamental to a delicious filling. We learned so much. 

The filling was pork, shrimp, ginger, scallions, mushrooms, water chestnut all mixed together then wok fried after a quick boil.

My Beautiful Wife did marvelous, and it was an experience that I and Suzy thoroughly enjoyed. 

I served a very nice Sauvignon Blanc to go with the meal and luckily it checked all the boxes. 

I will do this again, and will do it on the egg.🥚 

last night when we got in I took a pork butt out of the brine, patted it dry, and added a very spicy rub, then covered it with peach preserves, put it on the egg indirect at 225°F. 

It is doing all right. 

those dumplings look crazy good

They were, I humiliated myself eating as many as I could before being asked to leave. 

YukonRon

kl8ton said:

For the love....

Off the charts.

It was sensory overload. I hope to be doing them soon. We are heading out going to see Suzy’s brother, down in North Carolina. But when. Get back, we are doing dumplings. 🥟