OT: Happy Easter/Eating and Drinking Thread
Happy Easter!
We've got a nice beef tenderloin in the oven for later tonight, and I've been saving the first Oberon of the season for today.
What are your big Easter plans?
Edit: I'm gonna posbang you all because it's Easter. Have a good one with family and friends!
Drinking a Bloody Mary while watching the spring game again. Great day.
But thanks Jim.
Sangria @ nachos on the beach tonight.
-Wesley snipes
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We have had a feral sheep on our property since November. We caught the ewe the day after Thanksgiving and she is residing at SASHA Farms now..........It is a rescue operation that does not kill animals for food or anything else. It is sort of a friendship home for lost animals.
We've been trying to catch the ram (Rambo) to send him to the farm with his girlfriend. We failed once again........when a 200 pound ram is running at me, a tackle is the last option.
So.............Bloody Mary.........plural time.
Go Blue!
Scary........a tackle entered my mind until he started coming my way........then get the hay out of the way.......
but i can't promise he won't be, um, put to work here on the farm.
remember too, sheep are so dumb they make cows look like PhD's. a little grain and he'll be putty in your hands. watch the head, grab the horns.
I'm at work trying to catch up. This sucks.
About to assemble a new charcoal grill I just bought (only 26 east steps!) so I can grill asparagus, corn on the cob, scallops & a marinated flank steak. Enjoying a cup of coffee and some easter basket candy (reese's eggs & Malley's chocolate bunny) in front of the fire w the wife.
they aren't great.
:/
If it wasn't lake seafood, did not find great seafood when we lived in Cleveland. Great restaurants downtonw, however.
Only way to go.
May as well buy lobster though; it ends up being cheaper.
Also, have not been enthused at cooking scallops at home; I have a gas range, propane torches, and several cast-iron cooking utensils, none have got the adequate heat to get a proper crust on a scallop, even with $20 per pound one.
Much easier to buy lobsters for $6-8 per pound, break them up, and butter poach them sous-vide style, and make a lobster risotto with the shells.
Man, there is nothing like flank steak on the grill. And props to you for sticking with charcoal. No offense to those who use gas--and I can certainly appreciate the convenience--but for me charcoal is the way to grill.
Big Steel Keg; grate settings let me control charcoal temp from ~200 to ~500.
Still does not get hot enough to properly sear/char a steak (700+), especially since I like my steaks rare.
Thus will be giving in and buying a propane grill with an IR side burner to sear meat. Especially since I like sous-vide-ing a lot of stuff.
You ever try the Alton Brown technique of loading the chimney with hardwood charcoal, getting it blazing hot, and then just putting the grate right on top for high-heat searing? He did it for tuna, but I'm sure you could do it for steak too. One drawback: not a lot of room for searing! Also, last year (after reading about it on this site) I made flank steak "cowboy" or "caveman" style--just set it directly on the hardwood charcoal. It worked fine, but I wasn't convined it was any better than using the grate.
I forgot about that episode (big fan of Alton Brown).
Certainly would be cheaper than an IR burner.
Thanks!
Took me about 90 minutes to put it together/just finished. Time for a cocktail then grilling!
Have a 7 pound point brisket going since 930AM on my grill/smoker.
Am looking at a legit propane grill (Napoleon 500 with infrared side-burner for flash-searing) in the next few weeks once we return from our vacation.
Had a 3 Bloody Mary brunch, just finished putting down rubber mulch (hopefully done with this crap for the next 15 years). Am drinking a Stone Enjoy By 4/20/15.
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Relaxing... rewatching the spring game I found on youtube
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Never have found Howard Stern to be entertaining, and hate paying royalties for his station.
I listen to 5 channels. 2 (Hits One), 51 (BPM), 88 (NFL), 94 (Soccer), 124 (POTUS).
any rattlers needing to be dispatched?
in our tiny local press literally the next day after you explained what it was. apparently it is coming to our area too. and isn't it true that drinks around a camp fire taste like the nectar of the gods?
sorry you had a sick little one, but sounds like a nice trip on the whole. good luck with back-to-school issues.
Happy Easter to those on the Gregorian calendar, and happy Easter next week to my comrades on the Julain calendar (I am Russian Orthodox, myself - our Easter is next week)
Spending the day raiding the kids' Easter baskets. Those jelly beans are addictive.
Easter is such an odd holiday.
Happy Easter!
joyful day
Whom is this "HE" you speak of?
/s
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just go down to the hen house. winter eggs average around 2 dozen a day. summer time we get 4-5 dozen/day.
eggs cooked. pancakes on the way. big brunch, read to the kids. nap time.
ham tonight with the trimmings. sunday is dessert night too, so that will fit in just perfect.