This & That...

Got a few snow flurries last night, but nothing to amount to anything. Going to be very cold today (for me anyway) high only in the 30's.

Time is flying...

Thanksgiving next week and Christmas right around the corner.

Just like everything else (right now with the economy in the toilet) we have no work. So...I'm off for the next ten days, free to twiddle my thumbs, drink beer and not give a rat's patootie about anything and try not to drive my wife nuts for the next ten days.

My mother-in-law, takes care of the Thanksgiving grub for the family. We get out of her way (unless she asks for help) as she rules the kitchen, so I'm free of the apron on that holiday.

I may try to smoke a turkey breast next week (depending on the weather)

It's supposed to rain Monday and maybe Tuesday, so we'll just see.

I haven't got that far ahead yet...



Enjoy your day!!!

B.D.

Wordless Wednesday...

Life at work is like a tree full of monkeys, all on different limbs at different levels. Some monkeys are climbing up, some down. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.

B.D.

Simply Tuesday...

If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Corinthians 13

This & That...

Well...

From the post below...I made chili this weekend because of the weather.

I did not deviate from my recipe. But Julie said...it was too hot.



Now...

If it don't take the first three layers of skin off of your lips...It ain't that hot.

But my wife said otherwise. So...

Anytime she expresses her opinion about my cooking and imparts her two cents...I must take it for what it is...and with a grain of salt.

She feels that I get bent out of shape when she tells me, or gives me, her opinion.

Not true...

I love my wife and I respect her opinion. But...

If it don't melt the spoon on contact...

It ain't hot.


Trust me...

B.D.

Weekend Report...

What a week...wet and soggy.



Time to make some chili. Woo-Hoo!

Picture of my chili featured in the Tennessean in 2007


We will have guests staying overnight tonight. So a few brews and some chili for the adults, hot dogs and snacks and movies for the kids.

The grills have been wet all week. So, I guess it's time to retire the grills until next spring and bring out the indoor recipes of the wintertime hibernation period I go through every year.

That means...chili (for one thing)

I'll have to dust off my indoor repertoire of recipes to refresh my culinary skills and memory.

I will experiment in my test lab this winter on some things I have wanted to try...but never got around to it for one reason or another.

But, back to chili. As pictured above, my chili has (OH MY GAWD) beans...

Now...once again, true chili, doesn't contain beans. They are served on the side because it is more about the meat and sauce, than the beans. There are hundreds of thousands of recipes for chili...with...or without...beans.

In true competitions, beans are a no-no.

But here...at MacDaddy's Grill...we are talking about beer belching, butt scratching, good southern redneck, down home chili...with beans.

I like beans in my chili...so get over yourself. I mean what's the big deal?




Take gumbo...it has everything in it except the kitchen sink. And why is that?

To feed lots of folks. Way back when...folks had big families and a lot of mouths to feed. So everything you could find went into the pot.

Well...us Hillbillies had the same reasons, big clans, but about all we had left out of the growing season that could go with the meat and tomatoes was corn and beans.

We kept the corn to feed the hogs and make moonshine. So what was left?

Ding Ding Ding...that's right...beans.

So there you have it...a short history lesson on chili. Hope you learned something.


B.D. you are so full of...

(beans?)

Enjoy your day!!!

B.D.

This & That...

It seems that Absence of Mind & Body (aka) It's a Shih-Tzu's Life! has signed off of her blog. I don't know why, but she was a good read and we wish her well and good luck. I will remove the link next post.

It has rained most of the week (off and on) and rain is forecast for this weekend...so no outside cooking.



That's OK...I need to revisit my indoor recipes for a change.

Now...if I can only remember what I did way back when...

B.D.