Dinner, whiskey, and 1911's

Unfortunately due to the banking crisis and the tech bubble bursting I'm going to have to scale back my dinner plans tonight. Hopefully there's something good on TV.

Damn, I don’t know what makes my mouth water more, theraptur’s ribeye or bradsvette’s classy pistol in tribute to his USN service.

I’ve always been the type to forego culinary indulgence in favor of less flavor, especially after a costly firearm purchase, in which case it may be necessary to break out the wife’s fine China and go slumin until next payday.

Yea, it’s all about prioritization.

need a little sirup in my whiskey, mixing these after my veggie burger

When I went off to College, early fall 1965, to far away Lincoln, Nebraska, I soon met a really nice girl, who invited me to spend a weekend at her family's home in Omaha. So did, and that night, she snitched a full bottle of her dad's Rum, and we sat out in her back yard, and drank the whole bottle. Then next day was a really long, bad day for me.

Because of that awful experience, I did not touch a sip of "booze" until about three years ago, not one sip of gin, bourbon, scotch, all those things, esp NO rum. Occasionally a beer or a little wine, but not one sip of booze for a half century.

A few years ago, on a Bourbon Trail experience with my wife, after the tour, decided to try a sip of Woodford's Bourbon, and decided it was nice. So, occasionally now, I will have a half shot of Bourbon, but have not tried any other hard alcohol drinks.

In retrospect, that awful Rum experience probably saved me money and other problems for a half century. As it were, that nice girl ended up marrying on of my fraternity bothers long ago. She sadly died young from Cancer.

All the best... NV

Thankfully, I've never developed a taste for bourbon. Lots of folks spending way too much money on that stuff these days. Whiskey is a stop-gap drink in an emergency, if there's nothing else more palatable around. The one exception, though, is Irish whiskey. They seem to know what they are doing and I can appreciate their efforts! As for tequila/mezcal...... no, thank you. I keep plenty of cleaning products under the sink if I ever get a craving for that kind of taste.

Now, a good rum or gin..... whole different story. Hell even a bad rum or gin is still a good rum or gin in the proper circumstances! (And I do mean bad as in 'terrible' and not as in 'cheap'. There's plenty of expensive booze out there that's quite horrible when you get down to it, and vice versa!)

I just got a delivery from Kansas city Steaks today. Must be something in the air.

The only thing in the air around here is snow! Winter unfortunately keeps putting a pause on grilling season.

sicilia mike said:

The only thing in the air around here is snow! Winter unfortunately keeps putting a pause on grilling season.

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Welcome to my world!

sicilia mike said:

Winter unfortunately keeps putting a pause on grilling season.

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What? Not that it snows much here anymore where I'm living now, but when I've lived in snow country, nothing put a pause on grilling season. I'll shovel off the back deck and knock the snow off the grill before I'll shovel the front porch, sidewalk and plow the driveway.

I thought everybody had one of these:
6 ft. x 8 ft. Hollybrook Steel Brown Hard Top Grill Gazebo

Here’s how I do a ribeye in camp. Mere minutes and done.

I have a big 36" oilfield pipe reverse flow bbq pit - I just don't use it as often because it takes a lot of fuel to fire the big girl up!

That coal can roaring with a grill on top can make some massive grilling heat! I like to see 800f around there.

Check out these tomahawks I did for a river house weekend with a group of friends. We even cook the potatoes and onions in the coals. You can see some peaking out below the steaks.



And yeah nothing beats a grilled ribeye for me!