Mmm, PB&J! Sometimes, nothing else can be as good.

 

 

Pork butt is below my baby back ribs. The butt has been on since about 8:30am. Ribs went on at 12:00pm. I am thinking about 6pm tonight I am going to have an amazing dinner.

 

I didn't really appreciate the physical size of that sandwich. There's really nothing for scale in the image.

In the video, it's a little easier to comprehend:



It's just utterly silly. There is no way any one human could physically eat that in one sitting.

I am disappoint.

 

All done. The pork butt was pulled off right at 203 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

cheesy oniony sliders, mostly from this recipe.



Alligator, first time Ive ever had it.

 

Making Caesar salad from scratch, like a boss:







and, why smoked salmon? Because nutritious.

 

Charcoal? Wood chips? Gas? Smoker? It looks like an old round charcoal grill to me but can't tell for sure.

I'm wanting to do some slow cooking/grilling this summer. I've only attempted it once on my gas grill with wood chips over the slow flame.

 

gonna make this tomorrow along with a keto deep dish pizza

 

Wife prepared delicious cherry-caramel chocolate birthday cake, seriously yummm!

 

Haha happy bday dude.

 

It is a cheap $50 Brinkman smoker from Walmart. I have made a few mods to it to make it better then how it comes from the factory, but it is by no means that great. I use charcoal and wood chips. When I am in my new house and have time and space I am planning on building an Ugly Drum Smoker so I can step up my BBQ game. I want to get into making Brisket.


This past weekend was another 10 pound pork butt and 2 bacon explosions.

 

A nice, quick and easy, sort of half assed (didn't have the correct rice) mushroom risotto for lunch. Delicious!

 

Chicken Enchilada casserole



Chili Shrimp on a bed of Couscous w/ butter beans and capers. It's a good start, but needs some tweaking. Will try again.





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Goddamn i need to clean my stove. Gross.

 

What we had for brunch on Sunday and all organic:

Good canadian bacon, egg with soft, runny center and smashed new potatoes with truffle oil:

 

I don't usually order "off the menu."

I hate being "that guy" for whom the menu isn't quite good enough, but for some reason, I just had a serious hankering for mango chicken this afternoon. It's not an exceedingly popular dish (for reasons which mystify me) and I couldn't find any restaurants on Mott St which were advertizing it.

So I picked out a somewhat upscale-looking Dim Sum place, went in, ordered a Tsingtao, and asked if they could make me a plate of Chicken with Mango.

As it turns out, yes- they could. (Apparently, it's only listed on the Mandarin version of the menu, not the English one. To reiterate, this befuddles me. It is one of the absolute best Chinese dishes in the world.)



Imagine a non-stop orgasm in your mouth which lasts for a full 25 minutes. This was definitely one of the better mango chicken dishes I've had. They added a bit of sliced whole ginger, which is something I'd never experienced before in this context. Each time you bit into a chunk, it set off a little flavor explosion which lingered for several bites.

I ******* love NY.

Have I said that before? I think I may have. Let me re-state:

I ******* love NY!

(I honestly think that this is the part of my soon-to-be-former career I'm going to miss the most- no more frequent trips to the big apple on somebody else's nickle.)




Dinner tonight?






Sidebar: You know you're in the right part of Chinatown when even the McDonald's sign is in Chinese:

 

Or you know you're in DC, where, by law, everyone is required to have their sign in Chinese:








You know you're in the right part of town when you can go to starbucks and get a white chocolate mocha and a chocolate chip banana coffee cake, then cross the street and shop at the Gap, and then go watch a Caps game at the Verizon Center!

 

Damn! We tried to eat at the Peking Duck House when we were there back in April. Stayed out boozing too late and they wouldn't seat us.

 

Seeing Starbucks and Fuddruckers in the same image makes me think of the wrong thing.

 

Just a bit of Runny Egg-Yolk **** to make everyone salivate: