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Maybe WE are not…but this blog is. I’ve moved all the contents of this blog to Buttery Bakery.

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Thank you!

Cat

BBQ…and Eating ALL Day!

Eating all day…that’s what usually happens when my family does barbeque. It’s my dad’s birthday tomorrow so we celebrated today. This is what we did today.

Jalapeno Burgers, with finely minced onions, Worcesterchire sauce, garlic powder, even more finely minced jalapeno peppers, salt, and plenty of freshly ground pepper.

More Jalapenos! Grilled until the skin blackens and blisters. Then the seeds and removed and it’s used to top burgers, or eating out of hand. My mom guzzled water after one bite.

Sweet Chili Grilled Chicken. I made a rub with chili powder, ground cumin, ground pepper, garlic powder, ground Sichuan peppercorns, salt, sugar, a dash of soy sauce, and olive oil. The chicken was allowed to sit overnight.

Chicken. Potato Salad. Garden salad with the sweetest cherry tomatoes.

Way better than any store-bought potato salad. I used chopped pickles and a generous splash of pickle juice along with mayo, chopped onions, mustard, ground pepper, and salt. No eggs so the salad has a better chance sitting outside the cooler.

Grilled peaches with cinnamon. Grilling caramelizes the sugars in the fruit and intensifies the flavour. Plus, like my brother says, “it’s super juicy!”

Here’s my dad’s birthday cake. For more cake details, go to Buttery Bakery!

We also did a number on Italian sausages, steak, hot dogs, and more fruit, but I didn’t record with pictures. I can tell you that they were good though!

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Ribs for Lunch

Alas, we have come to the end of July, which means the conclusion of my National Blog Posting Month. I have posted every day for the past month, and I have enjoyed sharing both food stuffs and life stuffs with you. Although there were a couple days when I wasn’t feeling well and wouldn’t have blogged, if not for my commitmend, I stuck it through, and I’m glad I did.

For this last post, I have no real food stuffs because, unfortunately, I’ve been out all day, to a company-sponsored BBQ lunch. Ribs was the main idea. Accompanied by the traditional potato salad, coleslaw, Boston baked beans, and a myriad of other sides. The meat was juicy but could have been cooked a tad longer, for more smokey goodness. I had strawberry shortcake for dessert, and make-your-own ice cream sundae for post-dessert.

Sadly, no other pictures of food since I have both an old camera and old batteries, which means the battery life is about 30 pictures. They are happily getting replaced soon.

I’m currently baking my brother a birthday cake. It will be in the shape of a soccer ball. Wish me luck!

Ribs for Lunch

My church always serves lunch every Sunday. Usually it’s tofu and vegetables, or chopped up stewed chicken, practically every week. This week they made stewed chopped up ribs instead, but it was better than chicken.

Some days the food is good, cooked by the more practiced people, and some days, well, some days it is rather lacking. I forgot to take pictures. I was too busy eating. It sure takes skill to cook for a good 50-60 people and a lot of chopping.

That’s it for today, I was feeling unwell so nothing exciting to report. Do check out the Sunday cake at ButteryBakery!

JKF is Good-Looking, But RFK is Better

I went to the JFK Presidential Library and Museum today. Watched part of his inaugural address and part of the America’s first televised debate. And this is all that I could come up with:

JKF was fine looking, but RFK, his younger brother and the U.S. Attorney General, was damn fine looking.

JFK grew up in Boston and went to Harvard and didn’t marry until he was thirty-six. Jackie was gorgeous and twelve years younger than he was.

I walked through the exhibit titled “November 22, 1963″ and almost cried.

Then I came back home and threw together a stew with all the leftover bits of vegetables and one pork chop I found frozen in the freezer. One porkchop! Why was this lone piece of pork not eaten?

My stew was too ugly to take pictures of. My biscuits turned out nice though, check them out here.

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” – JFK

“But suppose God is black?” – RFK