Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Today is Alan’s birthday and with Covid on the rise again we are choosing to celebrate at home.

I put on a pot of spaghetti sauce early this morning and the house has been smelling good since.

We will have a freshly made Caesar salad and the Five Cheese bread as our sides.

There will be a nice Cav on the table for supper and I am sure appropriate toasts will be made with a top shelf bourbon.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

"Park your tail right over here and I'll come get you when your order is ready."

That's what Irene said to me when I was at Big Joes picking up a sub for the game tonight.

"Park your tail..."...lol.....

All in good fun.....that's how we roll here at the beach.....

 

Lurk—

Back then those were called “Correction Cards”—we would give notice to the driver of the faulty equipment—if corrected within 48 hrs and the card or receipt was turned in, then no citation was issued.

Sadly, I don’t even know if the FHP uses that contact anymore.

 

Lol-
In 31 years-I had 2 Christmas’s off.

 

The only way you could get Christmas off was it either fell on your RDO’s or they made you take a two week block of leave (80hrs) to get it off—in other words they wanted maximum manpower on the roads during the major holidays.

 

And WE APPRECIATE ya'll's service, Bill!

 

Ribs last night and today for lunch.

Finally Tacos tonight. I bought some of those Nacho Cheese shells too.....

The second Gunsmoke was a good one today. "Get out of here or I'll kill you myself!" Matt Dillon...the original Clint Eastwood!

 

That was never done through any of my duty stations during my time. I heard of it but I always thought that it was just an easy way to get a patrol car vandalized (in the metro areas where I heard about them employing this tactic).

 

My tacos were fantastic! I really should make those more often.

Speaking of cubanos.....when I was at UF, I worked part time at Alan's Cubano Part II.

Delivery and food prep. Learned out to clean the meat slicer - prepare lettuce - cook onions - all kinds of cool stuff!

Every Friday we had a delivery to one of the medical buildings and they were always very generous with a tip. Always pizza...several boxes of them.

 

Tonight we are doing a local (Ably’s) Chinese-Asian restaurant’s take out.

Every time we’ve been there the food has been excellent.

Cold enough here still that it’ll be bourbon tumblers again tonight.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Cold and wet weather prevails here in Jasper, Ga., so we are trying to keep up with that in the kitchen.

Tonight we are going to have a spicy pork & green chili verde. It’s brimming with seeded poblano, seeded jalapeño pepper and sweet red and yellow peppers for a nice kick to it. It will be topped with sour cream, and shredded Monterey Jack—tortilla chips will be on the table for anyone who wants them.

It also has coarsely chopped vidalia onions as well as purple hull onions, chili powder, minced garlic, and a touch of nutmeg. The stock is made from chicken broth.

The ice cold longnecks and chilled wine are ready to go as desired.

Life is good in Gator Nation!