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  1. Nov 19, 2025 #8141
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    sounds like time for chicken soup
     
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  2. Nov 20, 2025 #8142
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    My wife made asparagus risotto last night. Feeling better today and my Covid test was negative last evening. Making chicken marsala for dinner.
     
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  3. Nov 20, 2025 #8143
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    Here’s hoping that you feel better today Lurk! Tonight I’m grilling bone-in country cut ribs seasoned with coarse black pepper and Everglades original seasoning indirect over cherrywood smoke.

    Our sides will be freshly steamed green cabbage and our Publix had some fresh bi-color cob corn.

    It’s warmed up some with some rain mixed in. Ice cold longnecks and chilled wine work well for the evening.

    Life is good in Gator Nation!
     
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  4. Nov 20, 2025 #8144
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    Sounds like a good ole Southern dinner but I ate the same dinner many times (sans the Everglades) growing up in Chicago. Maybe more of a Southside thing than a Northside thing.

    We would parboil the ribs and then cook over direct heat on a Weber kettle with a wet sauce when I was a kid. Now I would dry rub and slow cook with smoke. Kind of like when I make Memphis style dry rubbed ribs. I prefer the later way to do it but it takes WAY longer.
     
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  5. Nov 22, 2025 #8145
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    Speaking of ribs I was at Ward's today and their pork ribs were on a great sale. So Memphis style dry rubbed ribs tonight.
     
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  6. Nov 22, 2025 #8146
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    We are going out for our son in law’s 40th birthday celebration tonight. We’re going to the Downtown Kitchen in Canton. We have been there several times and it guarantees both a great meal and a great time. (That means boneless ribeye and top shelf bourbon for at least one in this party! ;))

    Family is everything at this house.

    Life is good in Gator Nation!
     
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  7. Nov 23, 2025 #8147
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    Spicy pork and mustard greens soup tonight.
     
  8. Nov 23, 2025 #8148
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    I'll be without a dishwasher for a couple of days. I really love my 800 series Bosch dishwasher but yesterday it was leaking out the front. It has done that before when the drain filter gets clogged so I cleaned that. Put in a load this morning and again it was leaking out the front. Turns out that one of the o rings on the upper spray assemble had disintegrated so water was spraying out faster and to unusual places. A quick Google search said that this was one of the main reasons why my dishwasher would leak out the front. The o rings are weird and you cannot buy them other than to get a new upper spray assemble. Ordered on line and it should be here on Wednesday.

    So now we are using the GatorLurker 800 manual dishwasher like in the old days.
     
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  9. Nov 23, 2025 #8149
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    “You wash, I’ll dry”…..
     
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  10. Nov 23, 2025 #8150
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    More like "I'll wash, I'll dry."
     
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  11. Nov 24, 2025 #8151
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    Boy the house has been full of the smells of boneless chuck roast simmering in gravy with vidalia onions, potatoes, baby carrots, and celery. It’s what’s for supper!

    There will be fried cornbread on the table as well.

    Ice cold longnecks and chilled wine are our choices for the afternoon/evening.

    Life is good in Gator Nation!
     
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  12. Nov 24, 2025 #8152
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    Tex-Mex tacos tonight. Probably making margaritas to go with dinner.
     
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  13. Nov 25, 2025 #8153
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    Inch thick boneless ribeyes with a salad and French green beans.

    Opened a lesser L'Aventure wine from Paso Robles. Good stuff even if lesser.

    No, there will not be extra.
     
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  14. Nov 25, 2025 #8154
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    It was leftovers here tonight to try and make refrigerator room for all of the cooking that will take place tomorrow in preparation for the Thursday Thanksgiving Day family meal.

    Tomorrow Ms. Jan will put her Mama’s Thanksgiving dressing and giblet gravy together along with a pot of fresh cream 40’s & petite butter beans combo. She is also baking her Mama’s pecan pies. I will be smoking a whole ham and a whole turkey over cherrywood smoke. My part will start at early thirty Thursday morning as we will plan on sitting down for the meal about 3:00pm.

    A few col’beers will be enjoyed while the meats are smoking and I’ve got a bottle of Col. E.H. Taylor Kentucky straight bourbon to bless the meal with.

    We will all be together at Kayla & John Luke’s home.

    Life is good in Gator Nation!
     
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    That Paso Robles has become a wine center is amusing to me. My best friend in college lives there and it’s near Camp F’n Roberts, the Calif version of Camp Blanding. I spent 3 summer Army training cycles there.
     
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    The hills west of town have some vineyards making exceptional wines. Along with L'Aventure I really like Villa Creek. Tablas Creek also makes some very nice wines.

    The hotter areas east of town make some OK wines but not as good as the wines from west of town.
     
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    Jambalaya tonight with andouille.
     
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  18. Nov 28, 2025 #8158
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    Tonight it seems like this should be a given—but I’m going to post it anyway. Leftovers it is!

    Stress free day enjoying some ice cold longnecks and watching rivalry games—Ole Miss vs MSU, Dawgs vs GT, and TA&M vs Tx.

    Hope everyone’s family time is what you want it to be.

    Life is good in Gator Nation!
     
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  19. Nov 29, 2025 #8159
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    Tonight is leftovers, round 2. Smoked ham, cornbread dressing with giblet gravy, and cream 40’s and butter beans.

    Back to cold weather up here, low was 30* with a high of 46*…

    A tumbler or two of Maker’s Mark works well this evening.

    Life is good in Gator Nation!
     
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  20. Dec 1, 2025 #8160
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    Last night we had turkey tetrazzini with the left over turkey. I smoked a 14 pounder for Thanksgiving and took it to our friends and their kids so between us and them there were 9 folks eating it. Lots left over with a lot to our friends as well. I think smoking a turkey is the way to go because the white meat stays juicy while the dark meat comes up to temp. It was so good that I was tasked with checking for a turkey on sale to make one next weekend. If I find a smaller one I will spatchcock it.

    Tonight is brats on the grill.
     
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