Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Did you smoke it the day before or wake up the birds on Christmas morning to get it done in time?

Are you still using the regular sized Big Green Egg? I think it is about the same size as my Kamado Joe Classic and a 14 lb bird is about as big as I can go.

Or did you use a more conventional smoker on the turkey?

 

Up North they would call this Soul Food.

Down South it is just regular folks food.

Up North most white folks never had collard greens.

Down South everybody loves collard greens. And turnip greens. And mustard greens.

Up North they have Swiss chard.

 

Still have to get up really early but the smoker gets up to temp a lot quicker than a ceramic. But on the down side it probably needs more "baby sitting" to keep the temps in range so can't go back to sleep.

 

Going to fire up the KJ for thick center cut and bone in pork loin chops in about an hour.

Left over hot and sour soup as an app and a salad.

 

Your son has a BGE, right?

Not that it is big enough for a ham/picnic and a turkey.

 

Change of plans for the pork chops. It is now POURING rain in Hogtown and it looks like it will be like that for a long time. Pork chops on cast iron works but doesn't get the smoke from hardwood lump charcoal.

 

I've had one root canal back in the day when oxy was prescribed for pain. When I was getting the procedure done I could hear the receptionist getting call after call from people complaining about tooth pain and needing a refill. I got a prescription for oxy and wasn't going to fill it for ten pills but my endodontist said I should fill it just in case.

I flushed every one of those pills.

Too bad you can't get a prescription for Maker's Mark. LOL.

Last night was pork tenderloin and Chinese greens from a friend's garden with rice. Tonight I am making clam linguini.

 

That is my go to bourbon. It makes fantastic cocktails and is good enough for sipping by itself. I don't enjoy bourbon enough to spring for some Pappy. But if somebody offers me some ...

 

After an afternoon of fixing things at our last rental house it will be a super simple meal: Tex Mex tacos.

First I had to fix a door. It is an old house and has mortise locks and a door knob fell off. No big deal. Happens all the time. Then they said that there was a leak under the kitchen sink. For some unknown reason a slip joint washer was missing from one of the joints on the tee. I have no idea how that could happen because my tenants are not tool using mammals and they would never take the plumbing apart and gotten rid of the washer. Maybe they had a friend try and fix it and screwed it up. IDK. Last time my tenants tried to fix a kitchen leak on their own it was a full can of Flex Seal making a total mess of everything. I had to tear everything out and fix it right. I think they knew that they screwed it up and tried to make it right on their own. Needless to say none of those tenants were engineering students or mechanics.

But I got everything fixed.

Felt bad for my dog that missed me most of the day.

 

Maybe someday I might buy some Blanton's.