Brisket "Buffalo" Burgers

Just pulled these fresh-ground brisket burgers off the grill, for the Chiefs/Texans preseason game tonight ~ that's buffalo sauce on the burgers ... will top with Maytag blue cheese and bacon.

Got A Few Miles On Her

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Levon Helm ~ Everything Gonna Be Alright

Friday Night Blues Groove

By The Time I Get To Woodstock

Has it really been 40 years?? WALSTIB

Ice Cold Watermelon

See that watermelon

Smiling through the fence
Wish that watermelon it was mine
Sometimes I think that old folks
Ain't got a lick of sense
When they leave that watermelon on the vine

Perseid Meteor

A Contemplation For The Ages

"If three and four were seven only, where would that leave one and two?"

~~Townes Van Zandt

Mater Sandwich

Homegrown t'mater sandwich on fresh-baked pepperoni/asiago bread ~ dressed with garden fresh cabbage slaw. Now .. before you go gettin' all vegan freaky on me, remember there's pepperoni in dat bread ~ aw'rite?

Homegrown t'mater sandwich sided up with some homemade pickled beets and a lil' jalapeno.

Deep Thoughts ~ by Fat Johnny

Puttin' homegrown tomatoes on a boloney sandwich
is sorta like puttin' lipstick on a pig.

Empire In Ruins

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Dave Alvin ~ Maggie Campbell Blues

A-a-a ... sun gonna shine
My back door someday
My back door someday
M-m-m ... sun gonna shine
My back door someday
And wind gonna change, now
Blow my blues away....

Kaw-Cajun Corn Chow Chow

Well, the fridge & pantry scan yesterday turned up all the stuff to make a batch of chow chow ... sweet corn chow chow. I had 7 big ears of sweet corn and a head of garden fresh cabbage, bermuda onions, fresh garlic ~ went out back to the garden and picked me a few chiles and green tomatoes ... badda boom, an hour later I got a batcha chow chow sittin' on the counter. Funny how dat works, eh?

The corn chow chow before simmerin', canning and processing it.

Bobo's Drive-In

This is my favorite burger joint in Topeka ~ it's been a local favorite for over 50 years, and business has never been better. The burgers are fantastic ~ hell, everything is good ... onion rings are to die for!! They even have homemade pies ... need I say more?

This is a Bobo's Steakburger

Here's a shot of the drive-in on a typical day ... the old-fashioned drive up carport doesn't even have them 'lectronic orderin' speaker thingies ~ the carhops come out and take your order, as well as bring it to you. They are VERY fast & efficient, some of the carhops been working there for 25-30 years.

Seesta B ~ Acting Corny

Mais, I took Seesta B (my sister, Brenda) with me to the veggie market the other day ~ we had a great time and came home with a truckload of good locally-grown produce. After hitting a couple of vegetable stands, we went down to a famous Topeka landmark for lunch ~ BoBo's Drive-In for burgers, onion rings and root beer.

This cantalope was the *score of the day* at the veggie stand, Meier's Veggie Market. Seesta B spotted a whole bushel basket of ripe cantalope for $2 ... there must have been 10-12 large melons in dat basket, so we split it between us. When is the last time you paid one dollar for 6 large melons? The bargain of the century, and I been eatin' cantalope till it's comin' out my ears!!!!

Best Pulled Pork EVER!

This was some KILLER smoked/pulled pork, dressed with a lil' my homemade *bastardized* Piedmont style mustard sauce.

Couple butts and a slab of ribs smoked by Cowboyup Eric ~ dat boy sure knows his way around a smoker, ah garrontee ~ this lil' piggie done gone to Heaven ... doin' the *wobba wobba* all da way, yeh.

Here's one them butts off the bone, before I further pulled & sauced it. That sauce in the pic is not what I sauced the pulled pork with ~ I sauced them ribs wit dat sauce (Smoky Mountain Smokers) ... and by the by, you don't see them ribs in this pic ~ why? Because I ate them already, dat's why!!

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Wesley Jefferson Blues Band ~ The Wolves Are Howlin'

Thunderhead Over The Tallgrass Prairie

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

Homemade Hot Links & Fried Cabbage

It don't git much crunkier than this ~ garden fresh cabbage, bermuda onions & jalapenos fried in bacon fat.

Smoked homemade hill country hot links & fried cabbage, sided up with garden fresh baby yukon gold potatoes lyonnaise. Everything on this plate is either homegrown or homemade ~ only thang storebought is the horseradish.

Also put up a few quarts of half sour deli dills today ~ can you say: hot pastrami & swiss on rye?

Unintended Consequences

Homegrown tomatoes, garden fresh cukes and bermuda onions.

Crisp bacon, hard-boiled eggs, Tillamook cheddar, pickled beets and homemade blue cheese dressing. Yes, there is a bed of crisp lettuce underneath all dat.

Well, I love the homemade Maytag blue cheese dressing ~ but the problem with making a good salad dressing is that you then have to eat a SALAD. So what's a fella gonna do but cowboy up and choke down some leafage ~ this one was pretty good, as far as salads go. The homemade pickled beets were good.

Hillside Twilight

Late in the day ... twilight falls on the great Konza Prairie.

Some People...

Some people have a way with words; others not have way.

Maytag 'Mater Blues

Woke up this morning ... with dem stinky ol' Maytag blues....

Homegrown 'maters & some dat good Maytag blue cheese ~ truely a match made in Heaven.
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Robert Bilbo Walker Band ~ Bring It On Home