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Smoked Pork Loin Burnt Ends

Smoked pork loin burnt ends ~ Oak Ridge BBQ rubbed

Drizzled with a lil' my homemade cherry/pepper bbq sauce & sided up with some homemade 'tater salad

Burnt ends are a beautiful thang...

Rosanne Cash

Fat Bottom Mary's Smothered Burritos

Fat Bottom Mary's Moosehead Chili
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Smothered Burritos

Carpe Burrito

Burrito filling made with cheese grits & smoked rib meat pulled off spare rib tips

Smoked Pork Ribs Sauce Picante

Served up on a bed of creamy cheesy grits

Some pig bones & a nickel's worth of grits = supper

Ribs & Romanoff

Slab of spares trimmed St Louie ~ Oakridge BBQ rubbed & applewood smoked

Some of the rib tips from the St Louie trim ~ couple of the big one will end up in a pot of beans, and the rest of them ended up being cook's treats = lunch

Rib tips drizzled with a lil' my homemade cherry/pepper bbq sauce = lunch

Homemade tubular noodles Romanoff ~ hot out the oven

Sour cream, butter & parmesan cheese ~ what's not to like?
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The Reeltime Travelers ~ Mebbe The Last Time

Hag ~ Working Man Blues

Tubular Noodles Romanoff

Romanoff sauce is basically a light creamy bechamel with lotsa butter, sour cream & parmesan cheese in it

Topping is parmesan cheese & sweet paprika mixed together

Dotted with butter

Breakfast Burrito Slopper

The slopper trilogy is now complete

I don't generally traffic in *recipes* ... but I've been swamped for this one, so here's the best I can do:

12 big jim hatch chiles

4 orange/red ripe serranos

1/2 onion, sliced thick

6-8 cloves garlic, peeled

throw everything in big bowl & toss with a lil' evoo, then turn out onto sheet pan & slide under broiler to char - turn & char other side ~ when both sides are charred, dump everything back into the big bowl & cover to steam. peel, seed all the chiles, then chop everything - including the onions & roasted garlic. set aside.

then...

start dutch oven with 3-4 slices bacon, chopped ... render bacon ... remove bacon from pan, leaving the bacon grease. at this point i had a couple end pieces of a boneless pork loin that i cut up into small cubes, lightly floured & threw them into the pan with the bacon grease & browned them. remove the browned pork, leaving the bacon grease in the pan ... add some flour to the pan to make a bacon grease roux ... at this point i added about a quart of homemade brown chicken stock & brought to boil until the roux tightened it up, then added back the browned pork & about a 1/2 cup of some homemade roasted tomato/green chile salsa that i'd made, and also about 1 cup of canned diced roasted tomatoes - slow rolling boil until it's nice & smooth, then i added all the chopped roasted hatch chiles, serranos, onions & garlic ... simmer for a few minutes, then taste & add seasonings: salt, cracked black, adobo seasoning, cumin, oregano, etc. taste & correct seasonings ... turn heat off and add chopped cilantro. badda boom, done deal. smother something with it, and top with the bacon bits

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The Grascals ~ Farther Along

A Proper Slopper

A charbroiled brisket point cheesebooga, smothered with pork/green chile sauce & sided with sliced ripe homegrown tomatoes. A proper slopper, indeed. Wish I'd had some deep fried/cheese stuffed jalapenos to go with ... then I would have had a propper slopper with a popper. Perhaps I'll open a chain of proper slopper restaurants, eh ~ spokesperson could be Dennis Hopper ... or mebbe Mikey Teutul on a chopper. American Slopper? Music by Big Bopper? Cyndi Lauper???

Lou Ann Barton

Slopper Dawgs

All beef smoked brats steamed in beer ... shredded Tillamook cheddar, smothered with pork/green chile sauce & topped with diced onions and Burgers Smokehouse bacon.

Pork & Green Chile Sauce

Roasted Hatch chiles, serranos & onions

Peeled, seeded & chopped

Lil' fresh cilantro

Cilantro added to sauce at last minute

Base of sauce is brown chicken stock & roasted tomatoes (in addition to all the roasted chiles & pork) tightened up with a bacon fat roux

We be making "Sloppers" this weekend, ah garrontee

Get The Quarterback!!

A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience.

"Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents."

Dumbfounded, her date asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like...Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!

Jimmy LaFave

Kaw-Cajun Holy Trinity Meatballs

Spicy cajun meatballs drizzled wit Cajun Power BBQ Sauce

Jambalaya Pistolette Cheesebooga

Jambalaya pistolette, split & toasted

Dressed with creole mustard, red onion, lettuce & pickles

Charbroiled brisket point cheesebooga loaded on

Badda boom ... now DATS a cheesebooga

Jambalaya Pistolettes

Scratch yeast dough, stuffed with jambalaya

Hot out the oven ~ time to carb up!
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Sonny Landreth ~ Mississippi Blues

Captain Boscoe

This is my Dad at the helm of his beloved fishing boat "The Lady Barbara" ... at his retirement cabin on Lake Koronis in Minnesota ~ circa 1989. Today is Dad's birthday ~ he would have been 87 years old. Happy Birthday, Pops.

Walter Roscoe "Boscoe" Eddy 1923-1999
He was a wise and moral man.

Lambert's Throwed Rolls

Man, don't you just hate when yer butter melts & slides off yer hot roll?? I hate when that happens...

I had a hankerin' for a hot roll, so I hauled off and made some ~ my go to yeast roll recipe is Lambert's Throwed Roll recipe. Google it.