Hahahah I got up this morning and kitchen smelled like one of the dogs took a big shit right in the middle of the floor. It was the crock pot ! Not sure if I'll attempt it or not !

Here's where Steezo almost burnt down his back porch. I was testing out a new infra-red grill with a rotisserie to cook a lamb for Greek Easter. After 10 minutes on high with the lid closed, the lamb still wasn't getting very browned so we went inside for some wine for another 10 minutes. Well... KABOOOM!! The motherfucker ignited.

Infra-red grills can get extremely super-hot, so it took a few minutes to get things settled down and about a half hour or so until it actually cooled down after we'd shut off the gas completely. The fucking lamb looks completely scorched, but it wasn't at all ruined. In fact, it was really good.



That fucked up looking pan under the roast is what I slid underneath it to squelch the fire. The part of the grill behind the lamb is looking a bit scorched, but that part at the very back that looks like a black background... that's the inside lid of my brand new grill. It used to be silver brushed steel. I'm hoping some elbow grease and Barkeeper's Friend will polish things back to looking new again.



This is the finished product. Yeah, it looks like a fucking meteorite, but it still tasted great and (amazingly) not sooty at all.

Xristos Anesti!

Happy Easter, Dude.

gonna make beef stroganoff.

Thanks man. It was the usual assortment of family arguments with my sister (who goes out drinking 3 nights a week) accusing all of us of being alcoholics.

My favorite part of the lamb inferno incident was the interchange between me and my mom. She sounds exactly like Edith Bunker and was screaming out, "Pour baking soda on it! Pour baking soda on it!!" I knew exactly what to do to squelch the fire and was just yelling at her to shut the hell up as I searched for that thin cookie sheet.

I had 8 fried shrimp and woke up with a zit on the tip of my nose.

Just to follow up on that, I'm adding "Eating a bowl of fried shrimp for dinner," to my list of "Things To Not To-Do." In addition to the zit, my kitchen smells like a grease bomb this morning.

I like fried shrimp if it's done in a tempura batter. Otherwise steam or boil those things and keep 'em coming.

if you made them yourself it mightve been because of the oil.when ive made onion rings at home ill end up with a nice whitehead or two.

Toast. Ezekial bread.

Nikki Delano has it right!!!!

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shes definitely got it right








any other interesting and hot whore tumblrs you care to share?

^^^ She's a midget, right?

I got some Ezekiel in my fridge. Lubs dat shit. The people who make it are religious i buhleeb. I don't really buy into bread/gluten paranioa; I just really dig the taste and the way it comes out when you grill it a bit.

My ex was big into Ezekiel bread when she was pretending to have celiac disease.

Pan-seared Ribye with sauteed Peppers, Mushrooms, and Onions with Rice a Roni Long Grain and Wild Rice.

the term is spinner.

last night i cooked hake and boiled cabbage.for the hake fillets i used vegetable oil to cook it in and spice wise: italian seasoning,salt,and garlic powder.turned out so delicious ill probably make it again today or tomorrow.

Cooked a few oysters last night. This many to be exact...



I also cooked about 15 gallons of Chili. Not without incident... This was my fault, but I'm not beating myself up over it... I was wearing gloves that were rubberized on the fingers, but only a few inches up the back of the fingers. So I had a false sense of security when I stuck my hand in the pot of boiling water. It ran over the rubber and soaked in real good.

1. Is that you in the top pic?
2. How did you loose your thumb?
3. What does the sign on the ring mean?

It's the second time (at least) that you have some kind of accident with your hands in combination with heat. You should be careful!

1. Yes that is me in oyster cooking attire.
2. Photoshop cropping...my thumb is fine.
3. That's a pretty well-known symbol, even for Europeans. You can find it yourself. That was my Grandfathers ring though I can rightly wear it.

And yes, similar incidents doing similar things but with different hands. The first incident was a steam burn while I poured off a kettle of water from a "Low-Country Boil" into the sink. Steam burns are sneaky in that by the time you feel them it's way too late.

This one was because I'd been handling all kinds of hot things with the rubberized gloves all night and didn't consider that the back of the fingers weren't protected all the way up. I reached for a vacuum-sealed bag of chili that was thawing in boiling water and bobbing just at the surface and when it went under I went in after it. So yeah, I gotta be more careful but they weren't totally boneheaded mistakes.

3. freemason?.

I was going to ask about the ring too. I've always wanted to be one of them because I love the jewelry. I don't figure that's a good enough reason to join the bunch Who Really Run Things.

I wear my Great Grandfather's Odd Fellow's ring. On my pinky next to a big fugly grim reaper ring. I'm not sure I can rightly wear mine. I never gave it any thought, but now I'm curious.

Hope your hand gets better, guy. Scalding's really hurt.

Yeah it's a Masonic ring. Someone would say something to me if I was wearing it and wasn't a Mason. I actually didn't even know the ring existed until the night I was raised and an uncle appeared and presented me with the ring. It was pretty cool in the regard that I'd have never known about it much less owned it had I not taken that step. And either my Grandmother told him to give it to me or he took that initiative. Either way it was pretty cool as theretofore he was the heir of the ring.

And just to show I don't have sausage fingers like Sportswami or AC Cream all the time, here is day two. Back to normal after all the work and all the trauma.

^^^ Hmmm.... it seems like you're laying that pinky finger out there...waiting for a Greek to cut it off so you can join our version of the "mafia." Or so I've been told.

Btw, is your hand on a pizza peel??

I broke that finger playing football, or so we suspect. It was taped to the ring finger for a couple weeks instead of the team paying for something as frivolous as an X-ray. Ever since it's been a free-agent. It doesn't always point that way.

And that's not a pizza peel but maybe it would work as one. For some reason the chick bought me an "English Pub" set of furniture for the shop which consists of those wide-assed stools and a table. They have no proper back whereby a man could drink himself to sleep and lean back like a proper barstool.

I have a peel that looks just like that actually, except your wood is shiny which would never happen with a pizza peel. My very first peel also had the start of a crack like that down the middle because my dumbass was concerned with being sanitary and washed it. Definitely the same type of wood though.

These are oak or ash, I think, and yes, they are lacquered but after all they're barstools, not pizza peels. Did i show you my oyster steamer?

I didn't intend to call you bone-headed. Steam burns are sneaky indeed. Not unlike acid burns: by the time you notice something is wrong, you're late, often too late.

Just saw this video and think I'll try it sometime.

^^^^Very cool. I knew there had to be a better way. I've started peeling bananas from the bottom. Much easier, but it certainly brings disapproving looks.

I've never heard or a pizza peel before.

i didn't know that was a trick. i've been cutting both ends of the corn for years because i refuse to naw it off and look like a caveman.

i cut off both ends and put a fork in the top to hold it while i run a knife down four sides of it. this also saves on picking stuff outta your teeth.

Honey nut cheerios , skim milk , and blueberries. Turned out good....want the recipe ? Oh, that is the recipe.

I meant the shuckin part. I always leave silk. Can never get it all off.

Half the fun is the caveman thing. Differences make the world go round. Even yours, that'll send you to Hell.

so did i but i guess i didn't mention it. i never tried steaming corn with the husk on.

I've shucked it, pulled the silk out of the hush. Let the husk soak in a simple salt water brine for a while. Slather the cobs up with butter, salt, pepper, whatever spices I can think of...maybe some sugar. Put it back in the husks, secure the husks with twine and throw them on the grill for 2 or 3 minutes each on 4 sides. Very tasty.

Even easier... throw unhusked corn in brine. overnght is best. throw the unhusked corn on the grill and cook til the husks begin to char. maybe 10 mins.

caution though... the brine is hell on your grill.

^^^ That's weird, I just threw some fresh corn in water and wasn't sure whether to add salt or not to make it into a brine (I did). I'm gonna let it sit for a half hour or an hour, then wrap it in foil and grill it. It came out of the package with half of the husk already removed. WTF? Why leave any of it on? Like I'm going to make a tamale or something.

just to confound you.

It is pretty confounding.

I've tried all of the above. I just like getting most of the silk out. That does make it more complicated, I guess. I guess I've never done the unhusked corn in the brine, though. Tis the season, so I'll give that a try the next time.

I think I used too much foil to wrap up the corn or too low of a temperature. It tasted great, but none of the nibs got any color from being on the grill. So, basically it was just corn cob steamed in a foil wrapper.

You know those baked green mussels you get at your favorite Japanese sushi bar? I finally set some time aside to figure it out. Turned out damn near spot on!

Looks awesome! You should post the recipe on your site.

No offense, but I thought those were potato skins at a quick glance.

I dunno what the fuck I did with my food, but I am now in Fart City, population: Meezo. Alls I ate was grilled chicken breast and corn.

Booze causes the farts. Didn't you write about an epic drunken weekend on another thread, Steezo?

Did I? But anyways....ummm... is there any other kind of weekend? And straight booze doesn't cause any gassy disturbances for me.

I thought they were potato skins too. Great presentation. Very arty looking. Post the recipe!!

at first glance thats what i thought too.

Maybe she should just make those instead and put up that recipe.

I vote both.