Posts Made By: Jim Moscheck

Originally Posted by James Brown

Well, time for an update.  I really was truly and totally infatuated with the RecTeqs - except for one thing.  They need power, and my grill/smoker is situated where I would either have to do a huge trenching and cable burying project, or use a big extension cord from the house.  Yuck. 

So, in view of the fabulous looking ribs on Jim M's facebook page - smoked on a Big Green Egg, I started doing some research into Kamado Oven type grills.  I ended up with a Kamado Joe - basically a red egg.  Yumm!  I've got a couple of game hens on it right now - can't wait.  I've smoked one Boston Butt, and it was great.  The routine and not so routine grilling and roasting has been superb.  Can't wait to try a pizza at 700 degrees!

The table is my own - Ipe wood.  It weights a ton, since a wind storm destroyed  my last grill, and I am not going to let that happen again!  It matches our deck, which is behind me.

Bon appétit!  

Jim

Wow! Beautiful view, just a lovely spot you have there.

It's all about the lump charcoal. I use a lot of hickory chunks, too, and some fruit woods. The temps are pretty easy to learn to set, I swear by the BBQ Guru system, but then again you need power. I'll bet a 17 aH + astro battery would run the controller and the fan just fine. LOL.

One of my favorite recipes is Simon and Garfunkel Chicken. You spatchcock a whole chicken, rub it with olive oil and season it with parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Grill it over direct heat at 325º for 25 to 30 minutes a side depending how big it is. Best chicken I've ever had. Anywhere. You can season it with other rubs, too, sometimes I use JB Fatboy's Cowgirl Rub, which is my favorite commercial/store bought rub. I swear I'll light the darn thing to roast hot dogs.

Another "recipe" that is very popular in my store is simply taking rings of locally made smoked kielbasa and double smoking them for an additional three hours or so at 180º with lots of hickory wood mixed in with the lump. The folks in the neighborhood behind my store always know when I'm making it. We sometimes throw a few hot dogs if we get it on early enough for lunch. They are incredibly yummy slow cooked that way. Another thing that's easy is taking a smoked ham and double smoking it the same way, though it'd take much longer at that low of a temp so I usually kick it up to 260º or so. We did our ham that way on Easter and it was melt in your mouth good.

Can you tell I like talking about this stuff? LOL.

I got my dos dose yesterday and other than being a little tired I'm fine. The injection site didn't hurt yesterday at all after the shot but started bugging me last night while I was trying to sleep. Today it is pretty sore. I guess data emerging is if you have had covid the side effects are worse with the first shot, not so much with the second one.

Beautiful weather here the last few days, but it turned cloudy and rainy this evening.

Hopefully, fingers crossed, my son is coming home for five weeks on Saturday. He's been stuck in London, Ontario since Christmas 2019. We have him signed up for the vaccine, but he'll still have to quarantine for 14 days when he goes back, unless guidelines change. Ontario is in full lockdown as of yesterday with no vaccine plans in sight. We are pretty lucky here in the States.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Covid updates: Michigan continues spiking to lead the country while Florida has the most variants of any state and is spiking overall, too... 

That's because a lot of the people who are testing positive here spent their recent vacations there with no mitigation or masks in sight.

Maskholes and covidiots are everywhere.

I can't remember if I told you guys this one:

A drunk driver, child trafficker, and insurrectionist walks into a bar. The bartender asks "What can I get you Mr. Gaetz?  

Then there is this:

And this is a little over a week old, but still makes me laugh. There is a Biden joke in there for you righties. What Colin Jost says about Q is hilarious.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

The response from the cons is the same as that of Fox news:

It is a know fact that democrats have a better sense of humor. I'm not surprised none of them have any thoughts on how hypocritical Gaetz is, or that matter Trump, the news outlets they watch don't even cover it. The coward Trump gets the vaccine in January and doesn't have the cojones to tell his followers to get one, too, nevermind the fact he was a lot sicker than we were led on to believe when he had Covid. So much shit could have been avoided if he was even half of a human being.

Yeah, I don't like the guy, never have, never will, and it'll never change. 

There might be 10-15 funny conservative stand up comedians. Maybe. I could list you hundreds that you would consider left leaning who are f'ing hilarious. I won't even let you use Dennis Miller. He was never funny, even back then. Remember the time when Fox News tried to compete with The Daily Show and Real Time with Bill Maher? It wasn't funny.

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

This is a good example. To liberals it is politics first. Late night, everybody shrieks like trained seals to some jokes that are not close to being that funny. You won't even admit Miller was a good comedian. Politics first.

Yeah, Miller is so popular and funny he's had his own late night show for years, right?

Just being snarky isn't funny. Most really good humor is rooted in truth.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Fox news is trying right wing comedy again with, of all people, Gutfeld who is one of the most obnoxious jerks the network offers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypGeh5JwbIQ
 

I had no idea they were trying it again. From those clips all I can say is ouch. Painful to watch.

MSNBC and CNN don't try to do comedy. They leave it to the professionals at Comedy Central and the broadcast networks.

Conservatives put too much meanness into their brands to be clever and funny so I don't see this group of folks Fox has conjured up succeeding.