Everyday? You must be dreaming. This cannot be happening. Then again, I have to go somewhere soon and probably won't be able to finish this. But it's a start.
So where to go today. More depressing stuff or maybe a light tale of adventure and excitement. You never know. Worst part is, I never know. It just happens.
On a really good note, the ribs I like to cook are on sale this week. Still $10 a kilo but they have been $20 lately so that is a big price cut. I bought lots but need to buy all they have and freeze them. These are the ribs I have described on many occasions in the blog but just in case you are as lazy as I am and don't want to go back and read centuries worth of work, they are the big country style ribs. Not really ribs as far as I am concerned but living in Australia for the last 20 years, I have come to know them as the only ribs I can get. They do have regular ribs but they are so small and have so little meat on them that it is not worth trying to cook them at all. You can get them in restaurants but they have no idea how to cook them, no one here has ever actually heard of real BBQ, so they are just baked usually with a really crappy sauce poured over them, another thing they cannot make here, real BBQ sauce.
Have to stop. My boss just came back and I have to go somewhere, so think about ribs and BBQ while I am gone and try not to pity me too much.
Ok, maybe I can type a bit more.
I mention the ribs because using my smoker this weekend was one of the plans for father's day. I was going to try to use it. I have some real wood charcoal and I have some wood but I am not sure either one is good for BBQ. I tried it once but I overcook everything and it did not come out well. I have only used the BBQ twice so I need to get used to how it cooks. It is not a real smoker. It is made of cheap thin metal and does not hole heat very well. I ran it for about 6 hours once just to test it and it would not get up to temperature and hold it like it should. I think they just made it so it would look like an offset smoker that is seen on the TV cooking shows from America. They do not really grasp the concept of what it does or what it is supposed to be for.
I think I have mentioned it in the past but over here, BBQ is a roaring fire that you put a sheet of metal over and fry the hell out of whatever you put on it. It seems to the goal is to get the metal plate hot enough to catch fire so you set the food alight and then spend your time trying to put it out. When you get the fire out, the food it done and you start the next batch. No wonder everyone wants me to BBQ, or grill, when I am there.
At the recent birthday party, Craig, Juanita's brother, he was going to cook for everyone. Only about 15 people there, including the kids, but he had enough food for them. Now I have to tell you that Craig has a new hobby lately. I don't think it is his hobby but he has gallons of liquor that someone is making all the time. One of his girlfriends friends I think. They make all kinds of things from whiskey to schnapps to different flavored liqueurs. Juanita is especially fond of the Butterscotch one. He has gallons, or liters, of the stuff. I am told he has 15 liters of whiskey alone.
Craig's part in all this is to drink as much as he can while people are over and get everyone else drinking as well. I am not sure if he is just trying to get rid of it or he just likes to try to get people drunk. This is a new phenomenon, since the recent tragedies, so we don't know how long it will last. Hopefully, not long because part of him trying to get everyone else to drink, he usually gets quite drunk himself.
Have to go again.
Ok, I am back for a bit. I am in another office building doing some installs but the people I need to do it for are not here, so I will do this until they get back.
Where was I. BBQ, Australia, Craig and something else, can't remember. With Craig, naturally, he had drank too much by the time it got to the cooking. It was his birthday anyway so I am not sure why he would have been doing the cooking. I asked him if he wanted me to do it. He couldn't understand me so I had to get Juanita to ask him. He said, sure, if I want to help, he was too drunk to stand anyway.
He actually worked on side of the grill while I worked on the other two plates. During the time we were cooking, he told me he had removed the grill and replaced it with another metal plate. He said no one uses the grill so he didn’t know why they included it. Guess that is all I need to say about Australian BBQ.
I don’t really remember where I was headed with this and it is the next day. I’d like to make a different entry for today so if I left you hanging about something maybe I will go back after I post this and finish it. As I am doing this on my phone, I have no idea whether it will work or not. It already is annoying me so that’s about all for today.
Until next time
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