In Sunshine or in Shadow

Today I am making Carrot and Yellow Squash soup.  And yes, this despite it being 91 freaking degrees with 789% humidity outside. (Sometime I wonder if I live in El Paso, texas and don't know it.)

At any rate, if you are interested in my recipe (this blog is fast becoming a cooking show), send me a t-mail and I will pass it along.

Back to cooking......

So I did a search on my the title of my blog and it turns out many people have the Barbaric Yawp thing going on.  I suppose I should have guessed this would be the case, but alas, I did not.  So my big decision is, do I stay with it, or try to find something more creative?

Lately, I have been drying a lot of herbs from my garden.  I love oregano. Oregano is such an awesome herb.  I also like the name Herb with the silent H.  How creative is that???!!???

Kid update: She is doing wonderful.  Likes to play with her feet now.  She is growing faster than a penis does when the Swedish Bikini team walks by.  I love analogies.  They are fun.

Life is like Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson.  You often think "How in the sam fuck is this possible?", and then ten minutes later you realize it's not worth the time or effort worrying about it.

Add that to your quote of the day calendar ;)

Let's start a thread here...tell me what you think is the worst movie ever made.  Heck, name three if you'd like.  I'll post the results in a few days.

I had a sandwich for dinner today.  It was good.

If Crystal Light was crack, I'd be a junkie on the streets searchin' garbage cans for food.

First you need to get yourself some Country Style Prok ribs and slow cook them for about 5 hours.  I have my kick ass 18 Qt. cooker.  I bought 10 country ribs, which were about 1 lb. each, at the meat market.

The sauce: (This was just enough for 10 lbs of pulled pork--next time I am doubling it)

1 16oz. jar of mustard.  I used a generic brand and it cost me 96 cents.

1 cup cider vinegar, 1 cup water, 2 Tbsp. cayenne pepper, 1 tsp. white pepper, a splash of Tabasco (Habanero style), 2 Tbsp Chili Powder, a pinch of salt, a dash of crushed red pepper, two splashes of Frank's Red Hot sauce, 2 tsp. of liquid smoke.

Add the red pepper, chili powder and white pepper once the rest of the ingredients have come to a good simmer.  You will be able to tell when the prok is ready to pull.  Take it out of the cooker and let it cool slightly, then pull it off the bone and pull it into pieces.

I would recommend setting some pork aside for those who do not like the zip of this BBQ sauce.  Mix that pork with juice from the cooker and a little liquid smoke.  Buy yourself some good hoagie buns or kaiser rolls and make yourself a kick ass sandwich.

enjoy :)

I am loving this "recent visitors" list I look at daily.  It shows where people come to see my blog.  So, I thought I would try this subject line and see if it attracts people with a pirate fetish.

I did a nude beach volleyball thing a year ago and I still get people who google that subject.

At any rate (that is one of my favorite phrases).  So you ever have a day when you wake up and get ready to start the day, and you get to work, and this is a run-on sentence, and you get to work and things just blow up like a cat's butt with an M-80 in it on the fourth of july?  Such was my Monday.

HOWEVER.  I just downed a Red Bull and let me tell ya, I feel like singing Zippidee do dah.  See?  Life ain't so bad. 

My dear friend Rosie has the number 2 blog today.  Now that is rockin.  (Why am I talking like a jive turkey today?) 

I'd also like to recommend the website www.iwon.com.  If you haven't been there, go to it.  You'll thank me someday. 

I have a few people (Those who eat pork) who have requested my Carolina Pulled Pork Bliss recipe.  I will post it tonight!  First I have to go home and snarf down some leftovers.  I love the word snarf.

Be well mofos.

Well, day two of the mouth watering Carolina Pulled Pork I made yesterday was even better, and I hate leftovers! 

I have decided that I am going to start AND finsih every book I have purchased in the last 5 years which is an enormous task.  I started Chuchhill, Truman, John Adams, Theodore Rex, Democracy in America, My Life and His Excellency and finsihed none of them.

I am also reading The Federalist Papers in the bathroom.  That should take me about a year to finish, but I feel I am getting smarter as I partake in the evacuation process.

Just what you all wanted to know on this lovely Sunday.

I made this pulled pork today with a special Carolinian BBQ sauce recipe that would make the most impotent male have a hard on that would last longer than four hours. (Sorry Cialis.)

I really outdid myself today.  This was a meal and a half.  I can't wait to make it again.  I doctored the recipe for the sauce up my own way...extra kick and MSG.  (Seinfeld reference).

If you are interested in my lovely pork recipe, let me know.  I will happily give it up.  It's not like Bush's Baked Beans where they flaunt the recipe in front of our faces.  I have no problem letting the world know about my new and quite frankly, excellent pulled pork bliss.  In fact, that is what I am going to call it....Pulled Pork Bliss.

So, what did YOU do today?

For the second consecutive day, the mainstream media has made a huge to-do about the journals and sketches of the Columbine killers being released to the public.  First of all, we do not need to see all of this crap to know what they were--disturbed individuals who were misplaced among the masses of people with a heart and sane mind. 

Second and most important, each time we post something on cnn or any large news outlet, showing their handywork or the insane thought process they went through, we are glorifying what they did.  We are glorifying the two wastes of human life that went on the murderous rampage.

I refuse to type their names in this blog.  I don't want someone doing a search with their name on google coming to my blog.  It is time for us to stop bringing back their madness.  We have to quit drooling over sketches of dead people and entries saying that the world must die.  Their names should never be mentioned again. 

On Christmas night (December 25), 1776, an army of roughly 2400 colonials, led by General George Washington crossed the Delaware River from the Pennsylvania side to the NJ side.  They did this in the dead of night, with sleet and snow carving cold into every fiber of their bodies.  They attacked and consequently defeated an army of 1500 Hessian soldiers at Trenton, giving the colonials a much-needed boost in the War against Britain.

They had been defeated so many times and were on the brink of disaster.  The few troops that remained in Washington's army had every intention of going home at the end of the year.  Without this bold move--crossing the Delaware in the most deplorable conditions possible with the odds so severely stacked against them, America as we know it would not exist today.

There are many moments in American History that can be debated as "The single most important", but this singular move in my opinion tops the list.  Washington was days away from losing the rest of his Army.  They couldn't defeat the British Army in any of the previous battles, and moral was as low as you can possibly imagine.  Despite this, they gave it one last effort.  They crossed an icy river on the coldest of nights and defied all logic.  It was as if God was looking down on the concept of America and saying "here is your chance."

We cannot denounce this act of Patriotism as a mere tall tale.  It actually happened that Christmas Night in 1776.  It changed everything.  It breathed new life into the dead corpse that was the American Revolution.  It also set the table for generations of Patriots who have worn the colors of America and defended our honor.  Today we celebrated Independence Day and marked the occasion just as John Adams envisioned we would back then--with fireworks in celebration. 

This moment in time, in American History set the table for a series of events that gave birth to the United States of America.  And to every man and woman who have since stood up to make our country great--from Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to every soldier in every war and conflict, I say God Bless you and God bless America.  I truly love this day.

I heard this song on the radio the other day and I still can't stop singing it in my head.  I guess it beats "Do you know the way to San Jose."

The weather here has been rough the last couple of weeks.  Our area has been hit with some horrible thunderstorms which have caused a lot of wind damage.  These things are cyclical in Ohio, especially in my area.  Every few years there is a trough where the jet stream runs through and causes a lot of havoc.  A lot of people don't know this, but Ohio does get hit with a lot of tornado activity.  It's a weird state for weather.  In my area it can be 0 in the winter and 95 during the summer.  We still have the greatest football team in America though and they bitchslapped Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl this year.

If you read on in my blog you will see I really like the 4th of July.  I love celebrating our Independence.  Yes, scholars will argue when we officially declared we were independent, but I don't care.  The calendar says it's July 4th and for now, that's good enough for me.

I am on a Crystal Light binge for the ages.  Is anyone else joining me in this craze?  The new fad are the little individual pouches that you can put in water bottles and shake up for "on the go" Crystal Light fixes.  If they discover in 15 years that Crystal Light causes cancer, I will likely have a tumor the size of a giant pumpkin growing in my colon.  That will be painful.  For now, the lemonade and raspberry ice are simply delicious. 

How many magazine subscriptions do you have?  I currently get 2.  National Geographic and Real Simple.  I love them both, but notice I rarely pick them up.  They just sit there.  I keep telling myself that I will get to them, but I don't.  So I have a new rule.  If I don't pick up the magazines I order at least one time (other than from the mailbox to the counter top), in the same month I get them, I am cancelling the subscription.  Today I physically touched my real simple, so I guess it's time to re-order....

Make it a happy and safe 4th.  Don't forget to send me some love and leave a comment.  I promise I will return the favor just as soon as I finish this glass of Crystal Light.