I worked as a chef this past Friday. Last summer, for a charity auction, I offered up my outdoor cooking abilities with Dutch-ovens. A director of a local agency won the bid and had me to cook for her staff. So Friday, I hauled my stuff out to their office and prepared lunch: barbecued babyback ribs, baked chicken, Dutch-oven potatoes, Carolina-style Cole slaw, and a chocolate-cherry cobbler. The photo is of me showing off my potatoes to a hungry worker.
Things have been rather crazy in my world over the past few weeks. It’s often that way in September and this year has been no different. We’re having some crazy weather here! Yesterday morning, when I went out with the dog it was 40 degrees, today it was 70! After a wet spring and early summer, the skies dried up, but this morning we received a welcome drizzle. I’m glad we’re not getting the deluge some of you received down South. We’re here in a race to get a project roofed before winter sets in and need to have good weather this fall.
I just haven’t had time to research or write about the political issues of today, but last week I came across this video at Courting Destiny's blog. It's about the current health care debate in our country enlightening and funny. It’s amazing that we pay so much for so little. If that video gets your blood pressure up too much, watch this one. It's not political at all and is kind of funny, unless you're a cop without a sense of humor.
Hopefully, soon, I’ll be able to write more of my Appalachian Trail hike. I also have an upcoming canoe trip planned for a river that I’ve not yet paddled, one in which I’m hoping to catch some fall colors along with the fall salmon run.
the dutch oven looks interesting. do you have some posts about your recipes? we have Krispy kreme here, maybe i should try
ReplyDeleteyeah man...do a post on that kind of stacked cooking.
ReplyDeleteI want to see the food, Sage! I don't have time to see the vids now; be back later.
ReplyDeleteRecipes!
ReplyDelete(Cooking with a Dutch Oven is definitely a lost art.)
Cheers.
I think i can even smell the potatoes and delicious barbecued ribs, Sage!
ReplyDeleteI watched the videos. (We're number seven here, and everybody thinks it's bad!). I'm not a cop without a sense of humour, so the second vid made me smile. ;))
Chocolate cherry cobbler? Ok, I'll bite.
ReplyDeleteI would like the recipes of all that you cooked!
ReplyDeleteAnd pictures. Lots of those..
I've been wanting to canoe in the fall to see more leaves sometime. Maybe Murf and I should come visit you!
ReplyDelete(HA! I wonder if you could handle both of us at once?)
PS: I had to stop for a train last night. I thought of you.
Excellent videos. It reminds me of when a Krispy Kreme opened up just down the street from where I used to live. It tripled my commute times for a few weeks until people got their taste of them. We had a standing pool of money for anyone who could eat an entire dozen of them things and keep them down. No one ever tried the two years I worked there. I'm guessing no one wanted to pay their deductible for the emergency room visit!
ReplyDeleteFun video. I liked the way Saudi Arabia was captured with George Bush and Germany with beer.
ReplyDeleteTC - Are you signing me up for canoeing or just for visitation? :-) If it's the former, I'm sure Sage would LOVE for both of us to come for a visit.
ReplyDeleteDutch oven cooking... I'd love to sample yours. And a fall canoe trip! That should be fun, hope things slow down a bit for you.
ReplyDeleteNaomy and Walking Guy, Kenju and Randall & Gautami--I'll do a post with recipies and hopefully pictures of the photo (I didn't take some, but I know others did) Give me a few days and I'll see if I can get it together.
ReplyDeleteLeni--the potatoes are to die for (and with that much bacon, you ateries just might freeze up). Did you get the donut reference to police officers? I've wondered those of you in other countries would understand.
Charles, you can never go wrong with chocolates and cherries!
TC and Murf--the two of you would have to handle your own canoe and I'd have to up my life insurance! So you waited for a train and thought of me--like wishing I'd quickly go away? :)
Ed, two or three Krispy Kremes go down easily, but then you get to feeling sick... :)
Fantasy--I loved Bush kissing the king, why didn't rumors start flying then?
Murf, I'm already dusting off extra life jackets and flack jackets...
Beau, maybe I should have a blogger open house and prepare a dutch oven feast
I can't believe you cooked all that. You have to do a blog charity something and show up somewhere and cook...Have to
ReplyDeleteYes, Sage, we have donuts over here, they're quite popular but we only have them covered with sugar or chocolate -and surely not so delicious as yours!- ;)
ReplyDeletePia, I'd love to do such a cookout!
ReplyDeleteLeni, I know you have donuts! The joke is about cops and donuts. Cops who are always seen in donut shops. There is a funny line in the movie Raising Arizona, where a bounty hunter is selling his services for finding a kidnapped child--he says and he says something like, "You want to find your kid, hire me; you want to find Dunkin Donuts, hire a cop."
Oh my, thanks for the explanation Sage, now i get the joke! ;)
ReplyDeleteTrue. There is a solution though, I just know it. We must continue constructive dialogue to arrive at our health care crisis. A great post, Sage!
ReplyDeleteYeah, cheers to the UK #18 and Singapore #8 (I think)!!! Govt run healthcare isn't that bad, eh? :)
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