December 2007 Archives

Please click on image for a far larger photograph of love.

Sorry, can't live without the turkey. It's the gravy I crave, this and only. When I try the other more adventurous menus? The love and care gets murky, quite quickly. Biggles no likey. That rich perfume between the stuffing and crackly skin make my core all smiley, nose bones come alive. You can have your lamb, ham & beef of all kinds. I can't live without the turkey, it's the gravy I crave.

Love to you all and Merry Happy,

Biggles

You know the ones, they're shaped like a triangle log. Fat on one lengthy side and the rest looks pretty lean? Was looking for a tri-tip or sirloin, but no luck. It's the holidays for crissakes, why would they have those cuts? Sigh.

It was 4:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, I had a preheated oven, could I get this on the table in time?

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Little Eddy came in to my office the other day, he's the one that gave me the idea for doing a post about Chinch Meat (chinchilla). He wanted me to do a search for Yak Meat, I did.

Google lead me directly to Delyaks, our yak source!

I'm pretty excited and will probably order some after paying of the holiday bills. Apparently it's 95% to 97% fat free and is filled with Omega 3 oils, CLA's, Oleic Acids,and Stearic Acids. Healthier for us than skinless chicken breasts and fish? They say it's true. Not gamey, not greasy, juicier than buffalo and delicately flavored? Dang, that's pretty darned impressive.

Welp, look for a yak post coming up in our future. There's tons of information and pictures on their web site, go have a gander.

xo, Biggles

ps - Sure I talked about yak meat, but I really wanted some way of sharing the sunrise with you.

I call this, Meat Therapy. I had a hankerin' for some meatloaf the other night, a good solid hank. I knew Tiny E wouldn't have anything to do with it, so I figured I could really mess with the recipe I usually use and not hurt anyone. Or piss them off, that's no good. Wanna come see what I did to this one?

You wanna start a fight? Get the conversation pointed towards bottled vs. filtered vs. tap. Go ahead, I triple-dog dare you.

I buy bottled water from time to time for the convenience only. Good for hiking, driving or whatever. The tap water we receive from EBMUD flat out rules. I've never even remotely considered blowing my hard earned cash on any filtration system. Okay, well I did buy one years ago. You know the ones? Those bulbous things that hangs off your faucet? Yeah, it made me shake and scream. TOSS.

Aquasana wasn't going to have it easy.

Whoa, hang on there Tex, slow down. Listen up, for as long as I can remember I've been a staunch supporter of grass roots organizations. And this woman is someone you want to know more about, at least read the following. This just now rolled in via email and my jaw was open through the entire thing.

YOU GO HANNAH !!! Kick some vegan ASS !!! And of course, this ass that would be receiving the kicking, is a vegan one.

Please read this, now.

There are at least 2 kinds of people this time of year, in regards to buying/giving gifts. Some are brilliant, you know who they are. They know how to shop, they do it early and their choices are legendary. Then, there's my type. Lousy, last minute shoppers who give gifts that just plain blow. This makes both of us feel like dirt for a while. How would you like an easy one? An absolutely awesome gift that for a little outlay will get you 'in' with the cool kids.

That's right, buy your friend, lover, partner or spouse the gift of learning how to sharpen their own knives! Here's the crutch though, you have to move on this one. Why? Because Eric's next class is coming up this monday, December 10th. See? Shopping done!

Bring a few knives to sharpen and at least one that can take a lot of abuse.

Again, you need to move on this one. Call today and secure your place of honor. After that, you may want to write down some questions that you've always wanted to know the truth about. Those rumors spread from nitwits at your local mega mart. Such as, don't use a steel it prematurely wears down your knife. Come prepared and be on time.

Biggles

ps - Am told that you can just actually show up on time and be allowed to attend, ain't that cool? Make a date of it !!!

The images are larger than normal because I wanted to make them larger. This blog does what I tell it to.

If you're any kind of outdoor cooking enthusiast, you've got this book. If not, you've got one or five just like it. The drawings, photographs & recipes are fun to pour through. Meathead gifted me this one a few weeks ago. While flipping through I found two reasons that made it a tad more interesting. Visit with me on a little journey back to the later 1950s, won't you?

Sure, you think I'm going to do some cutsy little post about how to involve yer youngin's with piggies. Nope, not even remotely. No, see this post is about another web site and it's name is Pork 4 Kids. Chilebrown sent this over a few weeks ago, go have a look. It creeped me out at first, but they have games and you can even make your own placemats for the dinner table!

Thank you CB.

Biggles