As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The Lame Cherry is composing this on Thanksgiving and it is being published here now for a purpose as Christmas is approaching. I'm going to share our menu, because 2 years ago we wore ourselves out in cooking, that I did not even want to eat, and that pissed me off, as I love eating good food.
OK, for my birthday I had purchased country pork ribs. Never got them BBQ'd for reasons I have mentioned here. Cost was 12 bucks for 9 meaty ribs.
I grilled them, and prep was just salt and pepper. The wood I chose for smoke was Apicot. Good wood, but not as spicy as I had smelled in the barrel stove. Made spectacular ribs though.
Next up, prep time, 20 minutes was a generic seasoned rice we like, this one tastes like stuffing.
Next, generic stuffing, prep time, 5 minutes.
Next, whole cranberries, just some sugar, water and orange flavoring, prep time 15 minutes.
Candied carrots, just boil until done, add brown sugar and butter, 20 minutes prep.
George and Martha Washington Pumpkin pie in the pumpkin. I have written of this, in it is just a custard of egg, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cream. TL blasted it in the microwave to speed things along until it was soft. Baked at 350 degrees in a corningware bowl until the custard turns crispy brown, which was like the pork about the longest of the meal prep in 2 hours.
It was all delicious. I would rank my favorites in:
Washington Custard
Pork BBQ
Stuffing
Candied Carrots
Cranberries
Rice.
The rice is last because the other flavors were so powerful that you could not taste the seasoning that well.
We had an on sale Key Lime, Marie Callendar pie, for 7 bucks.
This was really easy. TL kept saying, we have all this food, and I never felt we had cooked anything.
I like mashed potatoes, like cooking and carving turkey, but all this shit just wears people out. I will not eat ham on holidays if I can help it. Having switched to BBQing beef, pork, even turkey breast, things go so much better.
Yes I can get like 150 meals out of a turkey ,but I would rather get one on some non holiday period and tackle it that way as they are a great deal of work, and doing other long cook recipes just is not fun.
I still have two slabs of beef we acquired for the holidays when they were cheap and available in the freezer. If you bother too prep for holidays and think of ways to make good food that is affordable it is doable, but we are doing that all the time. I am not spending 20 bucks on chicken breasts or 150 bucks on beef.
I love the smoker grill we got from JYG in it being a barrel design ,like 300 bucks new or more, and we got it for I think 40 from him. Liked it so much I think we have like 2 others I got for hauling them away, and all I need is a little fixing on them, as then I can have a grill on Grandpas place and were we live.
I know we had a much better cuisine than people who were millionaires. Added up, I don't think we spent 40 bucks, and for that we will get 6 to 8 meals out of this, and at 3 dollars a piece that is cheap in today's prices, and we were not eating some spam shit or something else that was nauseating.
...........and if I found a dead wild turkey on the road I would eat that too. Just never found one not mangled.
Nuff Said.
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