America Baby

Tonight we went to the grocery store and there in the meat counter was a glorious chunk of beef, on sale no less, begging for me to take it home. That my son, is a 25 ounce T-Bone Steak. A manly cut of meat, a glorious cut of meat. Was it delicious? Damn right it was. Cooked medium rare and big enough to enduce a food coma. The hot dogs were for your mom, who strangely enough does not like steak. Weird isn't it.


This is why living in Iowa doesn't always suck. Sure it was 95 degrees today, and will be -10 within a couple of months, but we do make good food. A big ass Iowa Steak, some Iowa sweet corn, a few ice cold beers, and even a couple of garden fresh tomatoes. Life doesn't get much better. By the way, the bread with entirely too much butter is actually just a butter delivery device for the corn. You rub the bread on the corn thereby delivering just enough butter, and not wasting too much.

I destroyed this meal. Thank God you were born in the land of plenty. God Bless the USA.

Use Charcoal

In the world of grilling there are two distinct fronts, Gas and Charcoal. There is only one good option.

Gas grills get hot fast and cook stuff. The end. They have no other advantage. They are way better than microwaving food, about the same as broiling, and not as good as pan frying. Pan frying has the advantage of using oils or even better... fat. If you can fry if in bacon fat then you have got something going. Bacon, and bacon fat, make everything better. Take shore lunch for example. Every year when I was younger I went to Canada with your Grandpa Ray every year for about 7 years. It's awesome, and I will take you sometime. Anyway, we would have a big skillet we would cook 2 pounds of bacon in, then saute onions in the bacon fat, then add beans, then mix it all up. Was it awseome, you bet. Did it make you feel like you were going to die, you know it. Was it delicious... you can only imagine. The lesson of this? Hell I don't know, I just know that gas grills suck.

Man has been cooking on an open flame for centuries now. Just like God intended on it. The idea of burning wood or coal to cook meat is part of man kind. Light a fire, roast a weiney, put a hog on a spit, whatever! It feels good. You get a righteous flavor with a live fire that you can't get with gas. It feels better, and when we use gas the terrorists win. I am not sure how yet, but I am pretty sure they do. George Washington never used a gas grill, what other reason do you need?