Some pickled onions and carolina sauce, cole slaw, and a cold black eyed pea salad (soak ’em, clean ’em. cook ’em, let sit in lemon juice, a touch of red wine vinegar, and some olive oil, add cilantro, salt, and pepper). Picture looks like shit because Tammy is the food photographer and she is not here, but it tasted great.
Put half the pork in the fridge for the next couple **OF** days (smootches EEMOM), froze the rest to use for tacos some time in the near future. I am going to make some wild black raspberry ice cream in a little bit and watch the Capitol Fourth on PBS unless that orange fucker is still in the crowd.
I’m full.
Spanky
I’m gonna go out and make another tour of the neighborhood for our indoor cat who escaped around 0800. Disappeared completely, and we’ve had back to back T-storms with close strikes so far. Now I expect many neighbors to start with the fireworks.
Pray for Bandit and me.
JPL
trump is a busy man and has to head back to the WH shortly after his speech. He’s been working the phones trying to get his citizenship question in the Census.
JPL
@Spanky: I am so sorry. Neighbors wanted to come over to see their firework display, but their firework display is why I can’t leave the dog.
debbie
@Spanky:
Hope you find her, poor thing.
SiubhanDuinne
You are going to make eemom cry.
Food looks scrumptious!
SiubhanDuinne
@Spanky:
Oh, poor kitty. I hope Bandit is safe. I know how worried you must be.
PsiFighter37
My wife and I took a flyer on this website called Crowd Cow and ordered A5 Wagyu for ~$11/ounce (less than half the price you’d get at an NYC steakhouse if it had it). Oh. My. God…so delicious. And it takes zero time to prepare (outside of defrosting in the fridge for 2 days and then warming on the counter for 15 minutes)…sprinkle a little salt and pepper, sear for all of 2-3 minutes total, and you’re done.
Celebrating the 4th of July with Japan’s finest…yum.
PF37 +4
J R in WV
I’m gonna make shrimp etouffee creole with a roux and vegges here directly, we eat later than lots of folks after the work schedule wife had, rarely home til 9 or 10 of an evening. Also got to make potato salad for tomorrow’s picnic dinner next door, where he has Friday’s off.
I remember that quake over towards DC some years back. Wife and I were driving on country roads from here to Point Pleasant up on the Ohio river on the back country roads.
We stopped at an ice cream shop there to get a milk shake, and when I went up to the window the first thing the lady said was “Did you feel that earthquake?” Of course on a WV country road it would have had to be a monster quake to feel while driving.
Hope everyone in CA is OK, and that it’s raining in DC…
Redshift
Rain has been light but steady here in Arlington across the river from DC, and according to the radar it’s been much the same downtown. It may not be enough to rain out the whole thing, but should be enough to make it miserable. We saw Air Force One go over in it’s easy to Andrews about an hour ago.
geg6
Great day at my sister’s and BIL’s place just me, John, sister Patty and BIL George and sister Mary Catherine, BIL Regis and niece Caitlin, who is preparing to go off to college in August. Swimming most of the afternoon because all the rain and storms stayed south of Pittsburgh. All American menu of burgers, hotdogs, salad, baked beans, fruit salad and corn on the cob. Bummed that I’ll be missing A Capitol Fourth but I can’t risk the giant asshole ruining a good day.
Joy in FL
@Spanky: Oh, I hope you find him tonight. It’s so hard. Heart & thoughts with him and you.
lamh36
@J R in WV: never a bad time to make etoufee!!
As for me, I had work today, but I did cook yesterday for today: https://twitter.com/Nell3776/status/1146921417650446337?s=20
Right now, I’m watching Constantine w/Keanu Reeves on SYFY. Everytime I rewatch it, it’s as good as the first time I saw it. Man…why didn’t we get a sequel? Did it not make box office? One of my fav Keanu Reeves post-Matrix movies. We need a sequel damnit!!!
guachi
Delicious hamburgers and 10 cent corn on the cob here after a hard two hour bike ride. Tasty!
Will watch Independence Day in 4k later on.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Spanky: my limited understanding of feline behavior is that escaped indoor cats, after that first taste of freedom, get scared and hide (unless they escaped because you just moved and they want to find their way back to their “true” home). Bandit may be close by but unwilling to come out until it’s quiet. I’ve always heard that you should leave out the cat’s favorite food and something that smells like you overnight and that may bring the cat home by tomorrow morning.
TomatoQueen
Mild storms sliding through Alexandria, now followed by boom booms. Meals on Wheels brought me delicious barbecued ribs and side dishes. The ubiquity of snippets of coverage of the spectacle is enough to send me watching Serenity, ffs. Spanky’s kitty needs to stop scaring us all and turn up soon–I do hope it’s the scenario where the indoor-cat is too upset to move far, but is self-protective enough to hide really well.C’mon Bandit.
Luciamia
Yankee Doodle Dandy on TCM. What a hoofer Cagney was.
Jeffro
Um I’d like the recipe for that black-eyed pea salad plz kthxbai
Jackie
@Jeffro: Me, too, please, please, pretty please!
rikyrah
That looks delicious, Cole????
rikyrah
Will you show us a picture of the homemade ice cream ?
Sure Lurkalot
That plate of food looks absolutely wonderful. Baked beans in the oven, potato salad on the way and grilled dogs with myriad toppings if it stops pouring. Spent the day at lovely Barr Lake State Park, lots of pelicans, flickers, geese, cormorants, blue herons, eagles.
Fingers crossed that Bandit is found. Place worn socks or underwear near your door(s). It worked for me and another friend.
zhena gogolia
@Spanky:
Oh, I hope he finds his way home. I had a kitty survive a (small) tornado outside with no injury, so they are very resourceful.
NotMax
But of course.
@lamh36
Hellblazer was quite the comic book ride once upon a time.
J R in WV
Roux simmering with vegges, now I’m going to put the fresh gulf shrimp in for 10 minutes, then we’ll eat.
John Cole
@Jeffro: @Jackie:
That IS the recipe. I take a bag of beans and soak them, clean them, and then boil them in vegetable stock, and then strain and cool them. Shouldn’t be much to strain because it evaporates and soaks in the beans. Then throw in a minced onion and cilantro, oil and a touch of vinegar, add the juice of a couple lemons, salt and pepper, and let it marinate overnight.
Jackie
@John Cole: Thanks!
Steeplejack
@Spanky:
Sending location energy for Bandit. ?
Steeplejack
@lamh36:
Nice plate of food!
I had pulled pork and potato salad at Bro’ Man’s house last night. Very good, although his sauce is a tad too sweet for me. I guess I lean to the vinegary side.
rikyrah
@Spanky:
For Bandit???
Gwangung
Good, home cooked food, shared at a meeting of friends.
Now THAT’S the spirit of America.
Spanky
Thanks all for the thoughts. No joy yet, but of course our redneck neighbor is doing his annual July 4 fireworks right now, so no movement is really expected.
Great idea on the clothes outside! I’m off to drop a shirt and pair of socks on a chair on the porch ….
Spanky
@Spanky: My mind goes to too many dark places when left to its own devices, so I really can’t tell you how much the good wishes and advice mean to me tonight. Thanks so much.
And to top off the poor boy’s day – another thunderstorm.
Ked
[quote]lemon juice, a touch of red wine vinegar, and some olive oil, add cilantro[/quote]
(Runs away screaming.)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa………….