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  1. Mark The Homer

    Hors D'oeuvres

    Indoor plumbing is for uppity city folk
  2. Mark The Homer

    What's for Dinner?

    Boone is a sleeper. He pretends to be a rookie, but then he keeps pulling off stunts like this.
  3. Mark The Homer

    What's for Dinner?

    If you're in the area, when you get a chance, check out Boarman's in Highland. It's a great market! Far as I know, nobody on this site has been there yet - not even SF1311...
  4. Mark The Homer

    Hors D'oeuvres

    There is something magical about a nice homegrown tomato. I know in the south there is something called a "tomato sandwich." I suspect most people in the north have never heard of it. You just take two slices of bread, spread a little mayo, slap on a tomato slice, salt & pepper, and you're...
  5. Mark The Homer

    The BBQ Thread

    I'm just doing a boring little butt in my drum. I'm using Malcom's THE BBQ RUB. Three pound butt. Yeah sometimes Safeway will cut their 10 lb butts into thirds which makes them more likely to sell, and sometimes I buy the middle third. Edit: Came out great! Kept it at 225 for the whole...
  6. Mark The Homer

    What's for Dinner?

    Saw this laying on the ice at HT yesterday. $18.99. Had to buy it. Look at that color! Wild fresh Sockeye. Hard to beat. This was last night. I also saw this in the rack. It was the only package that looked like this. Again - had to buy it. Outrageous marbling. We'll have this tonight.
  7. Mark The Homer

    Hors D'oeuvres

    This is probably my favorite appetizer. It's a summertime treat made of a fresh baguette sliced at an angle, toasted, then apply a nice extra virgin olive oil to the slice, then add a slice of mozzarella, lay a fresh basil leaf on top of the cheese, then add a slice of fresh tomato. A bit more...
  8. Mark The Homer

    Summer Garden Time

    Wife harvested this today, July 4th. First tomato of the season! Hard to believe tomatoes are trying to come in already. Eleven weeks of homegrown fresh tomatoes? I'll take it. Add a little fresh basil, peppers, snap peas, and eggplant.
  9. Mark The Homer

    The Dessert Thread

    My wife made to go out with her to Larriland to pick blueberries this morning. Wife: "It makes me sad when we don't have blueberries in the freezer for baking." Me: "It makes me sad when we don't have pies on the cooling rack for eating."
  10. Mark The Homer

    Happy Fourth of July

    One of my favorite songs... All right people. The rest of the hard working all star Blues Brothers are gonna be out here in a minute, including my little brother Jake. But right now, I'd like to talk a little bit about this tune you're hearing. This is of course the Green Onions tune. It was a...
  11. Mark The Homer

    Happy Fourth of July

    It did my heart good to see these kids putting up flags here in town. I will probably live an extra ten years just from watching them. This was about a week ago. The town had run out of flags and so acquired some more and these kids with the help of their dad put these up last week. It was...
  12. Mark The Homer

    Crazy People Encounters

    I was gonna save this for later, but this thread seems to be on a roll and a holiday is coming up. This is a new citizen of my town deliberately trashing the new state-owned road's ROAD CLOSED signs. She also threw the large orange barrels at the other end over the guard rail into the deep...
  13. Mark The Homer

    Best concert you've ever attended?

    Saw Dave Brubeck at Blues Alley right off M Street. This was Oct, 1982. She already had reservations for dinner with her roommate so they had a little round table real close to the stage - something like ten feet. It was my first real date with my future wife. She was nineteen years old...
  14. Mark The Homer

    The Snack Thread

    I just recently finished a book, a NYT bestseller, recommended by my wife. It's titled Demon Copperfield. 546 pages. By Barbara Kingsolver. It's about this kid who was born of a teenage meth addict Mom in Appalachia. So last page. These two young people are driving down from Appalachia...
  15. Mark The Homer

    Finally! The Lunch Thread!

    Yesterday's lunch. Two live softshell crabs from Boarman's - cleaned, fried, then placed on a toasted Amoroso club roll with homegrown lettuce, Campari tomato slices and remoulade sauce.
  16. Mark The Homer

    What's for Dinner?

    So we went by Boarman's as we do every Sunday, and I spied these behind the glass. Local beef. Had to buy them. The decision to buy was based on the marbling and also the light pink color of the meat which indicates grain fed. We were gonna cook these last night, Monday, on the Weber, but...
  17. Mark The Homer

    Summer Garden Time

    My wife's the garden person. Here are some snap peas and blueberries she harvested yesterday. Temp outside yesterday 94 F. She made frozen blueberry-banana daquiris :D
  18. Mark The Homer

    Best concert you've ever attended?

    Oh yeah, I forgot about Sheryl Crow. This was Seattle, 1997. My Dad retired in the Seattle area. Seattle is known for music. Lots of bands originated there such as Heart and Nirvana, etc. There is some kind of festival called Bumpershoot the last weekend of August, ever year. As I recall...
  19. Mark The Homer

    The BBQ Thread

    Interesting. You're right, it looks pretty rock solid. The lathe & plaster looks familiar but I don't have steel in mine, haha. We're also missing insulation! We're also missing plumbing! ...in the original structure. But we have something that most people don't have - an outhouse. ;)
  20. Mark The Homer

    The BBQ Thread

    Here is what I made when it was 100 F outside. Cheese enchiladas inside - in the kitchen! Except I cheated and put some of that pork rib meat in the enchiladas. This is the first time I ever made enchiladas. Pretty easy! And pretty delicious! Here is the recipe...
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