Grill/Smoke/Roast = SnS Grills Kettle + SnS Deluxe Insert & Drip n' Griddle
Grill/Smoke/Roast = Hasty-Bake Gourmet Dual Finish with HB rotisserie and Grill Grates
Smoke = Weber Smokey Mountain 22.5"
Pizza = Blackstone Propane Pizza Oven (Stacy's, but she let's me use it sometimes)
Indoor Cooking = LG Studio 30" gas range
Camp Cooking = Coleman 2 burner white gas stove
Thermometer = FireBoard FBX2 with 2 ambient and 6 meat probes
Thermapen Mk IV = Light blue
Thermapen Mk IV = Black
PID Controller = Fireboard Drive + Auber 20 CFM Fan (FB gen 1 fan)
PID Controller = Fireboard Drive + Fireboard 20 CFM Fan (FB gen 2 fan)
Knives
Wusthof Classic Ikon set: 9" carving knive, 2X 8" Chef's Knife, 7" Santoku and three utility knives
Kamikoto Kuro set: 7" Santoku, 6.5" Nakiri, 5" Utility
Amazing Ribs Brazilian Steak knife set
Favorite wine = whatever is currently in the wine rack
Favorite beer = Sam Adams Boston Lager or Shiner Bock
Favorite whisky = Lagavulin Distiller's Edition 16 year old single malt
Best Cookbooks - Meathead's "The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling", Chris Lilly's "Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book", Aaron Franklin's "Franklin BBQ", Raichlen’s “Brisket Chronicles”
Current MCBS - Momofuku
Current fanboy cookbook - "Chasing Smoke: Cooking Over Fire Around the Levant"
I have a reading list that is currently about 11 years long at my current pace. And I add to it about once a week. In other words, I expect to have 14 years worth of reading list when I die in about 30 years :-D
that said, currently reading Raymond Ibrahim’s “The Two Swords of Christ” which I bumped to the top of the list in November …. And a bunch of books that thought they were about to get read are now grumpy!
For those who are Bernard Cornwell fans, and especially the Richard Sharpe series, his latest novel in the series entitled “Sharpe’s Storm” has been released.
Gear includes: Char-Griller's Grand Champ off set stick burner/smoker, SnS Kamado Deluxe, Weber 22, PBC, Victory gasser, Victory 36 griddle, Smoke Hollow electric smoker. ThermoWorks Thermapen Mk4, Smoke, Signals, and RFX4, Meater+, SNS-500, roti fits 22 n gasser, Emeril countertop TO, InkBird Sous Vide, Potane Vac/Sealer. Fire&Ice griddle/cooler ensemble.
3-pkg of Collapsible Prep Tubs
Junior, Original, Xtra Lg. SS D. Norcross
Complete set (Tx PJ!) Wusthof Knives n block.
Dalstrong:
Phantom Series Paring knife
Shogun SeriesX 6" Chef knife
Gladiator Series 12"Cleaver knife
Just got into charcoal Dec ‘21 (PBC)
fav is brisky. Love Turkey on PBC. also Turkey in the glass,(any nice bourbon)
Bud has always been my barley pop.
Been smoking a handful of years, just got serious in the last two or three years. Thanks to AR n @glemn picked up an SnS Kamado for appx 1/3 price of new. I dont think he used it twice. Love AR! keep calm n smoke on! Miss you Bonesy.
The Book of Heaven. A Story of Hope for the outcasts, the broken and those who lost faith. The Asher’s, Katie n Houston’s personal story spanning more than 20 years. Her trials n tribulations helping her autistic son learn to use a spelling board to communicate from a non speaking autistic.
Houston is and has always been a brilliant
individual. He just could not communicate it.
She was a guest on the local talk radio, 700Wlw.
I've been on a James Bond kick lately and have been rewatching some of the films. It occurred to me that I've never read any of the original Ian Fleming novels, so I decided to start with the one that started it all, Casino Royale, published in 1953.
It's a relatively short book (my edition has just 132 pages) and you can finish it in an evening. It is a pulp thriller...Fleming's style is breezy, easy to read, and the plot is straightforward. The story holds up and is enjoyable. Several climaxes and/or plot twists occur in the book to keep it going. Like most of the books, it differs significantly and substantially from the film by the same name so while the two media share elements, they are very different stories.
It is fun to consider it in light of it is where Bond began. Most of the major pieces of a Bond story are here: the suave, seductive, British secret agent, MI6, M, Miss Moneypenny, and Felix Leiter. (Q and gadgets come in later books, apparently.) Bond is also curiously humorless (which will change for the books published after 1962 as Fleming liked that aspect of Connery's portrayal).
Glimpses of Fleming's brilliance in the genre are scattered throughout. This book has the most suspenseful gambling scene I've ever read; I thought it was more suspenseful than the car chase!
The book isn't perfect...I personally found the ending to rely too much on exposition (it literally is a letter that Bond reads).
Given the book was written in the early 1950s, there are some quirks of the time I struggled with. Occasionally a word is used for which I had no idea to what it was referring (think boot=trunk of car). And apparently, placing a phone call in Europe during that time was quite a bit different than how we dial today!
However the biggest problem with the book is what you know going in, these novels tend to be quite sexist. I'm not talking about Bond as a womanizer; anyone with a passing familiarity with the character knows that, but the blatant in-your-face misogyny. For example:
And then there was this pest of a girl. Women were for off-duty times. On the job, they got in the way. They had to be looked after. Then there were the things like their feelings being hurt.
Uh, ick. There are several passages like that in the book. I kinda see what Fleming was trying to do here. He was trying to juxtapose Bond's view of women with the fact that he keeps falling for them; however it falls flat and even offensive to modern sensibilities.
Still, even with those uncomfortable passages I enjoyed the book as a good quick thriller. It even had this passage when Bond and Felix first meet:
It turned out that Leiter was from Texas. Bond seemed to think the best Americans seemed to come from Texas, and they were fine people.
22” Blue Weber Kettle with SnS insert
Kamado Joe Jr with Kick Ash Basket
Char-Broil Smartchef Tru Infrared Gasser
Anovo Hot Tub Time Machine with Custom Hot Tub
I was just blessed with an advance copy of Vitamina: T by Jorge Gaviria. Granted, it’s electronic and has watermarks, but you can still read the recipes! He is speaking next month at my culinary club and I have to miss it!!! 😿
I've got the hard cover edition in my Amazon wish list, for a future purchase. My only issue is I tend to collect cookbooks and then not really use them. Just so many recipe ideas here and elsewhere online.
I have read the series twice already over the years but so many characters and so much plot you still pick up "new" things. First book is basically putting the storyline together and it gets going the more books you get into. And there are so many pages, this one has 980. I have all fourteen of them so I figure I won't be reading as much when the weather gets better so it may take me to about this time in 2027
22” Blue Weber Kettle with SnS insert
Kamado Joe Jr with Kick Ash Basket
Char-Broil Smartchef Tru Infrared Gasser
Anovo Hot Tub Time Machine with Custom Hot Tub
1. Need it for my event in Fall for the historians
2. Rec from bookstore owner
3. Met the chef/authors a while back
4. I really enjoyed On Vegetables, met the chef/authors and it’s pretty
Gear includes: Char-Griller's Grand Champ off set stick burner/smoker, SnS Kamado Deluxe, Weber 22, PBC, Victory gasser, Victory 36 griddle, Smoke Hollow electric smoker. ThermoWorks Thermapen Mk4, Smoke, Signals, and RFX4, Meater+, SNS-500, roti fits 22 n gasser, Emeril countertop TO, InkBird Sous Vide, Potane Vac/Sealer. Fire&Ice griddle/cooler ensemble.
3-pkg of Collapsible Prep Tubs
Junior, Original, Xtra Lg. SS D. Norcross
Complete set (Tx PJ!) Wusthof Knives n block.
Dalstrong:
Phantom Series Paring knife
Shogun SeriesX 6" Chef knife
Gladiator Series 12"Cleaver knife
Just got into charcoal Dec ‘21 (PBC)
fav is brisky. Love Turkey on PBC. also Turkey in the glass,(any nice bourbon)
Bud has always been my barley pop.
Been smoking a handful of years, just got serious in the last two or three years. Thanks to AR n @glemn picked up an SnS Kamado for appx 1/3 price of new. I dont think he used it twice. Love AR! keep calm n smoke on! Miss you Bonesy.
If not cooking outdoors, I am cooking on the stovetop with my 14" carbon steel wok, 12" CI skillet, or in the oven with my two Lodge CI pizza pans, or two dutch ovens. I've also got a nifty Lodge carbon steel grill pan that rocks for veggies outdoors.
Not my photo, but this is the book currently on my nightstand. I'll read a few pages at night. It sure has given me insight into how truly awful the trench warfare in WWI was, and how it influenced both Tolkien and Lewis and their storytelling. I've got the sequel on my bookshelf waiting for me to get to it.
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