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The Other White Meat?

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Today, I came across something that I absolutely must try, being a fan of bacon, sausage, and all meats porcine. It’s called the Bacon Explosion, which requires the following ingredients:

2 pounds thick cut bacon
2 pounds Italian sausage
1 jar of your favorite barbeque sauce
1 jar of your favorite barbeque rub

You weave half the bacon into a kind of lattice, season with some rub, pat the sausage into a pattie the size of the latticework of bacon, top that with the rest of the bacon, cooked up and crumbled; then, you put the bbq sauce on top of that. Finally, roll up the sausage, roll again with the bacon “netting” on the outside. Then smoke it over hickory smoke. Slice, and serve.

Much more precise details, and mouth-watering photos, are here. It is a great thing that this dish was created in Roeland Park, KS. And it certainly hasn’t hurt the BBQ Addicts that the Mainstream Media has picked up the Bacon Explosion story. The New York Times has the story here1. But check out the BBQ Addicts site for the nitty gritty details. If my humble prose has generated even a temptation to salivate, check out the pictures.

I’ll fall asleep dreaming about this tonight.

-k-

1 Still feels strange linking to a Times article. But hey, this is bacon. And sausage. And BBQ.

Goobers

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I previously documented how much I enjoyed great salted in the shell peanuts from The Good Earth Peanut Company, of Skippers VA. It has been a while since we’d had any good goobers, so I placed an order at TGEPC’s online store last week. On Friday, they arrived, two 5-pound bags of salted-in-the-shell crunchiness.

I got the stink-eye from my little bride at first, and a comment to the effect of WTF are we gonna do with all these peanuts?, there being only two of us here and all. I suggested that since this weekend was NASCAR championship weekend, that we could also have a “Beer and Goobers” Festival to commemorate the occasion. Another stink-eye. So, yesterday, we broke the big sacks up, parcelled them out into 1 quart ZipLoc bags, sealed those up, put them into a Lock & Lock freezer container1, and put the Lock & Lock container into the deep freeze. We left an ample amount out for snacking, and I have several smaller bags for the lunch pail for next week.

One other thing we did: as we broke up the larger bags, we2 carefully went through the peanuts, and culled out those with cracked and broken shells. Those went into a separate “eat first” bowl. Perfectly good, even if a little misshapen.

Good Earth’s website has great history pages about the history of TGEPC, and peanut farming in general. Check it out. Good information, and good eats, reasonably priced.

-k-

1 Available from QVC. Highly recommended.

2 Precisely, My Little Bride

Mule

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I have a co-worker who has spent the last couple of weeks vacationing in the Outer Banks(NC). While it’s good to escape the zoo our workplace has become, I’m looking forward to seeing him again on Monday.

He’s bringing me some sauce from the Pigman. We ordered a few bottles by phone recently, but with the online store still not operational, we want to stockpile an ample amount to tide us over.

Drive back safely, buddy; you’re hauling gold in those bottles.

-k-

Derby Day

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As we prepare for this year’s Run for the Roses, my little bride and I are getting together the fixin’s for an appropriate beverage. That would be a mint julep. When I was in college, my roommate always said we should have juleps on Derby Day; we never got around to that.

I’ve told my wife on every Derby Day since that “Next year, we’ll make us some mint juleps.” And this is the year to do it. I stopped at the Harris Teeter last night and bought some fresh mint leaves1. We have the sugar and bourbon, and we managed to scrounge up some small silver cups that we’d had forever2.

There is no shortage of julep recipes available on the internet. The traditional one just calls for muddling the mint leaves and a little sugar in the bottom of your cup, then adding crushed ice and bourbon. Others recommend making a simple syrup, which gets added to the glass, along with the rest of the ingredients. I’m a traditionalist, so I recommended method one. My little bride said she’d get together a little syrup, so we could try both variations. She then followed that offer with the comment “I don’t want to get shit faced before supper.” Nor do I. It’s pork chop night.

-k-
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1 I also brought home a supply of Shiners, which is an appropriate beverage in any venue.

2 Thereby saving $200 per cup on the purchase of silver julep cups, which we wouldn’t have done anyhow. Old fashioned glasses would have had to do.

The Pigman’s Real Name is Richard

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And via mail-o-gram, the Pigman responds:

Hi Ken,

Please call us during the hours 11am-8pm, Monday-Sunday. We are still
working on our online store. However, we would love to take care of your
order via phone in the interim. Thank you for your email, and we hope to
hear from you soon!

Best,

Richard Bruce
Owner
Pigman’s Bar-B-Que

I’ll be on the phone at 11:00:01 tomorrow morning.

-k-
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Pigman, Open that Store!

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Well, it’s happened again; we’re out of Pigman’s Sauce. A coworker brought me in a bottle, and when that’s gone, it’s gone. The Pigman has been redoing his website; thus far, there’s no Store tab. I used the website contact form to make this plaintive request:

I’m out of sauce for the first time in 13 years. Will the store reopen?
-Thanks!

-Ken Nelson
Reston VA

It’s getting vacation time; worst case is, I line up a bunch of Outer Banks bound vacationers from work to mule me back a supply.

-k-
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Support Fora

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For heaven’s sake, please title your support plea in a manner that suggests the nature of your problem. Hint : titles such as “URGENT upgrade issue”, “____ is broken”, “HELP”, don’t cut it.

While I’m at it, replies to fora posts that are something like “same thing happened to me” aren’t helpful either. I guess former AOL-ers surface everywhere now.

Yes, I’m steamed that my WordPress upgrade didn’t go as planned. But still.

For now, I have basketball, cold beer, and steamed shrimp. Neener, neener, neener.

-k-