Category Archives: Food

Paleo Bison Stew

I made this up the other day and it turned out pretty darn good. Plus it’s rea­son­ably priced with bison stew meat going for $7.49 a pound at Whole Foods. There’s very lit­tle pre­ci­sion to it, it’s “old school, your grandma has left­overs and she threw them all in the pot” stew but it’s tasty …

August 31, 2010 – 12:19 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Change We Can Believe In

A bill has been intro­duced by a Demo­c­rat whose hus­band does work for Mon­santo that would effec­tively kill farmer’s mar­kets. Under the guise of pro­tect­ing those of us who never asked for pro­tec­tion, the gov­ern­ment is try­ing to reg­u­late all food we might buy. A new gov­ern­men­tal entity would be cre­ated out of thin air …

March 18, 2009 – 7:59 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food, Politics | Tagged , | Comments (1)

First Brisket Temp

We’re in our 8th hour and the brisket is sit­ting on 150. Hope we can get 40 more degrees in 8 more hours. She’s start­ing to look good though and def­i­nitely seems juicy.

October 18, 2008 – 4:01 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged | Comments (0)

Trouble In BBQ Land

Hav­ing trou­ble keep­ing the temps in the range I want tonight for some rea­son and I’m hop­ing that doesn’t spell trou­ble with a cap­i­tal T for this poor brisket. Didn’t help that I fell asleep for a lit­tle while only to wake up and find the temps down around 160. Back up to 253 at …

October 18, 2008 – 3:51 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged | Comments (0)

Virtual Brisket

Now there’s a man after my own heart. I love see­ing what other peo­ple do with their brisket. I’d never to so such lengths but it’s pretty cool.

October 17, 2008 – 10:17 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged | Comments (1)

First Turn

Turned the brisket at 9:30, about 15 min­utes late but I was on the phone with my par­ents. Didn’t get the mop started until just now so it will be another 30 min­utes before I get it mopped. Also had a lit­tle episode where my timer wasn’t on and the temp got up to 318 …

October 17, 2008 – 10:11 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (2)

So It Begins

The brisket is room tem­per­a­ture and hap­pily rubbed down with secret stuff. The coals are hot. The smoker is 219 degrees mov­ing towards 235. The hick­ory chunks are pre­pared. It’s time to start smok­ing. 14 pound brisket, 8 PM start time, so that baby should be done tomor­row morn­ing around 10:30 or so. Then the …

October 17, 2008 – 7:58 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Are You An Omnivore?

I have other things to write but they aren’t com­ing out of my head too well so let’s roll with this. Katy posted this on her blog and since it’s this or clean the house, it was a pretty easy deci­sion. 1) Copy this list into your blog or jour­nal, includ­ing these instruc­tions. 2) Bold …

August 28, 2008 – 7:49 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Comments (0)

Taste Of Home Plug

If you’re ever in the Wylie metro area, you should check out Taste Of Home restau­rant which is a local, home grown spot that has nice charm and good food. I was going to write a review but decided it sounded lame and bor­ing. Just go eat there, it’s good. Mom’s meat loaf is highly …

July 25, 2008 – 11:10 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Abominations of Nature

Typ­i­cally, any­thing with that descrip­tor is hyper­bole designed to incite spe­cific responses.  For exam­ple, if I say that a three-way between two women and a horse is an abom­i­na­tion of nature that God will surely pun­ish, that’s clearly just a sign of my bias against alter­na­tive expres­sions of sex­u­al­ity and an exhi­bi­tion of my clos­eted kinks. …

June 1, 2007 – 1:06 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Comments (0)