The rain has finally stopped, and the weather app shows that we have at least 7 days ahead of us with no rain! So, that means it is time to start cooking and smoking our meat! I really need to do some spring cleaning on my grill but I was so excited about firing it up I put that on my to do list for next weekend, and hell I am all caught up on my tetanus shots!
I am a lover of all things grilled/smoked, and yes I know this is not healthy: I am here for a good time not a long time.
And nothing goes with outdoor cooking like…..wine. I was a huge beer lover but time has shown me that the love of beer comes with the beer gut. I am currently working on removing that so wine has now replaced the beer. I was never into wine but I can now say I have become a ……wine-oh, not a real wine connoisseur yet so for the time lets just say I am a wine-oh.
My family always makes fun of me for taking pictures of my food, but I take pictures of what I love and admire……and as god as my witness I love and admire FOOD! If you were to look at my transaction history on my ATM card, it is nothing more than a journal of places I have eaten! Yes, there are other things that I love and admire but currently we are talking about food, so I will not list all my other loves. Just keep reading and you are sure to find all those other things as well.
If you are wondering what type of recipes I use for grilling, I believe in keeping it simple. Salt and pepper are always the starter and depending on the mood I may go with some simple barbq sauce or Frank’s Red Hot…….and yes I put that SHIT on everything! I love all my hot sauces, and yes I have more than a couple ha! I have seen some YouTube videos on outdoor cooking and dear god do they put a ton of crap on their food before cooking!
Keep it simple people; your life your job, and your recipes. I was (and sometimes still am) an over thinker. I was over thinking my career choices, my life choices and just about everything about the life I have and it was just too much. I was stressing, I was creating the stress and it was making Phil a dull boy. There was no need for this stress, I have an awesome life, so I finally just let go of the over thinking. I still have plans and think about what/where I want to be but I have a more chill approach to it.
This web page was a huge over thinking place for me. It stressed me out that I had not done it, it stressed me out that I was always putting it off, I stressed because I thought it was going to be too hard, I stressed that people would not read it, I stressed that people would read it then ridicule it and I even stressed about what to call it! Almost to the point the stress was stopping me from doing it, but in the end I finally let go and went to YouTube for answers. I will do a post soon about that very topic, I need to give thanks to one video in particular. For now lets just say YouTube helped me let go of some of the stress and helped me finally get my place on web.
It is not much but its mine and I am having fun with it. I go through my day thinking about what will I write about next and sometimes I stress that I am just to tired to do a post. Hell it took me a week to finally get this one out, I set out looking to do two post a week. That is my goal. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got a writing addiction? (Yes that is an altered line from a movie, if you know the movie we can be fwends). Back in my blogging days I put out two or three post a week, I kept a journal with me to jot down the things I was going to blog about next! I have started doing that again. I like doing this, and in the end that is why I do it.
So till next post; journal often, journal more and take pictures of everything……yes that includes your food!