{"id":252,"date":"2008-04-28T09:49:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T14:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-04-28T09:49:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T14:49:38","slug":"weekend-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/weekend-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend of Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, why is it still so cold out?\u00a0 This doesn’t bode well for our upcoming BBQ contest next weekend.\u00a0 We struggle enough without fighting challenging weather conditions.\u00a0 It was a mighty crisp ride to work on the motorcycle this morning too;\u00a0 Those mornings should be over<\/strong> by now.<\/p>\n

I’m a little lacking on material from this past weekend, so I’ll jump back to Thursday night.\u00a0 One thing we did do a lot of over the weekend was eat, and it started Thursday with a trip to the new Maker’s Mark restaurant<\/a> in the Power & Light district.\u00a0 I’m on their mailing list for some reason or another, and a few weeks ago, I got an email inviting me to come down for a “preview.”\u00a0 That’s really all it said, but I figured “what the heck” and we went down to check it out.\u00a0 The gamble paid off nicely:\u00a0 They put out all you could eat and drink for a couple of hours, all free.\u00a0 SWEET!! <\/strong>They put out some serious grub too;\u00a0 Sushi, oysters, shrimp, lamb chops, steaks…\u00a0 Heck I can’t even remember what all we tried.\u00a0 We both got stuffed, I know that.\u00a0 We even met Bill Samuels Jr, who has been the CEO of Maker’s Mark since 1975.\u00a0 We had a nice little chat…\u00a0 I can’t believe he hasn’t called me to get together yet though.\u00a0 Well, now we can say we’ve been there at least.\u00a0 From a glance at the prices on the menu, it might be our last trip…<\/p>\n

Friday evening our free meal ticket continued, with the volunteer appreciation dinner for the American Royal.\u00a0 Donette volunteered last year during the BBQ competition, putting in several hours of back-breaking manual labor, so they put on this nice banquet for a “thank you.”\u00a0 We joined several elderly ladies at a table, one of whom kept insisting she knew me from somewhere.\u00a0 We never figured it out though, after running through every single place I’d ever been in my life.\u00a0 Anyway, not a bad dinner, despite not quite living up to the fare from the evening before.\u00a0 There was a monotonous presentation-thing going on in the background the whole time though, which cut into my dining enjoyment somewhat.\u00a0 But, the price was right and we really didn’t have anything better to do, so it passed the evening.\u00a0 Incidentally, I woke up in a cold sweat around 3:00 A.M. with a clear recollection of who the lady at the table was;\u00a0 She was the mean old woman<\/a> that gave me a beat-down on the tennis court a few years ago.\u00a0 She was just lucky I didn’t recognize her at the dinner, ’cause it would have been go-time.\u00a0 She didn’t look nearly as imposing without the tennis racket in her hand, I almost surely could have taken her.<\/p>\n

Saturday, Martin & Brice came over for a final practice-run on the smoker before our competition in St. Joe next weekend<\/a>.\u00a0 It turned out to be a relatively decent day weather-wise…\u00a0 We can only hope it will be at least that nice next weekend.\u00a0 In a new twist on the practice technique, this time I set about documenting the entire process of my brisket in pictures.\u00a0 Something new to put on the website if nothing else, I figured.\u00a0 So, all morning I painstakingly photographed every step, from taking the brisket out of the ‘fridge, to trimming it, seasoning it, lighting the smoker, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Somewhere along the way though, I realized that I had inexplicably been hitting the on\/off button on the camera all morning instead of the “picture” button.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 It was early, but not THAT early.\u00a0 Yeah, can’t really explain that foul-up, but I have no pictures at any rate.\u00a0 Anyway, that pretty much took up the entire day, and everything came out “OK.”\u00a0 Got a few more tweaks for the Big Show, but not much.\u00a0 Martin did a few slabs of babybacks, which were top notch with the exception of some gummy sauce he poured all over them.\u00a0 My brisket was serviceable, if a bit dry.\u00a0 Donette even cooked some good chicken wings while the fire was going.<\/p>\n

Sunday didn’t bring much excitement.\u00a0 We stayed up late Saturday (as far as our definition of late anyway) and I guess we were worn out.\u00a0 We got the yard mowed, played a few dozen games of Sudoku, watched the Royals game, went to lunch at Jalapenos…\u00a0 And that’s about all I can think of.\u00a0 We were supposed to cook hamburgers for dinner, but really didn’t feel like it so we saved that for tonight.\u00a0 What’s so special about cooking hamburgers?\u00a0 Well, I have decided to go on a quest to cook a premium hamburger at home.\u00a0 And so, tonight this monumental task gets underway, starting with the grinding of the chuck roast.\u00a0 Ohhhh, I’m excited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, why is it still so cold out?\u00a0 This doesn’t bode well for our upcoming BBQ contest next weekend.\u00a0 We struggle enough without fighting challenging weather conditions.\u00a0 It was a mighty crisp ride to work on the motorcycle this morning too;\u00a0 Those mornings should be over by now. I’m a little lacking on material from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}