2024 July 4th Plans

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Some people naturally run more dehydrated than others, sample no 3 needs to take more water with it...

or perhaps it's the spirits for litre pitchers of Long Island Ice Tea premixed (minus the lime and cola). Oh do like a bit of chilled prep

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Also ready for tomorrow Thermidor butter, espresso and fudge ice cream and cucumber jelly.

Just a weeny bit more prep to do

 

[detroitdad]

Also ready for tomorrow Thermidor butter, espresso and fudge ice cream and cucumber jelly.

Just a weeny bit more prep to do

Damn......If you were only a touch closer I would invite myself over for dinner!

 

[TastyReuben]

Is this recipe posted somewhere?

I don’t think so, but I will, at the risk of my marriage, because it’s my wife’s secret family recipe (this style of hot dog sauce is a local specialty of her hometown), and she’ll have me by the short and curlies if she finds out - I’m the cook of the family, and I don’t think I got to see it in its broken down ingredients until we’d been married 10 years!

2-hour point, 6 to go:

 

[detroitdad]

I don’t think so, but I will, at the risk of my marriage, because it’s my wife’s secret family recipe (this style of hot dog sauce is a local specialty of her hometown), and she’ll have me by the short and curlies if she finds out - I’m the cook of the family, and I don’t think I got to see it in its broken down ingredients until we’d been married 10 years!

2-hour point, 6 to go:

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I promise I won't say anything to her!

 

[karadekoolaid]

Two deep-fried chicken breasts for a bun, and some cheese and sauce and bacon for the filling.

Maybe he can slide a burger patty in there!

NFW - and that does not translate into New Found Whales.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I think if there's one thing I actually despise, it's deep-fried chicken or a chicken burger. don't get me wrong; I'd probably eat it, but it would rate on the scale between monkey brains and pig's trotters.
WHY??? Chicken breast is a delicate meat (and yes, I know, everyone dislikes chicken breasts) so to deep- fry it, and add buns to it, well...you may as well deep-fry a tenderloin, slather it with ketchup, sriracha sauce and garlic sauce and serve it between two slices of Wonderloaf.

 

[karadekoolaid]

and cucumber jelly.

Bravo!! Excelente! Veinte puntos!!

 

[karadekoolaid]

At about 10.30am this morning I got a call from my DIL.
"There's going to be a parade and fireworks tonight going down towards the town, so could you just take a couple of chairs there and bag a place for us? Right in front of the schoo? "
It was about 86F (30C) at that time, so off I went, lugging 2 chairs behind me, only to realise that my sense of geography is absolutely hopeless and "in front of the school" was about a mile away.
When I finally got home ( because I had this primal urge to buy a bottle of cabernet sauvignon, which was 50 yds further on), I felt like I'd just run a marathon in winter clothes.
Then I looked up the weather and it said :
Isolated thunderstorms, 7pm- 8pm. Thunderstorms 9pm - 10pm.

and loads of rain

 

[TastyReuben]

I felt like I'd just run a marathon in winter clothes.

Oh, I know. I parked the car about 10 minutes’ walk from Kroger today and footed it in - 10 minutes later, walked into the store, and…immediately felt like I was going to be sick. I had to go sit down for a few minutes to settle my stomach.

The heat index at my house right now is 98F/37C, and the highest I’ve seen it this summer so far is 99F.

 

[karadekoolaid]

So much for a pre-4th July parade.
What a shame - I was really looking forward to it.

 

[JAS_OH1]

Some people naturally run more dehydrated than others, sample no 3 needs to take more water with it...

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or perhaps it's the spirits for litre pitchers of Long Island Ice Tea premixed (minus the lime and cola). Oh do like a bit of chilled prep

Upon 1st glance it looks like urine samples...

 

[JAS_OH1]

WHY??? Chicken breast is a delicate meat (and yes, I know, everyone dislikes chicken breasts) so to deep- fry it, and add buns to it, well...you may as well deep-fry a tenderloin, slather it with ketchup, sriracha sauce and garlic sauce and serve it between two slices of Wonderloaf.

I've done that! No ketchup or sriracha, I used mayonnaise and mustard with pickles. And put it on brioche lol.

 

[TastyReuben]

Hot dog sauce all done:

It really does need the full 8-hour cook time - it comes out with a consistency not unlike wet cement, so it really stays on the dog, instead of running off in every direction.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Hot dog sauce all done:

So tell us the secret...