For the first time in 2015, the weather was almost cooperative,
sunny, warm, but of course just when meat met heat, the breeze shifted from
gentle zephyr to blowing shit across the lawn strength. Welcome to Long Island! So anyway, and quite obviously I was able to
uncover The Sleek Aldi $99 Beauty and again unleash her fiery blue fury.
Indeed, she fired up on the first go. CLICK. WHOOOSH! Fucking awesome gentle blog reader! Fucking awesome!
So, it would appear that all of the issues I had last year
(very poor and quite expensive gas to food cooked ratio, difficulty starting,
etc. & etc.) were due to the faulty regulator I replaced and not my occasionally
careless habits with the shut off valve.
To my further smiling disbelief, after a quick cut back the
half smoked cigar I had stashed in the side burner back in November (we were grilling
beneath flashlight after work one night) also fired up after its long winter
nap.
So while the grill burned itself clean and beyond, I had a
smoke and an icy, delicious Coors Light (Cringe you snooty hops loving craft
brewing snobs! Cringe at the mere
mention of mass produced beer! I demand
it!) while Agnes enjoyed a Palm.
Thus we sat with our sun worshiping white dog Eli, took the
sweet, sweet rays, listened to music and pretended that we all did not, at one
time or another, go utterly bat shit insane during the course of the just passed
winter.
Sorry, lost in reverie there for a moment. The grill/dinner menu ladies and gentlemen:
- A week’s
worth of chicken sate for lunches, dinners and between meal snack-age. Recipe courtesy of The Banh Mi Handbook,
The Book that Keeps on Giving,
- A rack
of ribs with a caramelizing douse of my home assembled “clean the fridge
door of anything that might be put into barbeque sauce” sauce. In this case, leftover taco sauce, Asian
sweet/sour dipping sauce, a Carolina style mustard sauce plus ketchup, honey, a splash of maple syrup and the juices
from roasting the ribs in the oven the day before finishing them on the grill. As WaLuigi says, “Cheater!” Guilty as charged my mustachioed
MarioKart frillain. Guilty as
charged,
- The
$2.50 bunch of asparagus from Aldi, The Little Store that Could,
- The
ribs and grilled ‘gus were served with warm German potato salad made from
last week’s boiled potatoes, all washed down with bottles of the breakfast
stout from Long Ireland Beer Company, Riverhead, NY. Beer + coffee. Interesting. Buy it again interesting? I will let you know.
It was…a very good day.
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