Me? 2 racks of St. Louis ribs on the smoker Grilled chicken wings Instant Pot Southern potato salad Instant Pot green beans, taters, bacon. Homemade ice cream This cat knows how to entertain with food! PS: the best meats for this feast are found at Costco.
Traeger grilled smothered in bourbon Alabama Gizzards... Pickled pigs feet Cow Tongue Sushi with fried Elk brains Skunk Cabbage and ground up slug dip Blood pudding with Live Bodayches Diving Beatles on the side
After I'm done grillin' and hosting all our Independence Day activities. I'm gonna head down to Mexico, then sneak back into the country as to get free health care. Frigin' Dems.
One Wagyu NY steak one inch thick grilled to a charred medium rare perfection (for me from the Laurelhurst market); Three prime rib eye steaks; Cold water lobster tail for those with room to eat them else they'll wait for another day; Ditto for our gigantic US super jumbo shrimp; Probably grilled asparagus spears for some and candied carrots for me; Baked potato with all the trimmings; A superb red wine for me and my wife from our collection of Napa Valley wines and cokes for the other two couples (they don't drink alcohol, perhaps one of the wives will share in the wine). Don't you think that's enough? Next year will have hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, potato chips or potato salad, dill pickle (naturally fermented) and beer and/or soft drinks. Maybe a rootbeer float which only I love, the others are Koreans and they don't like rootbeer. Might have Korean Kalbi, sticky rice and a variety of different kimchees washed down with ice cold beer. Kalbi is a marinated short rib that typically is grilled and the odor is more than divine. Kalbi literally means rib in Korean. You even have kalbi in your side. ps Thank God for spell check.
Our block gets barricaded for no traffic everyone brings their BQ's out to the street at first for neighbor gating. We all wear patriotic something and a few do where maga hats, and a few young socialist, which is fine, no hassle, much neighborly political respect and restraint. Kids and adults play volleyball, round ball, every game you can think of, we have a beer garden and a mud hut. After dark it becomes a war zone in honor of those that have given us freedom and liberty. One of my fav holidays!
I usually wear my army hat and always fly the flag just above the flag of the U.S, Army on a lighted 20 foot flagpole with a gold eagle on top. I love it when the kids at the large high school across the street from me look at it. We used to do a block party at the 4th in our last house. After we all shared our grilling and pot luck, one of our neighbors was an ex safety officer for the railroad and he would supervise the shooting of our collective fireworks. I normally don't care for fireworks unless set off by the fire department but this guy was good at his job and very very nice. It made it pleasurable, actually. He was an ex Ranger who also served in Vietnam. That made three Veterans on our little cul de sac who were ex Army who had served in combat. The third guy was also an ex Ranger who served in Afghanistan. Two of the nicest guys you ever met. My new neighborhood does not have block parties. Sad, I miss our old block parties.
Those sound like great times! Im thinking of putting up a flag pole, I do fly mine from my house. I put up a couple banners today. My son leaves first Sept for Qatar, for a year.
Going with Chinese pulled pork (slow cooked for 10 hours with pineapple and scallions) Grilled kabobs summer squash, zucchini, onions, pineapple, tomatoes (with optional lemon slices for juice) Homemade pasta salad (grandma's recipe) Fresh honeydew and watermelon salad (with optional lime slices for juice) Southern style sweet tea with lemon (grandma's recipe)
We've got one neighbor down the street that flies Old Glory from an unlit 20 foot flag pole. I love seeing that but flag etiquette says he should take the flag down before nightfall and put it up again the next morning. He leaves it up all the time. I'm not really complaining it's just that I've been a stickler for following rules pretty much all my life. I did violate the rules badly one time when I was taking my computer science classes at Portland State. I did what every student there does, I jay walked. Damn near got hit by a car. The guy had to throw on his brakes and come to a screeching halt narrowly missing hitting me. Scared the hell out of the driver and me. I now wait for the walk signal and cross at crosswalks. I salute you for flying your flag. My mom used to fly a flag mounted on the side of her house but she took it down and had a 20 foot flag pole installed from which she flew the American flag 24/7, 365 days a year, same as I've been doing for the last three years.
Pork really goes well with pineapple. We use to grill pineapple rings alongside pork chops or pork steaks. Those rings are also great with ham. Good, quality sweet baked beans also go well with ham or pork. I love kabobs. I use to have overcooked vegetables with the meat though until I put the veggies on a separate skewer and then put the meat skewer on the grill first. Iced tea with lemon sounds absolutely great. My family is all from the deep South where sweetened iced tea is automatic. However, since my diabetes I've switched to omitting the sugar. I made a modified waldorf salad which was bite sized chunks of apple, banana, maraschino cherries and walnut chunks. Had to quit eating it because I can no longer have bananas because of the potassium which is deadly for me. I really miss it. Oh, you've got to add some mayonnaise and refrigerate it. I often cajole my wife into making some really simple potato salad which I love. It's got a hard boiled egg. You cut them in half and separate the yolk from the white. The yolk gets mashed and you add mayonnaise and a little mustard and mix. In a separate bowl you had some boiled red potatoes that have been cooled, peeled and diced, the diced egg whites some chopped and naturally fermented dill pickle and some raw chopped sweet onion. The pasta salad sounds like it's got potential. I presume you use either mayonnaise or Miracle Whip salad dressing and some finely diced sweet pickle.
MAGA hat, well marinated in gasoline and quick cooked to ash......washed down by ice cold Mexican beer (any brand). Oh wait, that’s my Cinco De Mayo menu.........
Hmm. That potato salad sounds delicious. Grandma also has a recipe for her southern style potato salad. I will need to ask her about that soon. The pasta salad is generally made with mayonnaise (sometimes Miracle Whip). Grandma would have to make 1 big batch of it with all of the ingredients except pickles. Next, she separated them into two portions, then complete with one sweet pickles and the other with dill.
Many things to unpack here. One, I’m a much bigger fan of Willamette Pinot Noir than Napa or other Cali ones. To the point that I might do a wine trail next time I have some time in the NW. what’s your go-to (knowing you have a couple decades’ head start on me) Two, do you switch up the cabbage/veggies or the spices (or both?) in your different kimchi? You found anywhere here that does do it yourself samgyeopsal?
