St. Patty's Day

St. Patrick's Day - enjoy!



I've had some trouble with putting links up onto this blog, so if you have a tech support issue, try this:

www.2stews.com/2010/03/guinness-irish-stew.html

Oh, and follow your dreams!!!

Donsta

Fill 'er Up! Git 'er Done!!

Here's a new toy - The Liquor gas pump - WOO HOO!!!
I want to thank my uncle for this, it is appreciated greatly.

It's a little replica of a gas pump, except, to keep with the 'green' 'feelings' people have these days, it serves up a delicious distilled beverage - Jack Daniels green label whiskey.

FILL'ER UP!

Plus, since it's gravity fed, there's no electricity required. Good to have on hand in case of any power outage. Then you can fuel up and be on your way.

Go Green!!!

Oh, and follow your dreams ! ! !

Oh, and don't drink N drive. As one of my favorite bass players of all-time, John Entwistle, once said - "I prefer to drink and not drive" - although that was mainly because he didn't have a driver's license, plus he was affluent enough to afford a driver with a limo. Hey, he was in the band The Who - what do you expect?

Marinated Chicken Breast Cutlets

It's been awhile since I've done a BBQ post, so here's one of marinated chicken breast cutlets, marinated in a lemon/pepper marinade. This really dresses up an otherwise bland piece of meat.

I cooked them using the indirect method, with the hot lump charcoal on one side of my Weber Kettle Grill, and the meat on the other side. With the cover on, and with some maple chucks burning along with the charcoal, and with some oak smoking chips made from genuine Jack Daniels oak aging barrels, the smoke flavor was a great combo with the lemon/pepper marinade.

Mmmmmm MMMMMM ! ! !

DEEEELISH.

Plus, when I was lighting the charcoal, I threw in some leftover grease from the kitchen, from bacon and so on. This helped to get the coals sizzling away a bit faster I would guess. Plus it had a nice bacon smell. As Homer Simpson would say: "Mmmmm, bacon."

Smokin'.

Jim Beam - Choice Bourbon

I happened to find a nice surprise recently while visiting the local liquor store - Jim Beam's Choice label, for their Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey.

I like the regular white label Jim Beam as it is, so I tried out the Choice version. Very good stuff.

7 generations of family distillers.
They show guys with the last name Beam, up until the most recent guys at the bottom of the label. Now they're named Noe.

Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Beam_whiskey

They also have a Jim Beam Black version, which I do not have pictures of at the moment. That stuff is also quite good.