What's happening in my world…
It is a wonderful day to be firing up the smoker for cooking our turkey for Thanksgiving Day.
Normally, we do something more bold like duck, turducken, or the like. But, we are keeping it simple this year and just smoking a turkey on our Big Green Egg cooker.
It is not often that I am up at 6:00 AM and cooking on a grill.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
My first beer pairing dinner was very enjoyable this weekend. Karen helped out so much.
Here are the trout after being just put on the Big Green Egg cooker to be smoked. They turned out very tasty, but I wish they had been 100% bone free.
The Rotisserie Chicken Salad was very flavorful, but I made too much. Karen and I really loved the vinaigrette that I made for the salad.
The raspberry crisp was awesome. I am looking forward to making more of them especially with all of the apples around the here.
We are seeing all sort of things here today. We have seen butterflies everywhere throughout the garden.
We watered Katie Beth’s tree.
We went into the butterfly house, which didn’t have as many butterflies as the area outside the house.
We are now walking through the garden looking at all the scare crows on trails.
We stayed so long that we got locked in the garden. No one was left in the office, the doors were locked, and the parking lot was empty.
Katie Beth and I are topping off the day with a pizza from Mellow Mushroom.
We have had a super day hiking all over Monte Sano State Park.
You can’t beat good food.
Everyone is playing at Sherwood Park Pool and I have stopped in Bandito Burrito to get dinner.
Oscar is the owner of Bandito and he has a great crew cranking out the food.
Bags full of Grande and No Carne burritos are on their way to the pool.
What a busy, busy day! We are ending it with pizza. How could you go wrong?
Karen, Katie Beth, and I have started to run out of energy.
Tomorrow, we start it all over with mass, donuts, and more fun in the sun and sand.
Katie Beth was having a blast at the soft opening party.
Katie Beth had a blast meeting all of the corporate staff of Earth Fare.
Here she is enjoying the sample of pepperoni pizza.
We are finally getting time off from my work. We are kicking back at Il Vicino sipping beers and waiting for a pizza.
Life is good.
We had a great dinner at Il Vicino in downtown Colorado Springs.
How can you go wrong with pizza?
Well, I fired up, for the first, my “Big Green Egg” cooker that my parents gave me for Christmas.
We smoked two chickens. They turned out very good.
We used a pizza baking stone to give more indirect heating. Next time, I will be using some Apple wood from a friends fallen tree.