Never!
Happy Memorial Day....remember those who gave their all.
Posted on 05/26/2003 4:30:52 AM PDT by Bella_Bru
well, xsfamily is going to be heading back to rainy NoVA in just a little bit. picnicking indoors, i guess : (
on the bright side, my flowering plants are looking GREAT with all the rain!
Never!
Happy Memorial Day....remember those who gave their all.
Memorial Day weekend is a washout on the Jersey Shore with up to 2 inches of additional rain forecast for parts of the tri-state area just for today. We may catch a break and get in the Yankees/Red Sox game this afternoon.
I baked bread yesterday and put two slabs of ribs with dry rub on them in the fridge. I like Alton Brown's "Who loves 'ya Baby-back" recipe from FoodTV.com. It works very nicely and produces very tender ribs that you finish on the grill.
I made up a salad for supper last night. Fresh spinach, stemmed and torn, tossed with bottled Italian dressing, button Crimmini mushrooms, stemmed and quartered, chiffonade of fresh Basil, and bacon bits. The family nailed it. Crimminis are the same as Portobellas, just smaller. Chiffonade just means cut into ribbons. Stack the leaves and roll up the long side to form a tube. Slice in about 2mm wide sections and unroll, et voila, a chiffonade of basil. It adds a nice sweet herby flavor.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Here's a glass raised in salute...
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE BEER DRINKER
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"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel shamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
~ Jack Handy
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"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. "
~Frank Sinatra
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"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
~ Ernest Hemingway
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"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
~ Henny Youngman
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"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."
~ Stephen Wright
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"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"
~ Brian O'Rourke
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
~ Benjamin Franklin
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"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."
~ Dave Barry
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BEER: HELPING UGLY PEOPLE HAVE SEX SINCE 3000 B.C.!!!
~ "Unknown"
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Remember "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.
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To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a can!
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And saving the best for last, as explained by Cliff Clavin, of Cheers. One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. Here's how it went:
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."
Here's the shrimp for the grill, I took these to our shoot last weekend.
Ingredients
Except instead of the broiler, you throw them on the grill. YUMMY
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