Forth of July Weekend

Date & Time: July 3, 2008 6:30pm

Main Course: Grilled chicken thighs with grilled onions and bell pepper.

Sides: Chips (there’s was about a dozen chips…), jalapeño and garlic hot sauce, full fat sour cream, black and pinto beans.

Beverage / Libation: Livingston Chardonnay wine and I had a vodka tonic.

Desert: None….

Guests: Tom and Sue.

Additional Holiday Weekend Activities (I thought I needed to supplement the rather slim burrito report): On the 4^th It was up at 5 to start the dough for the cinnamon rolls and I was supposed tog o and place the blanket by the tree for the parade. The cinnamon rolls take about three hours to make, it’s mostly rising time but they came out of the oven at about 8:30 and were iced. I made about 3 dozen I believe. The cinnamon rolls bake for about 20 to 30 minutes after 15 I relieved I never put the blankets under the tree. Luckily this isn’t Arlington Heights and the only evidence at 8:15 of the 10 o’clock parade were some no parking signs and the bleacher the city erected, 3 days earlier, for the judges. Well at about 9:00 or so Tom and Sue, Tom’s mother and one of his daughters stopped by for coffee and cinnamon rolls before walking to the parade. We did make the 91 year Pauline use the bathroom upstairs since the first floor toilet isn’t hooked to any waste pipe and that would just make a mess in the basement… After the parade we went to the park for the bands and a cook out. Then in the evening we decided to celebrate our countries intendance by blowing up a little bit of it with some fireworks that we bought in Indiana on father’s day. The first item we lit, a plastic eye ball, spun on the ground and ended with a small pop shooting little crackling lights out. This ending made us all jump but through Wyatt, the 3 year old, into a panic which involved him saying, “I don’t like daddy anymore.” So he was promptly put to bed. Then we lit most of the rest of the fireworks from Crazy Kaplan’s…

The 5^th of July we BBQ. The country pork roasts were put on the grill at 6:30 in the morning and cooked all day. At about 8am I covered the two roasts with a pound of bacon which was slowly eaten every time I checked the roast there after, and some was used on my grilled cheese at lunch. At about 5pm or so the roasts came off and were left to cool so I could shred it. The roasts shredded nicely and I had a tasty pork sandwich the involved two slices of Texas Toast, a pile of shredded pork, Southern Comfort bbq sauce (made that morning with most of a bottle of Southern Comfort), and topped with a pile of coleslaw. That’s got to be one of my favorite meals…

Hope you had a safe and fun Independence Day,
NATE