Month: May 2007
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Brisket post-mortem
The brisket from yesterday was well received by the 10 people in attendance. I had six people here that have lived at one point or another in Texas (some as recently as two weeks ago!), and everyone says it tasted authentic. I cooked it to an internal temp of 170°F, and I actually don’t think…
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Notes from the morning
So, since I’ve been up since 4:30am cooking brisket, I wanted to jot down a few notes from the morning. First, there seems to be a racoon living in our backyard. He was drinking from the pond while I was waiting on the BBQ to heat up. Second, there’s nothing on TV at 4:30am on…
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5:24am and I’m awake
This could be my earliest blog post ever. Already been awake for an hour today. And, no, this is definitely not normal for me. However, the [Big Green Egg](http://www.biggreenegg.com/) is at a happy 220°F, and a 9.5lb brisket has been going for 25 minutes. On at 5:00am, plan to take it off at 6:30pm. Flip…
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I hate web spam…
I really hate web spam. Since I used to run [Movable Type](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype) here, lots of spammers used to hit up /mt/mt-tb.cgi and /mt/mt-comments.cgi to try to auto-spam my blog. I’ve been running [Wordpress](http://www.wordpress.org/) for (checks archives) nearly 3 months now, and I’m still seeing it. Today, I was checking out my [Mint](http://www.haveamint.com/) statistics, and I…
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Big Green Egg: Pork Loin Roast
Today, I fired up the [Big Green Egg](http://www.biggreenegg.com/) for its inaugural run. We tried a recipe off the BGE website – [Mr. Toad’s Pork Loin](http://www.biggreenegg.com/recipes/pork/mrToadsPorkLoin.htm). I had a 5 pound pork loin roast, followed the directions in the recipe, and threw it in the egg at 300 degrees. About 3 hours later, the pork hit…
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New Grill! I’m an “egg”head!
After reading several reviews on the web, and getting inspired by a [co-worker](http://www.seanalexander.com/2006/09/05/LaborDayBBQMeetsTechWizardry.aspx), I decided to buy a new grill. And I’ve eschewed the propane tank forever. I bought a [Big Green Egg](http://www.biggreenegg.com/) from [Thompson’s Hearth & Home](http://www.thompsonshearth.com/bbq.htm) in Issaquah. This thing is a beast! Tips the scales at over 140 pounds, and I can’t…
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A long day
Today started out fairly normal and as planned, but it went downhill. As I sit here, my arms are bruised. My jaw is fairly numb. I have 4 teeth less than I had this morning. I’m on pain medication. It sounds drastic, but, yeah, I got my wisdom teeth removed this morning. First time ever…
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Grey’s Anatomy
So, tonight’s episode of [Grey’s](http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/index) … sucked. I hope [ABC](http://www.abc.com/) puts the spin-off thing up to a vote, cause the whole Los Angeles bit seemed awkward, forced, and contrived. I’d vote no, and the other 7 or 8 people I watched it with said the same. Some of them even left early to go to…
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Oil Changes and Wireless
I love it when I take my car somewhere to get an oil change, and they have wireless. Kudos to [Nissan of the Eastside](http://nissanoftheeastside.com/Default.aspx) in Bellevue. And, as bonus points, they at least used WEP encryption. (Yes, I know WEP isn’t perfect, but it’s better than the Nissan dealership I used to go in Texas…