Firing a Bacon Explosion in Defense of Liberty

[drpaisley]

So since we decided to stay home last night, I am quite sure Lawrence had no rain at all. You're welcome.

Today we are heading to the wilds of Leawood, KS, to eat and chat and watch the city try to blow parts of itself up. Rohanna has made her green rice, Dragonet has green beans and dip, and I have a Bacon Explosion™ in the smoker. This particular variety is made with half Mendolia's Italian sausare and half ground bison (thanks for the tip, Tully!), along with 8 or 10 cloves of garlic chopped up and mixed in wiith the filling. I am using Stubb's Chili-Lime rub, which just sounded goood, and Beryant's original sauce, because. And, of course, bacon. Should be out of the smoker a bit after 5, then off to the fun.


Here's a little something for the day.

And another, since y'all been so good.

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Okay, slightly confused now. Does David Lindley play on Timbuk3's "National Holiday", or is this his version, or is the picture of David Lindley just random?

[drpaisley.livejournal.com]

The song was indeedwritten by Pat MacDonald. Lindley recorded it for his album "Twango Bango II" with Wally Ingram. Definitely worth picking up.

[tully01.livejournal.com]

I made two, one sausage and one burger, for the lake bash Saturday where we celebrate America's finest holiday with our twin all-American passions of alcohol and explosives. Fortunately there are some professional pyrotechnics guys among the residents who handle the big explosives AND get them well under wholesale. For an amateur show it's impressive, beating out many of the bigger ones.

But I digress. Thanks to the drizzle that didn't let up until a couple of hours before showtime Saturday's attendance was weak. The chile-cheeseburger bacon bomb (using 90/10 ground sirloin) was the first on the table, and was slaughtered in mere moments. I went light on the cheese in the roll-up -- most folks took a slice and put it on a bun with an extra cheese slice and their other favorite burger condiments/garnish. For the first time EVER I had a small amount of leftover sausage bacon bomb, which fries up nicely in slices for breakfast. Serve as meat side or plop in a biscuit with egg.

The rain began threatening again before noon Sunday and promised to last most of the day, so we decamped from the trailer rather than spend the day in it with bored teenagers. On the way home we stopped before the county line to get REAL fireworks*, though I drew the budget and Darwin lines on the big mortars and M-80 style digit-removal devices. Yesterday's drizzle stopped in time for dinner (ham steak, potato salad, garlic bread and watermelon) then at dark we blew up our stuff just in time to beat the 11 o'clock rain, which fortunately dropped the hot-LZ SFX level before midnight.

The neighbor up the block managed a couple of ground bursts with big mortars, which was hilarious only because the Fire Department and ER weren't required. (Hey guys, the NOZZLE END goes in the tube first...) It was a much more noise-intense 4th than usual -- between the city saying that enforcement would be minimal and the very providential damp stifling the fire index, people really cut loose.

[*--Our city allows only very wimpy 'works, the county is not much better, but the county next door allows pretty much everything but rockets, everyone's favorite accidental arson devices being frowned on in wheat country in the hot summertime. So I couldn't get bottle rockets, but Roman candles, flash-bangs sufficient to clear small stumps, and massive near-pro-size starburst mortars and such were on tap. I passed on the urge to buy a few of the cartwheel-sized strings of 16,000 Black Cats. No matter how useful...]