Recent content by mushdogs

Last night’s family night dinner pizza: Chicago deep dish pepperoni with sourdough crust.

Nobody wants a hangry RINC. Fill yer belly. 🤣

Coal miner stew for dinner: russets, smoked sausage, onion, garlic, green beans, cream of mushroom and cheese. A simple dump and go stew. Baked a loaf of artsy-fartsy sourdough to go with, and a loaf of sourdough in the new cast iron loaf pan the family gifted me for my recent birthday. Not a...

Yep. Jacked up on Mountain Dew and Jolly Ranchers having Stomper 4x4 pulling contests while eating lunch lady pizza was a state of being. IYKYK.

Made 1980’s USDA school cafeteria pizza last night. Pourable crust (yeast, sugar, salt, powdered milk, oil and water), meat sauce (ground beef, tomato paste, dried onion, garlic powder, pepper, basil, oregano, marjoram and thyme) and mozzarella cheese. Told my wife she needed to serve it on a...

Indeed it is. 116 years or so young.

When I was still going to sea, I’d get the “Captain’s Nightmare” pretty regular: towing a heavily laden barge on a short hauser down a twisting river that continually narrows, shallows into a trickle and gets rockier; or towing down a busy street full of traffic that gets denser and denser as...

Love you too, man! In a non-Brokeback Mountain kind of way…

A gallon of boiled coffee, sourdough waffles and link sausage for family breakfast.

I used to smoke the cheese and the macaroni, then make it in the oven or slow cooker. Then I got lazy. Or inspired. I combine everything in the cast iron now, put it all in the smoker uncovered and run two or three smoke cycles with my wood of choice. Then let it slow cook in the smoker...

Pusser’s Rum. Neat; or with brown sugar and lime juice, ie Grog. Old Fashioned if I’m not in a rum mood. Guinness, or any dark and chewy stout.

Smoked macaroni and cheese with chicken strips yesterday.

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