I guess I had it all wrong.
I thought cooking with alcohol meant you had a beer or drink while you cooked. That’s why I usually have a Blue Beaver Beer sitting next to the barbeque. It turns out you add the alcohol to the food!
I stayed in a quaint hotel once while working construction away from home at a place called Lodgepole. The place wasn’t all that great except for the cooking. The bartender/ owner/ cook would make these awesome meals for the special of the day. It was well worth eating in the bar attached to the hotel.
I will never forget the vermouth sauce that this guy would make about once a week. He would put it on burgers or steak. It was good stuff!
Here is a place that you can get a recipe for Vermouth burgers: Art of Drink . Give it a try and let me know if you think it is as good as I do!
Redneck Bar & Grill
Beer, Friends, Food
You already know that when Ernie and I go out, we prefer Blue Beaver Beer. A night out with a couple drinks is the cure for many of the stresses in life. But not every pub or venue is going to stock our favorite brew.
The Art of Drink might give you a few ideas about other choices at the bar. Written by a bartender who likes to experiment with unusual cocktails, there is a lot of good stuff here.
Of course, most of these will just be a substitute for a good Blue Beaver Beer. But, you do what you have to.
A panda walks into a bar. Everyone looks up, surprised at seeing one in real life.
He ambles over to the counter, climbs up on a stool and stares at the bartender. “I’ll have a ceasar salad and a Blue Beaver Beer. And quit staring at my t-shirt…” the panda grumbles in a really low voice.
The bartender looks away and gets the panda his order, then tries to look busy while the animal munches away and swigs his beer down. The croud is really curious, and watches to see what will happen next.
The panda finishes his meal with a burp. He stands up, pulls a gun and starts blazing, wounding or killing all 10 of the other customers in the joint. After the screaming stops, he puts away the gun and starts to leave.
“Wait a minute! What the heck was that?” the bartender yells in shock.
“I’m a panda. Look it up,” the animal says as he goes out the door.
The bartender calls 9-1-1 and waits for help. The paramedics take away the wounded and remove the dead.
After everything is said and done, he goes into the back and types ‘panda’ into his computer encyclopedia. “Panda,” he reads. There is a list of pertinent information, and right at the bottom in underlined text, “Eats shoots and leaves.“
Link for other animal shirts: Animals
It’s amazing where life can lead you. The other day, while making the trek to see The Arrogant Worms, I came across an amazing forest right in the middle of the prairie. It’s hard to believe such a beautiful spot can be overlooked. I wanted to stay longer, but I didn’t have time so I just kept on moving.
Maybe someday I’ll take the family out to this beautiful forest and we’ll have a picnic and a couple beer.
Like Ernie posted before, the concert was great. Staying up all night and driving back to Medicine Hat for work at 6:00 AM was pretty sucky.