Pork and Rice

Here is one of my best recipes for a home cooked supper If you like the pig yes the other white meat and the meat with the most flavor. The tenderest meat there is Anyway here is what you do.You get a larger skillet cast iron if you have it if not any large pan will do. Now slice up some garlic about three cloves fry it in olive oil.until golden brown add one chopped up onion brown edges of the onion and add salt and pepper to taste Now put in about 5 large pork chops diced cut up in little squares. Add a little more oil and brown the meat on all sides. Now add two carrots and three celery stocks This is high heat so be sure to keep an eye on it. just a few minutes after the carrots and celery are in put three cups of water or just cover everything with water it depends on how big your pan it. Now make up two packages of brown gravy and pour in the mix. Bring to a boil. At this point be sure to season to taste with salt and pepper. Turn the oven on about 225 degrees low heat put it in the oven covered for about 2 or 3 hours. Make some rice right before you are about to serve and some frozen egg rolls or home made egg rolls if you like them better. A honey mustard sauce and a hot ketchup sauce. One part ketchup a little olive oil salt pepper vinegar Tabasco worcestershire soy sauce stir it up this is great for dipping your egg rolls in. I know if you try this you will enjoy it.........                      

Texas Bar B-Q

Well here it is with Labor day just passed someone asked me to give a brief how to if you will on Texas Bar B-Q The first thing you have to have is a good off set cooker one box for the fire and another for the meat no direct heat you have to smoke low and slow about 250 degrees. Now everybody who smokes meat knows this but hear in Texas there are a few things that are different. One is we pick the worst cut of meat you can get the brisket A big tuff piece of meat from the shoulder of a cow. You can marinade it in your favorite spices or you can just salt and pepper it Your call on that. Now the wood I am sorry but there is only one kind of wood in Texas to smoke with and that is mesquite. If you don't use it You don't have real Texas Bar B-Q. Period  end of discussion. The sauce it is  generally  a tomato base Nothing out of the ordinary you can buy it anywhere. Or make your own recipes are all over the net. The key is the wood. Now here is how you do it Get your pit fired up get your temperature right or close now put that brisket leave it there with the fat down 5 hours Now take it out and wrap it in foil and cover it with your sauce and put it in a pan then put it back in the pit for 6 more hours and you will have some of the best smoked brisket of your life tender falling apart juice meat. Slice it thin and put some sauce on the side with Potato salad pinto beans, pickles, jalapenos peppers, some fresh onions. Dinner rolls or a plane slice of bread. Ribs Chicken Pulled pork are all the same just change how much time in the smoker..           

Life goes On

Everyone is young but not everyone gets to be old. Yes disease ,car accidents. crime. war they take people everyday.So if you live long enough chances are you will have someone close to you pass away. By sickness accident or one of these other causes. The stages first is shock you cry and miss the person so much. Second Anger why why why did this happen to this person they were so nice and good. Third is lost  you realize you are never going to see or talk to that person again never. Four you finally come to peace with the fact they are gone. And depending of the circumstances may be better off especially if they were sick and suffering. Or in the case of addicts were just miserable being alive. Then you get to that point where you don't think of them as often as you were. And the trails and tribulations of your own life setback in. A day turns in to a week turns in to a year and Life goes On. And to all my family and friends who have gone. I still loved you. One mans Opinion              

Church of Christ

I was on the golf course one day at my favorite club. One I had been a member at for some time and pretty comfortable there. I knew a lot players there and was always looking to meet new ones as time went by.And it was summer in the lone star so naturally it was hot as hell. So when I seen this guy walking. A few holes ahead of me I knew I would catch up to him. After a couple of holes sure enough we were there on the same tee box.So I gave him the standard response I can play with you or I can play through it does not matter to me. Then I added its a lot easier to ride than it is to walk in this heat. He said that makes sense so we would just finish out the back nine together. So as we started to play the conversation is always  the same when you first meet someone well what do you do. You see in America you are who you are based on what you do.That being said he proudly told me he was a retired school principal. So I thought a collage guy a educated fellow someone who is obviously  rational and astute. I will be able to talk about things with this man and  have a truly interesting conversation. And so it was to start weather sports local affairs. This guy was on point with everything. Then out of the blue he said do you believe in God. And of course I said Yes I don't think you can get around some kind of Creator. Then he said well I am a deacon at the Church of Christ and if you are not a church of Christ you are going to hell and that is just the way it is. Then he looked at me and said have you been saved and I said yes. And now dude get the fuck out of my golf cart and take you stupid ass on down the road. And never I mean never speak to me again..I have no room in my life for blatant stupidity. Religious arrogance is one of the most dangerous mental disorders in the world.... And should be confronted every steep of the way. Don't let this idiocy take hold in your town...Wither they be Muslims Jews Morons or the Church of Christ's                   

I have a Hope

Back in the 1960's Martin Luther Kings gave a speech called I have a dream. And with this speech he stirred the whole country into taking a hard look at itself. And civil right and the crime of persecution  of one race of people over another just because we are different. We look different we act different we even think different. That is no reason to mistreat abuse or belittle another human being. Physically or economically  just because they are different. Now in the last fifty years this country has made great progress in the way we tolerate each other. But now we have another problem that is manifesting itself. Its an evil thing that is tearing the underbelly of this country apart. Its the same old disease as before but now it not your color or religion its your bank account. That is right money power wealth these are the dividing lines now. I was watching the actor Samuel Jackson in a interview one day and he said Its funny when I got rich and famous I was not a nigger anymore.I was Mister Jackson and everybody was like how can I help you sir. Not like before when he was  just another young black man get out of the way. So this man found an occupation in life and in doing his job well I might add magically transformed himself into a whole other person. That the world perceives in a whole new way. But the guy he went to school with that got a job as a worker and worked hard and is good at it.. (Is still a nigger.) Wait wait wait you can't say that. But its the truth. Is this fair is this right it this the way it should be. Or is there something wrong. Or is it like Jesus said when they were about to put the oil on his head and feet one came up and said should we not sell this oil and give the money to the poor. And Jesus said the poor will always be here..That is prophetic!!!! One of the best lines in the bible..I have a hope that someday a man planting rice in China will be payed the same as a Dr. in New York City Or a man fishing in Haiti or a woman waiting tables at your local cafe
Or the man who drives the trash truck. or plays the songs on the radio or scores the winning touchdown. Or the girl who sells herself on the street corner. Yes even her.....Everyone has there place in this world. There will always be the poor. But the man who will work should be rewarded for it and treated with respect and dignity. I have a hope that someday these things will come true. I have a hope ..One mans Opinion                             

Labor day

Labor day labor day yes it is time again to thank all the countless people who go to work everyday  out of shear necessity  to produce all the wants and wares for this country and  a lot of the rest of the world. People like your father and mother who somehow feed you and clothed you and put you through school. And were there with that little trickle of money from time to time just to get you by.
 And basically that is all life is. Trying to take care of you and yours. With the sweat of your brow and bend of your back yes work labor These are the activities that fund life. 90 % of this world is in gaged in some form of labor each day. Working on a fishing boat or a farm or a construction site driving a truck. stocking a store, teaching children working in a office pushing papers, keeping books cutting hair these are all things people do everyday not because they want to but because they have to. To survive and take care of their family's. These are not labors of love. And should not be exploited in any way. So when you are with your bunch this weekend cooking out and having fun drinking and stuff. Just remember the reason we have this is because worker years ago stood up and formed unions and fought greedy industrialist. To get a fair wage and working conditions. Now have a good day...                

Eastwood and Palin

Well with the elections right around the corner the dirt is starting to pick up. The Ripoffs are in Florida by the way where they all go to retire And they rolled poor old Clint Eastwood out in a hoveround tried to get him to speak but to no avail. He was just looking for the lunch room at the nursing home. Didn't know if he was horse back or a foot..You have to hand it to the Ripoffs when they find something that works they stick to it. Years ago they got another old washed up actor and paraded him around for 8 years. Dick Cheney and George Bush moved him around like a puppet on a string. But I am sorry guy's Clint is to old to go out and play with you. If they would run him for President they might have a chance. Hell America elected Reagan and he wasn't even a good actor. They should have run Clint when he still had a pulse.
    And Poor Sarah I wonder if she feels cheap and used right now. You know the morning after a one night stand. It was great at that moment but now when you can see her in the morning light.. Can I call you a cab. That used and unwanted feeling.Just like my mother always said. When you sleep with snakes you will get bit..  Sorry Sarah... On the bright side you can go back to Alaska...Be Bold and Cold....bye bye  One mans opinion