I have discovered a new favorite hobby. Cooking scallops and shrimp on the BBQ. My dad was in town and I decided to try something new.
At lunch, we sat with a pad and thought about what we wanted for dinner. Seafood came up and since I had been wanting to grill some shrimp at some point, I thought this an excellent time to try it. Shrimp went on the list.
When I got to the seafood store, I noticed how good those scallops looked and I thought they would cook equally well on the BBQ. I was a little torn over bay or sea scallops. Bay scallops are much smaller than sea scallops and I wondered which might fare better on a skewer.
When I got home, I rubbed some Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Seafood Magic on all of the seafood and stuck all of the meat onto skewers. I fired up the BBQ and layed down some tinfoil as I was afraid the scallops would fall apart. You can see here a mixture of bay and sea scallops simmering.
As it turns out, sea scallops suck ass on the BBQ. They get all tender and fall apart, leaving behind a big mess. The bay scallops clung happily to the skewer and came out fantastic! Once the scallops were done cooking on the tin-foil, I placed them directly on he grill so they would get seared a bit to add to the flavor.
Still, the king of the BBQ today, in my eyes, were the shrimp. Shrimp are extremely sturdy on the skewer and cook in moments. It took about 60 seconds on each side and they were done.
We served a salad with dinner and I made some homemade guacamole. My dad bought a raw piece of tuna and sliced it sashimi thin. We mixed up some of our own wasabi from powder, poured on some soy sauce and enjoyed some of the best tuna sushimi I ever had. Sorry, no pictures.
More Origami madness. Seems like you can essentially fold any 3D shape these days. Perhaps some models with very think extremities would be difficult or impossible.
I wonder if there are any mathematical proofs proving this.
My friend John, who is an Origami expert, sent me this. Essentially we have here a surgeon who had a cancellation and decided to practice telesurgery rather than hang out with the nurses. That’s the doctor I want.
A few weeks ago, the family went upstate to rural Long Eddy New York for a weekend getaway with the Peake clan.
My friend Bruce’s father, Gary, has built quite a compound o n his 300-acre wilderness. It’s got a log cabin, an outhouse, two man-made ponds, a man-made lake, shooting targets, wilderness trails up the wazoo, and best of all a clubhouse complete with satellite TV and a keg on tap.
We slept in my new Mountain Hard Ware tent and it weathered a pretty strong rainstorm. I was on a camping trip a few years ago where my tent “failed” during a torrential downpour and the inside of the tent had puddles in it. It was a horrible night. Glad my Everest tent held up!
In a few weeks, we’re going camping with the Zingers and the Bortko’s so I’m looking forward to that.
Here, we see Antonio leading Serafina toward the clubhouse. There was a caged rattlesnake up there and I think they wanted to hear it get mad.
Movable Type has been flaky lately so I was finally forced to switch over to WordPress. The unfortunate thing is that my entire old site is literally gone. Search engines will soon forget about me and my online presence will dwindle to nothingness. I may try and repair some of the links but for now I view this as a clean slate.
Thank goodness that I used FeedBurner to manage my feed! Three cheers to starting my tag cloud all over again! Yay!
