Thursday, July 8, 2010

Fourth of July

This Fourth of July weekend was awesome! The founding fathers had a lot of foresight to sign the Declaration of Independence in the summer knowing that that was the best time to celebrate. But seriously, we are so lucky to live in the greatest country ever invented. Americans are the smartest, most determined, hardest working, and creative species on the planet. It is that American spirit and the sacrifice so many people have given to make this country completely badass we celebrate on the 4th of July.

So here's how my Independence day went down. I woke up a little early and started trimming and seasoning up a couple racks of spare ribs. And in no time these slabs of meat were on the grill and cooking low and slow. The pig is so generous to share its tasty ribs and bacon with us. Thank you, pigs!


Here are the ribs with a delicious mustard moisturizer and chili powder rub.

While the ribs were cooking I made a pot of some American coffee of which the beans were prepared by Hawaiians (they count as Americans too). I relaxed and watched television for the next couple hours while I enjoyed my coffee.


This is my freedom chalice. One must get my permission to drink from this mug of liberty. (It was made in china)



By this time Laura had woken up and we decided to go for a walk. The weather was incredible! It had cooled down to the mid 80's from the mid 90's earlier in the week. After that I came home and started tending to the meat a little more. I was starting to get pretty hungry.

Around 3 the ribs were done. Laura's family joined us for the meal and a good time was had by all. The ribs didn't last long enough for seconds so I was proud. We also had beans, corn, and tater tots.





After the meal I slammed a couple beers and took a nap. Now what made this nap super patriotic was while I was dozing off I had the television set to baseball. Strategically I placed the remote control under my arm. If anybody wanted to change the channel because I wasn't "watching", the would have to pry the remote from my grasp. Doing this would cause me to wake up, thereby releasing a profanity laced tirade that would make Patton (God bless him) blush. Yeah, it was a great nap, and a great day.

2 comments:

  1. Next time I do ribs I am going for 12 hours and no foil. The concept is to get them to the "fall apart" level like Goings does.

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