Saturday's in the South

Back to work today after an excellent weekend of Memphis BBQ, Football, More BBQ with a side of blues. I would consider the weekend one of the best road trips we have done. Items of note:

A. Memphis is a pretty solid weekend trip. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes to eat, drink, listen to music, travel etc.; in other words, pretty much everyone. The city is big enough to have plenty to do, yet small enough that you can manage to get your way around easily.

B. As I heard on a couple occasions; Ole Miss may not win the game, but they always win the party. The scene at The Grove is a must-see for anyone who claims to be a die hard tailgater. But think less burgers and dogs, more catered meals, sun dresses and bourbon. Did I mention the Bourbon, for some reason the city of oxford decided that allowing liqour, but not beer, would be a good idea. Sounds like more like a recipe for a black out rather than safety, but I digress...

C. Anyone can lose on any Saturday in the SEC. Walking into Vaught Hemmingway stadium Florida was favored heavily. I mean very heavily. Walking out, they were humbled. If they were not walking out of the stadium, you can bet they were after walking out of Tuesdays practice.

Yeah, Tebow played good. 162 yards on the ground good. But if he has got to carry the ball 27 times a game to do it, you can keep all 162 of them. Crazy I know, but how about this weekend, lets give Keystann a try to establish the run.

And how about giving up over 300 in the air to Ole Miss. I have nightmares about what LSU will do to that secondary.


All in all. The weekend was a sucess, we drank plenty, met some of the nicest folks out there, and got a way with a win. I reccomend the trip to anyone. Seriously, put it on the list of places to see before you have 7 kids to take with you.

Niner.

Fall. The greatest time of year

Ask someone what there favorite time of year is and you will probably get one of the following answers:

• The holidays: "I just love Christmas, snow, new years eve, family..................."
• Spring: "The trees are blooming, green fields, birds chirping, etc............"
• Early Summer: "warm weather, the 4th of July, fireworks......"

Now personally, I have nothing against holidays, fireworks, and warm weather. But Fall has a leg up on all other times of year. Summer winds down which can bring mixed feelings, but lets be honest; it was to fucking hot out anyway. Now some folks like the fall because of all the pretty leaves and all the colors at autumn brings. Once again, nothing against leaves and foliage and whatnot, but Fall is great for many reasons and none of them have anything to do with trees.....

1. First and foremost, as of the Thursday before Labor day, College football has begun. It doesn't matter who is playing, Middle Tennessee Central Tech State v. University of Phoenix Online, whoever; I will watch that first game with twice the excitement of the last 5 Superbowls.
2. Fall Baseball. Not much needs to be said here, playoffs are approaching the wildcard race is in full swing, the Yankees have pulled their season around once again, and soon enough we will see what the playoff matchups will look like.
   
3. What would this blog be without something about food. Fall is the time of year the grill was ment for. As temperatures drop into the less than balls hot range, it becomes much more bearable to stand next to your hot grill.
   

I could go all day. But I will probably just end up talking more about the Yankees and the Gators and you haters would start to get annoyed. Lets just get to the "Act like you have been here before" recipe of the week:

Everyone likes burgers, and unless you are a doucebag you like cheese too. So give these a try

• 1 pound of ground chuck. (lean if you want to be a puss)
• Worcestershire
  
• Garlic Salt
• Black pepper
• 1 pound block of sharp cheddar
• Hamburger buns (don't be cheap, buy some good ones.
  

In a bowl, add about 2 tbl spoons of Worcestershire, a few shakes of garlic salt and black pepper to the ground beef. Mix well. Make into 1/2-3/4 inch thin hockey puck-sized patties. Cut cheese into thin square slices.

Place the cheese slices on top of half of the patties. Place a second patty on top of each. Take each set up and pat in your hands until you can no longer tell there was once two patties. Grill to your liking.

If you want to be real crazy, put another slice of cheese on top of each burger 1 minute before pulling them off the grill...

Eat. Pretend like you have done this before when people say " holy shit, is there cheese on the inside of of these burgers" you say things like "yeah its really techincal and takes lots of practice ..........." niner.