Saw this over on slashfood and I am really intrigued. Theirs look mostly like meatballs made with pork, but I think I can one up them. My goal is to get a nicely coat of crunchy sweet goodness around the smaller ham ball kind of like pig candy.

I will be doing a bunch of cross posting this week on me make food cuz I will be messing with lots of stuff Theresa wont eat since she is gone. Will be cranking up metal and bluegrass while cooking up a storm in my underwear.

Yup I am kinda sorta a bachelor for 5 days while Theresa heads out for a tech conference. She is worried the animals will die when I am gone, I am worried I will gain a bit of weight from all the stuff I plan on making. Lots of seafood, mushrooms, and stuff.

I grew up in a family that had a clown for a dad. I sheeeeet you not. I have blown up a ton of those balloons over the years. I can make some pretty cool stuff. The noise of twisting balloons is kinda like scratching nails on a chalkboard.
Looks like I might have to see this flick. Although watching a dude deep throat a whole balloon I am not all that hungry for lunch.

This pic is much cuter than a snake one

So I tilled up my back yard and planted some grass which is doing really well.
So there is straw down and sat morning I headed out for some watering and it was like Indiana Jones in my back yard.
There were pert near 20 garter snakes sunning themselves on the straw. It really creeped me out. I can handle your regular garter snake or two around the yard cuz I have seen them for years. But these garter snakes were huge. Some up to 2 feet I would guess and as thick as a johnsonville Bratt.

The spookiest part was none of them moved at all. They just sat there with their heads raised up looking at me with their little tongues flickering. I busted out the sprinkler and shooed them all away with a few blasts of water. I did a bunch of yard work during the long weekend and continued to see them all over. Only saw a few of the little skinny cute ones, most were big scary suckas. I searched around on the web for answers on how to reduce their numbers. Got a few hints, but most say you are just stuck with them and they eat all the insects and are not really bad to have around. Maybe they are more noticeable since they cannot hide in the grass since it is so short. I just wish they were not so big.

Theresa is going to be at a tech conference for 5 days and I get to grub down on stuff she would never eat. I really want to make my own calamari and am wondering where I can get some not too processed squid to make my own. Any ideas?

I will call midwest seafood tomorrow to check.

iffin you want please digg it

Or so they say

10. Unibroue La Fin Du Monde How can you not love a beer that calls itself “End of the World?” Fortunately, the only thing that will end after enjoying this complex brew is your ability to make do with just any beer.

9. Harveistoun Old Engine Oil Mega-breweries spend millions of dollars on image building, cultivating a look, image and an enticing name that’s not distasteful. Then there’s the Harviestoun brewery in Scotland that simply looked at its tasty old ale and named it after the first thing that came to mind: Old Engine Oil.

8. Sweetwater Happy Ending Imperial Stout The name refers either to living happily ever after or the beer’s great finish. It has nothing to do with massage parlors. Would a brewery that also has beers named Donkey Punch and 420 go there? I think not.

7. Ridgeway Santa’s Butt A butt is a wooden keg of beer. The picture on the bottle of jolly St. Nick’s butt crack peeking out from his baggy pantaloons ensures no one misses the double entendre. It has the distinction of having been banned in Maine and New York.

6. Buffalo Bill’s Alimony Ale Billed as “the bitterest beer in America,” this India Pale Ale is clearly the brainchild of someone disenchanted with the notion of till death do us part.

5. Dogfish Head Golden Shower Originally named Prescription Pills, the brewery was forced to change the name, lest someone think it was a pharmaceutical. Golden Shower saw one release before the government folks figured out what they’d approved. The beer is now known as Golden Era.

4. Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast Pooh Coffee The coffee added to the beer is pooped out by a civet (a catlike mammal that loves coffee). A bit literal? Yes. But still funny.

3. McQuire’s I’ll Have What The Gentleman On The Floor Is Having Barley Wine The name is a subtle hint that at 12 percent alcohol by volume, this beer is meant to be sipped. If you can drink it faster than you can say it, slow down!

2. Avery Collaboration Not Litigation This beer typifies the spirit of the craft brewing community. Vinnie Cilurzo of Russia River Brewing and Adam Avery of Avery Brewing realized they both had beers named Salvation. Showing a selfish disregard for the financial health of America’s lawyers, the two brewers decided that instead of suing each other, they’d team up to brew this bold beer.

1. Wasatch Polygamy Porter The slogan explains perfectly why this is the coolest beer name ever: “Why have just one?” I have big love for this beer’s name.

Gene says they be the openers and the rest of the bands should rule.