And so another "ShadowCon Mid-West" (the fourth) comes to an end. Five days with my wife, son, and eight friends, filled with cooking, eating, drinking, gaming, and spending time together. It was...
Last night's overnight stay: a mooring buoy in a little bay on undeveloped Jones Island State Park. Gorgeous, quiet, private, and dark enough where we could see Orion's belt come up over the trees...
Last night crossing the strait to Canada, we got caught in a squall. The wind jumped from 20 knots to 34 and beyond (I saw the wind meter as high as 38.6, but I was a bit busy), against a 3 knot tide...
Christmas Dinner: smoked turkey, wet brined, coated under the skin with a maple bourbon herb butter and rib rub mixture, the skin brushed with the same in melted form. All the bits and some mirepoix...
Christmas Eve dinner. We have house guests, local guests, and Colin, so I went with a 12 pound rib eye steak, rubbed with olive oil, covered in my own rub and smoked fir 4 1/2 hours over a hardwood...
