Meat

A T-town potluck bought a meal on the LSM Benefit Auction and each couple invited a guest couple.  We were guests of Steve and Sara.  Saturday night the meal was held at a cabin south of T-town and Dean B. was the chef.  He had spent a lot of time in Brazil when working for Caterpillar, and enjoyed the food, preparation, and social time that their meals entail. So he brought the experience back with him.  He had a brick oven/cast stove-top/open oven/grill built in his cabin so he could recreate the meals he had in Brazil for groups here.
  He started by marinating the meat the day before, then started a pot of beans simmering on the stove-top early afternoon.  When we arrived at 4:00, he had all the meat in various stages of cooking in the oven/grill.  We first sampled the salt pork he had rendered on a disk blade turned cooking utensil.  We ate mostly with our fingers as we progressed through the meats; grilled bacon, steak strips, sausage slices, chicken, veal steak, Picanha steak, and finally prime rib roast.  All grilled/roasted on a cherry wood fire.  We ate for 3-4 hours!  We also had grilled cheese slabs, rice with the beans, salad, and fruit.  After all this food, we topped it off with a Brazilian chocolate cake.  I was uncomfortably stuffed.  It was a fun and interesting evening.

We drove home in a driving rainstorm and the closer we got to home the worse it was.  There was water running across our road in several places as well as some in our basement.  When I checked our rain gauge Sunday morning, we had received 4 inches in the storm!

Father's Day, we had everyone that was available to our house.  We had three generations of Dads here.   The original suggestion was to pick up chicken, but we wanted man food for Father's Day!  We instead served BBQ ribs and beef brisket.  More good meat!  Daughter #2 brought me a coconut cream pie she made for my gift, so it will be a good week!

And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.
Leviticus 7:9