el friki de la parrilla

Since 26 moved out, he’s been back every Sunday for family supper (still no laundry, which feels suspiciously mature). Now Invincible releases Wednesdays, so naturally we’ve become a twice weekly streaming and feeding service. He better bring chips.

“The liver is evil and it must be punished” Shit. I must have the most evil liver ever. 😬

@BrentColman @eissyrc @swats24 You post stuff like this and I wonder why we’re friends. 🤦‍♂️ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@eissyrc @TheGrillGeek @swats24 aka the greatest week of swats life.

So……what’s the problem here? Although…any man that smokes a huge slab of meat and doesn’t have beers available either drank them all or is a rookie.

And now time for some beautifully delicious …and also perfectly sloppy… pulled pork sandwiches with my fave mustard based sauce. Always have three on hand for everyone’s tastes. Red. Yellow. Root Beer.

Oh my. A great cook on this shoulder and even done ahead of my ETA, which is weird because usually I’m 1.5/2 hours behind when I think shit will be done. #BBQisReadyWhenItsReady

@swats24 Nope

@TheGrillGeek Ketchup or all dressed?

When 26 was over the other day, he brought us an unreleased and as yet unnamed bag of chips they were able to sample at a meeting. Potentially World Cup branding on it. A very Canadian flavour too. Not too shabby.

@swats24 Well…Dave didn’t eat them and you didn’t show so Kristie decided to send them home with her mom to give to her dad. She gave away my ribs. What. The. Hell.

@TheGrillGeek Dave is a fucking slow walker. Tell him to keep his hands off them ribs

These were …by far… quite possibly the best ribs I’ve ever made. Still could use a couple minor tweaks but…wow. So. Freakin. Good.

@goodbreffis Cooked probably the best ribs I’ve ever done yesterday, and have a pork shoulder on the outdoor oven today. Your cooks this weekend have been off the charts. You inspired me to get myself a bologna chub soon. Very soon. Have a great Sunday!

I love seeing y’all’s bad ass meals. So many great cooks on here.

It’s pork shoulder day! Still thinkin bout last nights ribs though. 🤤

@BrentColman @eissyrc Did twice baked potatoes and a dill pickle salad for last nights ribs. Coleslaw will be tonight for the pulled pork sandwiches.

@eissyrc @TheGrillGeek

@swats24 $0. Just have to get here before the last three ribs are gone. Dave started walking over four minutes ago.

@swats24 Can’t go wrong with the bacons. Cheers friend!

@TheGrillGeek Bacon here

A porky start to spring around here. Tonight will be a couple racks of ribs and tomorrow will be a pork shoulder. Ribs are down on the outdoor oven already.

Gout Gout was at Ipswich Grammar School to play soccer. He had never trained as a sprinter. He was twelve years old, wearing sand shoes, and somebody told him to line up for a race at the school carnival. The kid next to him was wearing spikes. He had won nationals. Gout left him in the dust. His classmate Tyson Walker was in the race too. "Everyone there stopped and watched," Walker recalled. "We had GPS athletics the next week and he broke every record and just didn't stop. He's just kept going faster." A coach named Di Sheppard saw him run that day. She told him he could be an Olympic medalist. He later said it was the first time anyone had ever told him anything like that. He was twelve. He joined her squad and started training twice a week. Here is where the story gets strange. At 14 he ran 10.57 in the 100m, the fastest ever by an Australian under 16. At 15 he broke the national U18 200m record. At 16 he clocked 10.04 in a heat, then 10.17 legal in the final, then woke up the next morning and ran 20.04 in the 200m, breaking Peter Norman's Australian record from the 1968 Olympics. That record had stood for 56 years. Usain Bolt saw the footage, posted a photo, and wrote "He looks like young me." The Bolt comparison is worth sitting with. Bolt didn't race 100 meters professionally until he was 21. His first professional 100m was 10.03. Gout Gout ran 10.00 flat at 18. And his coach still only puts him in the gym two days a week. She's managing the fact that his body is still growing. The power phase of his development hasn't started. He is running these times on stride length and raw top-end speed alone. His parents are Dinka, from South Sudan. They fled to Egypt, then to Australia, two years before he was born. Third of seven children. The family name was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. It was supposed to be Guot. His father has been trying to change it back because "gout" is a disease name. The kid kept running. Brisbane 2032. Home Olympics. He'll be 24, the same age Bolt was when he set the 100m world record in Berlin. Adidas already signed him through that year. The fastest man in Australian history started in sand shoes at a school carnival. Nobody told him to stop.

Great memories and even better friends were made that weekend.

@BrentColman Not if the meat’s done properly.

@TheGrillGeek Ok but you need sides.

Very -very- sad news. Named our ever lovin first born after his character on BtVS.