Weekend Cooking & Drinking Thread: Easter Edition

[BeastMan]

Who else has a big weekend planned? We?ve got a big family cookout after church Sunday. I?m responsible for dessert. Also, got my son a paw patrol combo. He?s too young but why not start practicing now?

[SpeckleDawg]

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[BeastMan]

We did the big family Easter egg Dye today band tomorrow is the cookout after church. I did a pecan pie bread pudding and a banana pudding. I have to bake off the bread pudding but basically done. I followed the banana pudding recipe in Action Bronson’s new book minus frying the bananas. Next time I’ll do it all the way but my modified recipe today got sampled at work and everybody liked it.

[Political Hack]

Rib roast. It's gonna be awesome.

[SapperDawg]

Sous vide four racks of lamb while at mass. Came home and butchered them into chips. Hot, hot seat on the Weber Go Anywhere, served with some yogurt and dill. Meat lollipops.....needless to say, I have no need for dinner tonight.

[Prediction? Pain.]

Sous vide four racks of lamb while at mass. Came home and butchered them into chips. Hot, hot seat on the Weber Go Anywhere, served with some yogurt and dill. Meat lollipops.....needless to say, I have no need for dinner tonight.

I'm not as good about posting as I was last year, but I don't recall seeing you around for a while. Good to see you back in action, dude.

[Prediction? Pain.]

Did some pork belly "burnt ends" for the first time over the weekend. Did them for my daughter's fifth birthday party. Bunch of pizza, a cheese tray, my brother threw in some smoked wings, I pulled out a sampling of fancy whisky (the two most popular were the Blanton's (shocking, right?) and Compass Box's Great King St. Artist Blend, which is a really solid blended scotch), a smattering of southern beer (Chattanooga (Hutton & Smith), Georgia (Red Hare), and Mississippi (Southern Prohibition)), and an overloaded dessert table on which my wife showed off her crazy cake and cookie skills.

Other than the weather -- 40 degrees and raining; hurrah for late April insanity, I guess -- it was an awesome party.

Burnt ends, before the final braise:

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[SapperDawg]

I'm not as good about posting as I was last year, but I don't recall seeing you around for a while. Good to see you back in action, dude.

It's been an interesting 18 months since getting home. Got a huge promotion at work and put a high focus on spending as much time with the fam as possible. Feel like we are finally getting to steady state on both fronts.

[Prediction? Pain.]

It's been an interesting 18 months since getting home. Got a huge promotion at work and put a high focus on spending as much time with the fam as possible. Feel like we are finally getting to steady state on both fronts.

Good for you, man. Congrats on the promotion and for getting more time with your family. The best advice I got in the first year of my career was that if I chose to have children, I should never give more priority to my job than to spending time with them. Clients come and go. But your children's development from stage to stage is a one-time experience. How true that's proven in the years since we've had our kids. Time with them -- insane little drunken gnomes though they may be -- is pretty damn special.

[Political Hack]

Good for you, man. Congrats on the promotion and for getting more time with your family. The best advice I got in the first year of my career was that if I chose to have children, I should never give more priority to my job than to spending time with them. Clients come and go. But your children's development from stage to stage is a one-time experience. How true that's proven in the years since we've had our kids. Time with them -- insane little drunken gnomes though they may be -- is pretty damn special.

Agree completely. I was working 10-12 hour days and seeing my son only on the weekends when I lived in DC. Walked into my bosses office and told him I'm leaving to move south. Not going to spend my career doing something that doesn't allow me to spend time with my son. My oldest was 6 months old at the time. Now my youngest is 6 years old. Coach both of them in multiple sports and get to spend every afternoon with them playing ball. Wouldn't trade it for anything.