[sisukid1975]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

And obligatory happy family photo for TUT

Sweet.

That's the one thing I do envy about you who live in FL is the ability to have an awesome fucking garden, one where even my 'chids could be outside for a good part of the year.

[rachel1027]

There was also 4 of these big containers put into the imu.


They contained about 5 pounds of rice, 5 pounds of sugar, and some water. They become rice pudding. Which I can tell you, freshly made still warm is NOM NOM NOM NOM!!

This pic is the other ingredients being added...1 pound of butter, 3 cans of sweetened, condensed milk. Stir until done!

[gladly]

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by rachel1027

Good morning TUT.

I am here and ready to post my turkey day story and pics

























Finally

good morning

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by gladly

Z50 purchase for gladlyson approved!


now I just need to find one

hoping to find one of this generation:

cool, your "son" will have a blast

[rachel1027]

And last but not least...the little monsters


It was a fun time for all. I guess the owner (or part owner) of the company Derek works for does this every year. All the employees and other friends are invited to bring their turkey and whatever else they want to be put into the imu. Nice tradition to have!

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

Now to continue the blasting.

the 80's music or the media blasting?

[gladly]

sparkplug link, looks like they have a couple of cheap 110's, but I think that they might be the bad year
in texas

VROOM!!! - Lone Star Mini's

[rachel1027]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

Oh - wrong emu.





I kill myself

while I was typing I kept wanting to spell it that way

[rachel1027]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

Won't the plastic wanna float away like a hot air balloon?

no. the edges are covered with wet soil. it holds the plastic down pretty well.

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

Oh - wrong emu.





I kill myself

have another glass of wine

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

Holy crap. That's a buncha food in a hot hole.

birds, no less

[rachel1027]

Originally Posted by yooper

rachel that is fucking cool as shit.

Except for that one turkey that is inside of a painted metal box (looks like a portable grill). If it gets hot enough that paint is going to burn off and ruin the rest of the food. Probably didn't get that hot next to the box.

It was one old pan...no wood handles or anything. It came out ok. I think that person has used that before.


It was totally I am glad I got to see it. The stones that are used start out black. You can see how they are white just before the pile-on started. I would be interested to know the temperature in the middle of the pit.

[sisukid1975]

TUT hats have arrived.

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by rachel1027

Then burlap bags that have been soaked with water in these barrels are added over the top of the pile




Then the whole pile is covered with plastic and the edges buried to make sure no heat can escape. Anyplace that had a little steam coming out of it got more dirt piled on it.

what did they use before they had plastic?

[rachel1027]

Originally Posted by thorvald

what did they use before they had plastic?

I wondered that myself. Even the burlap sacks would not have been available.
Details, details...

[rachel1027]

Whew, that was exhausting. I am never going to make a good post whore

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by yooper

there are a couple tree farms around.

We ended up going to a tree lot in town and bought a tree that was grown at the local tree farm. Mrs. yooper thought it was too much trouble to go "all the way out there" and cut one. It's like 5 miles further than the lot we went to.

Tree is in the house and up. I'm going out to hang the 100 feet of garland I bought, then light it...

sweet.
we could buy a tree cheaper than the gas/permit to cut one off the mountain, but it wouldn't be the same. Since I've lived here, I've taken advantage of being able to cut our tree from the wild.

I think the permits are $8, or they were last year.

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

Out..

passed?

[yooper]

Tree and house decorating requires strong drink. Just opened one of the bottles of Framboise I bought at the New Glarus brewery last weekend.


This is the best framboise I've ever had, better than any real Belgian framboise. Probably because it's fresh. And that New Glarus is an amazingly good brewery, maybe my current favorite, definitely my favorite midwest brewery.

$8.75/bottle though (22 oz). There is a pound of raspberries in each bottle. It's dark red, nearly as dark as red wine. Not sweet, quite tart. NOM!

[yooper]

Originally Posted by thorvald

what did they use before they had plastic?

Originally Posted by rachel1027

I wondered that myself. Even the burlap sacks would not have been available.
Details, details...

More leaves I'm sure, just a giant shit load of them, and then probably covered them with dirt.

[rachel1027]

Ok, going to go to the craft fair. BBL.

[gladly]

cool pics and such, rachel!

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by gladly

is that one for sale?


I've seen one's of that vintage going for about $300 or so this summer.

[yooper]

Originally Posted by gladly

sparkplug link, looks like they have a couple of cheap 110's, but I think that they might be the bad year
in texas

VROOM!!! - Lone Star Mini's

they look expensive to me...

[gladly]

Originally Posted by yooper

More leaves I'm sure, just a giant shit load of them, and then probably covered them with dirt.

I endorse this theory

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by rachel1027

And last but not least...the little monsters


It was a fun time for all. I guess the owner (or part owner) of the company Derek works for does this every year. All the employees and other friends are invited to bring their turkey and whatever else they want to be put into the imu. Nice tradition to have!

pics, thanks for sharing them

[gladly]

Originally Posted by thorvald

is that one for sale?


I've seen one's of that vintage going for about $300 or so this summer.

$800 in texas

not sure what they are going for around here

[thorvald]

Originally Posted by rachel1027

I wondered that myself. Even the burlap sacks would not have been available.
Details, details...

it's very cool, I imagine it's a long tradition of cooking that way?

[Jman]

Originally Posted by yooper

did you catch any fish?

Yes. Wound up killing the sea trout, but it wasn't in season, so we sent them all back. The snook, redfish, and snapper were there, but just were not interested in eating, no matter how much chumming we did. The pesky seabird was returned unharmed, minus a piercing in his lower bill. The bird was all "What the fuck, dude?"

Still had a great time. Steve's a great guy, got his friend who knows the Sanibel area to drive up with his boat (and his daughter) to go to his spots. Weather was awesome. We spent a good deal of time searching for bait fish, had to go to a couple different spots, then hit paydirt.

The bay was kind of wiped out from the dump from Okeechobee, full of pesticides and fertilizers, knocked out the sea grass the past two years. Most of the grass was gone.