Thinking Deep

As of the the 16th of July, I have been employed at Probation for 13 years.  That is a long stinking time of listening to criminals complain about why it isn't there fault and rationalizing how their lives would be better if they did not live in Kankakee.  Honestly, my life would be different and better if they did not live in Kankakee. That is beside the point, though.  After all of this time it seems that all I do is think about food. Not thinking about food as if I am hungry and just want something to eat. I have been thinking about food in the context of what I want to fix or where good places for restaurants would be, or what type of restaurant would do well in Kankakee.  When I daydream I constantly think about these types of things.  I will think in great detail how the restaurant would run, definitely what the menu consists of and any other detail. 

I need to figure out how I can turn my obsession with food into more than just day dream fodder.  I may have to blog the menu to my latest restaurant fantasy.  I still have a little work to do on the imaginary menu but I think it would work well in the Kankakee area.  Maybe I will share that sometime soon.

Emy's Birthday BBQ

We had Emy's second birthday party this last weekend. Since it was the summer, I, of course had to smoke something and have "real" bbq for her party. I woke up at 4:30 am and had the two pork butts in the smoke at 5:15 am. My ultimate goal was to keep them on for a full 12 hours and be able to pull that bone out of the meat with nary a bit of it stuck. I came close to fulfilling my goal and this was by far the best pork butt that I have ever done. I had the two butts on for 11 hours and let them rest for 45 minutes. I grabbed the bone and it slid right out!! This happened on both of the butts. There was no problem in pulling the pork either. It just fell apart. The pork was so tender there was definitely no need for the toothpicks. Two types of sauce, mustard and tomato based. The only thing I would do differently is to keep the smoke going a little longer before I stop adding the wood chips.

This definitely has me jacked up to do some ribs. And soon!