I have been temporarily shutdown at home this past week. I have been having troubles with my dsl connection lately and I finally found the problem this past week. I have a bad modem. The new one is due to arrive either Saturday, if UPS delivers on Saturday, or next Tuesday.
Since I can't do my normal Sunday Dinner Episodes I will probably do 2 back to back next week to get caught up.
As far as football predictions let's just say the Lions will lose, I think that will be a safe bet.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Saturday Recap - How Long Before Hockey Starts?
It was a rough day on Saturday for my football team. They looked like a young team again trying to find their way. I expected these kinds of days this year because Michigan is so young on offense but this game was lost by the big plays the defense gave up yesterday. Oh well what are you going to do? I look forward to watching them again next week. At least there is hope for them right now I am watching the Lions and the score is 31-7 in favor of the Bears.
What a joke.
Again I didn't watch Notre Dame play but they must of had a good first half. It looks like Sarah will have a bowl game to go to this year.
As far as Michigan State is concerned their defense won the game yesterday. Just as I thought if you can stop Ringer you have a chance to beat them. Ringer didn't have a great day yesterday and MSU only scored 16 points. As more teams figure out how to stop Ringer MSU will start to struggle to win games.
Michigan Tech had a good afternoon. Once again here is the article from the MTU website:
"HUSKIES BITE NO. 25 BULLDOGS FOR 21-7 HOMECOMING WIN
Written by: Michigan Tech
Release: 10/04/2008
HOUGHTON, Mich. — Phil Milbrath rushed for a career-high 202 yards and Michigan Tech’s defense came oh-so-close to a shutout in a 21-7 Homecoming win over No. 25 Ferris State at Sherman Field this afternoon. The seventh-largest crowd in school history of 2,989 saw the Huskies outgain the Bulldogs 389-240 in total yards to improve to 4-2 overall and 3-2 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Tech held possession of the ball for more than 37 of the game’s 60 minutes. Nearly 10 minutes of that possession time came during the only scoring drive of the first half. The Black and Gold started on their 14 yard line and ran off 18 plays before Milbrath tallied his 13th touchdown of the season on a six-yard run.
The score was 7-0 at halftime, and game remained a field position battle until early in the fourth quarter. Ferris State downed a punt at the one-yard line to pin the Huskies back.
Quarterback Steve Short then guided the hosts on a 99-yard drive to paydirt. A 46-yard pass to Bobby Slowik was the key play on the drive before Short sprinted inside the right pylon for a 14-0 lead.
After Tech’s Ben Foelker intercepted his first career pass on FSU’s ensuing possession, Milbrath put the game away with a 52-yard run.
Ferris pulled starting quarterback Tom Schneider in favor of Kyle Parrish on the Bulldogs’s final drive of the game. It paid off as Parrish found Rahseem Jones-Salaam for a 30-yard touchdown pass with 34 seconds remaining.
“Our defense played really well today,” said head coach Tom Kearly. “They maybe deserved to get the shutout. To hold the No. 25 team in the country off the scoreboard until under a minute to play was big.”
The Tech defense allowed just 13 first downs and only 100 yards passing in the game. Junior safety David Carmody led the defense with 10 total tackles. Senior linebacker Sean Spellman tallied eight tackles.
Milbrath’s 200-yard performance was the first of his career and boosted his season total to 806 yards. The sophomore, who entered the game as the GLIAC’s leading scorer, added two touchdowns to run his season total to 14 TDs.
Short finished 11-of-18 for 130 yards passing. His favorite target was Keith White, who snared four balls for 44 yards.
“Steve managed the game well once again. We took what the defense was giving us, which was a normal box and extra coverage downfield. The running game was there all day, and Phil was a real workhorse today.”
Michigan Tech improved to 3-1 at home this season and 10-2 in its last 12 games at Sherman Field.
The Huskies will travel to Findlay next Saturday (Oct. 11) for a noon kickoff.
Notes: Tech has won six straight games over Ferris State including last year's Homecoming contest. The Huskies have won six consecutive Homecoming games overall ... The Huskies were 34 seconds away from their first shutout since Nov. 11, 2000, a 34-0 win over Findlay."
A least one of my teams are doing good this year.
Here is this weeks top 5 and I am sure it will change by next week.
This weeks top 5:
1. Oklahoma
2. Missouri
3. Alabama
4. LSU
5. Texas
I moved Missouri to No. 2 because they were impressive and Alabama only had a so so game other than that no other changes this week. Look for changes next week because Texas and Oklahoma play each other.
My Heisman is as follows:
Max Hall - Brigham Young University - Quarterback
Tim Tebow - Florida - Quarterback
Chase Danials - Missouri - Quarterback
Sam Bradford - Oklahoma - Quarterback
Javon Ringer - MSU - Running Back
Colt McCoy - Texas - Quarterback
If you don't know already we had visitors this weekend. Mom and her friend Helen Grass stayed for the weekend. Now I have to ask how many of you out there have ever had your second grade teacher over for a weekend? Mrs. Grass, as she was known way back when, was my second grade teacher. She even taught me a couple of things this weekend. She knew what kind of pear tree we had in our yard and explained what the pears are good for. She took some home with her and she is making some pear relish. I am looking forward to trying some of her pear relish.
With visitors comes some responsibility to entertain. What do you do to entertain to senior citizens? Well apparently not much, all they wanted to do was take a drive and see the diary farms in the area. One of the impressive things in this area are the farms. They are taken care of with many of the old barns still standing and still in use. They also wanted to see the wind generators in the area. You see we have lots of wind generators for producing electricity around us. The last I knew there were more than 200 in this area.
This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago from atop of a cheese plant. This is a small sampling of the wind generators in the area.
Our first stop of the day though was at the local farmers market to pick up our produce for the weekend.
We also took a trip to the cheese factory, at least that's what we call it. The real name is Cedar Valley Cheese. It is an actual cheese factory with a store in the front. We all spent way to much money in there it's not hard to do if you like cheese.
After that we bought some groceries for out Saturday night meal. Even though I was doing the cooking I wanted to cook something on the grill. I wanted them to choose but they left it up to me and if you leave it up to me this is what you will get stuck with.
And if that isn't good enough for you you will also get stuck with some of this.
Mom bought some beets and roasted them. Once everything was on the table this is what it looked like.
How do you like that kids? This is the best meal I have had in a long time. Did you take a good look in the upper left corner of the table? What is it? Could it be? Want a closer look? Here you go.
Not quite sure yet? Want a better look?
Oh yeah red cake. It don't get no better than that. What a great way to top off a great meal.
Normally on Sunday mornings I will just have some eggs and toast but since we had company I normally make something different like pancakes and eggs. The last time mom was here I must have mentioned the french toast I make whenever Amy is here. She asked me to make it because she wanted to try it. This isn't just any french toast this is................
.........Banana Stuffed French Toast.
Ohh this is good stuff especially if you have homemade maple syrup to go with it.
With breakfast being done the women packed up and left for Door County here in Wisconsin.
It was nice having visitors here for the weekend since we don't get to many around here. What isn't nice is the Lions just lost 34-7. Maybe they will fire someone else this week.
What a joke.
Again I didn't watch Notre Dame play but they must of had a good first half. It looks like Sarah will have a bowl game to go to this year.
As far as Michigan State is concerned their defense won the game yesterday. Just as I thought if you can stop Ringer you have a chance to beat them. Ringer didn't have a great day yesterday and MSU only scored 16 points. As more teams figure out how to stop Ringer MSU will start to struggle to win games.
Michigan Tech had a good afternoon. Once again here is the article from the MTU website:
"HUSKIES BITE NO. 25 BULLDOGS FOR 21-7 HOMECOMING WIN
Written by: Michigan Tech
Release: 10/04/2008
HOUGHTON, Mich. — Phil Milbrath rushed for a career-high 202 yards and Michigan Tech’s defense came oh-so-close to a shutout in a 21-7 Homecoming win over No. 25 Ferris State at Sherman Field this afternoon. The seventh-largest crowd in school history of 2,989 saw the Huskies outgain the Bulldogs 389-240 in total yards to improve to 4-2 overall and 3-2 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Tech held possession of the ball for more than 37 of the game’s 60 minutes. Nearly 10 minutes of that possession time came during the only scoring drive of the first half. The Black and Gold started on their 14 yard line and ran off 18 plays before Milbrath tallied his 13th touchdown of the season on a six-yard run.
The score was 7-0 at halftime, and game remained a field position battle until early in the fourth quarter. Ferris State downed a punt at the one-yard line to pin the Huskies back.
Quarterback Steve Short then guided the hosts on a 99-yard drive to paydirt. A 46-yard pass to Bobby Slowik was the key play on the drive before Short sprinted inside the right pylon for a 14-0 lead.
After Tech’s Ben Foelker intercepted his first career pass on FSU’s ensuing possession, Milbrath put the game away with a 52-yard run.
Ferris pulled starting quarterback Tom Schneider in favor of Kyle Parrish on the Bulldogs’s final drive of the game. It paid off as Parrish found Rahseem Jones-Salaam for a 30-yard touchdown pass with 34 seconds remaining.
“Our defense played really well today,” said head coach Tom Kearly. “They maybe deserved to get the shutout. To hold the No. 25 team in the country off the scoreboard until under a minute to play was big.”
The Tech defense allowed just 13 first downs and only 100 yards passing in the game. Junior safety David Carmody led the defense with 10 total tackles. Senior linebacker Sean Spellman tallied eight tackles.
Milbrath’s 200-yard performance was the first of his career and boosted his season total to 806 yards. The sophomore, who entered the game as the GLIAC’s leading scorer, added two touchdowns to run his season total to 14 TDs.
Short finished 11-of-18 for 130 yards passing. His favorite target was Keith White, who snared four balls for 44 yards.
“Steve managed the game well once again. We took what the defense was giving us, which was a normal box and extra coverage downfield. The running game was there all day, and Phil was a real workhorse today.”
Michigan Tech improved to 3-1 at home this season and 10-2 in its last 12 games at Sherman Field.
The Huskies will travel to Findlay next Saturday (Oct. 11) for a noon kickoff.
Notes: Tech has won six straight games over Ferris State including last year's Homecoming contest. The Huskies have won six consecutive Homecoming games overall ... The Huskies were 34 seconds away from their first shutout since Nov. 11, 2000, a 34-0 win over Findlay."
A least one of my teams are doing good this year.
Here is this weeks top 5 and I am sure it will change by next week.
This weeks top 5:
1. Oklahoma
2. Missouri
3. Alabama
4. LSU
5. Texas
I moved Missouri to No. 2 because they were impressive and Alabama only had a so so game other than that no other changes this week. Look for changes next week because Texas and Oklahoma play each other.
My Heisman is as follows:
Max Hall - Brigham Young University - Quarterback
Tim Tebow - Florida - Quarterback
Chase Danials - Missouri - Quarterback
Sam Bradford - Oklahoma - Quarterback
Javon Ringer - MSU - Running Back
Colt McCoy - Texas - Quarterback
If you don't know already we had visitors this weekend. Mom and her friend Helen Grass stayed for the weekend. Now I have to ask how many of you out there have ever had your second grade teacher over for a weekend? Mrs. Grass, as she was known way back when, was my second grade teacher. She even taught me a couple of things this weekend. She knew what kind of pear tree we had in our yard and explained what the pears are good for. She took some home with her and she is making some pear relish. I am looking forward to trying some of her pear relish.
With visitors comes some responsibility to entertain. What do you do to entertain to senior citizens? Well apparently not much, all they wanted to do was take a drive and see the diary farms in the area. One of the impressive things in this area are the farms. They are taken care of with many of the old barns still standing and still in use. They also wanted to see the wind generators in the area. You see we have lots of wind generators for producing electricity around us. The last I knew there were more than 200 in this area.
This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago from atop of a cheese plant. This is a small sampling of the wind generators in the area.
Our first stop of the day though was at the local farmers market to pick up our produce for the weekend.
We also took a trip to the cheese factory, at least that's what we call it. The real name is Cedar Valley Cheese. It is an actual cheese factory with a store in the front. We all spent way to much money in there it's not hard to do if you like cheese.
After that we bought some groceries for out Saturday night meal. Even though I was doing the cooking I wanted to cook something on the grill. I wanted them to choose but they left it up to me and if you leave it up to me this is what you will get stuck with.
And if that isn't good enough for you you will also get stuck with some of this.
Mom bought some beets and roasted them. Once everything was on the table this is what it looked like.
How do you like that kids? This is the best meal I have had in a long time. Did you take a good look in the upper left corner of the table? What is it? Could it be? Want a closer look? Here you go.
Not quite sure yet? Want a better look?
Oh yeah red cake. It don't get no better than that. What a great way to top off a great meal.
Normally on Sunday mornings I will just have some eggs and toast but since we had company I normally make something different like pancakes and eggs. The last time mom was here I must have mentioned the french toast I make whenever Amy is here. She asked me to make it because she wanted to try it. This isn't just any french toast this is................
.........Banana Stuffed French Toast.
Ohh this is good stuff especially if you have homemade maple syrup to go with it.
With breakfast being done the women packed up and left for Door County here in Wisconsin.
It was nice having visitors here for the weekend since we don't get to many around here. What isn't nice is the Lions just lost 34-7. Maybe they will fire someone else this week.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Sunday Dinner - 28 September 2008
Okay so I'm running a little late this week, again. I've been getting home at night and been a little lazy this week. I have no real excuse its not like I have been overly busy at work this week. It's just one of those lazy weeks. Maybe reading about the 49 mile bike journey wore me out. I guess I'm not sure but that's my story for now and I's sticking to it.
This weeks Sunday Dinner Episode isn't about any great ideas I came up with this week or about any inspiring cooking shows I watched this week. Nope this weeks Sunday Dinner comes from the freezer. You see I am trying to clean out the freezer right now so we can start to load it up again this fall with soups and gumbos. By having soups and gumbos at your fingertips in the freezer you always have something to eat on those lazy days. I know, I know my freezer isn't big enough right now for those lazy days.
Enough about that let's get on with this weeks Sunday Episode. Let me introduce you to this weeks episode.
Barbecue pork with cole slaw. One of my favorite meals of all time. If you slow cook the pork butt (I'm not sure why it is call a pork butt since it comes from the front shoulder of the pig)it will turn out nice and moist and some of the most favorable meat you can eat. Mmmm I love the stuff.
This weeks cast of characters includes the following.
Pretty simple really. First thing we must do is make up a rub for the pork butt. To do this simply dump a few ingredients into a bowl and mix them up.
There are so many different rubs out there you can buy or like me you can make your own. The most important thing to remember is use what you like and like what you use. I think we have heard that before eh?
The idea of a rub is to just what the name implies, rub it all over the meat. Pretty obvious huh? After the rub is rubbed all over to your liking it's time to go to the grill.
As you can see I have added a pan of apple juice, water and some left over white wine I had. Why the white wine? Because like I said it was left over and why not use it up.
While the pork is cooking away its time to make up some cole slaw. Normally I will just buy the jarred stuff off the shelf buy today I decided to make my own. As you can see it pretty simple ingredients.
Let's check in on the pork butt.
Mmm, looking good. I did try one thing different with this pork butt. Normally I would cook the pork butt for 10-12 hours on the smoker somewhere between 200-225 degrees. I have read a couple of recipes lately that said to cook the pork from 300-350 degrees and it will cut the cooking time in half. I decided to try it to see if there was any difference or not and see if cooking the pork butt is worth the extra 4 hours or so.
Let's take a look at the finished product.
What do you think? Can you tell I cooked it in half the time? Well to be honest it looks good and it tasted good but, but it isn't as good as cooking it for 10-12 hours. It was lacking some good smokey flavor I can get when it cooks for 10-12 hours. I will give it a 4 out of 5 forks this time, good but not excellent.
To be honest though it did come out good enough to do it again. When the time doesn't permit and I am feeling like bbq pork I will definitely do this again.
Oh should I mention the bonus of cooking a whole pork butt? Just in case I didn't I will now, with the leftovers you can make bbq pork pizza. Take a look.
Good stuff.
This weeks Sunday Dinner Episode isn't about any great ideas I came up with this week or about any inspiring cooking shows I watched this week. Nope this weeks Sunday Dinner comes from the freezer. You see I am trying to clean out the freezer right now so we can start to load it up again this fall with soups and gumbos. By having soups and gumbos at your fingertips in the freezer you always have something to eat on those lazy days. I know, I know my freezer isn't big enough right now for those lazy days.
Enough about that let's get on with this weeks Sunday Episode. Let me introduce you to this weeks episode.
Barbecue pork with cole slaw. One of my favorite meals of all time. If you slow cook the pork butt (I'm not sure why it is call a pork butt since it comes from the front shoulder of the pig)it will turn out nice and moist and some of the most favorable meat you can eat. Mmmm I love the stuff.
This weeks cast of characters includes the following.
Pretty simple really. First thing we must do is make up a rub for the pork butt. To do this simply dump a few ingredients into a bowl and mix them up.
There are so many different rubs out there you can buy or like me you can make your own. The most important thing to remember is use what you like and like what you use. I think we have heard that before eh?
The idea of a rub is to just what the name implies, rub it all over the meat. Pretty obvious huh? After the rub is rubbed all over to your liking it's time to go to the grill.
As you can see I have added a pan of apple juice, water and some left over white wine I had. Why the white wine? Because like I said it was left over and why not use it up.
While the pork is cooking away its time to make up some cole slaw. Normally I will just buy the jarred stuff off the shelf buy today I decided to make my own. As you can see it pretty simple ingredients.
Let's check in on the pork butt.
Mmm, looking good. I did try one thing different with this pork butt. Normally I would cook the pork butt for 10-12 hours on the smoker somewhere between 200-225 degrees. I have read a couple of recipes lately that said to cook the pork from 300-350 degrees and it will cut the cooking time in half. I decided to try it to see if there was any difference or not and see if cooking the pork butt is worth the extra 4 hours or so.
Let's take a look at the finished product.
What do you think? Can you tell I cooked it in half the time? Well to be honest it looks good and it tasted good but, but it isn't as good as cooking it for 10-12 hours. It was lacking some good smokey flavor I can get when it cooks for 10-12 hours. I will give it a 4 out of 5 forks this time, good but not excellent.
To be honest though it did come out good enough to do it again. When the time doesn't permit and I am feeling like bbq pork I will definitely do this again.
Oh should I mention the bonus of cooking a whole pork butt? Just in case I didn't I will now, with the leftovers you can make bbq pork pizza. Take a look.
Good stuff.
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