Filed October 15, 2005 at 12:38 pm under Uncategorized by TJ
Jaymie suprised me a few weeks ago, she came home with a couple of pounds of alligator tail for me. She won’t eat it herself, so I think, since she’s working tonight, I’ll cook it for myself. Here’s a great recipe…
Alligator Nuggets
Clean the alligator. This presumes a lot of prior activity on your part. You have to find the ‘gator, explain his position in the food chain to him, and haul his carcass back to camp. Works up an appetite.
Most people only use the tail, but the other meat is good, too. The best tail meat will come from a 4 – 5 foot gator. A 3-footer wouldn’t be big enough to feed the camp, 6-10 footers tend to put up a bit of a fight, and over 10 foot he’s probably tough and you’ll want to grind the meat up.
1. Chop the meat into nuggets – about 2 inches square
2. Make marinade for soaking – if you are cooking a large amount you can just add to the liquids as you soak more batches.
Marinade
In a large bowl or pot (big enough to soak a good portion of meat in) mix together:
1 beer
1-2 cups of milk
Louisianna Hot Sauce – amount will vary depending on how much beer has found it’s way into the cook. As the evening goes on you may need to label trays of nuggets as “gettin’ warm-ish”, “hot”, “damn hot” and “mmffffpp!” Salt and Pepper
Put the nuggets in the liquid and set in the refrigerator or ice chest to soak for at least 1/4 hour.
3. Heat deep pan of oil
4. Mix breading
Breading
Put the ingredients in a large brown paper or heavy plastic bag. Close the top of the bag and shake to mix ingredients.
Flour – maybe a cup of flour and 1/2 that of corn meal, depending on how much meat you have to coat. You may have to just add to the bag every few batches.
Corn Meal
Seasoning – I like to add “Everglade Seasoning” here, but season it to your taste. It won’t take a lot…remember that Louisanna Hot Sauce?
Salt and Pepper
Take nuggets from the marinade and drop them, a handfull at a time, into the bag and shake to coat them thouroughly.
5. Drop coated nuggets into very hot oil. Cook to a golden brown – should only take a minute – then remove them from the oil and drain on newspapers or paper towels.
Yumm! Put some baked potatoes in the coals of the fire to go along with the nuggets or fry up some hushpuppies. You are ready to eat!
Filed October 7, 2005 at 10:00 pm under Boring Stuff by TJ
So, for the last three nights I’ve had these crazy dreams. I don’t know if it’s the cold medication I am taking, or the Welbutrin I am taking to quit smoking. Regardless, for the last couple of weeks, I’ve had some vivid, detailed, bizarre dreams. Three nights in a row, the common theme has revolved around secret launches of the military space shuttle. I guess West Wing is really having an effect on me. On West Wing, there is an investigation into who leaked the fact the US government has a military space shuttle in Germany (it was CJ). That space shuttle was used to repair the space station.Â
In my dreams, here’s some of the things I’ve learned about the military space shuttles:
1. They are kept in in secret in Germany (West Wing told me that)
2. They have a nuclear reactor to power them.
3. When they launch, they tend to alter time, not watch time, but actually speed up the earths rotation.
4. When they go overhead, the sky looks like rain drops falling in a pond, with the circular ripples. After a few seconds, the sky goes dark with stars going overhead like tracers, like the earth is really spinning fast.
5. When they go overhead, it causes violent storms to happen.
6. They apparently can fly to outer space like an airplane, they don’t have to have rocket boosters to launch them straight up.
Last night, I remember the location was in a little field near a building that housed a bar upstairs and a resturant downstairs. The building looked like an older building, simmilar to the breezeway between the Waterfront and the condos. For people not from this area, it’s a resturant and bar and condos/hotel here on Morse Lake.
People don’t know about these launches, or even of the shuttles themselves. I somehow do know about them though, and I try to explain it to people. When they launch, and the time is skewed, people are pretty disoriented afterwards, though I don’t think they black out or anything like that. They just know something strange happened, and they lost a certain amount of time, and they don’t know why. Everything else is the same though. Last night, apparently in the dream, I convinced Jaymie about these secret launches, as well as the time issues with them.
In last nights dream, when it flew overhead, we were standing in the field near the resturant building, I was watching an airplane (commercial airplane?) fly across the sky. A military jet flys up to the airplane, forcing him to move. I later found out that he had to move, as that was the path of the military space shuttle. After they moved out of the way, they both sped up and shortly after that was when the military space shuttle came screaming across the sky. Lots of noise. Sky goes dark, stars become tracers as the earth is really spinning fast, Jaymie looks at her watch and shouts the time, 7:13. We take off running for the building, and she keeps calling off the time saying “It’s still 7:13″ as we are running. We open a big metal door at the end of the building, and step inside….
At that point in time, I woke up, kind of disoriented and in a daze. I looked at the clock on the dresser and it said 7:13. Strange huh?
I’m not quite so sure how these dreams will end, but they seem to cause me some anxiety in my sleep, though not a nightmare.
Moose thinks I just need to stay out in the field, or wherever I happen to be in the dream, and stay outside and see the situation through…
Regardless, though it’s kind of refreshing to actually remember my dreams, these cause me enough anxiety that I’d rather not have them at all.
Enough babling, this is probably the worse post I have written, grammer wise, though the sheer entertainment value is definetly there to actually see what goes through my head while I’m asleep.
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