[quote]JoeGood wrote:
One day JW we are going to have to get all of the Down South T-Nationers together and argue about BBQ.
Good work on the complexes, I hope the DOM’s aren’t horrible.[/quote]
I’m up for that Joe. Got 2 great Eastern NC BBQ joints within an hour’s drive of the house and one about 2 hours away! You know those of us in NC cant agree on eastern style or Lexington style…
You’re still the reigning Complex King in my book.
Jack and kpsnap, I’m sure trying i gotta lot of strong people to keep up with… like the 2 of you.
Thank you Harry. All I can say is thank you.
OG, I dont know about steel, I’m just not very bright at times… Well all the time!!
Steve, Thanks, but I’m the king of not much these days!!
Dateline: Wed, 4:24 am
Flat DB press: 3x85x8
Hammer incline: 3x80x8
Hammer wide chest: 3x80x8
OH Triceps ext: 3x140x10
Triceps push down:3x120x10
Today I was going for the fast chest day. Its the first time in 2 weeks I sort of lifting (complexes don’t count in my book as lifting). Of course today wasn’t much of a workout. Hopefully Saturday Morning I can start a more intense training day. Tomorrow I’m gonna do some back work. Something fast and kinda dirty. Who knows… Maybe I should powerclean or something…
JW’s Morning thought: Why does it disturb me that a restaurant named The Krusty Krab is located in Bikini Bottom?
You had to say fast and dirty. I hope there will be video.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
You had to say fast and dirty. I hope there will be video.[/quote]
The video would be amazingly underwhelming…
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
You had to say fast and dirty. I hope there will be video.[/quote]
The video would be amazingly underwhelming…[/quote]
The first 25 seconds would be amazing I bet.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
You had to say fast and dirty. I hope there will be video.[/quote]
The video would be amazingly underwhelming…[/quote]
The first 25 seconds would be amazing I bet.[/quote]
HAHA 25 seconds is about all I have anyway…
Missed my training day today. The daughter had us up all night and the 4 am alarm went and passed with my head against the pillow… Dammit I’m getting fatter and weaker. This shit is going to change!!
Speaking of getting fatter, Joe’s great Southern BBQ debate made me have these thoughts about some Southern foods that only a Southerner would understand. So I’m going to enlighten you northerners and westerners… Here you go:
Fried Okra :
With its interior slime, okra is the oyster of vegetables. Thereâ??s also the matter of those sizable, beady seeds that pop when bitten. Oh, and the furry exterior. This sounds dreadful, I know, but when these pods are sliced, breaded and dunked into the deep fryer, the result is addictive.
Barbecue
Around here, barbecue is a noun. I recommend eastern North Carolina-style pork barbecue â?? smoked, pulled or chopped. Pile it high and top it with coleslaw on a plain old hamburger bun. It seems that every region has its own style, but the vinegar-and-pepper doused Eastern Carolina variety is the best.
SSSHHHHH don’t tell this secret…A BBQ joint probably is good if you spot a smoker or smokehouse out back.
Salted peanuts in a Pepsi
It sounds dangerous now… dumping peanuts into a glass bottle of soda and swigging it down â?? like maybe you’d choke on a peanut. But back when we slurped water from garden hoses and rode bikes without helmets, it was something our mothers let us do. Iâ??d guess that the whole thing got started when some snacker felt too hot to do the two-step of putting peanuts in his mouth and then lifting the bottle of soda to his lips. Whatever. Dumping a bag of salted peanuts directly into a bottle of Pepsi, Coca-Cola… or RC Cola (for you cats in the Deep South)…is inspired in a low-rent sort of way. So many sensations are at work here: sweet, salty, crunchy, cold, carbonation.
Tip: This is best in a glass bottle, and be sure the peanuts are salted
Sweet potato and country ham biscuits
A little sweet, a little salt. A little heaven. The Eastern Shore of Virginia once was the nation’s premier grower of sweet potatoes, and these biscuits have been a Southern staple for centuries. At a local restaurant, owners age local sweet potatoes for three months before mashing them into biscuit dough. And they shred the salty, Smithfield ham rather than slicing it thin.
Steamed blue crabs or fried soft-shell crabs
Try one or the other; take your pick. Sometimes in the summertime, we have crab pickings. That’s when you get a mess of steamed crabs, cover the picnic table with newspapers, set out rolls of paper towels and crack open the shells to get at the sweet meat inside. (I have a 12" piece of wooden closet rod… No silly mallets for me) It’s a social thing that can’t be hurried, and you’ll likely never be Thanksgiving full. It takes a bit of practice to be able to gloat over a thumb-sized piece of meat pulled from the backfin. .
Sweet tea
Don’t let dieting deprive you of this experience. Once, just once, order sweet tea at a restaurant. It should arrive clear and served over ice with a super-sweet, clean tea taste. A true refreshment. Get sweet tea just about anywhere, but be sure to ask whether it’s fresh brewed. If not, it will taste like envelope glue.
Shrimp and grits
North Carolinians may not have invented this dish; we cede that honor to South Carolina… but plenty of local cooks can make tasty plates of this Southern treat. Do not fear grits; they’re nothing more than ground grain, such as corn, boiled into a porridge like consistency. Grits are flat-out comfort food at breakfast, and topped with bacon and cheese and shrimp, they’re a satisfying dinner.
Fried green tomatoes
Even if I didn’t have tons of tomatoes in the summertime, I’d still fetch a few for frying.
Mmmmm. I just got hungry and a little homesick. Thanks for the post.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Missed my training day today. The daughter had us up all night and the 4 am alarm went and passed with my head against the pillow… Dammit I’m getting fatter and weaker. This shit is going to change!!
Speaking of getting fatter, Joe’s great Southern BBQ debate made me have these thoughts about some Southern foods that only a Southerner would understand. So I’m going to enlighten you northerners and westerners… Here you go:
Fried Okra :
With its interior slime, okra is the oyster of vegetables. There�¢??s also the matter of those sizable, beady seeds that pop when bitten. Oh, and the furry exterior. This sounds dreadful, I know, but when these pods are sliced, breaded and dunked into the deep fryer, the result is addictive.[/quote]
A gift from above. Had some from my garden, just this past weekend.
[quote]Barbecue
Around here, barbecue is a noun. I recommend eastern North Carolina-style pork barbecue �¢?? smoked, pulled or chopped. Pile it high and top it with coleslaw on a plain old hamburger bun. It seems that every region has its own style, but the vinegar-and-pepper doused Eastern Carolina variety is the best.
SSSHHHHH don’t tell this secret…A BBQ joint probably is good if you spot a smoker or smokehouse out back. [/quote]
I like all sorts of sauces…sweet, vinegar, hot. Good stuff. And, yes, gotta be pork and smoked (not boiled). Mmmmmmm…
[quote]Salted peanuts in a Pepsi
It sounds dangerous now… dumping peanuts into a glass bottle of soda and swigging it down Ã?¢?? like maybe you’d choke on a peanut. But back when we slurped water from garden hoses and rode bikes without helmets, it was something our mothers let us do. IÃ?¢??d guess that the whole thing got started when some snacker felt too hot to do the two-step of putting peanuts in his mouth and then lifting the bottle of soda to his lips. Whatever. Dumping a bag of salted peanuts directly into a bottle of Pepsi, Coca-Cola… or RC Cola (for you cats in the Deep South)…is inspired in a low-rent sort of way. So many sensations are at work here: sweet, salty, crunchy, cold, carbonation.
Tip: This is best in a glass bottle, and be sure the peanuts are salted[/quote]
Also worth noting…no cola tastes right coming out of a plastic bottle. It compromises the integrity of the beverage. That being said, RC is affected far more than the other 2. It is down right distasteful, out of plastic.
[quote]Sweet potato and country ham biscuits
A little sweet, a little salt. A little heaven. The Eastern Shore of Virginia once was the nation’s premier grower of sweet potatoes, and these biscuits have been a Southern staple for centuries. At a local restaurant, owners age local sweet potatoes for three months before mashing them into biscuit dough. And they shred the salty, Smithfield ham rather than slicing it thin.
Steamed blue crabs or fried soft-shell crabs
Try one or the other; take your pick. Sometimes in the summertime, we have crab pickings. That’s when you get a mess of steamed crabs, cover the picnic table with newspapers, set out rolls of paper towels and crack open the shells to get at the sweet meat inside. (I have a 12" piece of wooden closet rod… No silly mallets for me) It’s a social thing that can’t be hurried, and you’ll likely never be Thanksgiving full. It takes a bit of practice to be able to gloat over a thumb-sized piece of meat pulled from the backfin. .
Sweet tea
Don’t let dieting deprive you of this experience. Once, just once, order sweet tea at a restaurant. It should arrive clear and served over ice with a super-sweet, clean tea taste. A true refreshment. Get sweet tea just about anywhere, but be sure to ask whether it’s fresh brewed. If not, it will taste like envelope glue.[/quote]
And the sugar has to be added while hot/brewing. You can not add sugar/sweetener to already iced tea and even be in the same ballpark. Proper sweet tea should ALMOST seem like it is syrupy, while still going down smoothly, like water.
[quote]Shrimp and grits
North Carolinians may not have invented this dish; we cede that honor to South Carolina… but plenty of local cooks can make tasty plates of this Southern treat. Do not fear grits; they’re nothing more than ground grain, such as corn, boiled into a porridge like consistency. Grits are flat-out comfort food at breakfast, and topped with bacon and cheese and shrimp, they’re a satisfying dinner.[/quote]
Has there ever been a bad grits based dish?
[quote]Fried green tomatoes
Even if I didn’t have tons of tomatoes in the summertime, I’d still fetch a few for frying.
[/quote]
Boiled Peanuts! You forgot boiled peanuts!
The key for non-southerners (the uncivilized masses) is to boil them just enough to get the briny goodness into them, but not so much that they get to the consistency of an English pea. There needs to be some resistance and texture, when biting into them.
As a GA boy, you can boil them into mush and I am just as happy.
Good stuff, Wilson. I might have to go home and make some sweet tea. I already have the boiled peanuts…
Your log is so entertaining. I have a serious addiction to pickled okra. Damn, they’re good. And Strick is right about the boiled peanuts. I remember having those when I used to visit Georgia as a girl. BTW, I’m was raised a northerner.
Peanuts in a bottle of R-o-C Cola, dammit. Even better if you south enough, Double Cola. Got two BBQ shacks within a mile of my place. I’d be long gone with out the sweet tea. Must get or am offered 20 glasses a day on the route. Wife and I have the same arguemnt every year. I’ll be waiting for the maters to start an turn red, go out to the bushes, gone. She loves them fried green. She is from the southern Philippines. Hominy grits are best. I’m gonna forgive you for leavin of Cajun foods. It can only be truly appreciated when accompanied by the sweet sounds of the zydeco music. la vie est bon mangeant, bonne musique, et bonnes femmes! Oh, you done went an got me ta started now, ami.
Sorry about that Jack. I didn’t mean to make you feel homesick.
Skip, While we grow a boatload of peanuts up here everyone eats them roasted… I’ve only recently developed a taste for the boiled ones.
kpsnap, pickled okra isn’t a dish, its an art… I have had a lot of bad and not many good ones… kinda like a watermelon rhine pickle.
Harry, In my mind Cajun food is something that transcends southern food. Its something all to itself and as a non Cajun I’m not worthy of commenting.
Dateline Friday 4:25 am
Complex day
Barbell complexes 5 sets 5 reps each
SLDL, high pulls, bent rows with 135 lbs, MP with 65 lbs, squats in the Smith with 185 lbs. I had me a regular torture chamber set up this morning! I think I’m going to add some sets and a trip on the treadmill. My britches are getting tight and I’m not liking how I feel with the extra poundage on my ass! Hope i get to do some benching tomorrow.
JW’s morning quote of idiocy: I smell the smelly smell of something that smells smelly…
aint never had no cajun food, 'cept for i sucked the heads of crawdads oncet. i could use some good eatin good wimmins and good music.
hey, does Corrosion of Conformity count as bonne musique? those guys are awesome…
back to Willy, I envy your ability to get the complexes. I can never stay consistent with them.
I had some BBQ from ‘Famous Daves’ in Manchester,NH. Is that the same as down south?? (now waiting to get my ass kicked)
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Sorry about that Jack. I didn’t mean to make you feel homesick.
Skip, While we grow a boatload of peanuts up here everyone eats them roasted… I’ve only recently developed a taste for the boiled ones.
kpsnap, pickled okra isn’t a dish, its an art… I have had a lot of bad and not many good ones… kinda like a watermelon rhine pickle.
Harry, In my mind Cajun food is something that transcends southern food. Its something all to itself and as a non Cajun I’m not worthy of commenting.
Dateline Friday 4:25 am
Complex day
Barbell complexes 5 sets 5 reps each
SLDL, high pulls, bent rows with 135 lbs, MP with 65 lbs, squats in the Smith with 185 lbs. I had me a regular torture chamber set up this morning! I think I’m going to add some sets and a trip on the treadmill. My britches are getting tight and I’m not liking how I feel with the extra poundage on my ass! Hope i get to do some benching tomorrow.
JW’s morning quote of idiocy: I smell the smelly smell of something that smells smelly…[/quote]
What? Roasted, not boiled?? Wow! I don’t know what to say. I’m feeling kind of sick…
I know you are closer to the line between heaven and hades, but still…lol.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
I had some BBQ from ‘Famous Daves’ in Manchester,NH. Is that the same as down south?? (now waiting to get my ass kicked)[/quote]
There is always the chance. I mean, in theory, Hell COULD freeze 
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
I had some BBQ from ‘Famous Daves’ in Manchester,NH. Is that the same as down south?? (now waiting to get my ass kicked)[/quote]
There is always the chance. I mean, in theory, Hell COULD freeze :)[/quote]
HAHAHA X2!! The deal is for you notherners barbecue is a verb first…
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
JW’s morning quote of idiocy: I smell the smelly smell of something that smells smelly…[/quote]
What? Roasted, not boiled?? Wow! I don’t know what to say. I’m feeling kind of sick…
I know you are closer to the line between heaven and hades, but still…lol.[/quote]
Hey Skip dont bust my chops. I’m from the area where Amedeo Obici founded Planters Nut Company. They didnt do no boilt Peanuts! Mr Obici kept a whole lot of farmers in business down here!
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
JW’s morning quote of idiocy: I smell the smelly smell of something that smells smelly…[/quote]
What? Roasted, not boiled?? Wow! I don’t know what to say. I’m feeling kind of sick…
I know you are closer to the line between heaven and hades, but still…lol.[/quote]
Hey Skip dont bust my chops. I’m from the area where Amedeo Obici founded Planters Nut Company. They didnt do no boilt Peanuts! Mr Obici kept a whole lot of farmers in business down here![/quote]
Lol…I’m just giving you grief. I like roasted peanuts…just not as much. And, honestly, I was 14 the 1st I tasted a roasted peanut. Well, besides chocolate covered or in M&Ms. Dunking a roasted peanut in chocolate was pure genius!!