THIS is an Angus burger plus a winner of 10 pounds of grass fed beef

Happily I announce that I am the winner of 10 pounds of New Zealand grass fed Angus burgers.

Yup, I went ahead and picked myself, Ha - just kidding YOU ALL win so get me your addresses so I can send you 1.2 ounces of your share of the winnings, Ha - still kidding - you wont find the winner here - but you will find it HERE. What you will see here is how I rocked this beef of beefs, hand cut fries, onion rings and a sesame seed bun - NOW THATS A BURGER!

check me out

Hey there, I am so excited to share this with the world...

Here is a little sample that I posted a couple years ago but wrote many years ago.

tippy toes

Im a vulture wearing english clothes
a night hawk on my tippy toes.
I might be a night time gambler,
killin' when no body knows. I watch
the little chickies peckin' they never
look around- no, no. I scoop to claw
the puffed out breasts, I grab them with
my tippy toes. The big ole rooster dont
see me commin' he never looks around
no no, the mamas cant run fast save them
when I squish em right between my toes.
Now I love to hear the chickies sqwakin, like
to stare em' right between the eyes then I
like to take my big beak pointed and I poke it
in so deep I cry. when the chickie pops fast
I swallow cause I like to keep my feathers
dry. Now I drread to be lookin' backwards
when the knife comes piercin' through the
sky, and I dread to be lookin' backwards
when the poison drips right at my eye, and
I dread to be looking backwards when a
bullet wants to say my grace, and I dread to be
looking backwards when my death is
coming at my face. Now I might be a night
time gambler, walkin' on my tippy toes. I might be a
night hawk vulture takin' right before I go. But I
wont be a road kill loser, lyin' flat between the lines,
if I dont see the plate glass window I hope the
lights dont make me blind. I cant dance away prancin'
-happy on my tippy toes.


copyright cg 20o8/1993

mark my word

Remember this? Well if you dont comment now you wont have another chance because I have to decide who gets the beef...

Oh and DONT leave your comments in the the comments - you have to click the link and leave them there!

Thoughtless. I am often thoughtless and in fact I am sometimes careless and thoughtless and deliberate and that is not a good combination. In honor of my lack of regard here is a contest. Yes, another contest. This time YOU are the winners. Exactly. 1 winner will get 10 pounds of angus burger delivered fresh to your door. You need to be thoughtful,careful and deliberate. Give this picture some meaning. Please dont be careless. Ten Pounds of deliberate are hanging on the line so be thoughtful.

Caption this picture get ten pounds of angus beef burgers, how simple can it be. Send in as many as you want but remember only the best one is going to win and if no one cares and no one wins then I get to eat 10 p0unds of angus burgers - by my self. Think about it. Oh, and I am the only judge! If you want I can announce a winner now and you can try and dethrone them...how ever you want to do it - I am game. Mark my word. 10 days ten pounds ten whatevers one winner! Winners like to win everyone else is collateral damage. Be deliberate and win.

This all the legal stuff that disqualifies most of you so you better read it and ask questions so you win fair and square. He works at marxfoods and he has for many years, this is an actual angus burger in front of him, he has had exotic burgers before - remember he has worked for the business a while - he is a little jaded. Make your answers count. To receive shipment if you are the winner you must have an address in the USA.

stack of jacks - holy cow its a pancake recipe

You see this - its a complicated link to a complicated process to vote for a cheese thing I made.
How do you look like a champion on a Sunday morning? A piled high stack of buttermilk, chia seed and blackberry pancakes certainly cant hurt.

Already delicious buttermilk pancakes get an extra burst and melt in your mouth softness from the addition of chia seeds, but throw in some blackberries and sweet all that is precious do you have yourself a gold medal winner.

Christos Cakes

(recipe may be doubled or tripled or double tripled its up to you)

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

2 tablespoons of white sugar

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1 cup of flour

3/4 cup of buttermilk

1 egg

Chia seeds

Mix all ingredients together add 2 tablespoons of chia seeds.

Ladle batter on to hot griddle and place 3 blackberries in each pancake - cook until golden and serve with hot buttery maple syrup.

Buttery Maple Syrup

1 cup of pure maple syrup

2 tablespoons of melted butter

Mix butter and syrup together and serve hot over pancakes.

How do you like your pancakes? We had applewood bacon and sagey sausage links on the side.

Dont forget the caption contest - you could win 10 pounds of grass fed angus burgers just by being witty!

if there is a bandwagon I'm on it!

Lately if it isnt a contest or something I am not blogging and this post is no different, you cant change horses in the middle of the stream now can you? I am entering another challenge. Marx Foods and the Foodie BlogRoll are teaming up to sponsor the first Iron Foodie challenge! 25 chosen contestants will receive a package of 8 ingredients from Marx Foods' exotic collection of edibles. Then the contestants will have to use 3 of the given ingredients to create a dish that could win $200 in store credit - now how cool does that sound? Jenn and Justin are going to wrestle or something to decide who gets to compete so before the challenge it will be the "Battle of the 'J's"...wish me luck.

1. Why do you want to compete in this challenge?
2. I am so excited to see what the ingredients are going to be that I am doing the unthinkable - I am thinking instead of reacting. I usually let the seasons and the ingredients guide me and then I react but in this instance I am researching recipes from around the globe in preparation. I used to watch the original Iron Chef in Japanese with no subtitles long before the FoodNetwork ever was - I am psyched!
3. 
   
4. Limitations of time/space notwithstanding, whose kitchen would you like to spend the day in & why? Julia Child, Thomas Keller, Ferran Adria, James Beard, Marie-Antoine Careme, or The Swedish Chef?
5. If I have to choose from this list it would have to be Careme but if it could be a mix of Escoffier and Careme then that would be ideal. One is the originator and the other is the orginators best student and as a student myself what better lesson would exist?
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7. What morsel are you most likely to swipe from family & friends’ plates when they aren’t looking?
8. Any thing fried, anything crispy, anything with cheese but if I can make you think its not worth it then anything I can talk you out of and tops on this list would be bone marrow.
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10. Sum your childhood up in one meal.
11. My moms homemade pizza with ground beef. The smell of the dough rising, the ground beef bubbling on the crispy crust with her special sauce and the ultra rich cheesiness of the mozzarella is only the beginning, my mom was frugal and refused to buy things she could make herself so not only was pizza day a big deal but so were the extras she made and put in the freezer so my brother and sister and I could reheat anytime.
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13. The one mainstream food you can’t stand?
14. There really are not too many, if any, things that I cant stand but what does ring my bell is the lemming nature of people. If I have to hear one more "foodie" claim, like they just discovered a new planet, how much bacon rules I might just scream! Throw brussels sprouts in there and I might just scream at you!