Grillin'

After arriving home on Tuesday, I changed clothes and got to work. First, I watered all the container gardens. Two more of the hanging plants are starting to look bad. Amazingly, the pansies in the mailbox garden still look pretty good.

Next I set out the square sprinkler in the raised bed garden for 30 minutes. When I was out there, my neighbors both thanked me for the homemade salsa. But, they did say it was a little too hot for them, so they added 12 of their own tomatoes to the mix to cut it a bit.

I got some newspaper and began to light the coals for the grille. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong (as I always do it wrong) but it took like three separate sheets to get the charcoal lit.

Before I had settled on the Sunday Night dinner of an Asian broccoli stir fry, I had thawed out a sirloin steak. This is like getting down to the nitty-gritty of the 1/8 cow I bought last fall (with Jake and Carla and Jerry and Cathy) So, tonight, I took it out of the butcher paper, rinsed it off, patted it dry with paper towels, and then brushed on canola oil and sprinkled on Montreal Steak Seasoning on both sides. I sliced the fat every one inch or so (so it wouldn't curl up) and then let it get up to room temperature while I planned the rest of the meal.

So, I got my small eggplant I picked from the raised bed garden. I left the skin on and sliced it into length-wise cuts of about 1/4 inch. I hit the slices with canola oil and balsamic vinegar, mixed with some garlic powder. Next I cut up two valadia onions into about 3/4 inch slices. I brushed them with olive oil and then salt and put them on the preheated grill. The eggplant went on next and when they were all looking good, I moved them to the low-heat section of the grille.

Finally came the star of the show, the steak. I let it sear for about three minutes a side and pulled it off to rest. I stuck some russet potatoes in the microwave and made them into baked potatoes. I plated everything and added a little butter, some sour cream and some snipped chives to one baked potato. I cut about 1/4 of the steak off (the rest will be made into fajitas) and dug in.

Everything was excellent! The only thing I would say is I cut the eggplant too thin. 1/2 inch would have been better.

I cleaned everything up, stated the dishwasher and went off to watch TV. I was doing okay, until I stupidly switched over to see Hilary Clinton's speech. I got through about 20 minutes until the urge to throw up got the better of me and I turned it off.

It's the same stupid rhetoric that gets the Democratic mayors of Detroit elected, year after year. As the saying goes, "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." As much as we would like it to, socialism doesn't work! Ask the Russians, who gave it up after some 80 years. Ask the Cubans, or the North Koreans. The only place it still seems to keep going is China, who switched to a semi-socialism, but mostly capitalist society several years ago. You cannot tax the rich and middle class to fund the poor.

As Nancy Pelosi would have it (and I quote) "We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Karl Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.'"

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied: "We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'."

If they are "Illegal immigrants," they are NOT "Americans!" Don't reward them, send them home!

It's just stupid. I went to bed in disgust!