August 23rd, 2010
For my brother’s 30th birthday party I decided to make some Shredded Buffalo Chicken in the slow cooker. If you want a really simple way to spicy up chicken and have a lot of food for guest this is the recipe to use. Since my brother was having 40 people over for his birthday I made 8 pounds of chicken.
6 lbs boneless chicken Breast
2 lbs boneless tighs
2 bottles Frank Red Hot
2 packages of Ranch Powder Dressing
1/2 stick of Butter
Set up the slow cooker and set it to low.
Add quarter of the bottle of Frank’s Red Hot and then the chicken. I added the breast, then tights, then breast, more red hot, ranch powder breast, tights and then the rest of the first bottle of red hot and ranch powder.
Cover and let this cook for 6 hours. Using two forks shred the chicken until there are no big clumps left. Add the second bottle of Frank’s Red hot and the 1/2 stick of botter and mix everything up. Cook for another 2 hours and serve with Blue cheese and rolls.
This makes for a simple recipe to make when friends are over to watch football on sunday. you could also spice this up by adding your own hot sauce or hot peppers to the slow cooker.
Will be made again for the Eagles away game !!
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August 9th, 2010
Being a single guy, having my own house, and a full time job sometimes when you come home from work you don’t want to think about what to make for dinner. One way i figured out how to solve this problem is using a slow cooker to cook food all day long while I am at work. So when I come home I have a meal almost ready to eat.
So today I will share my Crock Pot Ribs. This would be something i would start the day before by getting the rub together and defrosting the ribs. I like my ribs spicy hot so i use
Ribs Rub
2 Tbs Ground cayenne pepper
2 Tbs Chili Powered
3 Tbs ground garlic
black pepper
salt
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
Two or Three shakes of my special dried pepper flakes (contains habanero peppers, cayenne peppers, and Tia peppers)
Again create this rub to your liking. I like to apply the rub to the ribs the night before. So all those flavors get do their magic with the pork. I also put a couple splashes of Worcestershire on each of the ribs as well before putting them in the fridge.
In the morning turn the Crock pot on low. I like to coat the bottom of the crock pot with BBQ sauce but you can just place the ribs in meat side up.
I like to cut up some fresh hot peppers and some garlic and put that on each layer of ribs. Once that ribs are in close the top and cook on low for about 8 hours. When you get home from work they will be done and will be so tender and juicy.
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August 6th, 2010
As I was running errands at Lowes today at lunch. I decided to get “Camp Pns Still Hungry” cache. Finding it was no problem but getting it with no one watching was sort of tough. Lets just say there are a lot of stores, lots of cars, lots of people wondering around. Those people are called muggles (A non-geocacher. Based on “Muggle” from the Harry Potter series, which is a non-magical person. Usually this term is used after a non geocacher looks puzzled after befriending a geocacher searching for a cache, or when a non-geocacher accidentally finds a cache. Geomuggles are mostly harmless.)
Because of the amount of people i wasn’t able to take a picture so i will show you a map of where it is located. The green arrow is not where the cache is just where the google thing-a-ma-gi showed up.
This was the first cache that had SWAG (An acronym often referred to as standing for ‘Stuff We All Get.” It includes the trade items left in caches by geocachers). I did not take any of the swag but left a brown nickel i found and was in the truck.
So i guess what i did was TNLNSL which means Took Nothing. Left Nothing. Signed Logbook
If you would like to know more acronyms geocachers use go here http://www.geocaching.com/about/glossary.aspx
On the way out of the shopping center i noticed another cache which i will have to come back for, since i was already out too long on my lunch break.
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August 5th, 2010
The second geocache that i decided to do was call “4.5 Laps“. This was another cache located less than a mile from the office. What a great little park it was. It has basketball court, playground, a trail around a soccer field which if your walk 4.5 laps it equals a mile though i didn’t have to walk any laps to find it. I did however walk three laps just because i felt like i should get some exercise.
This cache was a little easier to find after doing “Gate to Nowhere“. Below is a picture of the geocache and the log which i have signed.
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August 5th, 2010
Last night we had a pretty full table, maybe because we were playing cards or maybe my brother made it to the game. We had 8 players and started around 830pm. We played till midnight.
We played the normal Omaha High, Texas Hold’em, and Omaha High-low with Jim winning, Shirley coming in second, and Cheese coming in third. Frank the Tank was the bubble…sorry Frank.
On Keenan’s Birthday the cards showed him no love. He was knocked down again and again and again…some would feel sad for him, but not us.
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August 4th, 2010
Today at lunch I decided to get my feet wet and find my first geocache. I found one close to work and left the office. I decided to do “Gate to Nowhere”
After using my Nexus One using the c:geo application i quickly found the location and found the geocache. After that headed to the deli near by for a turkey club…what a reward!!
One down millions to go…anyone who would like to join my quest let me know?
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August 4th, 2010
On Friday July 30th 2010 the company (NetPlus Marketing) I work for had a GeoCaching event which i really didn’t think much of at the time. But once we got started it took me back to my boy scout days. Yes i was a boy scout you have a problem with it? Just kidding.
Anyway using a GPS device you got coordinates and a clue like “Turf” and you had to find a fake turf which had a geocache. So what is GeoCache
“Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share your experiences online. Geocaching is enjoyed by people from all age groups, with a strong sense of community and support for the environment.”
So after the company event I went to http://www.geocaching.com/ and learned a little more about it and checked out where some GeoCahces were around me. There were about 15 within 2 miles of my house. So i signed up and created an account.
I will be posting my adventures in geocaching here…now where to start…
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August 3rd, 2010
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July 13th, 2010
After the all-star game the Phillies will be playing the Chicago Cubs in Chicago. Me and a bunch of friends are heading up there to watch a couple games at Wrigley field. Should be a fun time. Also during this time will be my future brother-n-laws bachelor party.
Thursday night I am getting there around 3pm. Heading to the hotel and getting ready for the first game of the series. On friday we will be watching the game from the bars as more and more people come into Chi-town. Friday night we will be going to a Phillies Happy hour at Howl at the Moon, followed by dinner at Lou Malnatis. After that we will be going out in the city.
Saturday we have roof top tickets, which should be pretty cool to watch the game from outside the stadium plus it is all u can drink and eat. After the game we will be out and about in Wrigleyville.
Sunday a lot of the people are leaving but there will a few of us that stay till monday so we can catch the sunday night game which is also an espn game of the week.
Should be a pretty fun weekend !! Can’t wait.
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June 23rd, 2010
So the first poker tourney at the house happened since the web site has been up. We had 10 guys a big turn out, so big we couldn’t play the normal tourney. Instead we played just Texas hold’em, the normal tourney is Omaha High, Texas, and Omaha Hi Low. The game switches every round as the blinds go up, it makes for a much more interesting game.
I did not do too well tonight getting knocked out second behind my roommate who is horrible at cards, so i guess i am not much better. Oh well, it is for the love of the game…
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