Sunday Morning Smoke

Sunday Morning just before 11 AM, I have had a pot of Brazillian Santos & a Maduro Masterpiece, what a way to start off the day !, the stuffed peppers are in the oven, the Sunday paper has been scattered over the Qtr.Deck & the grandsons are not here , I get a break this morning, got to sleep in till 6:30 am when nature called & said get your formerly fat behind out of bed & Drain the bladder !!!So I made the coffee got the paper , opened a Humidor , reached down to the bottom row & pulled out a Huge Sunday morning smoke , I was hoping for a Monte A , but this did just fine, Now I have had my Caffiene & Nicotene , now all I need is a weeee dram of single malt & maybe if the wife is in a good mood , well who knows hahahahah ! Enjoy, Vince

I like to start out the day with a Don Carlos #3 but today I was in the mood for a BIG cigar I opened the humi didnt look just doug down to the bottom row, hopping I would come up with the monte A that I have stashed in there, well I got the masterpiece instead, well I wasnt let down at all, it wasnt as full body as the Monte A would have been but I was not let down one bit , just over 2.5 hours of pure smoking pleasure , Miles Davis on the Cd player & some Jerry Garcia before the Mozart sonatas , a great mix to start the day, , but right now its time for some more Jazz! Enjoy, Vince

The club is open 24/7 with a phone call to make sure I am home if your in the Pittsburgh area, PM me for the number & directions , Enjoy, Vince

Here we are back on a Wonderful Sunday Morning, I got home early this morning, I was Baby sitting the grandsons last night & got home about 2:30 this morning, by now I should have had a pot of coffee & a Don Carlos #3 all ready smoked, but alas I am still in my shorts & havent found a shirt as of yet, , the coffee is made & I did have one egg & one strip of bacon, now as soon as I get off the computer I will have my Sunday morning Cigar , but I better hurry it is almost my Sunday Afternoon cigar ! Enjoy, Vince

Here we are Sunday Morning again, I slept in a little this week but not as late as Last Sunday, I have a pair of Beef tenderloins marrinating in liquid smoke ,sun dried tomatoes, garlic & olive oil , they will be grilled later today . I made some brazillian santos coffee in the Freedom press pot & have a Diamond Crown Maximus Toro ready to fire up. I had the Don Carlos #3 at 9:30 this morning, it is just after 11 am now, so I should be ready for a Cigar right amout now, have a few CD's to put on & I cant think of a better way to listen to music that with a pot of coffee & a fine cigar, LIFE is Tuff, you need to smooth out the sharp edges with great Food & drinks, Music , Family ( but they are a lot of the sharp edges I am speaking about hahahaha ! ) Finding that eluding Inner peace determans if we are an extrovert or an introvert, , as social an animal as I am , I go inside to recharge the batterys, some go to a party , I go some place quiet to be alone with my thoughts, my coffee ,my music & a fine cigar , some times you just need to unplug the phone & sleep till after noon !
Well it is time to read the Sunday paper & look at all the ads for the Christmas gifts that the grandsons are asking for , Half of the stuff I have no idea what it is for !!
Enjoy, Vince

What a wonderfull Sunday, for a day that started to look like a crappy overcast day , well it sure did a complete turn around, the Steelers won again, the tenderloins were fantastic, the Freedom Frys were just short of perfection , if I do say so my self, the Maximus was as good as a maximus should be, now I have a pot of Santos brewing in the Freedom Press pot, go go with my Davidoff Double R , the Islay single malt is calling my name as I try to type this !!
Enjoy, Vince

Good Thanksgiving morning to all, It is SNOWING here in the Burgh & I am sitting here with a cup of Coffee ( finishing up the decafe ) I did make a pot of columbian early this morning & had a Don Carlos #3 about 6 am , it was cold & windy for my morning walk, but the coffee & cigar made it OK, Now it is out to the kitchen & make stuffing for the Bird, it is & has been sitting in a brine solution since yesterday, it will go in the oven Breast side down at noon today, we plan on eating about 4/4:30. depending on what time the Grandsons get here. Whats this I hear, a bottle of Islay single malt is calling my name & a Davidoff Gran Cru is chanting Smoke me now, But I need to cook, I dont have time to sip & smoke, pluss I am on the computer , well I cant do it all, so I better get off the computer , & get started in the kitchen & by the time I get the bird in the oven it will be time for a scotch & cigar, Enjoy the parade & dont eat to much today hahahaha ! Enjoy, Vince

Alton Brown is one of my Favorites, he has a "different " out look on food & cooking than most TV chefs, I loved watching the Frugal Gourmet, Jeff Smith, rest his troubled soul, but after the charges were leveled on him PBS took him off the air, he had a wonderful show, almost like Mr.Rogers of TV chefs ,I still use some of his cook books !
Emeril is a KICK to watch, lots of energy , bobby flay is on the bottom of my list , he just comes off a little to pompus & arrogant, but as far as TV chefs, No one beats Julia Child, she was the best, if you could stand he voice !
it is past 12:30 everything is done but the potato dishes & the gravy, so I think I will have a sip & a smoke, Enjoy, & God Bless the food , the friends & family, Vince

Sunday Morning after Thanksgiving, a Turkey Omlet started off the day, a little swiss & chedder smoothed it out a bit, a pot of Peaberry Coffee made in the Freedom Press pot, 5 scoops & 24 ounces of water, 5.5 minutes & then Press, 2.5 cups of wonderfulllllllll coffee !, Looks like Turkey for supper AGAIN, we had a small bird just under 14 pounds, but the grandsons & son in law ate a lot but it seams I dont have the capascity I had in years gone by, I was watching the Glutony Bowl competive eating , how much can you eat of a theam item & keep it down, well the champ turned out to be a 135 pound Japaneese kid who smoked all the compitition, including a few 300 & 400 pounders, he is the same guy who ate over 50 Nathans Hot Dogs in 12 minutes , Mannnnnn thats going to the limit !
I will be baking some biscuts today & a white cream sauce , adding the cut up Turkey. The Cranberry sauce will get finished today , the yams didnt get past Thursday, But there are still some mashed potato's left, I might mix up a batch of cake donuts & add them to the batter, it was a trick I learned in the Navy to use up all the food, never toss anything away that can be used for some thing else, Bread pudding is a prime example, stale bread becomes Pudding, crutons or bread crumbs for deep frying.
I have a few checks from the cigar shop that bounced when we deposited them, so I will wait till game time & go to the guys house & try to collect , I hope he is having a bunch of friends over , I love to put these @$$holes on the spot in front of there friends, 2 checks , on for 40 & the other for 49, cost me 20 bucks each for bounced check fee, so I get a bunch of cash like 129 cash, or I take them to the Justice of the Peace & he will pay the 129 PLUS the fee the JP adds on for cost of the trial, I love it , this guy is such an @$$hole !, well its Coffee & cigar time, I did have my Don Carlos #3 at 7:30 this morning, now I think I will get into a Monte White Churchill , Kick off in 1 hours & 15 minutes , so I will be ready at half time ! hahaha, Enjoy, Vince

It is the Don Carlos #3 at 7 am , but I would like to try a Don Carlos #7 at 3 am anyhow .
Since I dont know where my wife keeps the check book I have never bounced one, I am not allowed to write checks, even though my name is on the account & I am the only one who ever had a job in this house, she writes all the checks, I went to the guys house at half time, he was there with a few of his buddys & a few beers under his belt, however he was quite confused that the checks bounced, he didnt get a notice from his bank, so he said, well I told him I would sit on them till the end of the month till his payday, make the checks good in cash, pay the 40 bucks for the bounced check charge & all will be good , if not I turn them over to the JP for collection, I have an other check only 9 bucks that bounced, I called the lady who wrote it & her mother told me she was in jail for passing bad checks, No Kidding, well I told her , come up with 29 bucks & make this one go away, if not it will be a 300 buck fine & an other 30 days in the county gray bar hotel, the mother said I will think about it, Whats there to think about 29 bucks vs. 300 bucks & 30 days , well she thinks it will teach her daughter a lesson, Yea right, what do you tell a woman with 2 black eyes, Nothing she was told twice & still didnt get it right!
I dont know what his real weight was, if he is 115 thats even more unbelievable, but what ever he is , HE IS A MACHINE ! The best I have ever done was 12 dogs, & that was with chili & onions on them, & it took longer than 12 minuts to do it, However I did eat 42 Perogies at one sitting, but again that was a long time at the table ( for thouse of you who dont know what a perogie is, think of a large ravoli filled with mashed potato , or Sour Kraut , or cottage cheese, or Prune butter, boiled, then tossed in melted butter & fried onions , a POLISH staple .
I am on my 3rd pot of peaberry coffee today, I feel like floating away, all set for my cigar ride tonight, have a Cuban Monte #2 .
Enjoy, Vince

I am sure he got a notice from his bank & I called & left a message on his answering machine, That he never got, BS !!!!!, well I know where he lives & his buddys know he is a dead beat, if he dosent pay, we go to the JP & Post his checks in the window for all to see, with the big NSF red stamp on the check, I hate to do this but if he is sticking us for over 120 bucks , he gets his some way, & maybe a trip to visit his place late at night, but he has a BIG DOG, But I have some ground Beef to take care of that, when the dog is busy eating , I can be busy getting my 120 , How much is a windshield for a Dodge truck? or a new set of Tires , or maybe both, I am sure his insurance will pay the first time , but not the third or forth time , no matter how long it takes he will not screw us again, hey maybe we can make it a monthly event, one time at home, one time at work, one time when he is shopping, PLINK> a new windshield , CO2 powered pellet gun makes verry little sound, & works just fine, Dammm I scare my self !!!!
Enjoy, Vince