Inspired by my buddy Sank, author of Cookin wit da Fat Man, I made chicken, onion and pepper kebabs tonight for our last supper at the beach. Chopped a bunch of peppers and sweet onions this morning and then trimmed the chicken. Also cut up a couple of habs and jalapenos for Dave and me. Put the whole shebang on soaked bamboo skewers and marinaded them in a teriyaki sauce of my own concoction. Threw the kebabs on the grill about four and basked in the sun on the deck.
The recipe follows:
STEP ONE: Buy expensive knives
STEP TWO: Cut up a shitload of Bell peppers
STEP THREE: Cut up four or five sweet onions. SWEET onions, y'all
STEP FOUR: Cut up some hot chilies for yourself
STEP FIVE: Cut chicken breasts into honking big hunks
STEP SIX: Put it all on bamboo skewers that you have soaked in water
STEP SEVEN: Marinade the whole shebang. I made up a garlic-teriyaki marinade for ours
We stopped on the way home from Wakulla Springs at a place we call the Ford graveyard, dozens of old trucks and cars, abandoned in a roadside field. I was shooting pix of the kids using Hipstamatic. Some really cool shots resulted. More shots in the slideshow below
Jesse and Allie turning some heads. Dad says, “Put some clothes on!”
Nephew David and I in the boat
These were the gators about 100 yards from where David and I jumped into the springs
The kids at Wakulla Springs
Tiring of the endless sun, surf and sand, we traveled 45 minutes north by car to Wakulla Springs this afternoon. There, we swam, took a riverboat ride and jumped off a 25-foot-high platform into the cold waters of the springs below. See more photos in the slideshow below.
We gathered at the Ochlockonee Bay Volunteer Fire Department this evening to celebrate Laurie’s Uncle Dave and Aunt Bev’s 50th anniversary. My brother-in-law Dave smoked a whole beef shoulder roast and we feasted. Lots of fun taking photos and eating good food. Here are some of the family pictures we posed for.
We have a lot of white stuff on the ground here on Alligator Point, too. It’s called sand… Drive safely. And drink liberally. See you when your white stuff melts.
Taco feast! We served up tacos with all the trimmings to 17 hungry people for dinner tonight. We also plowed through another 5 pounds of fresh shrimp (thanks, Chris and Hope for peeling them today). Mom Wyant’s brownies closed out the dinner for those who weren’t too stuffed by that point. Great food and great times together.
I really enjoy cooking when I’m on vacation. I travel with my own chef’s knives and the contents of our spice cupboard (no lie).
After supper, most everyone headed over to Mom and Dad’s for a family game night. Chris, Jeni and I stayed at the beach house with Bud the dog and just relaxed. OK, I sat on the deck and smoked a stogie, while marveling at the stars in the night sky over the beach. And updated my blogs and Facebook. And uploaded hundreds of pix to Flickr.
The guy at My-Way Seafood said we’d be swimmin’ by the time we got back home. Not sure if he meant because of the looming floods or because we would turn into shrimp from eating so many.
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Art, Laurie, Katie and Jesse
