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I'm a Proud Navajo, Father, Husband, Brother, Son, and Friend. I'm all about cheap thrills, guitar pickin', and writing about the adventures of my life. I'm never politically correct.

Monday, May 29, 2006

In Memory

Benjamin Curley, US Army, WWII
Melvin Curley, US Marine Corps, Vietnam
Raymond Curley, US Army, Vietnam
Sterling Mike Sr., US Army, WWII
Russell Mike, US Marine Corps

I want to give praise to the service men and women who have fallen, retired, and currently serving in the military from communities of Two Grey Hills/Toadlena, New Mexico, the Navajo Nation, Native peoples, and the entire United States of America. God be with you and yours. Come home safely.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

"CRACK" of the bat!

1. Henry "Hank" Aaron - 755
*2. Barry "Barry Bonds" Bonds - 715
3. George "Babe" Ruth - 714








* with a daily shot in the ass of testosterone based performance enhancing jizz.

Friday, May 26, 2006

Cows, Pigs, and Chickens.....Oh my!

Originally May 25, 2005

Title: Tasty BBQ Rub

Description:
mmmmmmm.....baby

Ingredients:
3 tbls salt
2 tbls crushed red pepper
1/2 tbls dry rosemary
1 tbls chopped garlic
2 tbls cayenne pepper
1 tbls dry sage
2 tbls paprika

Directions:
Mix it all together.
Use on ribs or chicken.

Cook in same manner as Soutwestern recipe

Number Of Servings:Enough for 2 rib racks or 2 chickens on a rotisserie.

Preparation Time:10 min

Dead Pigs are delicious too

Originally posted May 25, 2005

Title: Western-Style spareribs

Description:
Makes you slobber! Don't worry, this is not as hot as it looks.

Ingredients:
5-6 lbs. spareribs (babybacks baby)

Rub:
3 tbls. chili powder
2 tbls. ground black pepper (crack 'em yourself)
2 tbls. paprika
2 tsp. crushed red pepper (chile caribe)
1 tsp. salt
1 clove garlic, minced


Directions:
Trim ribs and remove membrane. Rub both sides of the ribs with the dry rub, work it into the meat. Set aside for about 30 min at room temp. or refrigerate overnite. Make sure you cover it.

Cooking techniques:
Grilling
Smoking (best)
Oven (city folks do it this way)

Use mesquite, hickory, or other fruit wood for smoking.

grill - if you can, push the coals over to one side for indirect cooking. Use a metal container to hold water. This will keep the meat juicy, any size will work. Make sure you have enough room for the ribs.
Put the ribs on the side where there are no coals. Cook until the 1 1/2 - 2 hours or until meat easily pulls from the bone. This really depends on the temp. Temp should be 250F to 300Fdegrees to get things done quicker. Some times, it may take longer. I usually smoke ribs and brisket for about 4 hours minimum at 225F. This is best. Believe me. Make sure you have plenty of ice tea or suds! If you have a pool at your sheepcamp, get in. Sheepdogs are welcome, they deserve it.


Number Of Servings:6 servings

Preparation Time:1.5 + hours.....4hrs at 225F is best. GOOD BARBEQUE SHOULD NEVER BE RUSHED, PLEASE PLAN AHEAD. Rock on.

Succulent Bovine Entres

Originally posted May 25, 2005

Title: Steak with Mushroom Wine Sauce or just plain grilled steak

Description:
Red wine sauce with mushrooms over steak. Be flamboyant (not gay)....toss stuff around and make flames when you pour the wine......(Please have a fire extinguisher at hand before you attempt)......look like you know what you are doing. Chicks dig it. And if you are a chick.....you showed up, that's good enough.

Ingredients:
Your choice of steak. Please, don't even bother if you are going to use a round steak. Shame on you, go back to the store you dumbass. Get something with good marbling. T-Bone is a pretty good bovine morsel. Salt and pepper both sides. Yeah, that's all. If you are grilling, please stop here and go to the grill and disregard the rest of this post*.

2 pats Butter/margarine
2 cloves garlic chopped
small package of fresh mushrooms cut in quarters
salt (kosher is best) and pepper (fresh ground) to taste
half cup of red wine (no skrew top, no rose', and no, Garden Deluxe is not a wine) Burgundy is excellent
2 tablespoons flour


Directions:
Let's say we have two t-bones.

Heat a non non-stick skillet (sorry Carmen) on High and add about 2 tablespoons of veg. oil to coat the bottom of pan (it will smoke a little) then add the steaks and do not touch them for at least one minute and sear the other side the same way. Cover, reduce to medium heat, and heat to desired doneness. 140F med rare but no more than that. Pink, Ohhhhh yeeeaaaahh.
Remove steaks and let rest under some foil.
Your pan should have some cooked on debris. That's good. Add some butter and add the mushrooms and toss around occasionally for about a minute and a half. Add the garlic and cook for about another minute and then add the red wine and bring to a simmer and reduce to about 2/3 and all the alcohol is cooked out. Don't be bummed there's still more in the bottle. Add a little of the flour to thicken. Add water to thin if you need to. Use a wisk to get out the lumps and remove from the heat. It's essentially a wine gravy with mushrooms in it. Pour over or next to the steak.

I like to serve this with saute'ed asparagas spears sprinkled with a little parmasean cheese.

Try this for Valentine's Day or anyday.

Number Of Servings:2

Preparation Time:20 min

*Grill to 140F, turn only ONCE at about 4min per side.

Disclaimer: I am not a gourmet, I just blog that way. Hey, turn around and check the steak!!!

PLEASE HAVE A SAFE AND FUN MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND! PLEASE, DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Here's another movie

I'm watching The Good, The Bad and The Ugly right now. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. Even Hollywood goes to Espana!

Y'know, Metallica picked a kick ass intro theme with the Ecstacy of Gold. God I love this song, it's cool with Tuco running through the grave yard at the end. It couldn't end any better.

Rock on my good people.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

The Da Vinci Code is only a MOVIE!!!

It's only a movie, you dumbasses. Geez. I'm not targeting my non-dumbass readers, just the dumbass ones.

Does it change the way you feel about Jesus? Does it make you feel like you should follow Brigham Young, Muhammed, Dave Koresh, or Ron L. Hubbard? Should you buy a purple sweat suit and drink some Jesus Juice and wait for the Mother Ship in the next comet? Huh? IT'S A FUCKIN' MOVIE!!! It's shown in the same fuckin' place that I saw The Terminator!!! Sheesh, check your faith you stupid dumbasses.......really, it's a filling of truth wrapped in a tortilla of bullshit just like a good burrito!!! What would Jesus do? He would get a big bucket of popcorn and a bigass Coca-Cola, got comfy and watched an everyday film from Hollywood.

Lighten up folks. Remember the bible was written, not by divine hand, but by men who may have only want to tell you what they want to convey to you. Be it truth or not.

Rock on my good people and GOD BLESS!!!

Monday, May 08, 2006

Sometimes neighbors suck ass

I have no idea what the deal is but I cannot figure it out. My neighbors across the street have some problem with everybody that lives around them. It's been a couple of months since they moved in and they are the third owners of this house. Normally, if I lived in an apartment I wouldn't really give a shit but these folks LIVE, NOT STAY across the street. And, no, it's not a white vs. Indian thing, I can't play that game anymore. As you've figured, I've been asked that alot. Well, anyway...lately, it's been getting worse.

At first, when they first moved in, I said hello as much as I could and I thought that they just didn't hear me. But, one evening I said 'Hello!' loudly when the gal was out having a smoke in her garage. Nothing...she dowsed the smoke and vanished. I thought, "do I oh fend?" Nope, it seems that the other neighbors share my feelings. When they come out, taking out the trash or whatever, the wifey chick gathers her flock and crushes her coals and scurries into her burrow.

Now, the dude of said burrow seems to be ok, but I get a reluctant neighborly wave. What was weird about him was one morning while I was tooling around in my garage, I felt a nudge at the back of my knees and found that their Rot puppy came over to me to cure his curiosity and get some attention. What a cool dog but he's one of those breeds that is so inbred that hip diplasia is inevitable. Indeed he was narrow hipped and thick headed. Well, anyway, his kid came across the street and hid behind my truck.....yeah, hid behind my truck......I said, "I'm on the other side" and then I saw the dude come over. He approached me and I said, "hey, cool dog", and he said, "sorry, sorry man". I was cool with everything, no harm done. I introduced myself and he told me his name and he too scrurried away as if I was going to scream bloody murder. You could have imagined my look as I saw them disappear into the house and the garage immediate shut.

Wow.

Between then and now, my family and I hang out in the front yard because we have planted flowers and some herbs (oh yeah, they're growing fine), playing on the grass, drawing on the driveway, riding bikes, and reading on the porch bench...if they're out there, they run and hide or only she comes out to the garage and closes it half way so she cannot see us while she chokes on another cancer stick.

What gets me is when my Boogah calls out at the top of her lungs, "HI!", she get's no answer but a quickly closed door. That bugs me because I taught her to be friendly to your neighbors because they shouldn't be strangers. They're neighbors. People who you can go to for help and a friendly smile as neighbors should.

Well, not from these folks.

Last weekend they threw a party. They've had parties before but this one was way too crazy because it lasted into the almost 'waking' hours with loud rap music and 4 wheelers running up and down the street. I was pissed and I should have called the police. I should have. But I fuckin didn't. This kind of event shouldn't happen. Not in suburbia, but it did happen. If there is a next time, I won't allow it to go on. It's too late for, "howdy neighbor". I've tried. I've lived in worse neighborhoods of Shiprock and Window Rock and am ready for anything.

Believe me, I'm a kick ass neighbor. If you need a cup of sugar or help to move a couch or needing an answer to 16 across...I'm there baby. I'll even bring lemonade and beer. If you're wondering why I should care in any amount........it affects the attitude of the neighborhood and ultimately the value of our homes. I live there! Riff raff brings the good man down. Navajos know it. If you get bad vibes at a ceremony, it takes away from the necessary healing.

Bleh, so anyway, I've been the friendliest neighbor that they will ever get! Since it's been warm...I've been out side jammin' the tunes and being as visible as possible. My other neighbors are cool and found it to relieve the stress of the "shitty neighbor" ailment. "Fuck 'em" is my motto, but I have to "Fuck 'em" with a smile.

Rock on my good people. Be good.

More to come.

Friday, May 05, 2006

Navajo Inventor

This is awesome. Wow. I am so proud of this young man, Garrett Yazzie.

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