You know it’s Spring in St Louis when the Pork Steaks can be seen in back yards around the city. They’re usually be found where Cole Slaw, Pea Salad, and Baked Beans are also emerging into the sunlight. This one was captured at the home of Joe and Marie last weekend.
For several years, we’ve been trying to replicate the Unwritten Corn-on-the-Cob Recipe of H. Earle Moore. Earle was the Moore Family Patriarch and the Maternal Grandfather of Leah and Erin. At one memorable back yard barbecue in the mid-seventies, he grilled corn-on-the cob using a method I’ve never heard of before or since.
He smeared peanut butter on a raw ear of sweet corn. . . .
. . . .wrapped it with raw bacon, rolled it in aluminium foil, and cooked it on the grill for X amount of minutes. When he judged it to be done, the bacon was cooked, the peanut butter was melty and delicious, and the corn was perfect. We haven’t quite recreated it yet. We may be using too much peanut butter, or maybe we need to blend it with regular butter. But we’ll keep trying.
The post-Pork Steak entertainment was sorting through boxes of old 3-D slides from the Moore 1950s and 1960s. We only got through about 5% of the total. They were divvied up based on who was striking the cutest or most embarrassing pose. This is Nan in the foreground, stealing the scene at Mary-Jo’s 4th birthday party. Our flatbed scanner doesn’t do the slides justice. We’ll either need to get a new scanner, one equipped with a back-light to handle slides, or have them digitized professionally.
It’s been a while since I posted a Cute Cat © picture. Here’s Rufus, looking very sly and devil-may-care, like a real bon vivant. He’s actually just so blissed out he’s about to drool on me.
And last, proof of McGregor’s full recovery from his spinal injury. Rufus is cuddling him again. While he was still sick, Rufus wouldn’t have anything to do with him, probably because McGregor smelled like a cat box.
- Poppa
Man, I wish I was in St. Louis. I would have loved to been at Joe and Marie’s for the pork steaks, the pb-bacon-corn on the cob experiment (first I’ve heard of this method) and the slide show.
That last picture of the cats is utterly adorable!