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My first rack of ribs on my new gas grill came out fantastic!

I cooked the ribs on my new Charbroil Dual Gas Grill stainless steel grill model 463268007 that's hooked to my natural gas line I had installed in my new home as an option.

I also tried some new spices and a nice dry rub rib mix of spices I blended for half the rack. I used the same spices for my wet half of the rib rack as well.

The combination of my new gas grill and my new blend of spices was ridiculously tasty!

My previous gas grills flared a bit sometimes even with two separate zones made for indirect cooking a bit dicey with the rocks they provided.

With this grills flare guards over all 4 separate burners the flare ups were virtually non-existent.

Indirect grilling is great with this grill since I could separate the two halves of the rib racks to different areas of the grill because the sizes were different and I needed to control the heat and flames on each individually.

I was able to thoroughly cook the ribs and yet had the meat coming off the bone just the way I like with good flavor.

Let me go back and clarify this was my first pork rack of ribs. I have earlier done some boneless beef ribs.

When I first got the grill about a month ago I also did some rib eye steaks and they were damned near perfect my friend brought some nice vegetables and we really enjoyed that meal. She cannot stop talking about how good those steaks turned out. Actually the chicken I cooked that day was pretty tender and tasty too.

I then had someone help me rototill my backyard and cooked some nice inch and a half thick porterhouse steaks that turned out very nice with a little indirect cooking every once in a while.

I cannot forget the salmon fillets I threw on the grill and with that and use of the side burner I have tested the grill fully and have become very familiar with the hot spots and how I need to cook each type of food I grill including vegetables!

I now feel I have the hot spots indirect cooking and timing, flame control how the grill cools and heats as well as proper cleaning methods down and I'm ready to really rock!

I’m currently doing prep for Gumbo I’m cooking tomorrow it will be at least two large pots and maybe more. Now when I say large pots one pot is 34 quarts and the smaller pot is 20 quarts. .
I am making my gumbo with large Alaskan King, Crabs, Chicken, sausage, scallops, oysters, clams, and all of the other fixings!
We will also have some collard & Mustard greens, black eyed peas and I think Turkey.

My dad decided to cook some seafood gumbo Saturday. Anyone who has cooked seafood gumbo know this is quite the endeavor and expensive as a car payment for a large amount of people! We all usually pitch in to help offset the cost but he still bears the brunt of the cost with some not really contributing as much as they consume but that’s how it rolls sometimes. I also always try to get over and help with preparation. I make gumbo sometimes myself and I know how it can go and I like picking up additional tips.
There are a lot of us in my family and my dad makes his gumbo fully stocked so each bowlful has plenty of all ingredients. This was one of his best efforts with pieces of King crab almost as wide as a small child’s wrist, lots of shrimp, oysters, chicken, sausage etc...
Three huge pots of gumbo you can bet I’m going back over there to make sure I have my fill. I brought some home already but that’s going to go pretty quick.
My mother said he started banging around about 4am so I missed how he starts his roux the most important part but I remember a few things from previous times, plus he gave a brief overview Friday when I was helping cut up some veggies.
I may do my part and make some gumbo this winter myself and have people over and I keep my pots fully stocked just like my dad.

Going to pick up a few items at the grocery and spotted snow & alaskan crabs and couldn't resist making a late night seafood snack! Shrimp crabs boiled in red pepper seasoning and dipped in garlic butter!!! With slow/mellow jams playing in the ears and topped with a nice scotch!

I have what has become traditional for me to cook on Thanksgiving Day a smoked turkey. This year I’m adding smoked beef brisket as well in a separate smoker with its different seasonings as well.

I just started them approximately 15 minutes ago (12:25 AM PDT). That will give them enough time to cook thoroughly and in time. Early in the morning I will probably have to refresh the water pan with my concoction of herbs, spices, wine, water etc... I have an extra batch for my turkey and beef brisket.

Tomorrow I will cook some Zucchini with different colored bell peppers, mushrooms onions etc...

Then will take this all to my sister’s house and join the rest of the family. Everybody does something different. I have one sister doing a ham and I think my dad is frying a turkey and someone is roasting one. My brother is doing greens and macaroni from scratch. My sister whose house we are using is doing bread pudding, potato salad etc... One niece is doing mashed potatoes and the other is doing chicken wings I think.....

Wait who’s bringing the cranberry sauce and yams???? What about the rolls!!! My dad will probably make yams but I better make some calls in the morning!!!

After staying up till 4am watching the Olympics got up at 9am and started doing things around the house.

Went over my parents and showed my pressure washed concrete for my dad or tried everyone had to take a turn and left with my dad to play with later.

He made some tasty black eyed peas, greens (collard, mustard & turnip with okra), crackled cornbread, and potato salad and neck bones. Damned that was good!!! I know where I'm going for lunch and dinner this week!

Then had to come back and battle the worms going around the internet in the computer world. I updated viruses and patches for my windows systems. I also closed up some ports I had opened in my routers.

I had a new system I brought online that I had not uncharacteristically had not updated any patches on or placed virus software on, usually the first application I install on a windows system! Oh well getting it taken care of!

Wow I have never ran into so many Bachelorette parties in one night in Sactown! Some were getting really nasty on the dance floor but before we could get to the next level there was this one that was blocking. She was beautiful on her own but she wanted to be woman and man. Get her in the grind and she was cool with that but get one of her girls in the mix and she was mother hen! Man they were lowering the brassiere and touching nipples on the dance floor it was off the hook but jealousy of one beautiful lady who wanted to be loved by the guys and ladies blocked the show….awww what sweet music it would have been. All me and my buddy did was to go out for hamburgers and then what an adventure with 6 different Bachelorette parties!!!

Oh yeah went back and edited this for an earlier time ;) !!!

No MAS Tequlla!!!

Grilled some steaks partook of some "Gourmet Chicken Wings".

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Did the 4th thing food & fireworks.... lots of Oysters ;)