Fiesta Bowl:

Tonight marks the end of a pretty sweet Longhorn season.  Yeah we got shafted by the BCS, but we’re still in basically the 2nd best bowl in the nation against a traditional powerhouse school.  This season was supposed to be full of fail, but instead we overachieved and set ourselves up to dominate the Big 12 next year.  After seeing some of the supposedly favored teams lay eggs in bowl games the past few weeks, I’m always curious to see which team shows up.   We’ve been the blue collar, focused, underdog team all year, which should play into our domination of the buckeyes.

Big 12 rolls up and dies:

In other news, the big 12 is stinking it up in the bowl games.  Now that we sufficiently cannibalized ourselves during the conference games, we are something stupid like 2-3 in bowls, making it look like the big 12 is overrated. Which is great for ESPN, seriously, I don’t want to have to listen to this shit all year about how the pac 10 is super duper awesome and everbody should suck on USC’s you-know-what.  I do, however, think that USC is the hottest team right now though besides Utah (another story), and would liked to have seen a Rose Bowl rematch UT v USC 2.0. Instant classic.

Kahlua:

I know I’ve posted about this before, but I don’t know what I said so suck it up if I repeat myself.  This weekend the roommate and I made our own Kahlua, which we had been planning to do for a while but just got a chance to buy the bottles to put it in.  Went to the homebrew store and picked up a 24 case of 375 mL bottles and corks and made the stuff in about 20 minutes.  Its super easy: Boil water, add instant coffee, sugar, let it cool, and mix in vodka and vanilla. Bottle.  Easy as pie. You have to let it sit for about a month before it gets good, but we’re going to try some of it tonight to see what its like now.  It smells pretty tasty already.

happy new years.

You know the picture will be good when the caption says: “Tie, Black Fleece by Brooks Brothers.” and nothing else.

List:
1. Single Ladies, Beyonce - Really?
2. Live Your Life, TI - meh
3. Just Dance, Lada GaGa - no.
4. Circus, Britney - no.
5. Whatever you like, TI - meh+
6. Womanizer, Britney - no.
7. Heartless, Kanye - no.
8. hot N Cold, Katy Perry - oye.
9. If I were a boy, Beyonce - just plain bad.
10. Love Lockdown, Kanye - no.

see there is already a problem. beyonce, TI, and britney dominate the first 10. I haven’t seen a song I genuinely like yet. What the hell is wrong with us?

11. Love Story, Taylor Swift - terrible.
12. I’m Yours, Jason Mraz - this guy is a crock.
13. Kevin Rudolf ft wayne, Let it Rock - never heard it, has lil wayne so it must be awesome.
14. Miss Independent, Ne-Yo - his name makes it suck even more
15. Right Now, Akon - akon is played out
16. So What, Pink - i thought someone shot her by now
17. Gotta Be Somebody, Nickelback - need I say more?
18. Can’t Believe it, T-Pain/Lil Wayne - this might be the first one that is “alright”. at number 18
19. Mrs. Office, Lil wayne - also not bad.
20. Zac Brown Band, Chicken Fried - eh?
21. Rehab, Rihanna - I thought we had a rehab song already?
22. Disturbia, Rihanna - she’s not too bad.
23. Addicted, Saving Abel - worse than nickelback
24. Green Light, J. Legend and Andre 3000 - best one so far
25. Pop, Jim Jones & others - annoying as fuck
26. One More Drink, Luda - no.
27. Chopped ‘N Skrewed, entertaining, but not good
28. Better in Time, Leona lewis - meh, but she is super hot
29. Beautiful, Akon - i thought this song was dead last summer
30. You found me - meh.

There you go, the top 30 shittiest Billboard songs in America today. Please listen to some better music. For the children!

I know I’ve done a review of this place before, but we’ve had some new experiences with their fine establishment since then and I’m planning on going today; it has become a staple in our new Dallas life. We eat there typically once a week, less lately, because we have about 80 million sausages that Kuby’s processed for us when the roommate got his first deer. They process your game for you for pretty standard prices, but their recipes are the ultimate in deliciousness. So not only can you enjoy some latkes, sauerkraut, red cabbage, delicious sausages, and probably some pretty bad ass rubens and other sandwiches (haven’t been able to try them, the sausage is too good); you can get your game processed there, buy your meat and cheese there, and even buy some crazy candy, like “fizzing soda pop gummies”.

If you didn’t read the last review I did of this place, here is the lowdown on this sweet establishment:

• Officially Kuby’s Smokehouse, but really a sick meat factory/sausage house. When you go, order the sausage plate. 3 if you’re a MAN
• They have latkes, and if you don’t know what they are…its like a ball of potato-y heaven mixed with some other stuff and fried kind-of like a hashbrown patty…except not, and way better. They’re not on the menu, so just say you want “potato pancakes with apple sauce” instead of the german potato salad.  You can pay me back for this tidbit next time you see me.
• They also have a full deli, you can buy all different types of meat, all their sausages, etc.  We even got some lamb burger patties one time. Fan-fucking-tastic.
• This shit is cheap. Like your stomach could be exploding for less than 8 bucks.  I don’t recommend it, but it’s possible.  You should probably stick in the under $6 range because that will get you hella full too.
• Oh. They have liters of beer.

See you there.

So roommate and I set off on an adventure to create deer sausage jambalaya yesterday, and it was a complete and utter success. We got the basic recipe from teh interwebs, but mostly it was just some solid ass guessing on our part.  I will share the recipe from my head as well as some sweet pics (coming later tonight). I’m forewarning you that this recipe is based on the sizes of things, because, well I’m a soul cooker and don’t need no measurements!

Ingredients:

3 Deer Sausages (these are big, I’d use 4-5 of the regular kind)
2-3 Chicken Breasts
approx. 3/4 lb of bacon
4 cups of rice
64 oz (2 boxes) of chicken broth
1 small white onion
1 green bell pepper
4-6 cloves of garlic (depending on size/preference)
approx 2 spoonfuls of Tony C’s
1 spoonful of crushed red pepper
a few good shakes of: onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne pepper

Directions:
1. Cook bacon in the pot you’re making the jambalaya in. You can cut it up now or break it up after it’s cooked, whatever is easier for you. Drain out some (not all) of the bacon fat if you think there is too much. The stove will be on high heat until I say otherwise. Use your judgment if shit starts exploding.
2. Cut up sausage into small pieces, we did half circles. Place in pan and brown.
3. Cut up chicken into small pieces, add to sausage and brown. Add crushed up bacon back in, along with the garlic.
4. Put chopped veggies in and let soften/brown with the meat.
5. Put Tony C’s, other spices in, mix around.
6. Eat some of the chicken/sausage/bacon mixture before proceeding. This shit is gonna be GOOOOOD.
7. Put rice and chicken broth in. You could probably put a beer in or some other type of liquid if you were feeling adventurous, but this is not cajun-kosher if you know what I mean.
8. Reduce heat once a boil is established. Let simmer for 25-30 minutes and check if the rice is still crunchy. Ours was done pretty fast but I’ve seen recipes call for 45 minutes of simmer, etc.
9. Drink beer. Gorge yourself.

This would be what you call “brown jambalaya” and there are recipes out there for red jambalaya which would be pretty much the same except with tomatoes/some kind of rotel stuff. If there are any real cajuns reading this out there, you will notice the lack of celery and other peppers, etc. This is because my roommate thinks vegetables are out to get him and will not eat them, I’m just glad the lack thereof didn’t ruin my dinner. I had to sneak onions and the green pepper into the pot.  If/when we run out of this and want to make some more, I’m going to get the little baby shrimp or crawfish depending on the season and throw them in right at the end so they cook through.  Fan-fucking-tastic.

Update: Here are those pics I promised you.

In other news, Colt is going to get screwed out of the Heisman. I can feel it.  At least Brian Orackpo aka “a-sack-and-rape-you-till-you-die-po” won pretty much every defensive player of the year award, up until about 2015. Yeah he’s that good.  Mostly I just don’t want to talk about football though, it is too depressing, gotta focus on that basketball team which is gonna be pretty solid, our next ranked opponent is on Dec 20th where we play now #20 Michigan State. Have a good Friday, I’m out.

Last night we also had a sweet basketball game, which I attempted to watch most of.  We beat #12 Villanova last night, which although I don’t think Villanova is that good right now, is still a signature top 25 win to go along with our UCLA win and 1-point loss to a good Notre Dame team.  This year’s team really looks like a team, and with the defense we’ve been playing we should be pretty solid.  We just have to flesh out the whole offense thing.

That’s all I’ve got for now, go check out Shaggy and get back to me.

Its called the Money Maker - and it’s sold in convenience stores around the bay area of California.  What you say? Liquor in a gas station? “That shit be wack, yo”.  Yeah, pretty much everywhere but the south you can buy the good stuff at a gas station and get yo’ drank on.

I stumbled upon this fantastic holy creation on this crazy dj/rapper guy’s blog: Grocery Eats. If nothing else just go read a couple of their posts, that shit is hilarious. This little mini mixer set of drinks is like a happy meal for adults - except without the gay plastic toys that you get tired of in 5 minutes.

They have a bunch of different “flavors”, the one posted here is The Money Maker and it’s definitely going to fuck you up. The ingredients are:

1 Green Apple Smirnoff Ice
2 Smirnoff Apple Twists
1 Bicardi Big Apple
1 Tanguaray

So I’m going to have to make one of these on my own this weekend, or one of their other flavors since I don’t like drinking jolly ranchers, like Cutty bang or Killahoe.  Good names, right?

Other stuff going on:  Texas is in the Fiesta Bowl, playing Ohio State. Whoopdi Do.

We’re going to probably bail out the automakers, which is a stupid idea. Umm and other news, I’m not really sure what is going on in the world because I’m stuck in a conference room all day…but I figured I would try and post so I didn’t leave you 3 days in a row without some information from my sick knowledge center I like to call my brain.