{"id":1154,"date":"2017-04-16T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2022-01-29T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:58:48","slug":"weekly-mix-15-april-16-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/weekly-mix-15-april-16-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Mix 15: April 16, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we get to today\u2019s show I want to wish everyone a Happy Easter. I\u2019m not a religious guy myself but any chance to spend a day with the people I love is okay by me. This Easter we had lunch with our friends Alex and Thelma. We get together with them on a regular basis for outdoor movie nights, Halloween parties and trips to wineries in Ensenada. This time Alex and Thelma had us over for barbecue and it was delicious! With summer around the corner I really need to step up my grill game. Fortunately, I have my Patio Daddy-O<\/a><\/em> cookbook my friend Diana gave me for a birthday present oh, a couple of decades ago. I\u2019m going to pay it forward and give a copy to our oldest for his birthday. Cooking on a grill is a rite of passage for men and having a recipes like Cracklin\u2019 Sugar-Charred Cowboy Steak<\/a> or Dragonbreath Corn on the Cob<\/a> in your back pocket is a necessity.<\/p>\n

I ate too much at Alex and Thelma\u2019s because later we went to our friends Jason and Tawnya\u2019s for Easter and dinner and I barely had room for another meal. That\u2019s a damn shame because Jason is a chef and he had cooked up some smoked ham; a salad of mint, peas and and beets; and another salad with black carrots. Black carrots, who knew there was such a thing. And Tawnya made a cheesecake dessert that was half lemon meringue. So good! Oh, yeah, and they were plying us with ice tea made with homemade limoncello<\/a>! I was uncomfortably full and wished I hadn\u2019t eaten so much earlier.<\/p>\n

At least I could eat. Our boy Townes had a bout of food poisoning and threw up almost a dozen times during the night. Poor boy! Between me and you, I suspect when my boy throws he calculates how much collateral damage he can do because he seems to throw up everywhere<\/em>. His bed, the sheets, the floor\u2026 I was up at three in the morning mopping up his vomit and washing his sheets.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Townes felt terrible and wasn\u2019t up for barbecue or smoked ham or chocolate eggs or jelly beans.<\/p>\n

So that was my Easter.<\/p>\n