It’s about that time again. Every year for Thanksgiving myself, the whife and OA phantom correspondent Matt make our way across the golden plains of Iowa to spend a long weekend of gorging, guns and gambling at the Shirley compound in far Western Iowa. This also means it’s time again to come up with a [...]
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Lessons Gleamed from a Meat Mad Weekend
I’m sitting here with a particularly acute case of the Mondays. Brains broken, nails filthy, my work clothes smell of that finest of hillbilly cologne – hickory smoke. It was a long journey into the heart of flavor country, and not without it’s perils, but, like any good journey, I can now sit satisfied on [...]
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Smoking Hot Ribs
This here’s my Dad, Jim Shirley, just retired VP of The American Angus Association and man of many meats. He’s been a good father and as such made sure that our table was never hurting for delicious cuts. To show our appreciation and congratulate him on his retirement we recently bought him a Char-Griller – [...]
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