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Since my new handguard arrived last night and I gave it a dry fit, I figured it was about time to take a pic of it: My CMMG MK4, in 5.56 mm with EOTech 517 and a new Troy Battlerail Delta.

Dill is a natural with fish...if not on the fish itself, then in a sauce. Last weekend, I took a shot at replicating a dish my wife had on our last trip to Homer: grilled halibut with a dill creme sauce. It wasn't a perfect match to the original but it was darned tasty. In the dried herb...

Woohoo! The new beast is here, I've got it put together, and now all have to do is decide what to cook on it first.

For charcoal, I have a Weber One-Touch Gold. We bought a Jenn-Air gas grill right after moving into our house almost 7 years ago and have really enjoyed it. But it's getting a bit tired and long in the tooth, so we just special-ordered this fellow through our locally-owned Ace Hardware...

"Be Free, Bern! End oppression in Switzerland's capitol city!" Right?

Mine isn't terribly clever: Peters Creek is where I live in Alaska.

To all my cigar smoking friends in the Anchorage area: now that the weather is finally nice, I'd like to set up a date in May to hold a whiskey herf at my place here in Peters Creek. I've reserved a small and eclectic selection of whiskeys for from which to choose: Buffalo Trace Kentucky...

Man, I lost track of this thread. Sorry about that. Thanks. I'm still working on my plating skills, too. Really, that's all I could quickly come up with considering the size of the slice vs. the size of the plate.

Holy tap dancing transvestite space cows! A guy makes a wish to get one cigar from a short list and he gets nuked from orbit. Thanks for the generous fulfillment BD! Looking forward to these goodies. Oh...were the mints a message about stinky old-man cigar breath? :laugh:

I didn't intend to hold out Chernobyl's reactor type as the main contributing/differentiating factor but good points all the same. I too am concerned that the nuclear power will suffer from negative, under-informed public opinion. A lot of folks could judge it as bad technology without...

Chernobyl was a graphite reactor. Graphite does (and did) nasty things when it burns. The Fukushima units are boiling water reactors. They won't burn like Chernobyl did but the situation remains serious. I've been keeping up with the news (off and on) by reading World Nuclear News. They...

On the bright side, the First Amendment does not protect anyone from the social consequences of saying something monumentally stupid. I can only hope these BVD skid marks find living in their community to be very, very uncomfortable and increasingly so.

I hope I haven't held things up too much but at first, I had no idea what to wish for. After a little thought, this is all I've come up with: Opus X Lancero (especially the maduro, or any other non-petit specimen) Casa Fuente lancero Padron 1926, 80 Years Padron Millennium Bolivar Belicoso...

Dry Aged and Smoked Rib Roast — After hearing about smoked prime rib from a customer, my wife suggested I take a crack at making one for us. So we bought a nice, untrimmed, select grade rib roast (3 bones worth) and dry aged it for two weeks. I then prepared it a day ahead of time. I trimmed...

Thanks everyone! Damn Jim...and I was just about to call you, too. Next time. I plan on knocking off work an hour early and head over to the B&M smoking room to have an Opus X 2006 "Chili Pepper".

IMO, Kachemak Bay oysters are (arguably) the best in the world.

I was gonna say the "Swissy Baroo" too.

There are some really good books out there that might change your mind. If you follow directions, observe food safety practices, and use your head, you can all but eliminate the risk of food poisoning. If a cure fails, you're almost sure to know it by look or by smell. If in doubt, chuck it...

'Grats and good on ya.

Time for a post-holiday update. I kept pretty busy in the weeks leading up to Christmas, making summer sausage, salami, and smoked cheeses. Here's another stick of Tuscan salami, all sliced and sealed: I wanted a larger slice this time, so I stuffed it in a 3¼" collagen casing...which took...