Long Family Weekend

Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Courtney

Last weekend my brother came into town from New York City.  Sometimes you just need to get away. It was a pretty relaxing time, with a Royals game as the big event of the weekend. My dad bought us all amazing seats that were about five rows above the dugout behind first base. It gave [...]

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Two Weekends of Smoking Meat

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by Courtney

Two weekends ago we offered to smoke pork for our friend Jessica’s 40th birthday party. They had invited around 40 people to their party so we decided to smoke two 8 pound pork butts.  This time we brined the pork starting on Wednesday night before the party.  The brine was simply kosher salt and water. [...]

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Fourth of July Weekend Camping

Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Courtney

We had originally planned to camp at Smithville for the Fourth of July, because it is so close to us, but when I drove up there early Thursday morning all 777 electric campsites were filled.  I couldn’t believe it!  Oh, and you can’t reserve sights ahead of time, so all of those people drove out [...]

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