Self Portrait

Parents Christmas tree

Busy Christmas

Taken at my Aunt's house in West Kingston, RI. Prepping in the kitchen for Christmas.

Another Audible!!!

I might still do some food posts, but I just bought a new camera recently (Canon Rebel T3) and have been taking some cool shots. I've been wanting a DSLR for a while, so I'm going a bit crazy with photos, figure I may as well start posting some of them without making massive facebook albums (for now). So I'll try to post some every few days if I have a backlog, otherwise it might be surges of them as I do things that result in good shots.

Calling an Audible

So I haven't updated this in a long time, I've been made well aware of that (thanks AK). I've been pretty good about tweeting (@crunkbear), probably because I can only write 140 characters at a time. I think the reason I moved away from blogging was because I felt it was too time consuming and it was mostly just posting random stuff. Well I think I'm going to try to start it up again, but with a specific focus: food. I like to cook, and I like to eat, and I often tell people about both, so I figure why not try putting it down in one central place. There won't be tons of posts, but I do hope they're quality posts. There may be some occasional Dipset news mixed in, but everyone loves Dipset so that shouldn't be a problem.

I should have a post later this week and I can provide a bit of a preview right now. The first item featured on this blog will be the Dinosaur BBQ's Texas Red Chili....kinda. When I began the process of making this, I thought it would be the Dino chili. Alas, I was wrong, and when I realized it, it was like a horrible person's diddy bop barged through every block in my city. And that's why you won't see that post tonight, because I'm not happy with the result. However, like my soul, it can be saved (according the christian missionaries who came to my door last week). How you ask? The answer is simple: pork. I'm about to hit this bad boy with a double shot of pork like it's never had before (ay yoooo). Because has sausage and bacon ever made something taste worse?

There will be a full rundown and pictures this coming week, hope it goes well....

Until then, peace.

Top of my do not want in a girl list

If she wears these:



Could you imagine meeting a girl out who's wearing this shit? "They make me stylish and comfortable" she says, "No, they make you broke as shit" you counter. If that grandma chillin on the couch wants to wear them, fine; but if any girl under 40 is wearing these around, you need to go find a kufi, place it on her head, and slap that shit off. Is wearing jeans that difficult? If you're struggling to get your jeans on, maybe you should either hit the gym or get a bigger size. Those marks they leave, I don't know about you, but I've never had a problem with it. That girl looks like she was wearing jeans two sizes too small for a week straight to get that etched into her skin. This commercial is so wrong on so many levels, now if they made cargo shorts sweatpants, sign me up.

Jing's visit to Orlando

The entire Styles 101 Music Group made an appearance in Orlando this weekend as part bid to take over the dirty south. I picked him up on Friday from the resort where he was staying at Disney (-1 point for making me drive through Disney). We went back to my spot for a bit before heading out for dinner at a super trill establishment, 4 Rivers Smokehouse.

Pulled pork, brisket, and burnt ends sliders with BBQ beans and smoked jalapenos? Yes please.

They give you a lot of food with your meal, but Jing wanted some dessert, so he decided to get a slice of cake.

Jing going very hard in the cake, I think that one slice had 2000 calories in it...

After finishing our dinner we made our way to the Amway Center in downtown Orlando to see the Magic take on the Nuggets. The Amway center is brand new (inaugural season) and is really nice, though a bit generic. We decided to go all out and get (relatively) lower level seats (counted as 100 level...). The game was very sloppy but ended with the Magic winning on a buzzer beater 3 pointer so that was super trill.

Another highlight of the game was probably an older guy who sat in the front row of the lower level who would become very irate whenever the refs made what he felt was a bad call. It quickly became clear that he was a regular fan since they would always put him up on the jumbotron and they even had a clip of him playing when they were trying to get people make noise. His name is Jack Nelson, but he also goes by Sweater Vest Guy:

After the game we saw the set up for the post game show outside the arena, Jing was trying to get on TV:



Jing and I were both spent after the game, so we came back to my place and watched a movie and crashed.

On Saturday we grabbed lunch a place called The Ravenous Pig, unfortunately I didn't get any pics, but it was quite good. He got an oyster and shrimp po boy, and I got a steak sandwich with avocado salsa and tomato marmalade, both came with very good fries. They bill themselves as a gastropub, and even though their beer selection is not huge, it offers some very good options. I went for a Bell's Oberon (which I'm sure K has had) and I was quite happy with it.

Later in the afternoon we tried to be as southern as possible, so we went to the shooting range. Neither of us had ever shot a gun before, so we didn't really know how the range worked but the guy set up us well. He gave us a 38 caliber revolver since he said it was the easiest to use and still very fun.

Waka Approved.

It was an interesting experience, it was loud as hell in the range, even with ear protection, and you could definitely feel the kick with every shot. We went through 2 bags of ammunition and had a 3 round shooting contest that I won, causing Jing to purchase my dinner for that night. We agreed it was an odd feeling knowing that everyone around you could kill you if they wanted, but I guess it works on mutual trust....? I probably wouldn't go on my own, but if someone else wanted to try it I would go again.

LAWSS

BAWSS!

After the range we grabbed my winner's dinner (Chipotle, Jing's choice) and went back to the spot. We were going to hit up a bar, but ended up talking to this hipster on video chat.

Nice glasses and earbuds....sucka

The shooting range also inspired us to play Call of Duty until 3 in the morning, yeah, we're cool.

On Sunday we walked around my neighborhood and grabbed some cuban sandwiches for lunch (very good). We also did some celebrity watching...

CARROT TOP!!!!!!!

Apparently he's a regular in the Winter Park area, when I looked up his name and WP it showed Carrot Top Inc. being located right around me (maybe I should apply for a job there).

That about sums up the weekend, good time overall and I was glad to check off two things from my Florida list: Magic game/seeing Dwight Howard play, and shooting range. Dipset.

Dinner

K put in a request for some cooking posts (kinda), so I'm obliging. The name of the dish:

Whole Wheat Pasta with Chicken Sausage, Chickpeas, and Garlicky Greens

People who will probably like it: K (with modifications), Dave, Fitty
People who might like it: Jing
People who won't like it: AK

Ease of cooking (1-easy, 10, hard as shit): 2
-Very little advanced prep, gotta cook the sausage and everything else is frozen/canned

Flavor (1-cardboard, 10-best shit ever): 6
-My flavor scale might be too wide, it was pretty good. I actually didn't have the parmigiana cheese and it was still quite tasty, but I did add an extra tablespoon of soy sauce. Oh, and
I didn't have a full pound of frozen spinach so I added some frozen broccoli


Will this be a repeat meal: Yes, it was easy, tasty, and fairly healthy

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