Everyone has their own preferences and histories when it comes to BBQ, and may prefer a different kind of BBQ, and that is fine and wonderful: BBQ is as much or more about hosting as many friends as you safely can as it is about the food itself. Anything cooking up in large batches and served outside on a hot summer day to friends is a good thing. That being said, for me personally:, growing up an order of BBQ, without adjectives, meant a pulled pork bbq sandwich, likely with cole slaw and a eastern Carolina style sauce or mop on it, and this is how I prefer my BBQ to this day.
Things That I Am Interested In
- Using technology, data & analytics to do interesting things, and to do uninteresting things better.
- Writing code that does things. these are some of the things I use to write code that does things:
- Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
- Go
- Hashicorp Vault
- PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, HP Vertica & on other data stores
- Gitlab, Jenkins, wercker, Travis CI and GitHub for managing my source, builds and deployments
- Java, usually using some combination of Dropwizard, OkHttp, JDBI, error-prone, Truth and other libraries that do not involve using XML
- The Fish Shell, vim, git, Eclipse, and other useful development tools I come across.
- Making BBQ, with a focus on pork based products.
- Cooking, with a focus on widening and improving my repertoire of vegetarian dishes.
- Richard Linklater’s 1991 film, ‘Slacker‘
feel free to contact me if you’re interested in any of these things, or have questions, comments or even great cat gifs to share
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Summary This is a basic riff on Cornell Grilled Chicken, but with a healthy amount of Berbere spice thrown in. Equipment Any grill Ingredients 1 package of chicken drum sticks or thighs or both. 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise 2 tbsp light Karo syrup 2 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice 2 tbsp berbere 1 tbsp dry rosemary, crushed salt to taste Instructions Before anything else, you’re going to want to dry brine your chicken around an hour before you plan to cook it, but don’t stress the timing too much – 30 minutes is probably fine, 90 minutes is probably fine, ideally you’re looking for about 1 hour dry brine time per inch of meat, and chicken isn’t that thick.