Shooter's sandwich

So, I am checking out the interwebs and I see a link for the "best sandwich in the world"... this picqued my interest... So I click on the link and I find out they are claiming the Shooter's sandwich is the best in the world.. This is the picture of the final product. I had to make one of my own. This was a good project for me since Rx was outta town and I was running out of food.

What is a Shooter's Sandwich you might ask, and where does it come from? Well this might answer your questions... It is named for fox hunters I presume. Roaming around the English countryside, chasing hounds, saying things like "Cheerio!" and "Old Chap" really makes you hungry, so their servants made them a shooter's sandwich to take with them on the road.

Its a bit hard to describe...you know how you go to St. Louis (excuse me.. Panera) bread company and get some cream of lard soup in a bread bowl for like 8 bucks... well think of the shooter's sandwich as a soup in a bread bowl FOR MEN! instead of soup, there are 2 ribeye steaks and mushroom goo.

I baked a nice sourdough loaf and took out the bread in the middle, you need a good crusty bread for this... then chop mushrooms, and onions and sautee with butter, and worcestershire and whatever else you want to make a mushroom goo layer... then you take 2 steaks (rib eyes or NY strips) and sear them however you like them, put one in the bottom of the bread bowl... then the goo layer, then the other dripping steak, them some horseradish and chipotle mayo on the top and put the lid of the bread back on...

At this point you get to use your college text books you havent cracked open in 10 years, but for some reason move after move never seem to part with. Finally a use for my genetics book!

You wrap the sandwich in foil and press it with 5 or 6 heavy books for a good 5/6 hrs in a cool (not regrigerated) place. I chose my cooler with some ice packs sitting in there.

When you are done, it is pretty awesome, have never had a squashed sandwich taste so good.

By coincidence a friend of mine (EU) had seen the same article and made his shooter a day before I did! He improved the plan with much bigger (and rarer) steaks and blue cheese! MMmmmm

Shooter!

"Hi, I'm 2!" this is Evie's 2nd year picture, somebody got her to smile real nicely!

my mom and Roxanne were here, now they are gone :(

Grandma B had a great time visiting with Rx, then Rx left for Arizona and Grandma stayed to chill with Evie for a few days.

We went to Occoquan VA, and had some fun and visited with Mom's cousin who lives near there..

Here is our lil ham Evie being cute and greco roman wrestling Bunny.

boo-boo!

Bunny accidently scratched Evie. Here she is with her first band-aid ever. She got some peroxide too. She was very concerned the whole time, but never cried. I told her when we went to bed that Bunny said sorry, and she seemed okay with that. She is such a trooper!

Evie's daycare is having a St. Patrick's Day party tomorrow and we decided we were going to bring cookies.

She has been having a lot of fun playing with Playdough and her play kitchen. We will often use her rolling pins to roll out playdough and my cookie cutters to cut out shapes, so tonight I thought it would be fun to do it for real with her.

I didn't have a shamrock shaped cookie cutter and did consider getting one, but in the end decided green hearts with green sprinkles would work just fine for 1-2 year olds.


Rolling the dough.....


Cutting out the cookies.....

doing something (??) with the dough....doesn't matter, cuteness prevails

brush it off, brush it off.....

dada helping with sprinkle decorations....

Eleanor's B-day party/ Grandma & Grandpa

Hi!

I believe I can fly!!! Check out these mad Evie dunks. After this she did a 360 over 3 other toddlers. We had a great time at Evie's friend Eleanor's 1st b-day party. Even though Evie only sees Eleanor maybe once every 2 weeks or so, she is constantly saying her name, and loves it when they both get to hang out together. She is Evie's friend!

Here is Evie and her friends Eleanor and Ellie. Together they are the 3 E-migos!

Here is Eleanor getting her birthday cupcake!

Here they are practicing sharing!



Later on on Sunday, Evie's Grandpa and Grandma came! we had soo much fun visiting!

We all celebrated Evie's birthday for a second time, evie didnt complain ;)

She had yummy cake and opened presents!

She got an Elmo book and some awesome toys.

Lastly, here is Evie having fun doing Ring around the Rosy with Grandma

Hobby Farm pics

Evie hates it when the sun is in her eyes, this is one solution that she seems okay with.

We went to Roxanne's Friend Rudi's Hobby farm last weekend.
Evie had a lot of fun seeing the animals!

here we are with a baby goat.

She actually petted the goats, we were surprised considering the last time we went to a petting zoo, she was very scared.

Hi Goat, eat my carrot.

now give me kisses!

Here are extra Tennessee pictures I thought I would include here because I am lazy: enjoy!

Miles's first pickle


Jean Diapers!