Parties, Grilling & Beverages – A Meat Cocktail

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Whether you grill, smoke or do mostly oven roasted goodness, your cutting board always has some form of delectable juices laying about in the trough around the edges. This is where you’ll find lovers of the medium dredging their kill through for extra flavors and textures. It’s prized highly and never lasts long.
Well, at a local gathering on Saturday this nectar of the gods went faster than normal. You see, Cameron of Married … with Dinner was in attendance. I’d never met the guy, or his wife Anita. They’re the kind of people that within about one half of a conversation you realize they’re no slouches in whatever they do. These people know tons of junk and are keen as a razor’s edge. But why was Cameron pouring the meat juices in to a small drinking class, actually 2 glasses?
He disappeared, 1 in each hand. When he returned, a shot of vodka had been added to the slurry. And by slurry I mean, pork, beef, lamb, bacon, goat and andouille. Cameron handed one to me and drank his down. A sip first, then mine followed. Man, it was surely a good meaty, then spiky booze hit, then fatty meat, then booze. It was crazy, it was like gravy, but a booze drink. I dearly loved both the flavors and mixtures and how it finished.
Thank you Cameron, thank you very much.
xo, Biggles

17 thoughts on “Parties, Grilling & Beverages – A Meat Cocktail”

  2. Happy to be the bartender and thus sneak a glass for myself; that drink is the divine right of the grillmaster. That was one beautiful tray of meat, Doc.
    p.s. It’s called a Bull Shot, but if you order one in a bar, you’ll likely get bouillon and other muck…if you get anything more than a funny look.

  3. Rev,
    It was a true privilege to watch you in action yesterday, and a treat to meet you and Chile Brown live and in-person at last. Damn, those chiles rellenos were amazing, as was all(!) of the meat. The only thing better than eating was the spectacle of watching you cook it all over a hole in the lawn that you dug yourself. Damn.

  7. You dug a HOLE in their lawn?? Hope you’re going to return and plant a fig tree….Sorry I could not be there on Saturday….. Bull shots were never a favorite drink but drippings instead of bouillon? I can see it (and almost taste it).

  8. Hey Cameron & Anita,
    A Bull Shot. I knew it’d been done before, just knew it. Thanks for making my first the best one ever!
    Hey Everyone,
    Cheers!

  9. Slacker !!!! next time enough meaty juices are needed for everyone to have a bull shot!
    I am just kiddin’ ya. I don’t know how you could keep it together so long out there in that heat!
    good job as always!

  11. Oh boy, Cameron’s in BIG FAT TROUBLE now, ‘cuz I didn’t even hear about the meat juice cocktails. Damn. Cameron, you’re in big fat trouble.
    Still. I got a refrigerator full of leftover meat.
    And a hole in my lawn. 😀

  15. Equal parts dry aged Alberta beef carving board run off and French Absinthe = Alberta free-for-all or Albuterol! Sweet sweet ambrosia.