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Oh, snap, I’m a week behind - didn’t realize FD was this coming Sunday. We want to go Friday night. I’ll see what’s available at both places. 6PM would be fine because we’re old homebodies.

Original Al’s it will be, then, unless you report back on TH and rec that instead.

Nice work, and welcome back to the thread. I’ve liked your posts going way back. Did you reapply (cooked) marinade after grilling the steak? Looks very saucy, could just be the pics.

@TXLNGHRN10 repped for the t-bone. They don’t get enough love IMO and are great.

While we're waiting on wagyu updates, here are some his and hers Friday night fillets. Mesquite...

Wife (no pics) asked me what I wanted for Father’s Day. Since she asked in front of the kids, I couldn’t be sexually explicit, so I went with ‘date night’ since we’ve been in baby jail the past few years. She’s arranging babysitter, etc. We like terrific steak and traditional high-end steakhouses. We want to try a new one and are willing to travel out of the ‘burbs. For reference, Bob’s in Grapevine is our favorite of the ~7 steakhouses in our immediate area, followed by JR’s. When we were DINKs, we’d travel to Del Frisco’s Double Eagle in Addison. We thought III Forks was terrible (letting people in for dinner wearing jorts? Really?). We abhor see-and-be-seen and trendy places. I read the thread, but recs based on our tastes? I’m leaning towards Al Biernat’s North - the menu looks incredible. Hell, the happy hour bar menu is almost more tempting than the dinner menu. TIA.

Rulz, dammit.....

CB, I assume you question the duration of the cook? Cooking at 225* (I think the long cook gives it a nice bark), it can take 1.5 hours - 2 hours/lb in my experience (though I usually cook small briskets as I posted on TOS). This one is larger and it cooked so fast that, after letting it rest for ~45min, I had to wrap it in butcher paper, towel, and put it in a cooler for 3 hours until dinner, which I had to move up two hours.

Grew up going to Galveston. My folks actually had undeveloped beachfront property at Pirate’s Beach but, thanks to Alicia, the State claimed it for dunes. Now we spend a long weekend there each April. We always get a beachfront house through VRBO or one of the local rental places like Wolverton (saves a few $). Gaido’s has my favorite fried shrimp in the world, but I prefer skipping the upscale Gaido’s and going to the more casual Nick’s. Same kitchen, same shrimp, and I can sit outside. Others have already covered The Spot, but next door to it is a complex of bars/grills (I think that The Spot is a part of it). I like rum, so I like going to the Rum Shack. Touristy, but fun. Mario’s Pizza West Beach is good. Their chicken fettucine alfredo pizza is our favorite white pizza. Shrimp and Stuff’s food truck at the Jamaica Beach car wash makes surprisingly good poboys. Speaking of poboys, the fried oyster poboy at the West End Marina’s Sandbar is my favorite hands-down. The oysters are like butter. A great place to have lunch and watch the charters come in / hear how the fishing was that morning.

Hadn't done a brisket in forever + surprise guests from out of town = time for brisket. I used hickory. 16lb before trimming, took only 18 hours at 225* to probe like warm butter (happened to be around ~201* internal). Served with roasted Hatch chili mashed.

I have something similar to these that just screw into the pool's return jets. I run the pool motor overnight and the evaporation drops the temp from 93 to 84. It's a lifesaver in August. Edit: that one on Amazon is expensive. You can find cheaper ones or you can make your own.

^^^jeeze I want to LIVE there. Nice place.

Garlic basil pesto, more or less. Friends of ours introduced us to the concept; we loved their version on chops, and we kicked it up a notch by roasting racks and using our own basil. Fresh basil is just hard to beat. EDIT: that anniversary dinner looks great. Are you Brat's son? If so, progress indicates that your kids will be able to post pics correctly.

Yikes. I feel for you. Fortunately, Mrs. Sola (no pics) is a BBQ and steak aficionado and can appreciate the good stuff. Takes two seconds to add a little foil. Give it a try next time. Just criss-cross the platesetter with foil, making sure that the gaps between the setter and fire ring are loosely covered. Did a rack for dinner last night.

Mother's Day Brunch. Eggs Benedict (toasted english muffins, fried honey-baked ham, poached eggs, cayenne hollandaise sauce, sharp cheddar and fresh black pepper) with mimosas. Would make more often, but hollandaise sauce is a PITA on a weekend morning.

Oh, you bet. Adds a nice little kick of flavor on the cheaper steaks.

Came looking for this thread and glad it's hear. Been getting more and more into Red Dirt etc. over the past decade or so. I've seen Uncle Lucius live a few times. Great band. This song should strike a cord in anyone who has family, or worked themselves, in blue collar oil/gas/chemicals down on the coast.

$5.99/lb Choice porterhouse (marinaded in Cholula and Uncle Chris' then grilled over mesquite) and some jalapeno mashed for a quick weeknight dinner. One steak fed the whole family.

So, while at the coast a couple of weeks ago, I cleaned out an old tackle box. At the bottom, I found that some items had "melted." Each of the "melted" areas was either on top of an old soft plastic or had an old soft plastic on top of it. Also, the "melted" areas on the spool and plastic bobber were soft to the touch. Some crazy chemistry stuff happening there. In case you were wondering, no, the box was never exposed to extreme heat or anything.

There's a brisket price thread, but wanted something DFW specific for all meats. Albertson's has baby backs at $1.99/lb. through today. I filled up the freezer because I haven't seen them that cheap in a while.

Baby backs are $1.99/lb at Alberstons in DFW area through today.

Smuggle out a shit load of the real Havana Club rum and ship it to me. That's good stuff. +rep

I’ll second Wildcatter. Wife (no pics) and her girlfriends had a girls’ weekend there last summer. She had fun and wants to take the family out there once the boys get older. Her friends are cheapskates, so pricing can’t be too high. Website has changed, but IIRC hey have activities ranging from archery to horse riding and everything in between. Please let us know what you get back from them.

When we started having kids. Everything changed. Come to think of it, I’m doing all the same things my dad did, just 5 years earlier in life. Oh, shit, he died young. Ummmm, where’s the new body transformation thread?

We like these better than any of the marinaded skirt steak options at the CM meat counter: Grilling these up and serving with white rice takes me back to childhood when Dad would make ‘lemon chicken’ and rice: