Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Another totally awesome dinner at Ted’s Butcherblock tonight.
Burgundy Braised Beef Short Rib with Sun-dried Tomato & Preserved Lemon Gremolata / Hand Rolled Black Pepper Oriecchetti with Tuscan-style Kale, Fennel and Garlic infused Bacon / Mushroom Demi-Glace / Carrot Cake with Coffee Caramel & Sweet Fromage Blanc
This is the kind of thing that I see when I look around at things
Force vectors
Energy
Images and visuals pop into my head when I look at stuff. When I look at waves on the water, whether it’s in a pond, a river or out in the ocean, “Fourier Transform” always pops into my head. There are equations of motion when I look at moving objects., density and phase changes when I see crowds, the flow of air moving around something, sound waves bouncing off surfaces, electric and magnetic field lines (and all kinds of associated EM equations). I don’t see them in a literal sense, but in my head I see the patterns overlaid on top of what I see.
Activities like playing pool are an interesting exercise, although I have to say it hasn’t really helped improve my pool playing skills.
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Last night was a Lowcountry BBQ meatup at the fairly new Willie Jewell’s Old School BBQ up in North Charleston.
Willie Jewell’s is located in a little strip mall almost across the street from Wannamaker County Park. It’s not a very large place, but is pretty decent looking inside. Definitely not the hole in the wall shack type places you typically associate good Lowcountry BBQ with.
The menu has a pretty good variety to choose from, but I went for the pork supper plate, which turned out to be a pulled pork sandwich (with a pretty good sized portion of pork) served open face and two sides. I went for the baked beans and mac and cheese.
The pork was deliciously tender and very smoky. I think it’s some of the smokiest tasting BBQ I’ve had so far. Just check out that smoke ring.
The sides were kind of meh, although the baked beans were pretty good. The mac and cheese seemed to be just macaroni with salty cheese sauce poured on it. Ok, but there’s better out there. I got the impression that the sides were somewhat inconsistent. A few people in the group ordered the coleslaw which they said was really good before, but was pretty bad this time. The corn fritters, little fried nuggets of battered corn, were pretty tasty though.
The sauces are served warm in pump dispensers on a counter across from where you place your order. There are 4 sauces to choose from: traditional, sweet and tangy, classic mustard-based and a hot and spicy one. There’s also ketchup and regular mustard too, but I don’t recall seeing anything on the menu that you’d want to put them on. I probably just missed it though.
I went for the traditional and hot sauces. Don’t think I really liked the traditional sauce a whole lot, but the hot BBQ sauce was pretty decent. It tasted like it might have been mustard based as well. Really though, the pork stands up pretty well on its own and didn’t need any sauce at all.
If you’re in the area and develop a hankering for BBQ, Willie Jewell’s is definitely worth stopping at. Based on comments from the others, it seems like they still need to work on the sides to make the quality more consistent though. Prices are pretty reasonable though.
3.5 stars out of 5.
Well. It looks like I probably will not win at blood donating for this year’s contest.
Apparently I’ve become slightly anemic, which would probably explain why I’ve been feeling kind of run down and tired lately. Whether it’s from donating blood or some other cause I don’t know yet, but the doc says I should probably lay off on the donating for a little while at least and recover a bit.