Blues You Can Use

Here's To The Guitar Slingers

(Scroll down to "The Playlist" and hit play before reading... works better that way!)

Like bluesman Bryan Lee says... "Do you wanna Boogie?... I don't, I want to melt your skull!" We mention Bryan because, not only is he a great blues guitarist in his own right, but he helped discover Mr. Kenny Wayne Shepard (pictured above). At the age of 13 Bryan brought him onstage to play to play the blues. And, as they say... the rest is history. Check him out on Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile". 

This is truly some of my favorite music and food. Put on some blues, put a pizza on the grill, give me a cold libation and I'm good to go. 

Sometimes you just gotta crank it! It's kind of like primal scream therapy. It's good for what ails you.  

And, in the words of Bryan Lee... "put the pots on, cause we're cookin'!" 

The Pots Are On...

The Plate...

Char-Grilled Spicy Italian Sausage Pizza

Ok, this is so quick, easy and delicious you're going to want to make it all the time. You can make your own pizza dough or even buy pizza dough in your deli section at the store.  I really live the convenience of having it already made. And, Mama Mary's is good stuff.

You'll want to mess around with your own ingredients. We've even had pizza parties where we give everyone there own crust and set up a "buffet" of ingredients. So, play around with it and have fun.

What you need... 

1/2 lb Italian sausage / sliced

1 yellow pepper / roasted and chopped

1 jalapeño / roasted and chopped

olive oil

Mama Mary's thin & crispy pre-made pizza crust

1/2 lb Mozzarella cheese (slice and pat dry with paper towel to remove water)

2 tbsp Italian seasoning

3-4 tbsp of your favorite Marinara sauce

What you do...

Grill the sausage in a medium sauce pan until golden brown. (about 10 minutes)

Add the yellow peppers and jalapeño and cook until soft.

Heat your grill to high - 500 -600 degrees.

Brush the "top" side of your pizza crust with olive oil and put olive oil side down on the grill for 1-2 minutes.

Brush the "bottom" side of the pizza crust with olive oil and flip cooking for 1-2 minutes. 

Add the marinara sauce, then cheese, peppers, jalapeño and sausage. 

Close grill and cook for 3-4 minutes until the cheese melts and top with Italian seasoning. 

The Playlist...

Guitar Slingers - Blues You Can Use

Every now and again you gotta let loose...  get loud and crazy.  Well, here's some "blues you can use"... guitar slingers at their best.  

Kenny Wayne, Billy Gibbons, Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray... they are all here. As usual we have some old, some new and some you probably never heard. They all have one thing in common. They can flat tear up a guitar. 

I love Billy Gibbons on ZZ Top's first album playing the "Hendrix" inspired "Brown Sugar". Not to mention Big Head Todd covering John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom"; greatest blues song ever. 

Like Stevie Ray says - "I use strings as thick as barbed wire, tune em down and play em hard".  Rock on my brothers and sisters!

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The Bar...

Ginger Beer Sangria

What you need...

2 oz Ginger Beer

2 oz Vodka

4 oz fruity white wine

2 oz sour mix

slice lemon 

slice orange

1 strawberry / sliced

2-3 raspberries

2-3 blueberries

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• What you do...
• Mix everything together except the ginger beer. 
• Let it set up for at least an hour.
• Pour into tall glass and top off with ginger beer.  
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Tune em Down...

And Play em Hard! - SRV

Please... Day Drink Responsibly 

& 

Keep On Cookin'!