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A Great Way To Clean Our Weber Q

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It’s probably the unofficial grill of Rvers everywhere. Walk through any RV park in North America and count the different brands of barbeque grilles and the Weber Q series usually wins by about 3 to 1 over any other brand. Everybody loves them, nobody is sad they bought one.
We’ve had ours for more almost a year now and the only thing I can’t figure out why I didn’t buy a Weber in the first place instead of screwing around with other comparable priced brands.

I’ve always had a problem getting the cooking grate clean until yesterday. We were out walking the RV park yesterday morning and stopped to talk to a fellow whose grill was smoking away. I asked him what was for breakfast, he replied that he was cleaning his grill.
Here is his secret is: he fires up his grill, turns it on high, puts two layers of aluminum foil on the cooking grate, closes the lid and lets it roar for about 30 minutes.

When I got home I tried his method. It works great. Just follow that up with a bit of easy scraping, brush off the cooking grate and it’s job done.
Now I just need to come up with an easy way of cleaning the inside of the lid. How do you clean yours?
While we are talking Weber; I get the distinct impression that the regulators on the Weber 100 series is their weak point. In my owners manual Weber suggests that you use the small 1 pound bottles as the source of liquid propane. I know of probably 6 people who’s regulators have failed after they have been using the big road tank on their motor home as their fuel source. In all cases Weber has told them not to use the big tank, that it voids their warranty. In most, but not all of the cases that I am aware of, Weber has then replaced the regulator under warranty anyway.
What’s been your experience? What’s your favorite grill?

High In Fibre

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A couple of weeks ago we were talking about how, when I was a young gaffer, I used to enjoy the date squares my mother made for us. Marilyn reads my blogs too (in fact she subscribed so that every morning I deliver one to her too); She had some extra time yesterday,  even after all the laundry, and we still had a big selection of dates, so she dug out a recipe. We know there are lots of oats in them and we certainly know that oats are high in fibre and help lower cholesterol. What other healthy things are in matrimonial cake? How about 1 1/3 cups of brown sugar and a half a cup of butter?

OK, maybe they’re not that healthy after all but they sure are good. I mean delicious good. Thanks Sweetie.

Two days ago we re-planted our almost ten-year old cacti in a new pot and added a couple of new cacti in the new pot to boot. If anyone knows why these cacti for any reason shall not be wed……. It was quite a ceremony!
Look at the new flowers they sprouted overnight. Now we know two things about our new cacti. Number one, they love it here, up on the dash of our coach, looking down the highway, and number two they must be girl cacti. I don’t think boy cacti would flower like that. Unless cactus are more like birds (where the men are the colorful ones) then people. I was watching some peacocks yesterday and boy were they ever pretty (as opposed to peahens. They’re pretty blah actually).
Does anybody have any idea how we got from high color to high bird fashion in just one little blog? Me neither. Who writes this crap? And why? Speaking of crap, that reminds me. Every week or ten days I dump our black water tank and today, before we head off to Phoenix, is the day.
I think that’s enough BS for one day, don’t you?
Except to say, if you want your amazingvanstones delivered to your computer everyday we publish just like Marilyn, Tracy, Linda and George and a whole bunch of other people who appreciate great literature, just gaze over to your right and carefully place your email address there where it says Free, free, free delivery. Just a couple more clicks and tomorrow you too will be on my daily route.

Looks like I am returning to my youth; I used to have a paper route. And when I got home from delivering my papers my Mom gave me a matrimonial square. But that’s another story.

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Matrimonial Cake

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Date farm

Way back, when the earth was green and I was just a little gaffer (yes, I was once) my mother used to bake. And one of her favorite deserts to bake and hence one of my favorite desserts to eat was matrimonial cake. Over the years I seem to have forgotten how good I thought those squares really were but since we have been in the American south west dates and I  have re-connected with dates. My first reunion with that delicious fruit was at the Farmers Market in Temecula back in December. They were almost as good as my first kiss ( Not my very first kiss. I mean my first kiss from Marilyn). Since then, while out shopping for “Two Buck Chuck” we picked some up at a Trader Joes but on Sunday while out for a drive(you could say Marilyn and I were out on a date), we stopped at a Date farm near Bard California. We stopped for a date shake gut before we left we bought some more dates the fruit kind. They too are delicious. Now when you open our fridge it  appears we are starting a  date collection, so much so that Marilyn’s comment yesterday was that we should bake something to use a few up. This ties in with me thinking that I should get back to doing some cooking again. I really did used to enjoy it. So I googled “date squares” and up came Matrimonial cake. I passed on that because we didn’t have the oatmeal and looked like a lot of work, so I  moved on to date muffins, those ingredients we have and it really looks easier.

Date Palms plantation

Instead of doing either we went with Sonny and Linda for an afternoon drive  in the country.This morning I’m thinking; how boring are date muffins going to be?

So that’s it; I’m taking a stand out here in the sand. Nothing will stop me from my goal. Come hell or high water, I will bake that Matrimonial cake and I will do it well. That’s the least I can do. You gotta know  Mom would have done it for me.

Just as an aside, while preparing to post this story I googled “dates”. Guess what came up first? Would you believe “E Harmony’, the dating service. Obviously when I discovered dating as in girls I too forgot all about dates as in the fruit of the Phoenix dactylifera. Another perfect example of man’s age old conflict between the big and small brains.