What I learned about the Deep Fried Weekend

I love deep fried food, it is delicious. Crispy. Juicy. Just pure awesome. 

The last mountains trip in September 2013, we decided to do a deep fried weekend. Ease off the grill and deep fry our meals. What a great idea. I stocked up on some deliciousness over the next few months waiting for day that deep fried mountains would come. 

Well this past weekend, it happened. Here are a few pictures for you to gaze upon.

Mozzarella Sticks, chicken tenders and corn dogs.

Deep frying some chicken wings.

Deep fried desserts, oreos and candy bars.

Look at the food. Awesome right??

Well it was really, but like one day of it, not deep frying for 3 days. Sure it's really good, but too much grease over that time.

Deep fried oreos are great, first time I've had one and if you ever have the chance, do it. It's worth having once.

I found a really awesome and easy funnel cake mix. Here you go.

The oil has to be hot, like all the time, or the food will take longer to cook and taste like oil. I'm sure that's not good for the arteries at all.

Also, items that are composed mostly water say like tater tots. When they hit the hot oil, the oil will go everywhere, like maybe your hand, and then it will bubble up a few hours later. Not fun.

This will never happen again, I can promise you that.

Mountains needs a new grill

And this one would do just fine!

The gas/charcoal hybrid grill is like the best thing ever. I should start a fund to get one of these.

YEAH!

2012 Tomato Festival Beer Chug

Another year has past, and this was our 7th Tomato Festival Beer Chug. This years contestants were returning chuggers Neal and Doug, along with newcomers Jim and Todd.

Check out the video to see the chug.

2011 Mountains Fantasy Football Roundup.

Fantasy Football has ended, and we have an New Champion this season. Doug, he's won before.

Domination.

That's how you can explain Doug's run this year, after going 3-3 he went on an 8-0 into the playoffs then easily defeated the competition in the playoffs. Wussies.

The images below are the final standings, the playoff brackets and the new champion with his prize.






An image of a true champion.

Been awhile, not much has happened

Posts have been few and far between in the mountains realm.

First off, no mountains trip this past fall, the mountains tournament has been at a stand-still for quite some time now. Not sure if we'll ever have the numbers to have a good tournament again.

The Mountains Challenge baseball fantasy league came and went. My 3 year reign of awesomeness came to an end in the first round of the playoffs. Where after dominating all season, my team decided to take a week off and I lost to Bronx Bombin'. The Bi-Winners came back and finished out the season with a 3rd place finish. The Championship was won by a pizza eating ginger, he probably cheated somehow. Gingers normally do. Below you can see the championship playoff tree and final standings.





The Mountains Fantasy Football League is underway. Think I'll do a power ranking on that after this week, right now the Dingleberries are leading the way with a 7-2 record in The Tops Division, Chain Gang is leading the Power Bottoms division with a 6-3 record. Only 5 more weeks to play.

2011 Tomato Festival Beer Chug

The 2011 Tomato Festival Beer Chug including last year's winner, Neal, newcomer Freddie, and veterans Paul and myself (Doug). This was not even a contest. Neal kicked our butts plain and simple. Had he not stopped on his last beer, he would have finished in under a minute. I need to practice a new technique if I want to win next year. I have to say I thought I was fast finishing in under 2 minutes. Wrong. I'm slow. Neal had us beat early and there was really no way to catch up. Fred finished 1 beer, I had followed through and finished my 6 beers, just for pride at that point.

Can't wait until next year, hopefully I can line up some more people to compete.

YouTube Page

Check out the Mountains YouTube page, or as I like to call it Mountainstube.

You'll get so see some great footage we captured like this.

How to properly light a match.




Enjoy