Supermoon Seared Spencer Steaks (SSSS) !

Camadile

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The last full moon on November 14 was designated a "Super Moon" because the moon's orbit brought it to it closer to the Earth than it has in about 67 years. This rare event made me want to get "out there" and celebrate it's rising with what is arguably the world's best steak: The Spencer Steak. The Spencer is essentially all that is great about the ribeye (the center) tied up neatly with string into a full moon shape. Spencer steaks should only be made from USDA Prime ribeyes because of the intricate marbling that infuses the meat with incredible flavor.

On Supermoon Day, I went to a local butcher in Sierra Madre, CA called Taylor's Ol' Fashion Meats which sells only the highest quality Prime meats and picked up two half-pound Spencer Steaks for $35!

The only venue that seamed appropriate for the gourmet Super Moon celebration was at the top of a mountain called San Olean that, at 3,400 feet, overlooks the entire LA basin and is directly above Sierra Madre. Here is a picture that I took outside Taylor's that shows the mountain top where my buddy Enzo and I would be cooking later in the day:

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On top of that mountain, there is a water tank with a huge concrete disk on top of it that directs all of the rain that falls on it into the tank for use by firefighters during future conflagrations. A hillside next to the tank allows one to jump on top of the disk. This was the venue for cooking the Supermoon Seared Spencer Steaks (SSSS) on, you guessed it, the Mojoe Griddle! The view from there is spectacular and you can watch as the sun sets over LA and the city lights come alive while we cook an unbelievable gourmet meal on the Mojoe! This is the Mojoe Lifestyle at it's best. Here's the video we shot:


After we savored our meal, Enzo and I sat in our camp chairs and looked over the city lights for a couple of hours solving all the world's problems. That's when a large 350 lb.+ bear sauntered in near my truck below us! I'm sure he wanted in on our steaks and had been traveling for two hours to get there once the smell of our SSSS tickled his nose. At that point, we decided it was time to leave so I carried our gear down to my truck while my buddy performed guard duty with one of the legs from my Camp Chef stove!

Cam
 
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TwinStick

Explorer
AWESOME !!! Cool video. Glad there was no "bear incident" & everyone left safely. Man, my mouth is watering now ! lol
 

Wilbah

Adventurer
Great video....you clearly have fun cooking and find some great spots to do it! Thanks for sharing it....the steaks looked darn delicious too!
 

Camadile

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Your videos aren't showing up in my feed! What events will you be at in 2017 Cam?

I can't figure out how to embed videos here at Expo! You have to click the link to see the video.

I will be at the AAV Desert Rendezvous Feb. 10-12 and the Overland Expo in May.

Cam
 

Camadile

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Your videos aren't showing up in my feed! What events will you be at in 2017 Cam?

I can't figure out how to embed videos here at Expo! You have to click the link to see the video.

I will be at the AAV Desert Rendezvous Feb. 10-12 and the Overland Expo in May.

Cam
 

dwh

Tail-End Charlie
In the post editor there are buttons at the top to embed links, pics and vids. Click the one for vids and paste the vid link into the box that pops up.
 

Camadile

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In the post editor there are buttons at the top to embed links, pics and vids. Click the one for vids and paste the vid link into the box that pops up.

Thanks for that but that is exactly what I do! That procedure works for every other forum but it doesn't work for me here. Hmmmm...

Cam
 

dwh

Tail-End Charlie
Looks like a bug in vBulletin's bbCode.

When you use the button in the editor, it just inserts the URL that you pasted, bracketed like:

(VIDEO)URL(/VIDEO)

But of course, it uses [ ] instead of ( ) because it's bbCode.

So here's the thing...Google has been on a kick lately to rid the world of http. Instead, they want everyone using encrypted links, which start with https.

So when you copy the link from YouTube, it starts with https, but that doesn't seem to be working here. I had to manually remove the s to make it http, instead of https and that worked.
 

Camadile

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dwh: Awesome bass solo! Reminds me of the bass solo in Frank Zappa's "Apostrophe (')" from the album of the same name.

Cam
 

dwh

Tail-End Charlie
Kevin Bacon six degrees of separation story time...


Right out of high school I had a graveyard shift night job at Sherman Oaks News, a newsstand on the corner of Ventura and Van Nuys boulevards. Frank lived up the hill off of Mulholland.

Once a week or so in the wee hours, some musician or other, most often the drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, but once or twice Frank himself, would come down to the news stand and buy cigarettes. They would buy a couple dozen packs of smokes, all different brands. Like, "Ah, gimme one of those and one of that and a couple of the blue ones". No plan or list, just a bagful of whatever.

One night I asked Vinnie ******? He told me Frank and most of the other guys smoke a lot and so Frank likes to have an assortment laying around to choose from.

(Of course that was decades before Frank got cancer and said his favorite vegetable was tobacco.)


I could tell a hundred stories from that job.

Paul Stanley, without makeup, but before Kiss publically took off the makeup, who pulled up and got out of a limo with a matched set of blonde bimbos...right as I was straightening the music mags and actually holding one in my hand with Kiss on the cover. We made eye contact and I looked at the mag, looked at him, looked back at the mag, back at him. He knew I'd made him. There was a moment of uneasy tension, then we both just cracked up laughing, because it was pretty comical.

Pat Benatar and Neil Gerardo. Tom Petty. A dozen others, and a whole bunch of jazz and blues guys who played in the clubs nearby.

And don't even get me started on the film and TV stars. James Coburn was one of the coolest guys I ever met. Unpretentious. Drove a Ferrari that had never been washed and had rubbish all over the floor.


(Or the CHP officer who stopped by regularly and one night sold me a Raven .25 auto and told me exactly what to say in the police report if I ever had to actually use it.)
 

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