Friday, November 14, 2008
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I'm in Correctionville Iowa........Pheasant hunting. As you may summize this post has not a dad-gum thing to do with BBQ, opening a restaurant, grilling, cooking, lude language, nudity, bootlegging or.........................uh...............grits. This is really just a post telling you that I have a lot to post about, but ain't gonna do it till first of the week sometime when I get time. Really I'm happy as a damn tornado in a trailer park to be doing this, because I'm a huge quail hunter.....but as any Southerner knows quail hunting ain't what it was 15 years ago, let alone in the 80's and before! We're hunting WILD Pheasant here........not some pen-raised birds let loose an hour before we put our boots on. We may not see any birds, and if we do they may take off way before we come on em'............30mph winds, scattered snow ain't helping us.......but surely that ain't why we're here is it? All I know is I'm not thinking about running a restaurant.
Martin, welcome to Pheasant Country USA. Have been following your blog for some time now because my partner and I are opening up a BBQ / CW restaruant - bar, Wildwood Smokehouse and Saloon in Iowa City, Iowa (How 'Bout them Hawks). Our projected opening date is late April early May. Your blog has provided us with both inspiration and information, thank you for that. If you come up next year for some bird hunting we would love for you to drop by, have some nice property to hunt upon and would love for you to sample some of our 'Que, maybe we can even smoke a bird or two. Keep doing what you're doing, Randy Lee
ReplyDeleterandy thanks for following along....if there is ever anything i can do please dont hesitate to ask! i wish y'all well on your new place. Lord willing i'll be back next year and would love to stop by and visit. take care, thanks again!
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Mr. Martin, sorry about last post, left off the "Mr", made it seem like I thought your name was Martin, again my apologies. Hope your holidays have started out great for you and yours. Have a question for you, in all your vast jouneys and life long connections have you met / know of anyone who might be willing to help us a bit with some consulting as we go through our start up in late April early May? Would love to have that knowledge at start up if possible. Have a great holiday season and an even better '09.
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Wildwood Smokehouse and Saloon
sure.....send me an email and we'll figure it out for you....if you are going to spend for consulting you need for it to be worth every hour (this is how consulting is priced) you pay for!!! my email is:
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Pat,
ReplyDeleteI seldom check in at eG any more, but saw a mention of "Martin's" on another website, and thought it might have been you, since it's near Spring Hill.
We're still coming in to have some of your wonderful cooking---the kids have been coming up here lately, the last couple of years, and so we haven't passed through there much.
I hope this was YOU he was talking about---it's worth looking at:
http://mouthfulsfood.com/forums//index.php?s=&showtopic=18485&view=findpost&p=982885
Hope all's well with you and all of yours---I LOVE the bright-lit, busy, happy porch in the post. It was quiet and cloudy and subdued the day we stopped in---on a Sunday. We'll hit a fun Saturday night with all the clan sometime---I can't wait.
rachel