Recipe: Kahlua Drunken Pineapples

Someone asked me why I dont I put recipes on my blog....I decided to add this recipe because it always goes over big at bbq's.

Ingredients:
2 Fresh Pineapples (If you can fly to Hawaii and get these)
1 bottle of Kahlua
Brown Sugar
Optional:
Haagen Daz Pineapple Coconut Ice Cream
Butterscotch snapps

Directions:
Peel and core the Pineapple. Try to leave the pineapple intact.....Cut the pineapple in whole steak cuts. If you cored the pineapple correctly....you should be able to cut it in 1/2 inch steaks cuts and the core is out of the center. Marinate the pineapple in Kahlua for at least 4 hours. I usually do it over night. After finishing BBQ'ing on hot coals...if you are using gas...please dont make my recipe....this is for real people that truly bbq. Coat pineapple with brown sugar and place on grill. Once pineapple and sugar camelizes and you get your grill marks take off.

Two ways to serve this....
1. Got this part from a Brazilian restuarant in Philly.....drizzles some butterscotch snapps on it.
2. Serve with ice cream, Haagen n Dazs pineapple coconut is the best to go with this....sizzles on some chocolate (I make a chocolate drizzle with baileys and chocolate syrup).

Proud to be back in the USA

Before I publish a real post about my adventures in Brasil, I thought I would do a, I am glad I live in the USA post. Its hard sometimes traveling around the world. There are a lot of things you see that makes you appreciate your country and things that make you say, I am glad I have a passport and travel. Its nothing like seeing the sunset on the harbour in Sydney, sun going down after 10 p.m. in Spain, families out on the streets walking and eating ice cream at 2 in the morning in Madrid, red light district of Amsterdam, the glow the pacific has when the moon hits it at night.

But being in basically a 3rd world country like Brasil makes you appreciate the USA more. Its heart breaking seeing young kids beg for change at all ours of the day. Its harder because you have to say no. I actually took granola bars with me and gave those out when kids were begging. Someone accused me of working for Quaker Oats...LOL Walking down the streets and seeing kids laying on the pavement sleeping, no blanket or anything...just a piece of newspaper as a so call pillow....it takes a strong person to be able to walk pass that and not say "dang". Women in that country basically using their looks to get by, sometimes just to get a real meal or a warm bed to sleep or a warm body to sleep next to at night. One thing I noticed that all of the service jobs are taken by the men.....I have never seen a women bartender, server, waiter or anything any of the times I have been there. So now you understand why they do what they do. Basically, there are no jobs for them.

I do love my country and probably would not want to live anywhere else in the world, with the exception of Australia. I dont agree with some of our countries principles....but I rather be here. I was listening to a promo for the nightly news and the anchor said "there are people around the world, that hate the American way of life". The first thing I said to myself, this person has probably never been out of North America. People dont hate our way of life, they hate the fact they we feel that we should impose our way of life on the rest of the world.