Redneck Tale # 45 – A very good image source and a tasty sausage sandwich

Right now the rain is coming down like crazy and my middle is filled up with a really fine hot sausage sandwich on a huge whole-wheat hoagie bun. Let’s deal with that very tasty lunch before going along to the source of the images that accompany this short article.

I had sneaked past my wife and had gotten into the kitchen undetected. Our little mutt, "The Wardog" almost betrayed my presence in the kitchen, but I was able to shoo him away before our mutual boss got her suspicions aroused. That little guy always chases after me when I head for the kitchen because he knows that I am a soft touch as to tossing him a scrap of something tasty.

I pulled out the oversize skillet and popped in some marinated and well-seasoned skirt steak. The plan was to cook the steak nicely before cutting it into fajita strips. That left some room in the huge skillet, much like an invitation not to be wasted. In the refrigerator was a half package of "Eckridge" brand smoked sausages loaded with lots of chopped jalapeno pepper. There, dear friends, is a combination that is hard to beat. After the sausages were sliced right down their middles, into the skillet they went.

I next cut a foot-long whole-wheat hoagie into two pieces and sliced each half down its middle. It was a beautiful bunch of bread, even before anything was placed on it. All of the pieces were then treated to a good slopping with mayonnaise and each of the half pieces smiled their thanks after being gifted with several handfuls of lettuce pieces. In the meantime the sausage finished cooking. Once the meat was added on, the sandwiches were closed and ready for lunch – one sandwich for me and one for the boss (and none for Wardog). Oh my word! The lunch was so very good that it disappeared before I could whip out my little camera and record the sandwiches in photos to place with this article. (Hunger causes such lapses.)

None of that is to say that regular hotdogs would have not done the trick. It would have been easy enough to put some jalapeno slices in with the lettuce leaves and mayo. Indeed, you can do lots of nifty things with regular hot dogs. Witness this photo of an artfully grilled hotdog that is destined to become the heart and soul of a hotdog sandwich with some super sauerkraut on rye bread. Can’t you just taste that one right now?

Now, all about that photo source. It is "morguefile" on the Internet as a repository of royalty-free photos from a large number of photographers. Access is free to all, and there is no charge under most circumstances for the use of the photos. Most uses do not require attribution of the photo source or of the photographers, but it is always a nice thing for users to provide those whenever they can.

All of the photos with this article came from "morguefile." You can easily see that the photo qualities are good. It is easy to find the sort of image you want, too. For this article I typed the word, "hotdog" into the search box and came up with a big selection of images from which to choose. Evidently, there must be thousands and thousands of photos available on this site for downloading. No matter what I typed into the search box, something always came back on the screen.

Have fun with your image downloading. I am very pleased that I had a great lunch today and that all of those photographers made my article preparation almost as much fun as eating that beautiful jalapeno peppered sausage sandwich.