We’re going to have a house full of people for Thanksgiving, and today it dawned on me that if I wanted to serve any homebrewed beer I had best be making it right quick. It needs to be drinkable in a couple weeks, so a low-alcohol stout would be an excellent choice! Ten minutes later [...]
I’ve gone beyond smoked-food-for-its-own-sake and am now preping smoked food to use as ingredients in other dishes. This is partly because some family members are tired of smoked food (a daughter I won’t name can proudly enumerate everything I’ve made on the smoker since I got it), and partly just to do something different. Yesterday [...]
Jeezum, does pulled pork take a long time to cook! I put a 7 pound pork picnic in the smoker at 2 this afternoon, and it cooked until almost midnight. The smoker temperature varied wildly from the target temp of 250°, and got up to 350 for a while mainly because I was distracted by [...]
Last night Kate and I picked up a roasting chicken and a bunch of wings (why are wings more expensive per pound than a whole chicken?). If I have time before I’ll try smoking some almonds as well. Larry officially opened his new Bandit’s Wings restaurant yesterday (sorry, no link yet), and we’ve been getting [...]
We’ve had the smoker a week now, and I’m starting to get the hang of it. I scored some fallen apple tree branches this afternoon, a great addition to our little collection of smoke woods. Today I smoked 9 pounds of ribs and 7 pounds of pork loin at the same time. This time I [...]