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We cooked a tri-tip for tacos last night. We started with a marinade of chipotle peppers, the adobo sauce (someone should sell jars of just the sauce) limes, oranges, cilantro, spices and some olive oil here's the cut before going into its bath - it had some great marbling.. while the...

I like to make a pastrami a couple of times of year - We had a pretty good coupon from Snake River Farms so we ordered a brisket. This is the first time I ordered a brisket directly from them - They do have them at our grocery on occasion, but they are typically just the flat - I wasn't sure...

It's going to be chilly for the next few days, so I thought I'd make up some chicken noodle soup for lunches. One of the spoils of retirement is that you spin a chicken on a Tuesday morning! ..its cold out there! let it spin for about an hour and 20 minutes: cut up some veggies: saute...

It's that time of year again - Sausage stuffing season! We did up a batch of Polish sausages this week - it went down something like this: We roasted 6 large heads of garlic and got them peeled up.... Pork shoulder was on sale so I grabbed a nice looking one and got it grounded up with a...

Made up a batch of chicken sausages - We first roasted some garlic and peppers from our garden and then added some white wine, salt, sugar, pepper, parsley & buttermilk powder: Ground up a bunch of thighs and added a bit of leaf lard - and stuffed them up - I got a new electric stuffer which...

I was up in my old haunts of Seattle this weekend, and made a stop at my old fish place to grab a few things - I was liking the looks of @Brett-EDH 's seared ahi so I thought I'd give it a shot - They had some nice sashimi grade yellow fin, so I grabbed a couple..... started first with...

For Smoke Day Monday, we did a couple of slabs - but not until we kicked off the day with a little breakfast on the Weber griddle: Dusted up the ribs and got them on.... meanwhile, Doris baked some buttermilk rolls... This is after about 4 hours... wrapped them for about an hour and...

Happy Smoke Days to all - We kicked off the long weekend with doing a SRF pork shoulder over night on Friday. It weighed in at an impressive 21 pounds - These are impressive cuts -It's really an entire front leg of a Kurobuta pig... rubbed it up early Friday morning, then again before...

As requested per @Joan here.... traditionally, Kung Pao Chicken is prepared with chicken and peanuts - We had some nice asparagus and shiitakes, so we imposed a little artistic license, and 86'ed the nuts and went with veggies. Here’s how it went down: Marinate: 1.5 lbs Chicken Thighs for...

With the kickoff of Smoke Day Weekend upon us, we wanted to start with something a little lighter - kung pao chicken is one our go-to Friday night dinners - Chopped up veggies and diced / marinated some chicken thighs... Got the wok hot, and sizzled the chicken pieces... next the...

Did up a batch of Italian sausages over the weekend - Started out with a 9.75lb butt and some leaf lard. The butt seemed extra fatty, so I didn't need too much extra lard.... Got it all ground up... got the spices weighed out .. stuffed up.... ...and then linked up! I was...

Spring time has arrived - Which for us means fresh local asparagus, as well as mushrooms popping up! Came across these guys while walking the dog....We have a lot mushrooms on our property. Morels are the only ones I feel comfortable harvesting to eat. clean them up a bit ... Get the...

As @Joan pointed out, several of us Aries folks are celebrating our birthdays this month - What better way to celebrate than with some baby backs and watching the Masters..... got some rub on these these guys, and tossed them on.... Weather wise, it was the first nice weekend of the year...

did up a small batch of chicken sausages..... - Started by roasted a bunch of Anaheim's, Fresno's and 6 big heads of garlic....The Fresno peppers we get really pack some heat, which I like! 🌶️ peeled, and chopped everything up..... Ground up the chicken - I was lazy and just used boned...

Did some wings for the Monday night game last night - I wanted to test drive a new condiment I had scored recently. I started with a couple bags of our local frozen peaches, added 3/4 cup of sugar and couple of table spoons of Yellow Lantern Chilli Sauce. This stuff has plenty of kick! Got...

I saw @ChuckO 's leftover's strategy with the Philly Cheese Steaks and thought that was a pretty great idea! With that, I have direct from the 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery' file, our attempt. Doris baked some mini baguette's that we would use for our rolls: I stuck a hunk of...

Happy Holidays to all - 🎄 Because they are normally on sale around the holidays, we typically buy a 4 bone rib roast - split it - and put a half in the freezer, which with just the 2 of us this year, we did again. we spread a mixture of olive oil, garlic, thyme and the Spice House's Old...

Did another belly over the weekend - This is another one with the EcoCure - I'm warming up to the stuff- Peeled 12 heads of garlic and let it go in the brine for 8 days - Scored these jumbo brining bags that I'd never seen before. They were thick, and a whole belly fit in it nicely. Me...

I had done a pork butt over night Saturday for that lovely BEARS game on Sunday - That didn't work out too well - The pork was fine, the BEARS not so much - anyway, had some leftovers for taco Tuesday. I put it on at about 10:30 Saturday night.... fast forward to Sunday morning. This was...

They had some nice looking SRF pork chops at our store the other day so I thought I'd give them a try - We don't do a lot of pork chops, so I thought I'd do them on the smoker seeing I still had some charcoal in it leftover from the weekend - Folks around here suggested the Jealous Devil lump...