New Year's Eve, lots of smoke and grilling !!

[BrianCal]

Somehow my wife and I became the permanent NYE hosts for our friends. So decided to work in lots of foods from the smoker and the grill.

Started by rubbing some pork loins with a coffee rub, and made a coffee bbq sauce to go with that course

Did some smoked salmon, always a crowd pleaser

Smoked some cheese, from left to right there is a horseradish cheddar, and creamy havarti, and a three cheese pepper colby:

Some smoked wings, finished on the grill for a quick sear, from left to right these is buffalo (frank's & butter), Blues Hog BBQ, and plain

For main courses there was a five pound beef tenderloin, grilled to perfection by my friend:

The pork loin and the bbq sauce:

And while not grilled, my friend who is a professional chef brought some chicken thighs in an Asian style glaze (amazing!!)

The dinner spread:

And the chef also brought chocolate peanut butter rice krispie treats, to die for

 

[Steven]

Somehow my wife and I became the permanent NYE hosts for our friends. So decided to work in lots of foods from the smoker and the grill.

Started by rubbing some pork loins with a coffee rub, and make a coffee bbq sauce to go with that course

Beautiful work.

Steven V

 

[BrianCal]

Finally figured out google photos !!!

Might be the hangover, which I tried to fix with breakfast on the grill with my new Lodge griddle on the gasser:

 

[BrianCal]

Oh, and the wife decided to make shot glasses out of Jolly Ranchers

!!!!

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Amazing spread Brian. You and your friend killed it. Absolutely.

Edit.... Just saw your wife's shot glasses. Pretty sweet! Sorry.

 

[JimK]

Amazing looking spread. Well done!

And Jolly Rancher shot glasses!!?? Details, please!

 

[CaseT]

Looks like a really tasty spread!

 

[BrianCal]

Amazing looking spread. Well done!

And Jolly Rancher shot glasses!!?? Details, please!

Well, as you can imagine, they were the ultimate good news / bad news scenario.....

My wife got a silicon mold at a craft store. She broke up the jolly ranchers, and then put them in the mold in the oven to melt them, then in the fridge to harden. Did some in chocolate too, but no pics. We used the jolly rancher ones for some flavored vodka we had made (cranberry, pomegranate) and the chocolate ones for cafe patron tequila.

The downside is that they started to break and crack, so we all decided the best solution was to do more shots faster, before they broke completely....felt every bit of that idea the next day.... UGH.

 

[Robert-R]

What a spread! And it all looks delish. You have a new friend request!!!

 

[Rich Dahl]

That's a load of good eats, it all looks really good.

 

[Barb D]

Brian, your and your friends did an awesome job. That table spread it to die for.

 

[BrianCal]

Thanks all...there was other good food there, but as we all know the ones not cooked over fire or smoke just don’t count

 

[Dustin Dorsey]

You are killing it! Well done!

 

[ChuckO]

That's a five star cook Brian! All kinds of good eats there