Tuesday night cook.... all 40 pounds of it.


 
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JSMcdowell

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Some of you may have seen my posts of my Tuesday night cooks while my wife has classes. Well, tomorrow is a going to be a little different.

I received a call at 7 PM Sunday night from my wife letting me know I need to cook some food for the Wednesday night supper at church. Now, I do remember agreeing to this cook about 3 months ago. Of course, I thought I would have my 22" by now that would have made things much easier, but oh well.

Fortunately I just have to feed about 70 people with meat & BBQ Sauce. The ladies of the church are taking care of buns, sides, drinks, and utensils. Even more furtunately, I called my butcher at 6 AM this morning and he will have 4 10# butts waiting on me this evening.

Plan is to get them on at 6 PM tomorrow, work from home Wednesday morning, get the butts off 11 am - 1 pm, and in the cooler to rest.

On top of all this quick planning, I need to make a gallon of my bbq sauce. A key ingredient is pecan syrup, which I am out of and takes 3 days to ship. So looks like I am finally getting around to making my own pecan syrup!

I will try to get some pictures of the madness.
 
Rick,

The 70 includes children, so I am padded a bit. The Wednesday night supper is for a children's program my wife helps out with.

Also, I have a wonderful butcher that actually cares about his customers. When I order 10 pounders from him, they come in around 10-11. Not like the butcher that I left before, asked for 2x 10 lb butts and got 2x 7 lb butts that had been deboned, at $3+ / lb!

Bob,

I have used a pecan syrup from Hillside orchard farms for the past 6 months or so and it's really good. However, it's the most expensive things I put in my sauce. It costs me $0.85 / 60 oz batch, and the whole batch runs around $3.75. Most recipes I have seen call for using a pecan extract, which I can only find online. So I figured I'd make my own extract.... but it takes 2 months in rum or vodka. So I am going to boil some pecans in brown sugar & water and see how it goes. If you ever see pecan syrup, give it a try, I love it on my waffles.
 
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