Recent content by Village Idiot

The peppers were done with the 5D MKII and 85 f/1.8, the picture of the two pork shoulders were done with the iPhone.

Did two pork shoulders this weekend. It's only an iPhone photo as it was 8:30 in the morning and I didn't have the patience to grab my camera gear...not as hungover as I was. My main camera now is a Canon 5D MKII and I was using a Canon 85 f/1.8 for the above photo. Photo Shop CS5. I have a...

Smoked two pork shoulders last night. Just added a rub on tossed them on the WSM. Talk about easy. I started at 6:30 and checked about 12ish, ended up removing them at about 8:30 this morning, so they were on there for 14 hours. I pulled them off the smoker with a set of tongs and they just fell...

There are ways (like the minion method, google it) so that you can cook for quite a while without having to add charcoal. I could get a burn of about 250 in the installed lid thermometer in my Weber kettle grill off of one batch of charcoal for about 5 hours without much flux. I did buy a new...

The mix is chopped asparagus, chopped baby portabellas, minced garlic, salt & pepper sauteed in some olive oil to soften it up a bit. Usually I use flank steak sliced in half to make a long thin piece to roll up, but the local podunk grocery store didn't have any so I ended up with one of...

It's here! My room mate tried to go outside yesterday and R2D2 was blocking him from leaving. I'm wanting to do a test run, so I was thinking about trying a fruit roll up after work...maybe some chicken mcnuggets.

Anyone ever try these? I made some last night and they were absolutely amazing. I mixed up a sauce to put in the burgers. It was about 8 Tbsp of Sweet Baby Ray's (I really just squeezed a lot out...it looked like that much) and then garlic powder, onion powder, ground chipotle powder, thyme...

Corn, spicy jack cheese, juice from a lime, salt, pepper, ground chipotle pepper. I believe that's it.

Of course. Here's a close up of the grill I've been using.

So I finally got around to it and after procrastinating on it for the longest time, I ordered myself a WSM. I've lately been doing the duties with a 22" Weber Silver kettle style grill and it's been OK for some jobs, it's really not the easiest thing I've ever used. I mean, I need something to...

Sorry, that wasn't very clear. By milder taste, I mean as far as the vinegar bite goes and not heat. Fortunately our first batch mellowed out after being in the fridge, but I don't want a Frank's Red Hot type hot sauce where vinegar tastes like the number one ingredient. I like stuff like crack...

I came up with the idea to make hot sauce last week. I and a friend of mine made our first batch which turned out decent, but I want to make more and learn more about this amazing stuff. The first batch started by putting some oil in a pan and sautéing 3 habaneras and 7 cubanelles until they...

I'm going to try this one evening this week. I've got several recipes for Gnocchi, but the stipulation is seafood. I was thinking Gnocchi with crab in some type of sauce, but I really wanted a tomato sauce. How would crab go with this? Would it? Traditionally you see crab is cream sauces or in...

It's my very own very sharp knife™ which is part of Slough Roast© blog. Plus pressing five numeric keys to get one symbol is entertaining... I take it no one's ever played Monkey Island?

Try some place like www.catalinaop.com I keep eyeing them up for their sushi, but it looks like they have a good selection. It can get expensive if you start ordering a ton of things, but they overnight it to your door, so if you're some where where seafood is scarce, there are options.