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Hi Guys, I've been missing in action for awhile doing a lot of work around the house but now that I've caught up, I thought I would post a shot of my garden and the banana peppers that are growing like crazy. I never grew banana peppers before and I'm trying to incorporate them into as many...

I have a lot of jumbo chicken wings in the freezer left over from my wife's party a couple of months ago so it was time to start clearing out the stock. Marinated the wings using my FoodSaver marinade vacuum thing. Cut the marinade time in half. Also made some macaroni salad to go with the...

We decided to go with home made pizzas for Mother's Day. Our two daughters and my youngest son were over and it was a fun project for dinner. Most of the fun for me was setting up the Performer. I planned on following Don Cash's post about his pizza set-up. I have the same pizza stone he has...

My eldest daughter showed up this morning with a large bag of Mother's Day cookies she baked special for her mom. They were made with traditional chocolate chip cookie dough and they had a surprise inside . . . a Double Stuffed Oreo cookie. Sounds disgusting but they really taste good!! I'm so...

I'm not a big fan of turkey burgers but this meat mix has 50 percent lean pork in it to keep it moist. Added 1/2 cup of chopped green onion, 1 cup of grated sharp cheddar cheese, a jalapeno pepper and two tablespoons of Hoochie Mama BBQ rub to the mix. Heated up my CI griddle with some peanut...

I was asked if I could bring some BBQ to our relatives Easter lunch tomorrow so I decided it was time to do a brisket. Cooked a small brisket last week on the WSM and heated it up later using some of Waler Jetton's mop. It was delicious. Going to use the same method for the cook as last time but...

What to do with leftover pulled pork? Try putting it in an enchilada using Vermin's Green Chile Sauce . . . YUM!! The first thing I did was make some Mango BBQ Sauce to add to the pork. This sauce is excellent for pulled pork sandwiches and also on things like turkey burgers. Here's a link to...

What's laying around in the fridge? . . . a defrosted 9.5 lb. turkey breast roast, a 6.25 lb. pork butt and a 2.5 lb. chunk of brisket left over from making sausage yesterday. Solution? . . . load everything into the WSM and be done with it! Seasoned the turkey with Wolf Rub Citrus, the pork...

Learning how to make sausage is kind of like learning how to ride a bike. You can explain the hows but the trick is learning the feel of things for yourself. List of surprise discoveries during the process: 1. Keeping the fat cold is difficult. Especially when everything you do for the first...

Just finished watching the evening news and they had a scary story about drug resistant bacteria (Staph bacteria) being found in nearly 50% of poultry, beef and pork in supermarkets across the nation. The news report profiled a health inspector who said that this is happening due to all the...

Picked up some center loin pork chops that were on sale at the supper market and cut them up into bite size hunks for kabobs. Put the pork into my vacuum marinade dish with a liberal coating of Kona Coast's Marinade & Grilling Ginger Wasabi Terriyaki. Placed it in the fridge for a couple of...

Flat Iron steaks for my son and I. My wife had Mahi-Mahi seasoned with Knox's Cracked Pepper dry rub and chopped up fresh basel. Gave the steaks a head start on the indirect side after potatoes were nearly done. Put steaks over direct coals with fish once the internal temp of the steaks reached...

Ground up a chuck pot roast I had in the freezer for tonight's burgers and fries. Everything is set to go. CI skillet with a little canola oil and butter to cook onions and set protein of burger patties. Frying in pan with butter adds an extra layer of flavor and crispness to burgers. After...

My wife has been fasting for communion and she loves salmon, so last night was fish night. Heated some unsalted butter in my CI pan. Fried the salmon on each side to set the protein. Added some sprigs of thyme and rosemary with crushed garlic for just under one minute. Took salmon out of pan...

I have a lot of jumbo chicken wings in the freezer so I thawed some to make hot wings for dinner last night. First I tossed the wings in a large bowl with some yellow hot pepper paste. Next I dusted them with Chef Merito Chicken Seasoning. Prepped the Performer with Stub's briquets and mesquite...

Last Saturday was my wife's and son's birthday bash. We had over 30 guests who attended for the celebration and BBQ. Here's what I served. I got to say, I went nuts on this and cooked enough food to feed 60. MAIN DISHES 1. Spicy Peach Chicken (8 whole chickens cooked at high heat in the WSM...

You ever get an idea in your head that you can't shake then you realize you probably shouldn't have gone down that path? Well here's my post on Meatball Madness! We're having a party this Saturday and I thought it would be cool to make spicy cocktail meatballs as an appetizer. Our guest list is...

Picked up a 22 lb. cryo pack of Black Angus Tri-tips at Restaurant Depot yesterday. We're having a birthday bash with 30 guests for my wife and son on Saturday so I wanted to try out one of the tri-tips. Seasoned the tri-tip with Susie Q's Santa Maria Valley Style Seasoning and grilled it over...

We're having a combo birthday party for my wife and youngest son next Saturday and my son requested hot wings as one of the main dishes. I have a couple of wing recipes he likes but they both require cooking the wings over indirect heat for a period of time. One recipe cooks the wings for about...

We've had a lot of steak and potato posts lately so I though I would add mine . . . Flat Iron Steak and twice backed potato. I marinated the steak in a combination of red wine, balsamic vinegar, a dash of onion powder and a pinch of sugar. Let is set refrigerated in the marinade for about three...

We visited family in Mesa, Arizona over the weekend and my sister-in-law whipped out some homemade sausage they had made earlier that week. This was the first time they made sausage and I have to admit, it was very tasty. She knows I like to BBQ so she started asking me all kinds of questions...

I've used Yummy Chicken Dry Rub at home and have been very pleased with the flavor profile. However, I was curious how the chicken would taste under harsher eating conditions . . . a picnic in the very arid Joshua Tree National Park. The park is only about a two hour drive from our house and...

I have a couple of pork butts that I purchased frozen from a meat supplier. I plan on defrosting the butts and cutting them up for sausage meat. After making the sausages, can they be frozen for use later without having the pork taste off? Doing so would mean that the meat was frozen twice. What...

I made this meatloaf once before and it was so good I decided to give it a try again. However, this time I had my new meat grinder so I was able to grind up a fresh chuck roast for the hamburger portion of the recipe. I used 2 pounds of fresh ground chuck roast with 2 pounds of ground sweet...

I ground up some brisket and tri-tip for meatballs a couple of days ago and had some of the ground meat left over in the fridge. Since the meatball meat mixture (half brisket & half tri-tip) had seasonings and bread crumbs in it, I didn't get a true flavor profile of the meat mixture. The left...