Fun thread. I'll join as I remember to come back. Not much of a chef, but I try. Crockpot Pork Loin with BBQ rub. Rub (from what I can remember): Brown sugar, cumin, salt, black pepper, white pepper, cayenne pepper, onion powder, paprika, garlic powder. Pork loin, coat liberally, crockpot on high, 4-5 hours. Shread with hands/gloves in pot. Served over baked potato + cheese, bbq sauce and slaw. Later in the week will be pork quesadillas.
The last of the "lasagna suspended in deep freeze" (10CC reference. Life is a Minestrone.) tonight. Tomorrow will be a mission of mercy. Making dry rubbed ribs for a friends' family. Dad is out of town and mom is a vegetarian and has no idea how to cook meat. Her sons are DYING for some meat.
We’ve been picking up our suppers since we’re back in Marianna trying to get the house packed up and deep cleaned to put on the market. Busy to say the least….our goal/plan is to get rooms completed one at the time and then close it off. Life is good in Gator Nation!
Just put a drizzle of orange blossom honey on the ribs as they will be taken off the KJ to rest in about 30 minutes. Tonight's dinner wasn't special enough for tupelo honey and I am getting low on that. Need to find an excuse to go to Wewahitchka some time soon.
I wish that I could remember the name of the student that brought me the totally awesome tupelo honey from Wewahitchka. Stopping at the local gas station and dropping the family name might give me an in for the really good stuff. I am sure that they don't sell that to just anybody.
The tornado did get my DynaGlo charcoal grill so tonight I’m grilling thick cut bone-in center cut pork chops indirect over cherry wood smoke on the BGE. Baked potatoes are also on the grill. Inside we’ve got a freshly made Caesar salad. Ice cold longnecks and chilled wine tonight on the back porch. Life is good in Gator Nation!
No cooking tonight. Meeting up with a bunch of guys that all played pick up and intramural basketball together for dinner and a beer or two before the Mississippi State game. Got to find one of my old team T-shirt jerseys.
I’ve got a big pot of hamburger vegetable soup simmering on the stove smelling up the house for tonight’s supper. Grilled cheese sandwiches to go with as desired. Ice cold longnecks and chilled wine are available to your pleasure. Life is good in Gator Nation!
Hey fellas. left-over pulled pork from above, made into pulled pork quesadillas. Tried to also do some black-beans and rice. Something was off though. Definitely needed a lot more salt among other things.
What kind of rice? We get best results with yellow rice. Also add chopped red onion and melted pepper jack. If that’s not enough, my wife adds a healthy heaping of Frank’s Red Hot
So many ways to make rice for Mexican food. The Chipolte lime and cilantro rice is pretty good but not really authentic Mexican but who cares if it tastes great. I will make that with the right main course. Black beans with either while or red onion is tasty with white rice. Very traditional. I also make white rice with datil peppers. I have no idea if this is a St Augustine thing and "authentic" but it is really good. Made my own recipe.
Is the BGE part of the home sale or are you moving it? Pretty hard to move them. Very heavy and breakage of the ceramic is a concern. I suppose you can remove and package the ceramic safely. And I know that it is an old friend. But with two with you an Alan it opens up a lot of possibilities. Cooking steaks with a high temp sear and then a much lower temp finish is tricky on a Kamdo style cooker. Or reverse sear as well. Takes a long time to ramp up the temps for a sear on a ceramic cooker. With two you can set it up cleanly: one high and one low. Or you can get a KJ. Pretty much the same thing but without the cachet. I like mine. Got it on a good sale at Ace Hardware that also carries BGE. Folks think that getting a KJ is like getting a Chevy and getting a BGE is like getting a Buick. I don't mind getting a Corvette or a high end Camaro.
We are not going to move the BGE—it’s 500 lbs. I am gifting it to one of my best friends in our hunting club here in Marianna. Alan & Abbey and Kayla & JL got us a REC TEQ wood pellet smoker (the Patio Legend 410) for Christmas. That’s going to be a brand new system for me to learn to cook on but I’m kinda looking forward to that. I’ve got a Weber kettle grill in Jasper for regular Kingsford charcoal use to take the place of the DynaGlo grill we lost in Marianna in this last tornado.
Good man. I personally don't believe in an after life but I live my life like there is one because living a life to help others is what we should do as humans. If there is one you got bonus points. I have never used a pellet smoker but the concept of an offset smoker appeals to me. Old school. I have been thinking about getting one. Weber kettle grills are actually very great and underappreciated. You can smoke with one if you know what you are doing and you can do regular grilling on them as well. I miss mine. It was stolen from my yard.
I have always hated a thief. I don’t know another way to say that….. I like to grill indirect too and the Weber kettle gives you that option as well.
This was just white rice we had around the house. That sounds WAY better. We are lucky and still get some left overs. My son is 16, so not many left overs. My parents had a Weber kettle for as long as I can remember, and I have had one ever since we bought our house, 17 years ago.
