Went to wife’s family’s annual 4th celebration so today I got to do mine, savory (left side) and sweet ribs (right side) on the 2XL, smoked some bacon for jalapeño boats on the XL and doing pizzas on the Alpha! Happy 250th birthday USA!! 🇺🇸
Wife’s standard lasagna recipe on the large egg indirect heat at 400 for 50 min, loosely covered for the first 25 min.
Happy Fathers Day to all my fellow dad’s smoking their dinner today! Up at 3am to start the fire and pork shoulder butt on at 5am for pulled pork. Also doing a chicken “pollo a la rana ("frog-style chicken") like my folks used to do when I was younger. Got the large working on getting to temp now.
Simple way to start the week, flat iron steak carne asada fajitas! Hope everyone had a good start to their week! Stay Smokey friends!
Ribs at 3 1/2 hours, added sausage and peppers for the final run
Heading out to celebrate my dad’s 87th birthday, all packed up and bringing made from scratch rib sauce I’m testing out for him.
Typically when I do ribs I’ve always started with Cattlemen’s original base and build on it from there. A few months ago I went to visit my sister for a family event and as soon as I walk in she says they have 3 racks of ribs for me to smoke tomorrow (I restored a Large BGE for my BIL last year and I’ve been his remote smoker instructor every since so they always take the opportunity to have me cook for them so he can learn more). Since I wasn’t expecting the task I hadn’t brought anything with me but I am always ready for a challenge. We went shopping for ingredients and I whipped up a fairly decent sauce from scratch mixing base ingredients with some Loot n’ Booty Everything Rub. Since then I have been looking up flavor profiles so I could do my own without any pre-made rubs. Today I made my first sauce 100% from raw ingredients, it’s going to sit until Saturday when I return to my sisters house again and I told them to have ribs ready for me again. Taste testing the fresh sauce has me very excited to see how it finishes on the ribs. I included my recipe in the photos if anyone wants to try for themselves. Cheers 🍻
Picked this slider tool up (NIB) and gave it a quick try today. Fairly pleased with it. Anyone else have one and what do y’all think of it?
Another great NEEF thanks to the team at Chatfield True Value Hardware, great to see Cmac Cooks, Captain Ron, Fire & Smoke and all the others there that make it such a great event supporting such a worthy cause the PaulieStrong Foundation, got to swap BGE pins with Captain Ron! Getting to spend fun times with the BGE family is always a great day!
For the last year I’ve been building an outdoor patio area to host our friends and neighbors, hoped to have it done by last fall but the weather was not my friend. Finished it just last weekend finally.
Hey all I wanted to see where the group stands on this, informally, I have several size eggs and have often heard that the Small is basically useless but I beg to differ. Today it was perfect while firing up the pizza oven to do a small batch of habanero mango wings to accompany it. What does the group think, anyone else have a small they like to still use for small goes?