Grilled another sirloin tonight (over post oak)... accompanied by some rice, homemade bread & fresh veggies for dipping in Ranch Dressing!!! Life is good!
Smoked a 'chuckie' (aka chuck roast) over hickory for supper tonight. Also made some corn/jalapeno/cheese cornbread to go with the leftover pinto beans to round it out. Delicious!!!
our son is home from college for the summer he has requested a couple meals bbq,fried wonton soup,gumbo,beef stew just to name few.
you can never go wrong with a good chuck roast....
Time to smoke another pork roast & thought I'd try something different... I stuffed this one with a pound of extra spicy homemade Italian sausage & onion. Also made a batch of stuffed japs to go with it & Mrs. Ranch said she wanted corn-on-the-cob to round out our evening meal!!!
That's our plan for supper tonight & it's a beautiful day for cooking outside!!! Got everything ready to go this morning & I'm going to relax until she tells me different...
The meat came out perfect & the raspberry/balsamic glaze was very complimentary. On the negative side, the sausage/onion stuffing didn't work for me at all... The flavor profile was not a good match in my opinion, but I had to give it a try. I'll try something else on the next one.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained as the saying goes... LOL!!!
That looks awesome, Sam. All I did in the garden today was pick a couple of tomatoes, some green beans, strawberries and blackberries (which never made it to the house because I ate them.) Today was a very busy day with lots of errands, so I stopped at Chili's and ordered a dinner salad with black beans.
I made a wonderful, veggie pizza tonight for dinner guests. I bought the thin, wheat crusts, but piled them so high with three kinds of onions, peppers and sliced tomatoes from my garden (plus mushrooms from the store) that it actually turned into a pizza pie that had to be eaten with a fork. I also put venison and pepperoni slices on it and it was great; except that the oven filled the house with smoke. I sort of burned the first one, but went again with two more pies. Maybe I'll look for a pizza crust recipe that cinchy. I plan on making a lot of veggie pizzas as long as the garden lasts
Finish the leftover 'chuckie' last night, so I need to do something for today's supper... That 'something' is another smoked pork roast & this time I stuffed it with just a link of jalapeno deer sausage. After slathering on a coat of spicy mustard & then my general purpose BBQ rub, it is resting in the refrigerator. It will be smoked using straight post oak.
We have enough macaroni salad left for a side & Mrs. Ranch can execute whatever else she wants.
Smoking another rack of baby-back ribs tonight, rubbed with spicy brown mustard, a lot of pepper & some onion/garlic (they will be smoked over post oak & hickory). Also some homemade garlic bread.
Mrs Ranch is going to prepare the fresh green beans/potatoes & whatever else her lil' heart desires.
Going to grill a 1 1/2" thick sirloin steak for supper tonight. It will be accompanied by fresh corn-on-the-cob, stuffed japs & homemade bread. Mrs. Ranch made a big bowl of cucumber/onion/tomato salad. We love harvest time!!!
No briskets on sale around here for the 4th of July... Heard the situation is the same in Houston... I guess there will be a lot of Texans settling for something else for our traditional smoking sessions this weekend (pork shoulders, ribs or sausage). I personally just bit the bullet, picked up a 15 pounder & paid the price. I'll probably smoke it on Saturday weather permitting..
Also picked up 4 racks of baby backs, one of which I will smoke for tonight supper. Picked some green beans & japs (that will stuffed) & made a loaf of bread. Mrs. Ranch made some tomato/onion/cucumber salad.
Ribs are seasoned with spicy brown mustard, cracked pepper & some of our rub. They went on at 1500 hrs. over post oak & hickory.
I hit them with the mop sauce around 1630 hrs & will do them again in another hour.
It's 1630 hrs. & we're ready to apply the glaze... 30 minutes to chow time!
Well I made some chicken for my first smoker break in and it tasted great. But, today I tried some pork and it just tastes like burnt wood. Im using apple chips, tried some soaked peices but they wouldnt smoke so I read online and everyone says to not soak them for an electric, so I added them next to the burner but they kept catching fire. Tips? Should I get chunks instead? Theres not much room for chunks unless they can sit directly on the element with out problems.
@Slowngreen In my electric smoker (no longer mine thanks to some scumbag) I would use soaked chips that were placed in an old can. I liked the low wide cans like a large tuna can.
Try the rub posted by @w_r_ranch on chicken next time it was great. He listed it off here.
After I used the last of my chips I bought some of the smoke pellets that you put in a foil pouch. I didn't like these at all and don't think they'll make it into my smoker again.