New Year's Eve Cookin'

[rbinms33]

Well, it's 7:30 and I fired the Bandera up about an hour ago. 35 degrees and no wind. Light layer of frost . Two 8# shoulders on right now with some sweet Wild Cherry smoke rollin' out of the stack. Got 3 racks of BB's to go on a little later. For now it's coffee and Bailey's.....will update later.

[2Fat]

makes me want to cook something with that description--maybe later this weekend. Will take some spares and beef ribs out of the freezer now and probably cook on Sun for the play off game.
Maybe go pick up the new cooker on sat(BWS Competitor) and give her a try Sun--as long as the weather is good enuf to head a few hrs west

Happy new years--and the Bloody Marys are good today

Buzz

[willkat98]

nothing for me. still got too much Q in the fridge from the weekend.

And I love the way you two wake up in the morning. Baileys or BM's.

Makes me wish I hadnt killed off my bottles last night.

[rbinms33]

10:30 report......

Smoker at 275 and dropping slowly. It did reach 300 but I used that as an opportunity to open the smoke chamber and spray the shoulders. Internal on the shoulders is about 135. Should hit that 165 sticking point in another hour or so.

Cole slaw is made and in the fridge. Bout to make my beans and another batch of hot bbq sauce. Gonna do something different with the sauce this time. Going to sub habanero jelly for the brown sugar and cayenne. Still put same amount of dry rub in. I do cook this sauce and I'm wondering if that's going to take the rest of the heat out of the jelly. I guess that's why they call it xperimentin'.

Coffee and Bailey's holding up well.......

[rbinms33]

And I love the way you two wake up in the morning. Baileys or BM's.


Oh yeah....gonna convert to beer in another coupla hours. Not worried, the wifey can drive me up to the fireworks stand later to get tonight's entertainment.

[threesticks]

I'm about 2 hours behind you Richie. (with the q'in, not the bm). Late night last night. One 7.5# butt on right now, spareribs and 4 chix later. Ringing out the liver. Can't stomach the thought of alcohol right now.

[kparrish]

The wind is out of the west this morning. It’s absolutely a beautiful morning in the south. Blue skies! Fresh air! The frost is melting quickly melting away, and the temperature is climbing fast. What is that aroma?… I detect a faint trace of Q in the air. Cherry wood smoke I think. Yes! Yes! Its going to be a great day in south.

Ken

[rbinms33]

12:00 report.......

Shoulders just passed through 165. Temp holding steady at 249. On my 3rd chimney of charcoal and 6th chunk of cherry. Potent cherry wood too....since the aroma carries all the way down to Ken in Limrock :lol:

Hot bbq sauce turned out great. Decided to leave out the dry rub and sub a tsp of habanero powder. Just hot enough to warm the mouth but not make you run for the peanut butter!

Beans are made up and ready to go in the oven. Used blackberry jelly instead of sugar, Dreamland instead of regular bbq sauce and pulled brisket that I had froze from my last cook instead of ground beef. It's just a substitution kinda day.

Ribs are gonna go on about 1 when I tend the fire and spray the shoulders.

Threesticks.....I'm cracking a beer for ya, bro.

[threesticks]

Following conventional wisdom (hair of the dog), I drank a beer. NOT doing the trick (yet). Getting ready to foil the butt.

[rbinms33]

We used to drink "red" beers.....beer and tomato juice. After you downed it, it either settled your stomach or made you throw up. Either way, you felt better. 8)

[2Fat]

Makes me wish I hadnt killed off my bottles last night.

thats why I always buy more than one bottle at a time--and always need the veggies for breakfast.

Buzz

[2Fat]

We used to drink "red" beers.....beer and tomato juice. 8)

the drink of our youth--although we called them Montana Marys

Buzz

[rbinms33]

2:00 report......

Shoulders up to 185 (wasn't much of a sticking point). Ribs went on at 1...plan on rotating once halfway through and then glazing at 5...pull off at 6.

About to slice the pineapple and coat with br. sugar and chili powder for dessert later on. This has been a great day!!

[threesticks]

This has indeed been a great day. 63 and sunny here in the Big D. (4) chix on at 1600 (including one with a Guiness shoved up it's arse), along with spareribs. butt is foiled. sausage is going on at 1800. neighbors arrive/dinner at 2000. FYI, had a G&T and feel MUCH better. The hair on my tongue has finally disappeared (those Mach3's are greatness!!!).

[rbinms33]

5:00 report.......

Shoulders at 190 internal....almost there. Ribs still need another hour or so. Beans have 20 minutes left and I'm about to put the pineapple on. Just brought the cooler down out of the attic......

[threesticks]

Wish I was there Richie. Drove through the great state of Mississippi on the way to FL over Xmas. Gave a big salute at both borders.

[Solidkick]

Richie and 3Sticks,

I could almost smell the smoke here in Missouri! Your description of your cooks is almost as good as being there.

[willkat98]

Damn, it is 1:15am and I am completely awake, and Sober. Just took in a Hawks game with friends. Farkers lost with 24 seconds to go in overtime.

Was really good tonight, drinking wise.

Hope all the brothers have a safe holiday, and after this thread, I am kicking myself for not taking the brisket out of the freezer. I would put that farker on now if it was.

Peace Brothers.

[parrothead]

Put it on tomorrow and pull it out saturday at noon.

[willkat98]

frozen solid, and we are going to get the new dog mod, possibly.

Besides, your having Chicken Squirrels over here.

I'll send you an email shortly.

PS EVERYBODY, I got the first post of 2004

[rbinms33]

End Results......

Everything was great. Gave one shoulder and a rack of BB's to my parents when they came over and they called first thing this morning to tell me how good it was. Did the habanero jelly glaze on the ribs and my Mom couldn't even tell and she can't take hot stuff. So I will adopt that from now on. The hot bbq sauce was good too (even though I'm the only one around here that'll eat it....LOL) Very unique flavor.

Shot off about 75 bucks worth of fireworks and didn't even burn or blow my hand off. :shock:

Wishing all my brothers a safe and happy New Year!!!!!

[parrothead]

Besides, your having Chicken Squirrels over here.

Is that like a turducken? Can't wait.
which goes inside?

And I got the first post of 04, Ijust made it to myself, in my head, and no one else can read it. NYAH!

I stopped at Williams-somoma over the weekend and bought some snowflake pancake molds, and some maple pecan pancake mix (fark dr. Atkins for a couple of days). Dem is some goooooood pancakes. Had a mess of tham for breakfast along with a pile of maple bacon. They also have Christmas style and barnyard animal molds. Gonna have to get them before the next bash.

[willkat98]

they are called Chicken Swirls, but MikeG, new member, sent me a **** load of road kill recipes. Next day, a box of frozen swirls showed up. Wife was leery, wondered if it was really squirrel in there.

The Chicken Squirrel mod was born.

Also on the menu (keeping it a little light, going to the game and all) is some true South Side polish sausage from Bobak's. Got it the day it was cased 2 weeks ago, and immediately froze it. Make some great polish sandwiches.

Are you on Atkins? Polish is good just dipped too! Dreamland of course.

[parrothead]

I know bobak's. I'll belch them polish for 2 days, but bring them on. Will be back on atkins sometime in the next few days, just not sure when yet.

Not dreamland, Greg's sweet and smokey.

[willkat98]

I go right over to the South Side near Midway where they package and sell the stuff.

Its a notch or two above the cryo stuff in the markets (which is still awesome).

If you ever got couple hour layover at Midway, take a cab over to Bobaks and have him keep the meter running. Place is awesome. Never saw so many different kinds of sausage.

[parrothead]

I've been there, I used to work all over Chicago when they were rebiulding the cable system the last time.