Here is my recipe for the apricot bbq sauce. This stuff is dynamite on chicken and pork! :thumb:
½ teaspoon olive oil
3 tablespoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
¼ teaspoon smoked paprika
½ teaspoon ground cumin*
½ cup water
⅓ cup apple...
TARGET INTERNAL TEMPERATURE FOR CHICKEN*
This one took a while for me to adjust to, but now, it's like I've been blind and now can see. We've been taught to cook chicken to 165F, right? This blanket, highly generalized recommendation is so deceitful. Yes, your chicken will be safe to eat. But...
The bird came out amazing! Without a doubt, this was the best chicken I ever made.
36 hours of wet brine
Injected with chicken broth
Used personal dry rub
Cooked via my rotisserie attachment on my Weber with Cowboy lump charcoal
Cook time - 40 minutes
Rest for 5 minutes
With the February ***SPECIAL*** “Foods You Love” Throwdown going on now, (Link: https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4553210#post4553210) I decided to make something I “Love!”, Fajitas.
Here are the bell peppers, onions and the rub. (Recipe for the rub can be found here...
When they made the January Throwndown Category. ***SPECIAL*** “New Year’s Resolution: Healthy & Delicious”, I was ecstatic. (Link to Throwdown: https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=296283) You see this is what I’ve been cooking for the last 2 years. (My wife and I have been on WW...
I haven’t been very active recently due to us being on WW to lose weight, busy at work and getting ready for our Christmas light display*, but I wanted to get one cook in before Thanksgiving. (* So busy that I’m just now getting this posted on Saturday)
For the "Soups, Stews, & Chili" Throwdown...
Friday we had some friends over for dinner. Started out prepping by cutting 1.5 lbs. of Brussel Sprouts up and seasoned them with some Garlic infused OO, some Denali Hot Thyme seasoning and some fresh ground salt and black pepper.
Next up was making up a picture of margaritas.
Ingredients:
2...
Decided to make Chicken Enchiladas for Memorial Day. (One of my wife’s favorites) Started out making up the Verde sauce. Roasted most everything. (Corn in the back)
Tomatillos and onions go straight into the blender. Skinned and seeded the peppers and everyone into the pool for a spin.
Add...
Seasoned two family packs of leg quarters and spatchcocked two whole chickens at 11:00.
Wanted to try lump for a hot and fast cook so....
B&B lump charcoal with B&B pecan chucks.
One vent 1/4 open the other two closed with Top vent wide open. No water in the water bowl and it’s wrapped in...
I wanted to try this dry-brining idea on a whole chicken and it came out great.
After Dry-Brining for approx 30 hours I put this little guy on my ECB (aka Franken-Smoker).
The result was delicious. My wife took one taste and shouted
"Its so juicy!"
So I'm a serious dry-brine fan...
As there is a “Soups, Stews & Chili!” Throwdown going on right now and the weather had finally turned cool, I wanted to make something (Link: http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4407311#post4407311)
Having just got back from spending a week with my brother and sister in-law in...
I have a couple family members that don't eat red meat and I always cook a split chicken on the Pitt Barrel just for them ... I will say it turns out AMAZING every time, but I would really like some verity if anyone has suggestions of something that's turned out mouth wateringly delicious...
I’ve been away on vacation for the last week visiting relatives up in Reno. While we were there, I made one of our favorite quick and easy dinners by grilling up some of this Chile Lime Chicken Breast we buy at Costco.
Now that we’re back, I wanted to make another of our favorites. Anybody...
You all probably know that there is / was a Chicken Breast Throwdown going on. I didn’t happen to enter this throwdown but being on the WW program I’m cooking chicken breast quite often. I decided to share a few of them here. The first is Chili Lime Chicken Breast which I pick up at Costco...
I'm looking for a little feedback on people's ideas on chicken thighs. Not looking for specific recipes or brands but I'm wondering if people lean a little on the spicy side when competing or is sweet the way to go. Do you inject?
I made another batch of chicken fajitas yesterday. Wasn’t intending to post it so only took picture with my phone and didn’t really take a lot of care in how my picture would look. Now I decide to post it and here are the pictures I did take.
First off, this a repeat of my cook from last month...
On my last shopping day the market had fryers on sale so I bought a 6# one to do a wet cure and double smoke. I did my standard front and back half butchering and brined both halves in a gallon of curing brine for 24 hours. Basic mix of salt, sugar, black pepper and Cure#1.
After curing I...
With the wife and I on the Weight Watchers plan, I’ve been avoiding some of my favorite Mexican dishes. Now that I think about it, this really isn’t necessary if I’m carefully what I choose and how I prepare the dishes. Take fajitas for example. A protein, seasoning and some veggies. Made with...