Another 4th weekend cook.

[Decoy205]

Happy 4th All! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I enjoyed cooking and being outside and seeing some family and fireworks. It was great!

Yesterday was a Porterhouse on the smokey Joe:












Today was loin backs on the Half Pint with some homeade mac n cheese and some sautéed spinach.

These were some pretty nice ribs!






Figured I'd go more comp style today for the hell of it.

Yellow mustard:





For some reason I didn't get a pic of the rub! I used a mix of Oakridge Secret Weapon and Dominator.

I decided to do a snake burn this time. Loaded it with Stubbs and Pecan.



This cooker holds 250 like a champ. Ran no water in the pan.

2 hours in:




I liked the color so I decided to wrap at this point. Wrapped with squeeze butter honey and more rub.

At this point I threw some bone in breasts on the grill for the wife and kids and started the Mac n cheese sauce.

Did a quick roux with butter and flour. Added two cups of milk.



Let it thicken and added cheese:









Added salt and mixed into the elbows and into oven for a few:


Chicken done!






Ribs glazed with blues hog original with a little apricot preserves and apple cider vinegar.




Put back on the smoker for 20 or so to set the sauce.

Done!











And my plate!









The pull was perfect! The blues hog is really sweet I think using a spicier rub would compliment more so. The pecan smoke was excellent. I really enjoyed it. I'm not surprised since I love hickory.

Had to have some iced cream after that meal!


Hope you all had a great 4th!

 

[Westx]

Great looking cook.

 

[RNF]

Those are some great pictures of some very nice cooks.

 

[pjtexas1]

nice ribs and pics. looks like you guys had a really nice day.

 

[Smoke on Badger Mountain]

I just ate. But thanks to you I'm starving again.

 

[PolarBear13]

Ditto on what they all said

 

[Evil-g]

Fantastic cook and that plate looked scrumptious. Did I see Velveeta, it belongs in all Mac n cheese imho.

 

[Stingerhook]

I will take 2X on everything please.

 

[THoey1963]

You know, if you push those greens off the plate, you could get a lot more ribs and Mac n cheese on there.

Looks great!

 

[Titch]

That all looks delicious, but I want that T Bone

 

[ShadowDriver]

Dayum, brother... you folks sure ate well this weekend!

 

[Decoy205]

Great looking cook.

Those are some great pictures of some very nice cooks.

nice ribs and pics. looks like you guys had a really nice day.

I just ate. But thanks to you I'm starving again.

Ditto on what they all said

Thanks all! The 6s takes great pics. Pretty happy with it so far.

 

[Decoy205]

Fantastic cook and that plate looked scrumptious. Did I see Velveeta, it belongs in all Mac n cheese imho.

yup! I always use it. It makes the texture how we like it. I want to try those Cheese salts someone posted here. But this works for now!

I will take 2X on everything please.

Sure!

You know, if you push those greens off the plate, you could get a lot more ribs and Mac n cheese on there.

Looks great!

Haha good point! This weekend I barely ate anything healthy so I thought I needed to. Clearly I was wrong. :grin:

That all looks delicious, but I want that T Bone

It was a great steak! Thanks Titch!

Dayum, brother... you folks sure ate well this weekend!

Yup! By your thread looks like you did as well. It's been a good couple of weekends for sure.

 

[thunter]

Oh my! It all looks amazing. :-D

 

[Fwismoker]

Well done, the Mac N Cheese really caught my eye.

 

[Mrs B]

Beautiful and looks delicious.

 

[cowgirl]

Not sure what I'd hit first, it all looks fantastic!! Great cookin' Decoy!

 

[BillN]

That's one heck of a cook, great job and thanks for smoking.

 

[Bigr314]

Looks like you covered all the bases with that cook. Great color on those ribs.

 

[DjPorkchop]

Man that looks great!! So much to choose from what to go for first!

I had good old spaghetti. :sad: