BBQ Brethren "Something Fowl This Way Comes" Throwdown!

[buccaneer]

Turned out he was completely unprepared for a dish with 30 mouse dropping chilies.
Hottest Farkin chili in the region and one is my limit.
He dropped like a wet towel.

 

[SmokinAussie]

Ohhh... those little ones... 30 you say.....:hand:

 

[Happy Hapgood]

I entered.

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2196878&postcount=88

Yes!. Thanks for the heads up. We've got a lot of TD action. Great entry! :thumb:

 

[caseydog]

We have spare rooms and Y'all have a standing invitation to come on down Anytime Kathy. I can promise a good time. :thumb:

Threadjack warning. Toast, I go to a huge teardrop camper gathering Halloween weekend every year at Lake Bistineau, right there in your backyard. We take over every campsite they have.

Friday night supper is a huge pot of gumbo, and Saturday night is a huge pot-luck.

You should come out for a visit. If you have a tent, you can pitch it on my site.

Okay, back to the originally scheduled thread. :becky:

CD

 

[Gnaws on Pigs]

entry

OK, since few people seem to be entering anything in this one, I'll go ahead and put in my official entry and gain my membership to the zero club. Nothing fancy or disturbing, just a 6 lb. spatchcocked chicken rubbed down in lemon juice and my cajun seasoning rub, indirect grilled/smoked at 325 on the Akorn and basted with herb butter until it was tender, juicy, and coming apart at the joints. Add some bacon-tater kababs, mango salsa, and enough other sides to induce food coma. It was pretty durn tasty. No Spam, fish with extruded swim bladders, or other weird stuff were harmed in the making of this meal. :biggrin1: First one (exposing my shameless lack of a brightly colored Thermapen,) is the money shot, I guess.

 

[Happy Hapgood]

Threadjack warning. Toast, I go to a huge teardrop camper gathering Halloween weekend every year at Lake Bistineau, right there in your backyard. We take over every campsite they have.

Friday night supper is a huge pot of gumbo, and Saturday night is a huge pot-luck.

You should come out for a visit. If you have a tent, you can pitch it on my site.

Okay, back to the originally scheduled thread. :becky:

CD

I'm all In Brother! I'll send you a PM. I am fully camping equipped. Would be Great to meet you.

 

[Happy Hapgood]

OK, since few people seem to be entering anything in this one, I'll go ahead and put in my official entry and gain my membership to the zero club. Nothing fancy or disturbing, just a 6 lb. spatchcocked chicken rubbed down in lemon juice and my cajun seasoning rub, indirect grilled/smoked at 325 on the Akorn and basted with herb butter until it was tender, juicy, and coming apart at the joints. Add some bacon-tater kababs, mango salsa, and enough other sides to induce food coma. It was pretty durn tasty. No Spam, fish with extruded swim bladders, or other weird stuff were harmed in the making of this meal. :biggrin1: First one (exposing my shameless lack of a brightly colored Thermapen,) is the money shot, I guess.

Super entry Sir and Welcome!

 

[Kathy's Smokin']

Nice looking chicken on that grill, Gnaws on Pigs, gorgeous colour and crust. I'll take a plate!

 

 

[Kathy's Smokin']

I spent some time googling to find a way to smoke emu without drying it out. Was a tough search but I was determined. Then we went to the farmers market and found a really nice lady selling duck and I caved -- all that fat would render some nice potato frying grease and the meat would be juicy and smoke beautifully. I just realized today I won't be able to enter, we're going away for a few days on Wednesday and I can't get the cook done before we leave. Fark. I guess the quacker will stay in the freezer for another TD.

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[Happy Hapgood]

I spent some time googling to find a way to smoke emu without drying it out. Was a tough search but I was determined. Then we went to the farmers market and found a really nice lady selling duck and I caved -- all that fat would render some nice potato frying grease and the meat would be juicy and smoke beautifully. I just realized today I won't be able to enter, we're going away for a few days on Wednesday and I can't get the cook done before we leave. Fark. I guess the quacker will stay in the freezer for another TD.

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<sniff> :tsk:

 

[Happy Hapgood]

So far Owl's, baby ducks, and Eagles are in trouble!

 

[KnucklHed BBQ]

Alrighty-right!!

I have some throwingdowns for you!

We went camping this weekend on the Hungry Horse reservoir and upland game bird season opened on the 1st so that presented the opportunity to bust out the shotty and go lookin' for some grouse - and grouse we did find!!

Best time of day for grouse is around dusk, they spend the day eating and then come down to gravel roads in the evening to peck up gravel for their craw - we found ours at about 7:30pm at about 4,600ft

Got em' back to camp and started parting them out to toss on the grill.
Easiest way to part them out is to lay them on the ground, step on each wing and pull their legs until the thighs pops out of the joint - keep pulling and both thighs & drums will pull off leaving the skin & feathers behind.
Then make a small cut in the skin below the keel bone and pull the skin back to the top of the breast and use a knife to cut the breast meat away from the bone - there's no meat on the wings or back so the rest of carcass gets tossed.

The one on the left lost his head to a round of #7 bird shot at about 20 yards - thought he could hide in a tree from me! :heh:

A dusting of Yardbird and on the kettle they go.

There's alot of ligament in the drums and thigh that gets really tough if you cook them too fast, there's no fat at all on grouse either so you've got to be really careful to not over cook them.

Some grouse lollipops plated up with some slaw, mac salad & tater salad - little bit of Rye Whiskey made me complete! :thumb:

Thanks for lookin'! :biggrin1:

 

[Gnaws on Pigs]

Fine lookin' grub! I love grouse, used to be a lot around here, but the last few years have been slim.

 

[Cack]

Hhhmmmm ... I wonder if I can get a zero again for beer can chicken

 

[bigabyte]

Do SPAM Brownies qualify?

 

[KnucklHed BBQ]

Do SPAM Brownies qualify?

No, those will be foul brownies - it's different.

 

[fingerlickin']

Hhhmmmm ... I wonder if I can get a zero again for beer can chicken

Probably, but I had really good luck with my chicken sandwich. :thumb:

 

[Cack]

Probably, but I had really good luck with my chicken sandwich. :thumb:

Yeah, but I'm already in the zero club for one Beer Can Chicken :becky:

 

[deguerre]

Chicken cordon spam?

 

[fingerlickin']

Yeah, but I'm already in the zero club for one Beer Can Chicken :becky:

Yep me too, big fat zero. Couldn't have been more proud. :-D

Not an entry.