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Getting An Early Start

Greendriver

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Here’s a start on the Christmas dinner we are having. Lotsa meat but I’d rather have too much than not enough.

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Sue mentioned to her aunt what we were having and her and Sue wound up volunteering me to do her some to. They didn’t take into consideration that my 24 lb shoulder was not available in every store and had to be ordered so I told em to get some brisket meat and I cook it and give em some of both.

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Don’t know if I cut out the flat irons right or not but that’s what I was trying to do here and I’m not disappointed too much in that they looked good but sure wish I had a clue as to why that shoulder was so difficult to read.

Last night we did a couple pounds of fresh shrimp in the old bay and pickled em with onions and spices and they will be one of our appetizers.

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Here’s the briskets getting prepped and pumped – overnight with dales sauce in a zip lock and pumped with fab b just before going on the cooker.

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This shoulder which is still 20 lbs even after cutting the flat iron steaks off and was splattered out so that Sue suggested I tie it and I said “why didn’t I think of that” so we did and I’m dam glad of it.

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Here is everything up to date and man is my Platinum 4 an awesome mochine. It took a little over an hour to get to 225 but the Stoker is keeping it pegged and I am monitoring it in the kitchen with the laptop using four probes one for each brisket and two in the shoulder.

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Wow, thats gonna be one helluva spread. Never had pickled shrimp....sounds awesome
 
Great lookin spread Brother....Got a prime rib going on myself in a couple hours.
 


Last night we did a couple pounds of fresh shrimp in the old bay and pickled em with onions and spices and they will be one of our appetizers.

Never had pickled shrimp....sounds awesome

Share! Please! Those pickled shrimp look like a keeper. Common let's have the exact recipe.

BTW: the whole spread looks amazing. My hat is off to you Greendriver.
 
Yeah I am with Trp1fox shrimp recipie. Great idea you wife had to tie up the meat. Gotta love the different ways to look at things and solve problems:icon_bigsmil
 
looks great so far.. chomping @ the bit here waiting to do my x-mas smoke like a kid waiting on santa clause....:icon_smil
 
Time to wrap the little flats and besides that I was anxious to taste the little cook’s treasures I set aside. I just knew the very end of them flats was way too thin to cook all the way till the rest of the brisket was done so I whacked them off to start with. Them fatties is stuffed with whole roasted hatch peppers, seeded and a mix of bread crumps, strawberry preserves and parmesean, and sprinkled with rub.

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This stuff is not hard or I couldn’t do it – but what ya see here is my Platinum 3 on my carport next to my kitchen door and the ONE wire going from a junction box with 8 ports into the house just inside the kitchen and that means I can plug my 4 probes in the meat at the junction box and monitor them inside on the puter. Pretty nice set up indeed.

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This fattie is about the best one I have ever tasted and will be mo betta next time when I add me some more heat. It has some roasted hatch peppers and a mixture of bread crumbs, homemade strawberry preserves, and parmesean. Rolled the rascals in head country rub.

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Looks really good. Tell us more about the smoked deviled eggs.

Just boil em, schmoke em, and devil em. Just another one of them things someone put a little smoke to and it turned out PDG.

These is the last pics, I promise.
All our happy eaters was in a hurry I guess and kinda got started before I got pics of the spread.

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