My first big cook on the BYC-with PRON

[markdtn]

I have been studying my cookbooks and For Memorial Day I decide to make a little bit of everything. In the future I will tone it down a little, but yesterday I cooked 17 different things. Here is what I did with a little commentary and a few photos.
1-2 fatties, they were good
2-Chris Lilly "Smoked leg quarters w/ fresh herbs". Good but not much herb flavor on the chicken, just the skin. Next time I may take the skin off.
3/4-ask.com "Chili Lime Wings" and breasts. A family favorite
5-Myron Mixon "Whole chicken". It was good
6-Chris Lilly "Loaf pan chicken". It was good but soaking in juice didn't get as much smoke flavor to some of it as we would have liked.
7-Myron Mixon "peach beans". Not nearly as much flavor as we wanted, bland. Not bad, just needs doctoring up.
8-Chris Lilly "Smoked pork tenderloin with Michigan cherry sauce". This was great! should have reserved more of the sauce to go over it later. The ones I froze, I will make more when I serve it.
9-Wicked Good Ribs, these were very good. Wet is not my usual style, but these turned out very well. My picky 10 year old wanted more. See detail photo.
10-Drumettes with Big Butz chicken rub, these were OK
11-Chris Lilly "Bare naked brisket". Very good! I will be making this again.
12-Pulled pork. A staple. It was good.
13-Chris Lilly "Smoked turkey breast with honey maple glaze". Very good!
14-Country style ribs with Oakridge Secret Weapon rub. Delicious!
15-Pork shots. Very labor intensive. I used beef sausage which didn't help. A bit too much cream cheese. I will make 1 more time, but not sure the bang for the time is there for us.
16-salmon with honey mustard, a family favorite. It was good.
17-Bush backup beans with brisket scraps from an earlier cook. Just ate a bite but is was pretty good.

Conclusions:
1-17 things is too much for 1 day. Need to pick out 10 or so and not have to prepare so many different things. It was constant making this and washing dishes to have enough mixing bowls.
2-Chris Lilly has some very good recipes for home.
3-Myron Mixon book recipes need to be looked at carefully. I really want to go to his class, but from all I have read here his book recipes are not always true to form.

 

[slow-smoker]

Nice cook. Sounds like something for everyone.

 

[Puppyboy]

I love seeing a packed cooker!!

 

[Bbqin fool]

Keep loading that baby up! Long day but had a great pay off :thumbup:

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[BBQ Bandit]

Now that's the mother-load... and a happy Klose pit!

 

[MattG]

Doing this would have me running like a mad man. Nice Job.

 

[markdtn]

Doing this would have me running like a mad man. Nice Job.

Thanks! I was running like a mad man. It was good, brought leftovers to work today and they were very well received. I will cook fewer recipes next time, I think that will make it easier.

 

[el_matt]

Shoot...I had a hard enough time cooking 17 hot dogs yesterday!!

Matt

 

[Bigdog]

Impressive, most impressive! But you're killing yourself man. Cut that at least in half or more if you want to keep you're sanity. I do only one type of chicken, a butt or two, brisket or pulled beef chuckies, maybe some turkey legs, several racks of ribs and some sausage for my mega cooks. Oh, and also a big ole pan of pit beans?:thumb:

 

[markdtn]

Impressive, most impressive! But you're killing yourself man. Cut that at least in half or more if you want to keep you're sanity. I do only one type of chicken, a butt or two, brisket or pulled beef chuckies, maybe some turkey legs, several racks of ribs and some sausage for my mega cooks. Oh, and also a big ole pan of pit beans?:thumb:

Yep! I agree. Butts and brisket are relatively easy; as are the wings, breasts, and salmon we cook. Next time I will cut back to those and maybe just do 1 type of other pork-ribs, country ribs, or tenderloin. Some whole poultry-either chicken or turkey. One type of beans and some sausage which I didn't even do this time. I have to stay pretty heavy on the poultry and fish side though as my wife has an unusual, but severe, allergy to all mammal meat. So I have to have stuff for her to eat too-but it's hard for me to think big BBQ cook without pork and/or brisket.

 

[mr dirts bbq]

very impressed! but as everyone else said alot of prep time and running, i guess thats why its so impressive! :clap2:

 

[Dmbspots]

That's a lot of cooking for one day! Nicely done!

 

[snook806]

WOW...very impressive...I have only one question....When did you squeeze in time for a beer?....:thumb::thumb:

 

[cowgirl]

Wow! Great lookin' feast! :thumb:

 

[bigabyte]

Very impressive! It really is a surprising amount of work doing a lot of different recipes. It is hard to comprehend until you do it.

Excellent work!:clap: