On New Years Day shouldn't one splurge? I was home alone! Wife and Daughter worked!
The Breakfast of Champions - Smoked Rigas Sprats and Salmon Roe Caviar on cream cheese and crackers - capers and onions in there somewhere!
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Also some sausages and salamis from the Russian Foodstore down the block. Mighty tasty!
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Prepping for supper for my hard working girls.
Gotta have these for prosperity in 2009!
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Shakespeare
Let you Dinner be a Poem
A little rub on some "rib tips" from wallyworld.
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Finished rib tips
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Finished country style ribs - Tasty!!
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The Piece de Resistance'
Ye Ode to the Brisket
How oft does want of Brisket doth torture my spirit
Slave of its delicious embrace nothing to do but tend
Like a melancholy malcontent, glistening eyes focused
Hours and times of my desire the plateau doth pass
Nothing but time and precious mesquite can I but offer
Low and slow doth my sweet love's beauty revealed
Sublime, rouse myself; and the weak wanton hunger
Shall from my bowels unloose its masculine restraint
Not at war, stomach at peace, content in fullness.
Oh mighty Brisket, penchant of memory, smoky perfection.
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My gawd, that looks amazing!! Y'all did the Bard proud. Truly poetry on a platter.
Looks great, Shakespeare!
I really gotta drink with you sometime! ;D
SD
Quote from: Smoking Duck on January 02, 2009, 11:13:28 AM
Looks great, Shakespeare!
I really gotta drink with you sometime! ;D
SD
Duck, he's in Nashville that's only a few hour drive from here. We just got to convince him to come on up for a Midwest Smokeout on Memorial Day weekend. We might have a drink or two. Just smoked two pork butts for a buddy and he paid with a gallon of homemade wine. It's in the beer fridge getting happy just waiting.
Heck, we should go down there......maybe swing by Nashville, hoist a few with Shake, then go to the Memphis in May BBQ extravaganza! Be one heck of a road trip.
SD
Quote from: 3rensho on January 02, 2009, 09:42:03 AM
My gawd, that looks amazing!! Y'all did the Bard proud. Truly poetry on a platter.
Switzerland!!!! Just noticed that. Kewl!!!! I was in Lucerne a couple of days before the bridge burned. When we got back to the States a few of my work buddies were looking at me like it was my fault or something!
Quote from: Smoking Duck on January 02, 2009, 11:43:54 AM
Heck, we should go down there......maybe swing by Nashville, hoist a few with Shake, then go to the Memphis in May BBQ extravaganza! Be one heck of a road trip.
SD
Or at the end of summer for the "Jack". Closer to Nashvegas and flyfishing. Besides mesquite smoke and the aroma of Tennessee Sippin' Whiskey marries well together. Just don't bend over the fermentation tank. Funny about the Memphis-May - I've been in Memphis on business 2 of the last 5 years during the contest and haven't been able to make it yet or eat at the R'veaux! Sorta like the Alamo - lived in or near San Antone for 16 years, had two ancestors die there and have only been once. Que Sera
Shakespeare
Let your dinners be a poem!
SD,
If you're gonna run to Nashville, swing by Paducah KY . I owe you a beer or two. 2 hours from Nashville on I-24. We can surely find something to throw in the BDS that would be up to your standards. If not, there's always gumbo! :D
KyNola
KY,
You got it brother! You ever been down to the Memphis in May extravaganza they throw down there? Memphis is only 10 hours away from me (7.5 hours just to get out of Indiana) so if I've got a job by then, I'm definitely gonna make the trip. I've got friends who've been down there and said it was pretty good....more BBQ than you can shake a pork bone at ;D
SD
QuoteHeck, we should go down there......maybe swing by Nashville, hoist a few with Shake, then go to the Memphis in May BBQ extravaganza! Be one heck of a road trip.
Hey Duck!
If you make that trip, let me know! I am halfway between Memphis and Nashville, If I aint workin I would be happy to treat you to one of the local BBQ joints around here!
Jeff
SD,
Sad to say I have not been to Memphis in May although it is only 3 hours away but it is a HUGE PARTY!!! I'm just one of those folks who got tired of being in huge crowds. You should definitely try it out though. When you make it to Beale Street, I can absolutely recommend Rum Boogie Cafe. Great food and an incredible house band, they've only been playing there for about 20 years and awesome. On the way down, PM me and we'll hook up
KyNola.
Man, we'll have a great party......when we're in Memphis, we'll have to hit a restaurant called "Texas De Brazil". I've only seen the restaurant there (I'm sure there are others). It ain't BBQ, but if you like meat, you'll love this place. If you've never been, they bring out all types of meat (filet, cornish hens, pork loin, you name it) on large skewers and they'll cut it off the skewer and put it on your plate right at the table. Everyone at the table has a card and you flip it to green and they keep coming with more meat. When you want them to stop, turn it to red. When you're ready for more, you flip it back to green and they come running. It's a bit pricey but if you like all different types of meat, then that is the place for you. I practically needed to be wheeled outta the place the last time I went.
I hear you about the crowds, KY.......however, I won't let that be a problem for you. I can be a pretty good blocking back when in a crowd. I absolutely hate shopping on Black Friday but the wife always bribes me to go with her. She tells me where she wants to go and then holds on to the back of my shirt. She always gets there in one piece ;D
Marc
Yeh know the place. Never have scored a visit there, although have heard great things about it though. Tried one in Nashville (can't remember if the name was the same or not) that was the same or similar, and was disappointed. Maybe I wasn't the only one as it closed down in less than a year. The meat tasted boiled, was tough, and would have been better with at least some salt and pepper on it. The sides weren't anything to write home about, but worse the green card/red card didn't work so well. My wife was the most disappointed though, as a father's day celebration, she popped for the $45 ea and was rather mad about it. The Memphis one is the real deal I hear though. A friend has been a few times and one time he was there, they had quail. He ate nothing else they were so good. There are some good hole-in-the wall type places to eat at also particularly for hamburgers and fried chicken. But the one that Memphis has that I can't believe Nashville doesn't is Bahama Breeze. I think it is a Red Lobster product - and even though I'm not a Red Lobster fan, I like this place. Been there a couple of dozen times, but can't tell you how the food tastes, as all I have had is the Onion Rings. They are out of this world. You can make a meal outta them. The only other thing I have had from their menu is a wood-fired pizza once - it was good also. While in Memphis, lets not forget their minor league baseball field. Not far from Texas de Brazil and is a gold ribbon place to watch minor league baseball.
I've been to two places like that. Both in Las vegas One in the Mirage Hotel, the Samba room, the other I don't remember the name but it is in Mandalay Bay.
Called a Rodizio (you have to rrrroll the R) It's a Brazilian BBQ (not a bikini wax). The ones I have had were most excellent, and like SD, I had to be wheeled outta there. There is usually a totem on the table that is green on one end and red on the other. If the green sided is UP, they just keep bringing food, on skewers usually, and mostly meat.
Sign me up anytime!
That does sound like a good time.
Ode to Smoked Boefe.
Now, lyke ye melancholy malcontent, I wander, restless, why?
Once absente my hunger hast returned. It kisseth my lips with vengeance!
I longe as a women with chylde; lusteth for many straunge thynges!
I tire of normal humours gathered about the mouth of the stomack
Out, out with the white puddings of the hogges liuer!
Out, out with eisands with otemeale grotes!
Out, out with stue sparrows and turnep pudding!
Let me dyne, with feestes and cheere; a gentil pastime.
Embrace thy firey flames like 'ell, its fury a friende indeed.
From its bowels doth billough acrid smoke; sweet fairness.
Girdled with embracing flames, thy desire is but a coale to cool.
Readye the sworde; hone sharpe to cut true!
Readye the grille: coax the fyre to hold true!
Readye the drynke; floweth freely to taste true!
Oh wicked power of wantonness, no mere wonte of smoked beaste!
Patience; sweet paynfull bliss: fully virtuous, a traitorous gyfte.
Sooty chuffs of meaty air; ravishing, encircling, kissing seasoned flesh.
What woode doth makest feeste? From whence dost fulsome flavor cometh?
Mesquite woode, noble, official it thou art!
Mesquite woode, noble smoke, virtuous and besought!
Mesquite woode, noble sweetness; bequeathing its all!
Sweet crueltye; lowe and slowe hath wrought succulent tenderness!
Luscious, juicy smoked boefe; once raw, art now voluptuous, enticing.
Lust like a glutton's waist grows. madness sated with a greate feeste
Indulged, rapturous hunger crush'e into folly, folly sauc'd with piquancy.
Peace, nourishes, what thou lovest well is thy true heritage.
Peace, enjoy, thoughts stray where blissfulness reigns.
Peace, fleeting, where this story endeth, doth anew begin!
You are a very talented fellow Caneyscud! 8) :)
That style reminds me of something I was force fed in college, "The Fourth Book of the Courtier"
This is all wonderful but the important part is. Whats your recipe for brisket?
I'll be attempting my first brisket next smoke. Its a small one probably 4 pounds with a 1/4 inch fat cap.
commonsense
I'm old school usually! Usually just salt and pepper - maybe some cajun seasoning. Only have done one on my DBS4. Smoked on 225 for 3 hours of smoke and then wrapped in foil and finished in oven. Also first time to finish in oven. Amazingly good. Usually just salt and pepper on a offset or other type of smoker for 1 to 1.5 hours per pound at about 200 to 225 over oak lump charcoal or mesquite wood. Usually a butter/beer/mustard sopping sauce every 30 minutes to an hour after the first three or four hours without sopping. Fat cap always on top. Wanna try some at 400 to 500 but haven't had the heart to do that yet.
Shakespeare
The Bard of Hot Air
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