Party Appetizers

[Caneyscud]

Have a Christmas Party for a ministry I'm in (Stephen Ministry) tonight.  Since two other of my team are in the ministry also, I was nominated for doing some of the appetizers. 

2 bacon explosions - rubbed, but no sauce
1 fatty (cheese, pepper, onion) rubbed but no sauce
3 dozen moinkballs - rubbed and will have a sauce of hot sweet bbq sauce/coconut milk
11 Grenades - will have a mexican tomatillo sauce.

Got out my "secret baby".  Haven't seen her in a long time. 



Here are the goodies



Sorry for the pics - but all I have with me today is my iphone.

[pensrock]

Sure looks like some tasty appetizers. Have fun at the party.  :)

[Tenpoint5]

Grenades Caney??? enlighten me please. Sounds like something new to try!

[TestRocket]

I haven't seen a crowd like that since I stood inline at the USPS to mail my Christmas Exchange package! And I bet this one smells a whole lot better! Have fun at the party!

[hal4uk]

Grenades Caney??? enlighten me please. Sounds like something new to try!

Yeah...  WHUT DAT?

[Up In Smoke]

Grenades Caney??? enlighten me please. Sounds like something new to try!

Please, Please, Please

[utahsmokin]

How do you make though's I have a party Sat.

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[DTAggie]

Waiting on the Grenades answer..................

[pensrock]

Grenades

I'm just guessing but I would guess its sausage or ground beef wrapped around something like a hard boiled egg or maybe a whole jalapeno or maybe even an ABT?

[Caneyscud]

Sorry, I had to go to the party.

Grenades - acquire a nice sized pork tenderloin.  Cut it up into 1" sliced rounds.  In the slde of each round cut a pocket.  Maximize the size of the pocket.  Sprinkle a little rub/spice or some chili powder in pocket and stuff with 1/2 pickled jalapeno (or less), some sharp cheddar and a frozen peeled shrimp.  Wrap with a slice of bacon, making sure the stuffing is well covered.   Secure the end of the bacon with a toothpick.  Sprinkle with favorite rub.  Stick in smoker (225 or thereabouts) until temp is above 160.  Sometimes the last 30 minutes or so I raise the temp to cook the bacon a little crispier.  Last 15 minutes or more, I'll glaze with a tangy sauce of some type.  Grenades because they are about the shape of one and fit in the hand like one.  If you do the 1/2 jalapeno its a delayed action grenade - Jalapeno Morning. ;D ;D  Using the frozen shrimp keeps it from getting overdone.  I like to use a hot glaze.  Sometimes melted hot pepper jelly.  I have also used scallops in lieu of the shrimp.  

edit:  The other way I've made them is figgy.  Stuff them with a couple of dried figs - the dried black mission preferrably - and add some very sharp cheddar, pecans and bacon.  Or use goat cheese - that's good also.  I tried fig and blue cheese one time - but did not care for those.  

A cousin, is what I call a Grenade Diablo.  Take a large fresh jalapeno.  Cut a slit in side.  Take out the seeds and stuff it with shrimp and cheese and wrap in bacon.  

Here's what made up the sauce/glaze I used last night on the grenades


Here is what I dreamed up for the finishing sauce on the moinkballs.  3 dozen vaporized - the women loved them.


iphone pic of one of the Bacon Explosion, the fatty and some of the grenades.  Did not get a pic of the moinkballs finished.

That is not a normal sized pie pan, it's one of those that those large pies from the store come in. 

For the Bacon explosion and the Fatty, I had forgotten to get some Sharp Cheddar at the store so used some Kroger Brand Queso Blanco - a pepper/jalapeno infused white processed cheese product as in Velveeta Mex but white - I was too lazy to get out to the store.  Also put in some purple onion and the big red sweet pepper you can get at Sams and a handful or two of crumbled bacon.  The "cheese" unexpectedly almost overpowered the fatties.  I've got mixed feelings.  It had a very good flavor, but was strong and almost overpowered the sausage and bacon.  

[bigcatdaddy]

Sounds Yummy!!!!!!!  Gotta try it!!!

[SnellySmokesEm]

The Apps look great!  I have been thinking about what apps to do for new years and now I know!  Moinks and Fatties! 

[OU812]

All them BACON wrapped goodies look GREAT!

I see your still hiding your pellet pooper at work.  :D

[Caneyscud]

How do you make though's I have a party Sat.

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The moinkballs are just meatballs from the store wrapped in half of a bacon strip, sprinkled with rub, smoked and glazed.
Fatties are breakfast sausage roll flattened with goodies inside.  Wrapped back up, rub sprinkled on, and smoked.
Bacon Explosion is a fatty, with bacon inside and a bacon weave around. 
Grenades explained above.

few pics of fatties.

[Caneyscud]

All them BACON wrapped goodies look GREAT!

I see your still hiding your pellet pooper at work.  :D

(sheepishly holding my head down)

YEP!