Boys Weekend

[ExpatCanadian]

Hi Lumpy,

I've been a slight victim of missing the trees for the forest (or whatever that darned metphor is  :))....  the meat was lookin so good that I completely overlooked your "dessert"!  I'm REAL interested in those eggs, as I do a lot of home canning/pickling myself.  I make a lot of pickled onions, have done eggs once or twice...  but never even considered smoking them first.  I was browsing through this post again and realised that must be what you've done! I've got my big annual "kick off the summer" BBQ coming up in a weeks time and I've been trying to work out what to provide for the couple of vegetarians I know (I know...  like bringin' a knife to gunfight... and more of those darned overused metaphors... who brings a VEGETARIAN to a BBQ!!???)  But nevertheless, I do need to feed 'em....  I have a reputation at stake!

What recipe did you follow for the eggs....  did you brine them first?  What kind of pickling solution (malt vs. cider vs wine vinegar etc.)

Do share!

[ExpatCanadian]

Ok...  think I may have answered my own question.  Couldn't find anything on the recipe site, so searched here and came across Habs recipe in this post:

http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=2225.0

Gonna do up a couple dozen this weekend....  taste test next Thursday or Friday and if they pass muster (and why wouldn't they  ;)) they'll be on the menu next weekend!

[Habanero Smoker]

TD;

I know a lot of vegetarians that I invite to my cookouts. Just google vegetarian barbecue or vegetarian barbeque. You will be amazed of the hits you get, and there are tons of ideas. Smoke/grilled eggplant is always a big hit.

[Gizmo]

Smoked Portabela mushroom burger. 

[ExpatCanadian]

Yup....  portobello mushrooms are almost always on the menu anyway for me too....  love 'em.

Just came across a vegetarian version of "Pulled Pork"...  which of course sounds like an oxymoron...  but as I am serving the real deal to my carnivorous friends, I wanted to try to mimic it as closely as possible for my veggie friends.  To be fair, it actually doesn't sound half bad, check it out:

Vegetarian Pulled Pork

I am writing this from my workplace...  which happens to be about 200 yards from a famous Bangladeshi/Indian area of London called "Brick Lane" where I can get pretty much any Asian ingredient known to mankind...  so shouldn't have too much difficulty finding a can or 2 of Jackfruit!  If any of you are wondering why Brick Lane might sound a bit familiar, it was the name of a bestselling book a couple of years back, that then got made into a film that some of you might have seen.