Retired, living in Western Mass. Enjoy music, cooking and my family.
Current cookers Weber Spirit 3 burner with a full insert griddle added. A 22" Kettle with vortex SnS and OnlyFire pizza oven. A Smokey Joe and the most recent addition a Pit Barrel Jr with bird hanger, 4 hooks and cover. ThermoWorks Smoke 2 probe, DOT, ThermoPops and a Thermapen MK4. 3 TempSpike wireless meat thermometers.
Have not done this simple grill for a long time. When in Jersey late 60s a diner I think Totowa on RT 3. Long time ago. Had the greatest pizza burger. Beef, mazzarella cheese and sauce on an english muffin. Oh so good especially after an evening out. My take. I loaded fries with with cheese and sauce. Done on gasser.
22” Blue Weber Kettle with SnS insert
Kamado Joe Jr with Kick Ash Basket
Char-Broil Smartchef Tru Infrared Gasser
Anovo Hot Tub Time Machine with Custom Hot Tub
Homemade egg rolls and walnut shrimp. Yes, a few grains of rice are out of place. No, I do not have curly green onions for garnish. It’s by design, I didn’t want to show up Ernest. That said, I did add sriracha to the walnut glaze that really was tasty. But the glaze cooled super quick and some of the walnuts were like pralines!
i used to eat at a Santa Maria-style BBQ joint for years right in my hood and it left and "Poof", no mo' Santa Maria style. So I've been playing with rubs to match it and finally figured it out. it goes like this -
Salt
Pepper
garlic powder
or, like this:
salt
pepper
or, like this:
salt
or, like this:
meat with whateva on bbq with some firey red oak wood rollin'
this is how i did it camping it the desert this week on a Weber 18 Joe short legger. campers were too hungry for me to shoot any sliced pics - they ate it as fast as I sliced!
this the wood, yo! i chain-sawed up small bits to add to flame.
the fire is rolling, yo!
smacked up a mess of chichie wings along with said tr-tip. i hit wings with sauce and seared again but all got stomached before I had a chance to record. Tri-tip came out perfectly scheduled medium (the way my wife and kids insist it be!), but I did get one or two fairly pink slices!
This is the small, cheap fork I used to turn the meat as my usual tongs and other bbq tools were accidently left in the dishwasher at home. A small but mighty tool. It served the job well. burned fingers were optional but necessary.
a bonus shot of Panhead John and me back in the day. I can't believe my hair is still the same color!!
SheilaAnn Papa's Western BBQ started out on Anaheim St. across from Big Jeff's carwash for many years then moved to PCH and Anaheim across from Rec Park golf course where the Brazilian steak house is now. Papa's closed early 2000's if i recall correctly.
latenight71 I barely remember that place. It was when first moved here. I hear the Brazilian place is not that great. I’ve a few people they have gotten sick from there.
Brought the PBJ to Mom's to cook a couple chickens while my brother and I did some repairs around her house. Mom has some crawfish bisque made, and my brother brought some red beans. The beans were made with a sweet ham which gave a neat sweet flavor. Also the plate in one of the pictures is part of a set Mom had when I was a kid 40 years ago.
Edit to add a picture of chicken lollipops and breast I cooked on the pellet smoker for a pot luck at work. It was great.
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Attjack I love all of your cooks. For a while, you were mostly cooking Asian meals. Now you're hitting eggs on top of steaks, toast. All beautifully presented and photographed. I'm a big fan. (Look out or Ernest will be coming after you!)
Got some Bison filets for my birthday, asked here on the forum for advice on how to grill them since I had never done them before. Thanks to everyone who replied, they turned out amazing they were so delicious! Plated it with some avocado and leftover fried rice
Grill/Smoke/Roast = SnS Grills Kettle + SnS Deluxe Insert & Drip n' Griddle
Grill/Smoke/Roast = Hasty-Bake Gourmet Dual Finish with HB rotisserie and Grill Grates
Smoke = Weber Smokey Mountain 22.5"
Pizza = Blackstone Propane Pizza Oven (Stacy's, but she let's me use it sometimes)
Indoor Cooking = LG Studio 30" gas range
Camp Cooking = Coleman 2 burner white gas stove
Thermometer = FireBoard FBX2 with 2 ambient and 6 meat probes
Thermapen Mk IV = Light blue
Thermapen Mk IV = Black
PID Controller = Fireboard Drive + Auber 20 CFM Fan (FB gen 1 fan)
PID Controller = Fireboard Drive + Fireboard 20 CFM Fan (FB gen 2 fan)
Knives
Wusthof Classic Ikon set: 9" carving knive, 2X 8" Chef's Knife, 7" Santoku and three utility knives
Kamikoto Kuro set: 7" Santoku, 6.5" Nakiri, 5" Utility
Amazing Ribs Brazilian Steak knife set
Favorite wine = whatever is currently in the wine rack
Favorite beer = Sam Adams Boston Lager or Shiner Bock
Favorite whisky = Lagavulin Distiller's Edition 16 year old single malt
Best Cookbooks - Meathead's "The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling", Chris Lilly's "Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book", Aaron Franklin's "Franklin BBQ"
Cookbooks to check out - Raichlen's "Brisket Chronicles" and anything by Adam Perry Lang.
Current fanboy cookbook - "Chasing Smoke: Cooking Over Fire Around the Levant"
Minestrone soup tonight ..... it counts for Pitmaster cause I used my own bacon, right?
I used my recipe, not many changes to it .... method is pretty much the same. Used store bought ham, chunked up, instead of ham hocks. Not really any other difference. Came out good :-)
Some of the ingredients you need
Cooking the beans
Cooking the soup
Put it all together
Then right at the end add some fresh parmesan and green beans
What the Canellini’s look like when they are cooked
Everything in the bowl .... served it with a nice Chianti
I had family over for dinner. My sister was up from California to visit and deliver us a pig. They brought banh mi for an appetizer and I made Yakisoba on the EVO.
Love banh mi sammies. Love that EVO as well. Been watching Sam the Cooking Guy use his and have some definite MCS urges. Too expensive right now unfortunately
My nephew is into asian food and knows all the spots around the city. He's also a Mexican food connoisseur among other things. He sourced the sammies.
The evo is great but yes it is also expensive. I would be curious to experience the performance of the evo as compared to a blackstone or camp chef flat top.
Sam is always entertaining. Though some if the stuff he cooks isn't for me. But he pumps out so much content that's to be expected. I wonder how much his youtube show makes?
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