My mom asking me to bring brisket to every family gathering. My wife asking me what am I cooking for dinner and requesting Troutman Osso Bucco with ox tails instead of veal shanks every week or so.
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Whenever we have a family gathering, my sister always asks "would it be too much trouble for you to cook one of your awesome smoked turkeys?" Who could say no to that??
"When I made pulled pork for 18 people, and about half a gallon of BBQ sauce, and no one touched the bbq sauce! They said " why ruin this meat??â€Comment
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"Thank you, this means a lot."Comment
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Any "Mmm" or "This is sure good" from Family or Friends is always nice to hear. My oldest Grandson was about 6 at the time and said my SV'd and Seared Tri Tip was "really good". I learned a good share of my cooking ability right here! Thanks everyone!Comment
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Before AR, I used to grill and smoke. Now I GRILL and SMOKE.Comment
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In-laws came down this Friday to pick up the kids and take them back down to Florida for a few weeks. They were supposed to leave Saturday morning, but FIL saw that I had a brisket in the fridge and asked about it. I told him I was cooking it for my wife for Mother's Day After asking me if it was OK, he went and told my MIL that plans changed and they'd be leaving Sunday evening instead. MIL prefers pulled pork, so I went and picked up a butt to cook too. Fortunately for me, it turned out to be one of the better briskets I've cooked, and my MIL wasn't too upset about the change as she got to go home with a few pounds of pulled pork.Comment
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Many of my family and friends call me for advice and coaching while they are cooking. In my local grocery store,"Ed's Way", people have flagged me down to get cooking advice. One time I conducted an impromptu class in one of the aisles. That was fun.Comment
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"I’ll deal with the consequences."Comment
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First one .... I cooked pork butt for my neighbor’s daughter’s graduation party. The girl’s grandfather, who I really don’t know at all, asked where the pork butt came from. When he found out that I had cooked it, he came over and told me that he wanted me to cook for a party at his country club.
Second one .... the other night my wife, who really isn’t a big fan of tomatoes, like she tolerates them at best, and really isn’t a fan of blue cheese, went back for seconds of my tomato and blue cheese salad.Last edited by ecowper; May 11, 2020, 06:41 PM.Comment
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My grandson always wants me to smoke ribs. He says "Pappa you make the best ribs!"Comment
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My wife has always been very complimentary of my cooking, but the most recent was completely due to this site, and particularly the PBC board. After reading all of the posts on the subject, I decided to try my first Chuckie on the PBC. I was very pleased with the result, despite being paranoid throughout the cook. My wife was again very complimentary of the meal, but the real tell was when we went grocery shopping next and she went straight to the meat counter, picked out a Chuck Roast and handed it to me.Comment
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My one brother in law, who's a bit of a foodie and being a successful business owner has the means to travel quite a bit and eat at nice places, upon eating my brisket closed his eyes and paused and then said slowly and monotone, as if deeply focused, "this is the best piece of smoked meat I've ever put in my mouth". Highest compliment!
Another buddy of mine, when he learned I work for AmazingRibs.com asked if I was a big-wig in the BBQ world now. Of course I said "heck no", I'm not Meathead or Malcom or Myron or Franklin. He said "well if anyone tastes the pork butts you made [for his daughter's graduation party] they'd beg to differ."
A third buddy, who professionally cooked at a restaurant he owned, and catered BBQ with a couple large trailer-mounted smokers, and is not much of a compliment giver, ate my brisket and said "this tastes a lot like mine" Lol, from him, that was a BIG compliment!
The best though is when I tell my kids I'm making ribs or brisket, and they go "YESSSSSSS!" and jump. My youngest, who never liked my pork butt, recently told me he decided he really does like it, just not as much as the brisket and ribs, in that order. < that's the best compliment!Comment
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I was making a salmon fillet with citrus glaze as a appetizer for a dinner party and one of the guests made it a point to say that she didn't like salmon. Then proceeded to eat a huge portion of the salmon and said "This is fantastic and I thought I didn't like salmon".Comment
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