Well, sadly, I forgot to take any pictures with the Tabasco pepper jelly (red) or Tabasco Jalapeño jelly (green) on them for the final presentation. This happened:
The blocks split open, possibly because I moved the skillet to the upper rack of the kamado, so that I could put my Conecuh sausage on the bottom rack (I didn't want it dripping on the cheese!).
Regardless, the pepper jelly hid the split, and these were a BIG hit. Lot's of compliments. Personally, I could not believe how smokey the cream cheese was after 2 hours.
My wife left during the meeting, and I think was disappointed we did not have any left for her to try, haha. The guys scarfed down the crackers, smoked cheeses and pepper jelly, and several pounds of smoked sausages....
I told her I will do the smoked cream cheese again the next time we have someone over.
On the plus side, this was the first time we've had anyone other than the kids over to the house, with the finally finished kitchen/den renovation. The fact it was a dozen guys drinking and judging home-brew beers of all sorts of styles probably means they were less critical of things than maybe some of my wife's friends would have been, haha...
The blocks split open, possibly because I moved the skillet to the upper rack of the kamado, so that I could put my Conecuh sausage on the bottom rack (I didn't want it dripping on the cheese!).
Regardless, the pepper jelly hid the split, and these were a BIG hit. Lot's of compliments. Personally, I could not believe how smokey the cream cheese was after 2 hours.
My wife left during the meeting, and I think was disappointed we did not have any left for her to try, haha. The guys scarfed down the crackers, smoked cheeses and pepper jelly, and several pounds of smoked sausages....
I told her I will do the smoked cream cheese again the next time we have someone over.
On the plus side, this was the first time we've had anyone other than the kids over to the house, with the finally finished kitchen/den renovation. The fact it was a dozen guys drinking and judging home-brew beers of all sorts of styles probably means they were less critical of things than maybe some of my wife's friends would have been, haha...
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