Where Do The Children Play?: BBQ Plans and whatnot

Hello friends and readers-- here's another quick and brief update. I promise a more fullerer update to come soon with pictures and some "how to" information on how we made our smoke dried apple slices and stuff, but this week is super busy. Work has had my attention-- 9-5 work, ya know.

We have a birthday to cook for in Brooklyn this upcoming weekend, and Large Marge is in today to have repairs done on her trailer. Her coupler and jack were wounded after the Paul Kirk class in a gruesome jacknifing incident. For those that don't remember her, here's Marge in a svelt moment in the sun.
I miss cooking on Marge. Wubby usually gets all the attention. Marge only gets to eat fire when we need to cook food for a really big crowd-- 75 to 100 people or more. She's really a great cooker and I've barely gotten to know her, so I'm looking forward to giving her another chance to shine this weekend.

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Time Has Come Today: Recent BBQ Exploits

I've been lucky enough to be cooking some holiday meals for some friends. The last few weekends I've been smoking up a storm while the weather has remained uncommonly mild in our neck of the woods.

This past weekend, I cooked two turkeys, 2 tri tips, a few pounds of kielbasa, a pound of cheddar cheese, 2 racks of spareribs, a clove-studded, honey glazed ham, and more. The weekend before that was more turkey, a beef tenderloin, more ribs and some ribeye steaks. I've been using a mix of hickory and cherry on everything and even have made some cherry wood lump charcoal of my own. Here're some pictures of the goodies.

Wubby in the sun


Honey-glazed ham


Spareribs


Smoked kielbasa


Fire-roasted Beef Tenderloin, Smoked Turkey and Spareribs












Homemade Charcoal and 10 pounds of Pulled Pork

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