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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2011 20:26:19 GMT -5
My favorites are low and slow standards like butts, loins, and ribs but often I have to run a much quicker Q. 4 or 5 nights a week Mr's Wicker works 'till 8pm (which means we need a light and quick meal) and I don't get home 'till nearly 6 (which rules out a 3 or 4 hour smoke). To indulge our love of wood cooked food we began playing with some simple foods to make them taste more like the low and slow variety. These are a few of our quickie favorites. Bacon wrapped dogs Dogs on the Q are great we just like to spruce them up now and then. Besides, some of the simple pleasures are the best. Roll a hot dog in a rub of your choice then wrap with 1/2 slice of bacon. We like the smoke so I'll cook them offset with a little cherry or hickory for about 20-30 minutes and move over the heat to finish if need be. Most often we rub these with McCormick Smokehouse Maple or JB's Fat Boy Pecan Rub, two of the rare store bought rubs we use. If it's nasty out we'll smoke these indoors in an small electric counter top oven. Grab yourself a small chunk of wood and stuff some tin-foil under it so the wood touches the element and you will get a nice light smoke that you can "just" smell in the house and doesn't make the wife mad. Better Burgers Mix the ground beef of your choice with spices. To this add a small amount of chopped raw bacon (only just a small amout or you will have flare up like crazy) and some asagio and blue cheese and mix well. Make your patties and let them smoke indirect for 20 minutes or so before moving over the fire. The blue cheese goes great with a dash of Ranch on top of the finished burger imho. I like to serve either with some grilled asparagus or corn but as you know dogs or burgers make a great meal by themselves too. Sometimes I feel a little pretentious when using names for our recipes but we have wrote down so many it helps the wife and I to keep them sorted. Otherwise it's "Hey, make those blue cheese with bacon burger thingies." Simple but good eats that pick up more smoke than one would suspect. Hope you enjoy them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2011 20:46:45 GMT -5
I do the same thing with the burgers but also add jalapenos and cheese. I like provolone while the wife and kids like the cheddar or american. Good stuff! ( definately gonna try the sauce next time I fire up the Q, thanks!)
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 25, 2011 23:57:18 GMT -5
Bacon wraped... MMMMMMM.... cause we know bacon makes everything better!
PORK FAT RULES!!
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Post by grapenut on May 11, 2011 0:55:19 GMT -5
Oh, Drool! yet, another thing to try Bacon on. yep! everything tastes better with the Bacon.
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Post by coppice on May 11, 2011 8:36:00 GMT -5
I know, I know its fru fru food. But a good old fashioned bacon and onion quiche inna shallow pie pan, made with the stankiest home smoked bacon is pretty good. And can get to the table in under an hour. Use a low fat cheese and drain some of the bacon grease out of the choppings befor you cook it, for a 'dietetic' meal I try to set aside some chopped (pulled) pork from smoked shoulder. It adds with some veggies a pretty good flavor to plain-jane ramien. and is a quick meal.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2011 21:18:53 GMT -5
I know, I know its fru fru food. But a good old fashioned bacon and onion quiche inna shallow pie pan, made with the stankiest home smoked bacon is pretty good. And can get to the table in under an hour. Use a low fat cheese and drain some of the bacon grease out of the choppings befor you cook it, for a 'dietetic' meal I try to set aside some chopped (pulled) pork from smoked shoulder. It adds with some veggies a pretty good flavor to plain-jane ramien. and is a quick meal. Thanks for the tip! I'm a quiche fan myself. Eggs are great! Now you've got me thinking about smoked eggs?!?!?!?!
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Post by coppice on May 12, 2011 11:58:55 GMT -5
If you have a gas grill, and a perforated pan with a second deeper pan to underlay it. And some hardwood saw-dust or shredded hardwood will smoke through the slotted pan burgers or (better) salmon. But, any fish smokes ok in my book.
An' pretty quick too.
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Post by coppice on May 13, 2011 6:09:04 GMT -5
FWIW a bean pot with a nob of stanky home smoked bacon and some added value (home) smoked sausage with dried beans, can be left in a slow oven.
Back when I had one and had a day job, I used to leave one in the oven of solid fuel range. The fire would die out. On return from work and with a rebuilt fire bean pot would be done after an hour or two...
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