My 1st Fatty

Been reading about fatty's on all the BBQ sites and wanted to try one, all a fatty is a LB of sausage flattened out and rolled around whatever you feel like filling it with, then smoke it, I got the Idea of a breakfast fatty, I'm sure it's been done before, but I haven't seen any and like to think it's an original idea, everything I read they were stuffing em with peppers and onions and cheese and stuff like that, I'm putting scrambled eggs, ham and cheese in mine

here's what it looked like before smoking it



and here it's done, smoked for 3 hrs with apple pellets



now slice it up and enjoy



I think the ham was a little overkill, a meat wrapped in a meat is kinda weird, and didn't put enough cheese in, next time no ham, more cheese and maybe some green peppers or something if I can sell that to Lynn, if not maybe green onions

but , all in all, another successful BBQ adventure

1st real test

Lynn invited everyone over for Pulled Pork Sunday for my birthday, 1st extended smoke on the new smoker, got 2 7 1/2 lb pork shoulders, trying a new recipe, gonna inject em'



injected em' Sat afternoon and let em' sit in fridge all day, took em' out of fridge at 8:00, rubbed em' down, and let em' come up to room temp,started the smoker at 10:00, got the temp where I wanted it and threw em in, watched it pretty close for about an hour and looks good, temp staying right where I want it, this is too easy, no more checking it every 1/2 hr, I set alarm for 2:00 and went to sleep, wanted to check again just to make sure temp was holding steady, still looks good so go to sleep and let em' cook

when I woke up, temp still holding steady and looking good



up to temp at noon, took em out to rest for an hour before shredding



Mom, Dawn and little dude, Erik, Bonnie and Wayne, Dennis and Sue and their little dude, Andrea and her boyfriend (sorry I forgot his name again) Shawna and Spud, Heather, Lynn and me all present,

pork turned out good, lots of other good food to be had, this is by far a more pleasant smoking experience, almost seems like cheating, I got all sorts of things I wanna try now, so expect your food to taste smokey whenever you eat at our house.

got my new smoker

Been quite a while since my last post, Haven't really done any smokin lately, had a few grilling adventures but never got around to putting 'em up.

But I'm starting a whole new era in my BBQ adventures, been looking at the Traeger pellet smokers for about 3 yrs. but just too expensive, when I bought my smoker earlier this year I was really wanting a Traeger, well thanks to the lady that hit me in Walmart parking lot and state farm insurance, I got me a bonus for my new birthday present to myself, this is what $2646 worth of damage looks like now a days















it actually looks worse in the picture than it really does, well the car is getting close to 200,000 miles and drives fine, sooooooo, that's our new buddy YB, had to get in the picture.

Well, started investigating where I could get the best deal on my new Traeger and discovered Louisianna Country Smokers, pellet smoker like the Traeger but made with heavier guage steel, and will get to higher temps so you can grill on it too, plus about $400 cheaper. needless to say, I got one.

here's a couple pics of it






Didn't really have time to try it out, 1st big test this weekend, 15 lbs of pork shoulder. but did have to cook something, a 4lb prime rib in the freezer just screaming to get out, they say this thing smokes, roasts, sears, grills and bakes, let's see how well it roasts I guess

Here's the roast, I cut slits in it and stuffed with about 10 cloves of garlic



Put a rub on it and threw it on the smoker



slow smoked it for 2 hrs. then turned up the heat and roasted for another 2 hrs. Here's the finished product





Also roasted a couple ears of corn and some garlic bread on it and was one of the best meals I've had in quite a while, didn't have to turn on oven and heat up house, roast was moist, tender and flavorful,

another complete success,