more sausage

We tried our hand at stuffing sausage, found a recipe for Texas Hot Links I wanted to try, got some hog casing and off to work, well to make a long story short, bad recipe, they looked good, but really tasted bad. I really can't explain it.
















smoked a few up with some beans, at least the bean recipe was good, I invited Gene and Linda down for dinner because I thought they were gonna be so good, what an embarrassment. I poured some BBQ sauce on em and helped a little, but definitely not trying this recipe again. but we played cribbage til wee in the morning and had a good time.

















that was a couple weeks ago, tried again last weekend, figured we'd try some brat's instead, no pics but would just look the same anyway, Heather came down Sun. smoked a 10Lb pork butt and had pulled pork sandwiches, and some mac 'n cheese to die for, if anyone wants a good mac 'n cheese, try this,
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/guy-fieri/mac-daddy-mac-n-cheese-recipe/index.html

doesn't re-heat well though, so have some people around to eat it down.

then about 8:00 PM we were getting hungry again, so smoked up some brats, they turned out very good, smoking didn't seem to help em a lot, so just probably grill em next time.

Superbowl

We go to Gene's house every year to watch the superbowl, he's been promising it's gonna be in high def for about 4 yrs now, he finally came through, high definition on his new 52" LCD, game looked great, lots of good food, Linda always makes a ton of food, this year she made some kind of chicken wings, never asked what she called 'em, but they were good, she made these little pizza cup things, flattened out biscuits in a muffin pan, they were good, chips, dips, veggies, fruit, a bread that she always makes called beer bread, it's really good, I know there was something else, but can't think of it.

We always bring something to eat when we go, Gene had been hinting around that I need to bring ribs, so I did.

Here I'm pulling the membrane from the bone side, very important for tender ribs


















put a rub on 'em

















wrap em up and in the fridge overnight
















got up early Sun. morning and got the pit going, here's a few hours later
















they turned out really good, I should just left 'em dry, but Gene likes sauce on his ribs, I was out of sweet baby rays, had a big jug of kc masterpiece, figured it would work, last time I do that, there's just no substitute for SBR's, everyone enjoyed 'em though, made a lot of ribs and didn't bring that many back home.

hot links coming next, will be making 'em later today, but who knows when I'll get 'em on here