Pastrami

Safeway had corned beef on sale for St. Patrick's day, had read about people smoking 'em so you know I gotta try it, that's what Pastrami is, smoked corned beef, but I think there's a few more steps, I'm making backyard pastrami, just picked up a 4 Lb'er, at $1.49 a LB shoulda grabbed a couple more, soaked it in water overnight to take some of the salt out, then ground up the seasoning packet that came with it in the bullet, added some extra pepper, rubbed it down, wrapped it and let it sit in fridge overnight





Fired up the pit and threw 'er on Sun morning, smoked for about 5 hrs. then I notice temp dropping on the remote thermometer, went and checked, pellet hopper empty, first time I done that, I must not have filled it as full as normal, it usually lasts 6 to 7 hrs before adding more, instead of restarting it just took in house and put in oven, it should have taken enough smoke already, just sit back and wait til it got up to temp.




doesn't look like Pastrami, but tastes good, Rueben Time




got the fixin's together, I found this marble Rye bread at fred meyer, Kit Carson uses it and really liked the Rueben they make, threw 'em together and grilled 'em up




very tastey if I do say so myself, next year gotta remember the St Patrick's corned beef sale and pick up a few, will definately do this again