Seafood

Been doing quite a bit of BBQ'in lately, just never get around to taking pics, and too lazy to post 'em here if I do.

Me and Lynn went to the Astoria Seafood and Wine Festival Sunday, love the seafood and never been to it before, so thought we'd check it out.

Well think it should be called the wine festival, as the only seafood around was a few vendors selling food, it was all winery's and people selling jewelery, sauces, and spice blends, we walked around for quite awile and sampled many different wines, then went back where the food was and got a chunk of crab bread and a bowl of chowder, the crab bread was amazing, thick cut french Bread with cheese and some kind of sauce on it, with great big chunks of crab sprinkled all over the top.

Stopped at a seafood shop in town as we were heading out, bought some prawns, fish, and smoked salmon, I saw tubs of crab spread the were selling and checked out the ingredients, this might have been the same company that was selling them at festival, but not sure, then we stopped at pier 39 and bought a couple live crabs. we'll just have our own seafood festival.

When we got home we boiled up the crabs, I grilled a couple fish fillets, I can't even remember what kinda fish it was, just bought some they had on special, not bad but pretty tasteless. but went well with the crab legs.

Here is the closet thing we saw to live seafood at the festival



Here's a couple of bottles of wine we picked up




The crabs in a box with ice, when we got them home they said they wanted a hot bath




Monday for lunch, grilled Prawns and my take on the crab bread, no loaves of french bread, so just sliced sourdough.



I love that stuff, one of my new "go to" recipes.

We had a good time and would like to get out to Astoria again and do some more exploring, but seafood and wine festival is out for me, just a bunch of people trying to empty me wallet

The Big Cook

Aubree & Hazen home for the weekend and I haven't cooked any food for them on the smoker yet, trying to think of something different to do, had a ham in the freezer so lets give that a try.

cut the skin off ham and diagonally slashed the fat, injected with Pineapple & Apple Juice, soy & worcestershire sauce.



then rubbed it down with my favorite rub




Spatchcocked a couple chickens (cut the backbone out and broke breastbone so they lay flat) and brined overnight, sprinkled 'em with Tony C's




Mixed up a pot of beans, made a couple fatty's with my homemade sausage & 20 ABT's (jalapenos sliced lengthwise, filled with cream cheese and a little smokie in about 1/2 of em, wrapped with bacon) next time gonna chop the little smokies up and mix em with the cream cheese,

Here's everything happily cooking along



everything turned out very good, The Ham was dry around the outside but juicy inside, next time will wrap in foil after about 4 hrs, had a great flavor, my 1st time making ABT's and gonna be on the grill whenever I fire it up from now on, they were great, especially about midnight after many beers, when me and Ryan finished the leftovers, fatty's were amazing as always, chicken was moist with nice smokey flavor,


Aubree & Hazen, Heather & Ryan, Shawna & Spud, Mom, Dawn & Lumpy, Lynn & I were here, Bonnie & Wayne stopped by but had to leave before dinner, they did get to try the fatty, we had a great time and plenty of good food and fun, hope everyone enjoyed themselves, I did.