What are you eating for dinner tonight?

Archer · Aug 28, 2016

Glad to see you are well enough to be cooking again Roger! 👍

flw · Aug 28, 2016

Hmm ... What to do with leftover steak?

Answer: slice it thin, give it a quick pan sear to take the chill off, and top it with a sauce of Stilton, onion, and heavy cream. Add a homemade Caesar salad, and voilà!

Accompanied by a frozen shot of Reyka vodka ...

efauser · Aug 28, 2016

Seeing Al's chili reminded me that chili would be good tonight. The way it's supposed to be eaten, of course.

Archer · Aug 28, 2016

efauser
Seeing Al's chili reminded me that chili would be good tonight. The way it's supposed to be eaten, of course.

Your chili reminds me that I should make some beef bourguignon sometime soon...

efauser · Aug 28, 2016

Bourguignon that will set your ass on fire.

alam · Aug 28, 2016

the boat!!!! One excellent sushi outing!

😀

Katze · Aug 29, 2016

I really like carbs! I need carbs!
Erm... whom am I kidding? Need to save for my first vintage speedy!

Spy · Aug 29, 2016

I helped make dinner for my in-laws last night. There was pork ribs, cod, rice, and my octopus and squid.

First...

46 inches from tip to tip!

Suction is still working.

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Smaller octopus

Large and small squid

A grand meal!

alam · Aug 29, 2016

that ^^ looks yummy! @Spy , where did you get that octopus from?

Spy · Aug 29, 2016

alam
that ^^ looks yummy! @Spy , where did you get that octopus from?

My local grocer of all places. That place has quite a selection of fresh sea food and several selections of squid and octopus. I did not know that one of the packages contained one big octopus. It was super great!

Moppel · Aug 29, 2016

Something headless....

Cheers,
Thomas

alam · Aug 29, 2016

Moppel
....Something headless....
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....w/o head but seems to be sitting very comfortably... 😀

Archer · Aug 31, 2016

Love this time of year...lots of great fruit and veggies available, and the large field tomatoes right now are fantastic. Little bit of freshly ground pepper, and just a tiny bit of Murray River pink salt..

Had these last night but will be having more tonight...

Moppel · Sep 1, 2016

alam
....w/o head but seems to be sitting very comfortably... 😀

You are right. And it didn't even move for two hours.

Baco Noir · Sep 5, 2016

I like big butts and I can not lie!

And I like them spiced.

And so the night begins (but I'll let the Flame Boss do the overnight worrying)

Well, the cat saved the pulled pork! Probably not something said very often, eh?

The cat woke me up at 2:30 AM clearing a hair ball and I checked the phone since I was up cleaning things up and saw the pit temp probe on the flame boss had finally died. My fault - I had used it long ago without putting the foil underneath it and the sheathing had burned and become very brittle, but it kept working so I kept using it.

The smoker was still hot but had dropped down to 210F. I could feel heat on one side but not the other, so I pulled all 3 butts off, removed the fat catch tray, pulled the heat deflector-plates and re-lite the right side. I was about to move over to a manual temp monitor system, when I saw I had an extra Flame Boss meat temperature probe, so I plugged that in to the pit temperature port on the controller and used the grate spring clip from the Maverick to see if the meat probe would work as a pit temp probe and it did.

I monitored the temp for another hour just to make sure all was running well and then headed back to la la land. Just pulled the butts off the smoker and covered them so they can rest for a while before pulling them.

And here's the final pulled pork.