Recent content by roburado

Hi, all. The wife and I are trying to avoid added sugars. While we love the BPS rubs that we have used, and while we realize that probably a lot of those sugars get cooked off, we started using this one rub we got from Costco, which appeared not to have any sugars whether they were from cane...

Hey, all. It's been a long time since I've posted any cooks. Hope this post finds you all well. Anyway, here's something that the wife has been making me lately. She makes a great salad with smoked chicken breast, spinach, mango, strawberry, red onion, and spinach. She served me a nice...

So, Yardbird on all three racks. Then, onto the grill at 275F a la Sparky Style. FL with chipotles in adobo sauce with some apple cider vinegar. The other two racks got my FL with Filipino Banana Sauce and apple cider vinegar. After FL, I did a bit of saucing. Diluted these down and...

So, I've never done ribs before. I went to one of our rib experts, Sparky, and had him clarify for me his process. For some reason, I just had to have ribs this week. So, that's what we did today. First, the rubbin' stuff. Used Yardbird on one rack. The other rack I used Little Louie's...

Thanks to Big Poppa Smokers for the sauces and rubs. Didn't order these, but I'm guessing they were to thank me for pointing out that I received a $50 credit instead of a $25 credit for winning one of the cooking contests.

We like the Italian Sausage that our Costco store sells. De Bebe usually cooks them up on the stove. This time, we decided that we'd do it on the MAK. First, I started smoking some sausage. We figured we'd use some for the sausage and peppers. Some we'd save for other applications like...

De Bebe and I decided to make some burgers this evening. We don't really eat bread in this household. So, we did them on some meaty portobello mushrooms. We started with roasting some tomatoes on the MAK as we were getting the grill up to temperature. While those were on the grill, we got...

So, our local Costco stopped carrying our favorite garlic extra virgin olive oil. I'm so disappointed. We can't get the Annie's brand (locally) that people seem to like here on the forum. Anyone have any other suggestions for a good one? I just was doing an quickie internet search and found...

So, I got Pat LaFrieda's Big App for Meat for my iPad. It's pretty cool. I didn't know much about various cuts of beef, for example, except that my favorite was ribeye for a long time. Now, I know about more thanks to this forum and Pat LaFrieda's app. It's got videos about the various cuts...

For Christmas, De Bebe got me this toy. It works great! Originally, we got the wrong version. BPS was great about getting us the right one. Finally installed it today. Smoking some of Tony Packo's "Hungarian Hot Dogs" to test it out. Going to run to the store for some beef for a little Carne...

Anyone try these yummy things? I assume they're grand. What was your experience? Are they shipped frozen in those styrofoam containers with the dry ice pack? Looking at getting some ground beef, because I'm a sucker for a burger and some meatloaf. Probably some flatiron too, because I've...

Anyone ever actually try an actual Cambro instead of doing a faux Cambro thing with the blankets and cooler? Just curious.

What is your favorite burger technique? Sear first then smoke? Reverse sear? Just grill? Just griddle? Just smoke? Something else?

So, maybe I'm crazy, but I want to cook up some turkeys, maybe some more of my prime rib. It was just too much fun! So what if I had an auger jam. Now, I know how to clear it. After I cleared it, everything went beautifully. It makes me want to do it all over again! I just might want to do...

I'm a bit short on pictures for this cook. So, you won't see the usual detail. It's more about the final product with this set of pics than the process of cooking. De Bebe and I decided that we were going to do a sort of Mexican-inspired menu. So, we started off with appetizers in the...