Creamy Stuffed Pork Loin was stuffed with some of our favorite things: bacon and cheese. Our friend Kevin sent us his recipe and Patti loved the fact that you could vary the ingredients. Instead of onion-chive cream cheese you could use a fruit cream cheese like peach or honey. Instead of pepper bacon use maple. Because, as you know, we love to play with…
Venison Tenders, are one of our camp favorites. I have been doing these for 30 years and with hunting season around the corner I thought I would share this one. Venison tenders are very rich and tender with more than a hint of coarse ground black pepper. This is very easy to do and your buddies will always want you to be the camp…
Video Pepper Crusted Sirloin Roast Video Pepper Crusted Sirloin Roast Smoked rare, thin slicked make crazy good roast beef sandwitches. Big beef flavor just a hint of pepper in the sliced meat with a “Kiss of Smoke” in every bite. Think of all the deli style sandwiches that you can serve up to your friends with a pile of beef like this. They will be…
https://youtu.be/AlaYFztf2FU Texas Sliders, Honey Bourbon Brisket Video Texas Sliders, Honey Bourbon Brisket, with the Super Bowl coming up and folks gearing up for some Tailgating we wanted to come up with something to “Knock Your Socks Off”. Well, we did it. What do you think about a Honey Bourbon Brisket slider? Thought we would go big with a Texas Slider. It’s rich, meaty and off…
Meat Lovers Breakfast Skillet, if you like sausage and bacon you need to check this out! Off the Hook!! Ken wanted breakfast for dinner guests. Happily we just got lots of bacon and sausage. The sausage links are one oz. each, natural spice blend and rated #1 by Cooks Illustrated. The bacon is cured a minimum of 24 hours and hickory smoked a minimum…
Stuffed Pork Chops with Cranberry Stuffing, this is one of our very 1st recipes from Dec. 2009. I thought some of you may enjoy looking at this and seeing how we've grown. This was done on a Traeger. The only editing I've done here are with the photos and the closing... These were something special Patti dreamed. Literally she had a dream about these. We…
Taco Tuesday Skillet came about because once a month we would get together with friends and neighbors for taco Tuesday. We miss that, plus Patti had some extra tortilla chips she wanted to do something creative with. This was an easy, inexpensive dinner to fix with a lot of ingredients we had on hand. Perfect when you want a hearty, quick dinner with a…
Reverse Seared Tri-Tip on Date Night. Date night this week we wanted “Big Beef”. The market had some beautiful Tri-Tip roasts on sale. Enough said, Tri-Tip it is! We did a 2 hour reverse sear, in our Green Mountain Grill/Smoker Off the hook!!! It was tender, juicy and packed with smoked big beef flavor. Patti added some twice baked potatoes and I did some…
Tri Tip Pizza is perfect if you like the smoky big beef flavor of a reverse seared Tri Tip you’re going to love this pizza. We did a “Reverse Sear” on a big Tri Tip roast. Then cubed the leftovers up for pizza. We like to use Ragu Roasted Garlic Parmesan sauce for our sauce for another layer of flavor. Next we piled…
Reverse Seared Tomahawk Steak Santa Maria Style for Date Night!!! Raider Red Meats sent us a 3-pound Tomahawk Steak, their meats are prime and so tender and flavorful we wanted to make sure we did this one right! So, we seasoned it with our Santa Maria Rub, a uniquely sweet, smoky and spicy rub from Old California and a reverse sear! It was fork tender…
Perfect Rib Eye Steak, I have heard some people say that you can’t grill a nice steak on a wood pellet grill. Wrong, they just don’t know how. It is easy to get a full smoked flavor and the grill your steak to rare or however you like it. Patti did these the other night in a video just to show you how easy…
Taco Tuesday Meatloaf because Tuesday’s meant tacos with friends and getting together for a potluck for good food and fellowship. Many of our friends were talking about how they missed those get togethers. So, we combined our favorite taco ingredients with a tasty, easy meatloaf to enjoy at home with a “Kiss of Smoke”. And cold meatloaf sandwiches the next day! You can serve…