WoW!!! Our Ultimate Biscuit and Gravy Breakfast Bake made it into Green Mountains Cook Book! We love biscuits and gravy, and I am always thinking how to make something better. I like to pile a stack of french fries on my biscuits and smother then with gravy. You just can’t do better than that. Patti and I have been thinking about a holiday breakfast picking…
Chipotle Pepper Brined Roast Beef packed with tons of BIG BEEF flavor. We took a 7 pound beef shoulder roast and brined it for two days in our Chipotle Pepper brine. Big Beef Roast- Texas Style. We love “Big Beef” and today we took it a few steps farther with 2 days in a Chipotle/Pepper brine and smoked it for 5½ hours in a…
Garlicky Spatchcock Hens, Garlic lovers heaven for our Date Night dinner. Patti and I both love garlic (good thing) and our Garlic Lovers Grilling Sauce is CRAZY GOOD. If you don’t like garlic don’t even think about this sauce, it is very garlicky to say the least! Garlic sweetens as it cooks and adds wonderful garlic flavor to whatever is on the grill. Game hens…
Paw Dads Alabama White BBQ Sauce is one of my favorite sauces. Almost everyone has their own family recipe for this all-purpose sauce. This is a mayonnaise-based sauce, on the tangy side with a kiss of horseradish, and smoked garlic. This one was my grandfather’s recipe; we have posted my mothers and uncles versions also. I call them “The Same, But Different” … (I’ll…
Hasselback Potatoes, we love these sliced, baked potatoes with cheese and bacon. We bake the potatoes and cool them ahead of time so they’re easy to quickly prepare. These are fancy enough for special dinners and convenient enough to mostly prepare the night before. They’re a different and delicious version of a twice baked potato. You can use any flavor of cheese. This time…
Hickory Smoked Sirloin Steak Sandwich, a trip down memory lane. This is the recipe that started it all in 2009. Five cameras ago and lot's lights, Patti has lost her dinning room, it is now a photo studio. You can see how we've grown!!! By now some of you have heard us refer to “Love the Second Time Around”. What we talking about is…
Uncle Bubbas Texas Chili, a full, rich and savory chili. With a “Kiss of Smoke” and cocoa. The meat was so tender that Patti said, “You could cut it with a look”! Lord, women scare me to death! Uncle Bubba took his “Smoke Daddy Cold Smoke Generator” with “mesquite” pellets and smoked the seasoned beef for 2 hours, then a 5 hour cook the…
Swiss Onion Stuffed Pork Chops, we love how versatile pork chops are. We cut these about 3 inches thick just for stuffing. We gave these a “Kiss of Smoke”. This is a simple recipe that looks like you have been cooking all day. Great for family and friends and a big hit camping and tailgating. We get a whole pork loin every month just…
“Poor Man’s” Burnt Ends are “Off The Hook”! Burnt ends are Meat Candy. Burnt Ends are normally made from Brisket and that can be very expensive. But, as Larry Wolfe showed us you can use chuck roast. Patti got me an 8 pound Chuckie, that’s a lot of good meat for the smoker. Patti and I have set one night a week just for…
Citrus Pepper Bacon Chicken Cheeseburgers because Ken loves cheeseburgers or anything with cheese and bacon. Patti wanted to make the burgers a little healthier and she loves chicken. These were super simple and full of flavor. A definite for our next camping or tailgating adventure. I think the Briggs Citrus Pepper Seasoning just set these on Fire! They were so good that I have already…
Cranberry Apple Bacon Jam, I was wanting a stuffing for a Christmas pork loin. Not the Ho-Hum, same old, same old stuffing. But something different. I can say that Patti and I knocked it out of the park with this one! It is so good, but everything is better with bacon! Our bacon jam has a pound of bacon slow cooked with apples, smoked onions,…
Pulled Pork Tacos! We really enjoy pulled pork and all the things you can do with it. I was wanting some tacos and we had a “Mexican Themed” potluck coming up after Church. So, pulled pork sounded good. You can season it to go in any direction your taste buds are craving and at $1.39 a pound you can make a lot of it.…