4th Annual North Carolina Smokers Gathering (May 15, 16 and 17, 2015)

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One last time-----Hope you guys have Perfect weather & have a Fantastic time!!
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Wish I could be there!!

Bear
 
Ribs, chickies, chuckies, sausages, smokies, and a monster butt.........
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ABT's, and more ribs to come

The bottle opener got used for the first time.......
 
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Looks Great, Joe!!
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Food & Drink beginning to flow.

Hope you guys will have a mess of pics to post after the weekend !!!  Love to see you guys having a Great Time!!
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Bear
 
Thanks (Todd) Amazen product,( Lisa b) vacuum sealers unlimited, Jerry and Karen (Jmak farms) and the (Lori) The sweet life for the goodies....... We had some new members stop in which was awesome.......

Boneless beef rib bacon pineapple wrap


Some early goers


Smoked some chuckies for the first time. They were awesome. Panned/foiled them at 160 with some cheer wine, took them to 200 and dang they were good... will do them again for sure



Baby backs



Mac and cheese


chuckies again


Italian sausages with some awesome sauce


Spares


Beans


Greens


potato salad


fruit salad


The sweet life..............Maple bacon cake


The ritual lighting of the Christmas tree


Thanks to Scott and cricket for another great NC gathering

Its pizza for the next three days.....lol

Thanks for looking

Joe
 
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Scott/Joe/Cricket

Thanks for all the hard work and hospitality. Look forward to next year.

Lot's of great food and people.

Larry
 
Looks like we missed another good one. Happy to see y'all had a great time.

Say did Joel happen to make it?
 
Enjoyed the gathering yesterday everyone. Thanks for the hospitality, good food, and tips on smoking. Hope to see everyone again next year if not before! Joe, please bring more sausage next year! :sausage:
 
I forgot to mention Jerry and karen's (JMak farms) honey along with the goodies... I edited my pictures post
 
First I'd like to thank our great sponsors who support us and help make the gathering the event to be at.

A-Maze-N Products, Vacuum Sealers Unlimited, Tulsa Jeff and The Sweet Life. Just about every one left with a gift and the response was pretty great.

Thanks again.

It was great meeting some new members that never attended before also.

How about some pics.

Friday - Day 1

Todd from A-Maze-N Products sent us a nice banner to hang at the entrance to our "Sprawling Estate".


Boykjos new smoker. Ready for its maiden voyage.



Pork loin on the left St. Louis ribs and wings.


Fajitas for lunch on the grill.


Smoked the Canadian bacon.


Smoked M & C to have with dinner.


As you can see dinner went well.




Saturday - Day 2

The monster butt. 12-13 pounder.




 Some of mballis bacon sent up from the NF Gathering. Thanks Mark. It was really good.


Some of my breakfast sausage and mballis bacon.


Italian sausages for lunch. Made them last weekend.


Monster butt needs some company.


We got chuckies and ribs up top and monster butt, wings, smoked sausage, jalapeño cheddar sausage and the tough ribs from Friday being tenderizing in foil.



Got to have ABTs.



We got us a full smoker.


Double batch for Saturday night.


With bacon.


The original recipe for the swineapple called for country style ribs. Cricket got beef short ribs. Better idea.




A beautiful cake from our friends at The Sweet Life.


Dinner.





Good thing we made a double batch.


Much better ribs than Fridays.


The chuckies were awesome. Great smoke ring too.


The pineapple was quite popular.


The ritual burning of the Christmas tree.



She went up like there was gas on it. Pretty cool.

Thanks for tuning in.
 
Thanks for the Pics, Scott !!!
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It's not hard to tell nobody left there Hungry!!!
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Awesome!!!
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Bear
 
Sorry for posting on an old thread, new member strolling thru the site. I'm just a few miles west of Charlotte, if y'all do this again I'd love to come out.
 
Looking forward to the 5th NCSG....  We'll be glad to have ya agoude. We had a good turn out of new members at the last gathering....

Joe
 
I finally got around to checking the updates to this thread.  BOY!  Looks like I missed a good one!

All of the food looked awesome.  Nice looking RF build, what a good way to break it in.  I like the bottle opener...may have to steal that idea!

I hope I can come next year.  I hate I missed it.

BTW, were the "chuckies" you were talking about chuck roasts?  They looked good and I have a couple in the freezer!
 
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Hey everyone, it's been quite a while and a lot has happened since I met you all last May. For starters my wife got promoted and took a job in Gaffney, SC so we moved from Kannapolis to Gastonia in July. We are in an apartment so the smoker couldn't come with me unfortunately. Most recently in February I found out that I relapsed with my bone marrow cancer and just began chemotherapy yesterday March 7th. It is very rare that I relapsed with the exact same cancer and it seems to be progressing pretty quickly. I wanted to invite everyone local to a spaghetti dinner and silent auction benefit on Saturday April 9th from 4-7. All proceeds will help me with medical expenses. If anyone is interested in in donating items for the silent auction that would be awesome as well. The dinner will be at Temple Baptist Church in Gastonia. If you have any questions message me here or feel free to add me on Facebook, username is MattandMiranda Lauffer. Thanks for reading! Hope everyone is doing well!
 
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