2016 South Florida Gathering (6th Annual) November 4th-6th PICTURES ADDED

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That should read byo buns and dogs on Thursday.

So far we will have brisket for Friday, pork butt for breakfast sausage. Also does anyone want ghost pepper jelly? Or hot, hot pepper jelly?

I will be happy to help cook breakfast each day and assist where needed. Learned so much last year.

Our friends, Gene and Lois are planning on joining us again this year.
Glad your bringing guests! Always good to see new faces and get more people interested in BBQ and Cooking :)

i'll update the menu on Page 1 with your Brisket and Chili. I'd certainly love to try the pepper jellies, i love spicy!
 
That should read byo buns and dogs on Thursday.

So far we will have brisket for Friday, pork butt for breakfast sausage. Also does anyone want ghost pepper jelly? Or hot, hot pepper jelly?

I will be happy to help cook breakfast each day and assist where needed. Learned so much last year.

Our friends, Gene and Lois are planning on joining us again this year.
I can bring Dogs, maybe throw them on a smoker to cook them :)
 
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Sorry everyone, been crazy busy at work. Looks like things are coming together.
I should be getting there Thursday afternoon. I am planning on seeing what everyone commits to making before I add to the list. Usually at work when we do something like this noone puts anything on the list and then the day of there are over 30 diffrent items made. So ill look for areas of need like side items or even maybe something sweet if needed. However if anyone has something they want demonstrated or help with, let me know and I can make plans for it.

Things should be calming down a bit now the big group is done. So I should be on a little more.

Side note, we all need to bring paper goods. The last couple years they have seemed to get sparse at times after snacks, meals and rain..... just a random thought....
 
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Side note, we all need to bring paper goods. The last couple years they have seemed to get sparse at times after snacks, meals and rain..... just a random thought....
Good point on the paper good Jeramy! 

Also you reminded me to talk about Demos....I plan on using the A-Maze-N smokers from @TJohnson  last year that unfortunately didn't make it down with me last year and do a demo on Cold Smoking. As the date gets closer i'l see what day we think will be the coldest and do a Cheese smoking demo then give away the smokers!

Does anyone want to do a demo of anything? It doesn't have to be smoking specific :)

If anyone has any suggestions or additions to this event from previous years to make it even better and more enjoyable/educational we are all ears, lets make this the best gathering yet!
 
Bringing sticks, chubs and maybe some cheese.

Thinking some brunswick stew
 
Hi all newbie to the page but found this gathering and ya'll are literally coming to my backyard I will check my work schedule and would love to attend if you'll have me and a couple of buddies who get together and cook all the time.
 
Fitchy.. that's exactly the same way I joined the forums... I was lurking for about a year and then they start this Gathering at Fish Eating Creek... So I joined the forums just to see If they would let a newbie come and join in... they welcomed me with open arms and I've been to everyone since.. including the N. Fl. Gathering (just west of Tallahassee) ...

So by all means come and join us.. bring your BUDS (friends/beer/??) ... If ya wanna bring smoker and cook something we would all love to taste your wares... hope to see y'all there... just look at campsite map on page one to see where we are at in the park ... site 88 is the community site...
 
Hi all newbie to the page but found this gathering and ya'll are literally coming to my backyard I will check my work schedule and would love to attend if you'll have me and a couple of buddies who get together and cook all the time.
Ditto what Kieth (@JckDanls 07) said! We'd love to have you and your friends!
 
I will more than likely come over Thursday. I will bring my tall mini. I thought maybe I'd bring a turkey over to cook sometime. I can also bring over some sliced smoked meats for sandwiches like I did last year if that would be helpful. I could also bring my vacuum tumbler and demo how it works for matinating. Maybe a patch of chicken legs instead of the turkey, or in addition? Y'all tell me what you'd prefer. I could also bring fixens for smoked scalloped potatoes for Sat if I done do turkey that day.
 
Hey Steve... as far as sandwich meat.. I believe there will be left overs from previous nights cooks for that... I'de like to see the vacuum tumbler in action ... both Turkey and the potatoes sound good... I'm sure there will be room in another smoker if you want to do them both at same time...
 
I will more than likely come over Thursday. I will bring my tall mini. I thought maybe I'd bring a turkey over to cook sometime. I can also bring over some sliced smoked meats for sandwiches like I did last year if that would be helpful. I could also bring my vacuum tumbler and demo how it works for matinating. Maybe a patch of chicken legs instead of the turkey, or in addition? Y'all tell me what you'd prefer. I could also bring fixens for smoked scalloped potatoes for Sat if I done do turkey that day.
I agree we probably dont need the sandwich meat because we always have so much leftovers, even though your stuff was good last year! :)

I'd love to see the vacuum tumbler in action because i've always seen them in posts but never used and intrigued for myself! Can i put you down on Saturday for a demo? Scalloped Potatoes and Turkey sound good! Want me to put you down for those 2 things Saturday? If your worried about the turkey sitting in the cooler for a couple days we coudl do the turkey Thur or Fri and potatoes Saturday? Just let me know!
 
Okay. I'll plan on doing the turkey and potatoes on Saturday. That will pretty much max me out for that day. For the tumbler demo, how about we do that Friday. I'll bring over a a small chunk of loin and we'll do that Friday afternoon. It works GREAT for jerky. If you'd like I could slice up the other chuck of loin and we could tumble cure it as well on Friday then cook it on sat if someone was an electric they won't be using. I think I'll also plan on bringing some chicken legs over Thursday and we can tumble marinate them to add to thurs potluck. Should be enough time if I can get my ass on the road early enough. Lol

That time are you heading over Keith?
 
Steve... we'll probably leave around 10 Thurs. morning... If somebody is on our site we won't be able to get into our site until 1 or so
 
Okay. I'll plan on doing the turkey and potatoes on Saturday. That will pretty much max me out for that day. For the tumbler demo, how about we do that Friday. I'll bring over a a small chunk of loin and we'll do that Friday afternoon. It works GREAT for jerky. If you'd like I could slice up the other chuck of loin and we could tumble cure it as well on Friday then cook it on sat if someone was an electric they won't be using. I think I'll also plan on bringing some chicken legs over Thursday and we can tumble marinate them to add to thurs potluck. Should be enough time if I can get my ass on the road early enough. Lol

That time are you heading over Keith?
Realisticly , what time do you think you'll get around to the tumbler demo? that is something I would like to see. 
 
I can bring my tumbler as well of needed.

I may have access to a sous vide set up as well. I might bring it to play with. If I can get it I may do a brisket for comparison to the traditional one being done by the rest. More to come on that one possibly.
 
Cool Steve i'll update Page 1 with the stuff your bringing! 

I'm planning on arriving 1-2pm Thursday as well. 
 
3 more weeks!!!!! I've updated page one with a couple things i'll bring, i'll bring more than that but still feeling out the rest of the menu that everyone is bringing. I'll bring buns for the chili dogs thursday night and i'll make some chipotle coleslaw for saturday.

A note on saturday....generally we finished up breakfast closer to "lunch time" and we have a LARGE dinner with everyone making so much food for dinner. So we dont really have a planned lunch but snacking throughout the day is encouraged if you have little treats you want to make up!

Also as far at meals and eating...dont think you HAVE to make food for everyone or join in on all the group eating. If you and your guests want some alone time away from the group and/or just want to make a small meal for yourselves that is OK as well! In the past years some people want some personal/family/alone time and others want to be involved in everything. Make this weekend what you want out of it!  :)
 
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