No, "Brat" is not short for Bratwurst 
I have two daughters from my previous marriage. Many years ago I dubbed Courtney, the oldest, as Alpha Brat and her younger sister Candice, as Beta Brat. The monikers have stuck with them and that's how they are referred to still today. Courtney just got out of the Navy after 8 years of service and decided to load up her pups and take a cross country road trip. She dropped by here on her way back to VA Beach so I cooked a nice dinner for her. Although she was a manager at a couple of high end steak houses prior to joining the Navy, she had never seen or heard of a Picanha roast. Seemed fitting to treat her to one. As our friend
Retired Spook
has noted, we are living in the "Ninth Circle of Hell" right now. Never heard that term before seeing him post it but he's right on the money. Not the most pleasant environment to be outside cooking but it was worth it. Now to the full length book of a thread.
The roast.
Remove the silver skin from the bottom, trim the fat cap, cross cut it, and season with just kosher salt and butcher's grind black pepper.
Prepped a batch of asparagus our favorite way: lots of butter, dried cranberries, and shaved pecans.
A batch of homemade garlic, sour cream, and chive mashed taters. Made gravy also but no pics. Y'all have seen that before.
Get the smoker up to 200 with some oak lump and cherry wood. On goes the roast. Anticipating a 2 hour cook at the low temp.
It's well over 100 degrees so Courtney's pups taking a water break and getting a drink from one of the 4-tiered waterfalls I built. Coco on the left and Nell on the right.
Got some nice TBS rolling. Sorry but I just love seeing this. Very gratifying from any smoker, but even more so from a homemade one.
Dialed in at 200 and rock solid stable. Temp did go up to 203 later as the sun was really beating down on the smoker. God it was hot!!
Tracy and Courtney enjoying time in the pool....at the deep end where there's some semblance of shade. Hey Joe (
xray
), Courtney is drinking your favorite: White Claw
At the one hour mark. Really taking on some nice color already.
Roast is getting close so time to put the asparagus on the grill.
Right at two hours and the roast is done.Man this looks really good. Pulled it at 129 and with the low temp cook there was very little carryover. A few pics.
The whole spread. Not a ton of items but it was plenty for three of us.
My first plate.
Oh David (
DRKsmoking
), one more for you my friend
We were pretty well wiped out from the heat and in a food coma. Time to sit down and catch a movie. Coco decided she needed some lovin' from mama.
Bianca is used to being an only child and doesn't understand why her whole world is in chaos with all these young pups.
Nell decides to join the party with her mama and Coco.
Then Nell decided to pay Tracy a little visit for some more lovin'.
Wow...it had been several years since we'd seen Courtney so it was a great visit. I just wish she had a couple more days to spend but she had to get back for a couple of visits to the VA to finalize her paperwork. All in all a very good meal and she got to experience a cut of beef she'd never had, which she loved. Like me, she's a true lover of good beef so this was a treat. Our first time meeting her pups and they are a couple of the absolute sweetest puppies we have ever seen. I wanted to keep Nell but got out voted by Courtney and Bianca
Gonna call this one done....finally. Thanks for sticking it out assuming you made it all the way through. Take care and stay cool.
Robert
I have two daughters from my previous marriage. Many years ago I dubbed Courtney, the oldest, as Alpha Brat and her younger sister Candice, as Beta Brat. The monikers have stuck with them and that's how they are referred to still today. Courtney just got out of the Navy after 8 years of service and decided to load up her pups and take a cross country road trip. She dropped by here on her way back to VA Beach so I cooked a nice dinner for her. Although she was a manager at a couple of high end steak houses prior to joining the Navy, she had never seen or heard of a Picanha roast. Seemed fitting to treat her to one. As our friend
Retired Spook
has noted, we are living in the "Ninth Circle of Hell" right now. Never heard that term before seeing him post it but he's right on the money. Not the most pleasant environment to be outside cooking but it was worth it. Now to the full length book of a thread.The roast.
Remove the silver skin from the bottom, trim the fat cap, cross cut it, and season with just kosher salt and butcher's grind black pepper.
Prepped a batch of asparagus our favorite way: lots of butter, dried cranberries, and shaved pecans.
A batch of homemade garlic, sour cream, and chive mashed taters. Made gravy also but no pics. Y'all have seen that before.
Get the smoker up to 200 with some oak lump and cherry wood. On goes the roast. Anticipating a 2 hour cook at the low temp.
It's well over 100 degrees so Courtney's pups taking a water break and getting a drink from one of the 4-tiered waterfalls I built. Coco on the left and Nell on the right.
Got some nice TBS rolling. Sorry but I just love seeing this. Very gratifying from any smoker, but even more so from a homemade one.
Dialed in at 200 and rock solid stable. Temp did go up to 203 later as the sun was really beating down on the smoker. God it was hot!!
Tracy and Courtney enjoying time in the pool....at the deep end where there's some semblance of shade. Hey Joe (
xray
), Courtney is drinking your favorite: White Claw
At the one hour mark. Really taking on some nice color already.
Roast is getting close so time to put the asparagus on the grill.
Right at two hours and the roast is done.Man this looks really good. Pulled it at 129 and with the low temp cook there was very little carryover. A few pics.
The whole spread. Not a ton of items but it was plenty for three of us.
My first plate.
Oh David (
DRKsmoking
), one more for you my friend
We were pretty well wiped out from the heat and in a food coma. Time to sit down and catch a movie. Coco decided she needed some lovin' from mama.
Bianca is used to being an only child and doesn't understand why her whole world is in chaos with all these young pups.
Nell decides to join the party with her mama and Coco.
Then Nell decided to pay Tracy a little visit for some more lovin'.
Wow...it had been several years since we'd seen Courtney so it was a great visit. I just wish she had a couple more days to spend but she had to get back for a couple of visits to the VA to finalize her paperwork. All in all a very good meal and she got to experience a cut of beef she'd never had, which she loved. Like me, she's a true lover of good beef so this was a treat. Our first time meeting her pups and they are a couple of the absolute sweetest puppies we have ever seen. I wanted to keep Nell but got out voted by Courtney and Bianca
Gonna call this one done....finally. Thanks for sticking it out assuming you made it all the way through. Take care and stay cool.
Robert
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