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I have used apple pulp and tomato pulp as the "body" for a thick sauce and wonder and the use of other fruit or even pumpkin. There is a discussion running now about a mango based sauce. Would a starch thickened beer or wine sauce serve as a base into which we add spice?
If it costs $90 and you use it every week for 2 years it will cost 90 cents for each time you use it to grind spices to spread on $65 worth of meat that you will smoke on your $2500 smoker.
Peking duck the bird is hung up a gallons of boiling hot water is poured over the duck. This is the first step in preparing the duck for the rest of the cooking. The skin of Peking duck is renowned for it's crisp texture. Perhaps this will also work. I would research the details for preparing...
That turkey breast is also the ribs and the back. Just picture a whole turkey and cut it apart just forward of the legs and remove the wings. I would treat it as an 8 pound roast.
I usually use a limited amount of salt and water for a fish brine and a long interval. Often it is only 2% salt and just enough water to wet everything. That limits the available salt.
I have had good success using the salt/seasoning blends for a number of sausage varieties as rubs for smoke cooking meats. Cured some turkey the other day as I would cure brisket for pastrami.
There must have been a time when all food cooking was done on, in, over or near an open fire so all of the food received at least some smoke during the cooking. Perhaps that is why nobody doesn't like smoked meat some of the time.
Stew is a recipe or method of meat and vegetables in a gravy. We can use any meat and any blend of veggies. There are as many variations for stew as there are for soup. We could use all of the leftovers from a Q and combine them for a good stew.
I have done that with knife cut and ground beef and stuffed into large casing. It has good taste but lacks the texture of whole muscle meat. This is one I did as bacon flavor.