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Smoked side ribs for 3 hrs, first at 260F and then dropped it to 250F as weather did not deteriorate like I was concerned about. Made potato salad. Wanted bbq sauce and thought had a leftovers. Right colour but on a closer look, it was cranberry sauce. Oops. Made a batch of a fairly simple bbq...

Seasoned up ribs and put in smoker for 4 hrs at 260F. I used Maple. Turned out very tender and tasty. I was a little concerned as have had issues with them not being done. Thankfully, it worked today. Served with twice baked potato and made batch of bbq sauce. Yumm-mmmy! Tender and tasty!

Been a while since I posted a not much queing or smoking going on. This afternoon I smoked a 3lb pork roast for 7ish hours. I'd set for longer but it was done and we were hungry. Made up a basic bbq sauce (ketchup, brown sugar, red wine vinegar and whiskey in equal portions) to accompany the...

OK, first meal not bbq'd but dang, they were good. Maple glazed baked donuts! Put maille mustard on a rack of st louis cut ribs and coated with basic bbq rub. Put in the smoker for 3 hrs at 250F using Jack Daniel's wood chips. Made a bbq sauce and had picked up a potato salad at the store...

Tomorrow is officially Thanksgiving DAy in Canada. As my daughter will be working then, we held the meal today. Brined a bone in turkey breast overnight. Smoked it in MES for 4 1/2 hrs at 240F using hickory. It needed a little oven time as not quite done. Was quite tender and juicy. Nice amount...

Grilled up several steaks and several pieces of sweet pepper. Had put mesquite wood on. Tasty! Grilled just right, meat had charcoal and mesquite smoke flavour. Yummy!

Smoked a small piece of brisket this afternoon, about 4 1/2 lbs. Where we get our meat will cut to suit. Smoked it in MES for 5 1/2 hours at 250F using hickory. Tasty! Enough words, here are the pictures!

Grilled beef burgers tonight. This is from about a week ago.

Smoked a 5 lb picnic roast at 275F in my MES for 8 hours. Made our favourite bbq sauce, tweaked with a bit of seasoning. Served on toasted buns with sliced cheese and a side cucumber salad. Yumm!

Firstly, yes it is possible to cook risotto in twenty minutes. We didn't time it outside but still reasonable amount of time Grilled steak and made risotto in a fry pan on the grill as well. Steak got away from me and was overdone - tasty but overdone. Grated parmesan Reggiano over the meal...

Smoked a rack of side ribs. They went in MES for 2 1/2 hrs at 250F using maple wood chips. At 2 hr mark, I got offset barrel smoker going and put ribs on indirect for 1/2 hour. We had a pasta salad leftover from last nights dinner and that along with some cherry tomatoes was our side dish. FYI...

Smoked a pork belly for about 3 1/2 hours in the MES. I had lit the OKI Joe and moved the belly across. LOts of flavour. I used maple wood chips. Served with a tomato, cucumber and watermelon salad my wife made and she also made a quick cheese bread. Tasty all round. Oh, go to use my new, cool...

Made a beef burger seasoned with paprika, garlic, tarragon and mustard and some chopped up shallot. We used tortillas which I toast on the grill for a few seconds instead of burger buns. Topped with blue cheese. Grilled onion rings. I was using mesquite wood chips.

Smoked a meatloaf this afternoon. Used a recipe from Michael Symon. There are three twists to it: 1. Saute the vegies first before incrporating them into the meat. 2. After putting 1/2 the meat in the pan, put down a layer of meltable cheese. We used provolone. Put the rest of the meat mix on...

Diced up some jalapeno, sweet pepper and mushroom and mixed into ground turkey with about TBLS of dried thyme. Put burgers on as well as french fries. I used a smoker box with hickory wood. Tasty! I toast the buns as well. Check them frequently. My rule is: put buns on direct and go back to...

Smoked 1/4 chickens in MES at 250F for 3 hrs. The plan was to move them to grill but started to drizzle when I was getting set up and forecast to start raining any minute. Left chicken in the smoker. Sooooo, it stops drizzling. Oh well, the chicken was quite tasty. I learned a few cooks ago to...

Started a rack of beef ribs that had a brisket rub on it in the MES. Set it for 3 1/2 hours at 240 using Jack Daniel's pellets. At about 2 hours started up the offset and ribs got on 1/2 hr later-ish. Put corn on direct over fire. Again, using Hot-Cold-Hot set up. Served up with a really tasty...

Made a pizza from scratch (ok, we buy the dough). Veggies, Salami, CHEESE and black olives. Put on indirect in OKI Joe for about 40 minutes. Dough comes out for most part fairly light and toppings are flavourful.

Yup, our Friday tradition continues. Tonight was a pork burger and I had some sweet pepper left over from last night, diced that up and some white onion and mixed in along with thyme seasoning. All three of us liked it! Served it with grilled onion rings.

I smoked a roast this afternoon for about 4 hrs at 250F in my my MES. Used hickory. At the 3 1/2 hr mark, started my offset (OKI Joe) and transferred the roast onto indirect for 1/4 hr. It gets a nice smoke taste. After I do all this of course I read from last time I did this to wrap the meat...