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Happy Sunday to all! I had some frozen alligator tail meat to use up & thus thawed it, mopped it through avocado oil & some coarse "somewhat spicy" Turkish paprika - the "Aleppo" variety; and smoked it with hickory for 23 minutes on low heat. Usually I bang my alligator out on high heat for 15...

Happy Sunday to all! Today I smoked a huge striper steak that I had sawed from that 46-incher the other day, and stashed in my freezer but thawed to use today. I rubbed the fish with avocado oil & smoked on low heat for 32 minutes on my little gas machine, with hickory chips. I pulled the...

Happy midweek to all! It's a beautiful day! I wanted to share my vicious & delicious ROSE jag (blush is SWEET pink wine & ROSE is Dry pink wine and that is the way to keep pink drinks simple as far as what you need to know really) and I hate sweet and love dry! Anyway, roe-zay (sorry, my...

Happy Friday To All! A dear friend of mine caught a 46 inch, 33.2 pound striper on Tuesday, right here off the beach! I was blessed beyond belief to be gifted that fish! And so, I gutted, scaled, cleaned, & cut steaks all by myself - painstakingly by hand & with the blunt side of a knife with...

Happy Tuesday to all! I was gifted some glorious huge mackerel and haddock, right out of the sea! (Our wonderful Captain Randy is not only a great person but a very generous creature and I believe in giving credit therefore to where it is due) How grateful am I! Yes, Randy, thank you tons! I...

Happy Saturday to All! I smoked an 11.2 pound lobster today, wrapped up some smoked meat to bring to a pal; and here's what is delivered with the rest... I used up some odds and ends which included Pablano peppers and oddly made my sauce VERY HOT once red pepper flakes and garlic and chives...

Happy Bastille Day to All! Enjoy some French wine, French food, French Kissing, or French Fun Fare Smoked Up In Any Way! I had to get rid of some odds and ends (Chablis, cleaned squid, bluefish fillet, some Ancient grains, and spinach salad) and so I grilled! Tomorrow however, I get to...

OK, the season is in gear alas! (I know I posted striper head last year but I am back)! And too, thanks to our "Captain Randy", I have been the benefactor of some very generous and fresh and incredible whole mackerel - freshly caught - that on the smoker is superb! Thank you Randy! And thank...

Happy 4th to all! On the day itself, I venture to a pal's to enjoy a cookout of NY strip bison steaks on the grill, a red rice and red kidney bean dish with smoked tomato and smoked elephant garlic, and some red Italian Montelpucciano d'Abruzzo wine. Ooh la la! Today however, I smoked mako...

Happy new week to all! Thanks to Mastebuilds, I am now loving smoked tomato & garlic! I smoked some today - in a perforated grill pan mopped with grapeseed oil first - for 25 minutes on low heat & with hickory chips, on my little gas smoker. Terrific! A fire roasted essence and just lovely...

Happy Saturday to all! Many thanks to you winos who have shared your input, such as Masterbuilds who suggested smoking tomatoes and garlic! Fantastic! Today I smoked some mackerel, smoked some heirloom orange-red-yellowish tomato and elephant garlic, and added that all into some brown rice...

Ok so I need some food help. Long ago, I posted and asked for advice on how to get my NY strip steaks COLD in the middle albeit with the fat super cooked along the edge. Not rare, but actually COLD in the middle - I know, my palate may offend many but so be it as I love steak that way! Smiles...

Having been gifted some lovely fresh mackerel that I am having a ball with (see fish section for fabulous smoked treasures from this pile), I did plank a few of the smaller ones today and such was beautiful! Cutting open a husked coconut, taking that juice & "putting the lime in the coconut &...

Happy Tuesday to all! Having been gifted some very generous and extremely fresh mackerel from one very kind fisherman, I cleaned some, smoked plain, atop grill grates on my tiny gas smoker on low heat, for 25 minutes, and then added into brown rice spaghetti with fresh basil, raw elephant...

Happy Father's Day to all! I smoked eggplant in some grape seed oil & a perforated grill pan on my little gas smoker with hickory chips for 25 minutes and it was fabulous and made for great texture to my bison Burger Bolognese over brown rice spaghetti with Pecorino sheep's Parmesan and black...

Happy Friday Great Smoky Winos! And here's to today! I mopped some Silverbrite salmon steaks through grapeseed oil, layered them onto a grill grate atop my little gas smoker with some hickory chips at high heat for 13 minutes and they were so soft! The skin was spectacular as well! A pot of...

Happy Sunday Fabulous Winos! Taking a quickie break to whip up some healthful lunch before getting back to work on a speech I must deliver tomorrow; I took a humble FROZEN mackerel from this Bexx brand of goods that I do adore (not nearly as fresh as the mere bait that my local fishermen pals...

Happy Friday Fabulous Smokers and here's to delicious things all weekend! I know that I have 10 zillion octopus posts on here already, plus my "for the love of octopus" thread somewhere here too with so many of my mollusks; BUT, today I mopped some fantastic guys through grape seed oil and...

Happy Thursday Great Smoking Wino Cuties! Here's to good things! I smoked cauliflower today - mopped through safflower oil & smoked with hickory chips on my little gas smoker & for 20 minutes. It was still al dente and with epic flavor and aroma too! I boiled some amaranth grain - fabulous...

Happy Tuesday to all! Today I found coconut at Trader Joe's that was without its husk & so I smashed it open, took the juice, put the lime in the coconut & mixed it all together, then added avocado oil & marinated their organic free range chicken thighs in that! I smoked those for 22 minutes...