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Louisiana Andouille time!
My son and I had the afternoon to ourselves so I decided to make some sausage. I have made sausage twice before but today was the first time I used natural hog casings instead of collagen. Took a bit to get used to and only one broke so not too bad. here are some pics so enjoy! sausage is... -
Beef Short Ribs!!!
Look what I smoked today. Got from Walmart for only $8 cause they were gonna throw it away but couldn’t give it to me. Regular price $27 Smoked until 197 and then pulled. They were amazing. Enjoy! Was hoping to smoke on the stickburner but bad storms here today left me using the weber and the... -
A little bit of everything and a lot of wood!
I was running a bit low on the wood like and have had back problems since I was 17 (been worse lately) so instead of foraging for my wood like I have in the past, I decided to go ahead and give craigslist a try. Saw an end of season sale for red oak. Long story short, I got a whole cord of red... -
Little Valentines treat!
So this year we decided to stay home and have a nice steak dinner with our two kiddos. Our Sams club just started carrying prime meat and we happened upon some prime beef tenderloin, 4 good sized hunks for $36. Here is the plate shot on my steak. Some of the best I’ve ever had and for sure...- jbellard
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- Forum: Grilling Beef
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Happy Birthday to a friend of mine!
A friend of mine’s birthday is today and he isn’t from here so won’t be able to be with family. He also volunteers with the youth ministry I work with too! I said tell us what you want for dinner and we’ll do it! Said he wanted ribs, so I got a couple racks of spare ribs. Had them on since... -
Pork belly #2
A friend of mine wants me to make him bacon so I finally went to a store down in the hood to get whole pork belly. It was frozen in 5-6lb sections. I defrosted it in my fridge for 3 days and today it was good to be cured. I cut it into several pieces to fit it in the ziplocs and Then I weighed... -
Making Tasso!
Local store had a sale on pork butts last week for $.87/lb so I bought 5. 2 of them, I will be using to make pulled pork for a Super Bowl Party we are throwing for youth in our town but the other 3 I am making buckboard bacon with. After cutting and deboning the butts I had some pieces that... -
Cold smoking buckboard bacon
so after reading all about the Amazen smoker, I finally spent the $20 and got one. I have buckboard bacon in the fridge just waiting to be kissed in smoke so today is the day! I have a Bradley smoker that I and going to take the racks and put all on the top slot so that I can hang my bacon on... -
Looking for bacon recipe
Hey folks! Did my first batch of dry cured bacon last week and it turned out well but way too sweet. Like bacon candy. Looking for a recipe that will give me more like store bought bacon taste. Just found a store that has whole pork belly so help me out!!! Thanks!- jbellard
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- Forum: Hot Smoked Bacon
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Amazon deal on Chef Choice 615a meat slicer
i know that some folks might be interested in this. I just got an email saying that the Chef Choice 615a meat slicer is on sale for only $89.99 until tomorrow only or until they run out. I just ordered mine!!! $98.89 with tax- jbellard
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Spare ribs and pork tenderloin Oh My!
So still with the family and smoking 2 racks of spare ribs and 2 pork tenderloins. Using my dry rub on both. Had a late lunch and took the kids to the park so getting a bit of a late start. Will get the tenderloins on a bit later as they won’t take as long. Merry Christmas! -
Pork, sausage, Tasso and chicken jambalaya for Old Saint Nick!!!
Down in south Louisiana and cooking a jambalaya for Christmas Eve. So far have everything cut up and the pork is cooking. I will keep y’all updated as we go. -
First attempt at Bacon
I’ve been wanting to make bacon for awhile now so today I went to Walmart it get some pork belly. All they had was pork belly cut into 1inch strips that were about 6 inches long. Very meaty though! Got the cure #1 from academy for only $1.29. Should last a long time unless I find some cheaper...- jbellard
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- Forum: Hot Smoked Bacon
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Staff meeting/reason to smoke meats
so our North Louisiana staff team of 4 is getting together today to meet. We usually switch up locations and today is at my house. I was asked to smoke some meat so I said sure! Have spare ribs on right now and gonna put two pork tenderloins on in about 15 min. My ribs are sprinkled with my... -
Finally got a PRIME brisket!!!
So have smoked about 10 briskets now and have been looking for a prime brisket in my area. In case you were wondering, there aren’t any stores that sell prime brisket in the Shreveport/Bossier area. Closest place to get them is in Carthage,Tx, about 53 minutes from my house. So today driving... -
Jambalaya for the 1st time!
So I am from Louisiana and have figured out gumbo, Tasso and other various “Cajun” cooked items. Now it’s time to figure out jambalaya! Have a recipe from a guy down in Gonzales, the jambalaya capital of the world so we’ll see how it comes out. Have some pork butt cut up, chicken thigh meat... -
4 Little butts went into the smoker!!!
Was originally cooking 3 butts for an event tomorrow and then some friends asked if they could throw another one into the mix. I said sure! So I just made a double batch of my rub. Will be getting the butts rubbed up and onto the smoker a little later once the kids are in bed. I will keep... -
Spare Ribs!!!
So I had some of my HS guys come over to hang out and eat spare ribs. Cooked 6 racks of spares. Used white oak for the first time and it kept my temps so steady. It was so nice. Put my own rub on them, cooked for about 3 hrs unwrapped at 325 (I was running a bit behind) and they came out... -
10lbs of pork belly burnt ends!!!!
So my family and I are working at a camp and the kitchen staff was able to get two pork bellies weighing a total of 18lbs. Really nice getting to use a professional kitchen!!! Our camp staff and their maintenance crew will be splitting this belly so tonight I am smoking about 10lbs of it. I... -
2 Pork Butts for camp reunion
I took my Young Life group to camp in north georgia last week and to get everyone together again we are having our camp reunion today! So, I am cooking some butts and I’ll do some sausage later on. Put them on last night around 10:00pm and didn’t take any pics of them before but just imagine...
