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  1. milkman55

    Pork Pinwheels

    I found this on a Facebook post and wanted to try it. I used a pork loin and cut into strips, pounded lightly with a meat mallet, seasoned with Jeff’s Rub and rolled up with a strip of thick slice bacon. Smoked at 220f for about 2 1/2 hrs to 145f internal. I glazed with peach sauce at 130f...
  2. milkman55

    Costco Alert

    Costco pork loins $8 off per package. These net were $3.64 and $4.16 I made two 3 lb loin roasts and four package of pork chops for the freezer.
  3. milkman55

    Pork Tenderloin Rolls

    I saw a YouTube video where they were making pork tenderloin rolls with bacon, but it wasn’t a smoking cook. So I adapted that to the smoker. I cut a two tenderloin pack into six strips cut lengthwise. I cover with plastic wrap and pounded them flat with my meat mallet. I seasoned with my...
  4. milkman55

    Chile Relleno Sausage

    I made a batch of Chile Relleno sausage today from a video on Smokin’ Joe’s Pit BBQ YouTube channel. Chile Relleno is one of our go to meals at our house and this was a chance to pair the Poblano Pepper and Mexican Cheese with a nice pork/beef sausage mixture. Everything stuffed and goes on...
  5. milkman55

    Braided Pork Loin - Peach Glaze

    Have not posted much in a long time, but I thought this latest smoke was worthy of sharing based on the reaction of all who came to dinner tonight. I bought a Costco pork loin on sale and decided to smoke it with a peach glaze. I had never smoked a loin previously and wanted to make sure it...
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    UMAi Curing Experience

    I bought the starter kit from UMAi to give cold curing a try. I started with some Bresaola and Capicola. I just sliced these after the Bresaola had been in the frig about 6 weeks. The Capicola took about 8 weeks to achieve 40% weight loss. Great flavor on both. I just put a 5 lb rolled...
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    New VIVO Stuffer - NOLA Andouille

    I had made about 5 batches of different sausage with my KitchenAid grinder/stuffer before I sprang for a stuffer. After a little research settled on the VIVO stuffer off Amazon for $107. I tried it out on the NOLA andouille sausage today and wow what a difference. It made quick work of 5 lbs...
  8. milkman55

    Chicken Sausage with Dried Fruit

    I had been wanting to make some chicken sausage since everything I had done so far was pork and my wife likes chicken. I found a recipe on a sausage site that used dried fruit. I bought a bag of frozen skinless boneless thighs from Costco and measured out 5 lbs and ground them frozen. The...
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    Chicken Lollipops with Cherry Butter Miso Glaze

    I had made some pork belly with this cherry miso glaze I hacked from an apple butter miso recipe. The pork belly was so good, I decided to use the left over glaze to make some chicken lollipops. Good fortune that the local market has chicken legs for 55 cent, so $2 later I had a package of ten...
  10. milkman55

    Smoked Piggy Pops

    Found this recipe in Jeff's recipe emails. It looked easy and great appetizer. http://www.smoking-meat.com/january-14-2016-apple-smoked-piggy-pops These were outstanding and super easy. I bought a large package of country style ribs at Costco and cut them into cubes and froze six package of...
  11. milkman55

    20 lbs of Leg Quarters

    My local grocery had their 10 lb bags of chicken leg quarters for $3.90 per bag. So two bags later, I had 20 lbs of chicken soaking in the Slaughterhouse Brine overnight. I then dried them off and trimmed any excess skin and tails and added Jeff's Rub liberally to all the parts. Fired up...
  12. milkman55

    Porker of a Weekend

    Just had my MES 30 about a month, but it has been busy with about 10 smokes in 30 days. I was in Costco yesterday and picked up a 13 lb boneless pork butt, a 10 lb pork belly and 5 lbs of sweet Italian Sausage, so 28 lbs of pork goodness. I started out with cutting the pork belly in half and...
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    First Sausage in my MES30

    I picked Andouille sausage using Emeril's receipe and added 3/4 tsp of cure #1 since it didn't contain any. I pricked both sides of the casing to release any bloating tendency. They are drying in the frig right now to smoke later today. I had done some beef sticks with collagen casings, but...
  14. milkman55

    Best wood chips for MES 30

    Our local HEB has 3 lb bags of wood chips for smoking for $1.87 each. I bought Hickory, Oak, Mesquite, Cherry and Apple so far. They have a few more fruit woods available. I am on my third smoke and making beef snack sticks. I had used hickory for the first two smokes and they went well with...
  15. milkman55

    New Smoker, First Smoke

    Got an MES 30 for a retirement gift and I fired it up today after seasoning it yesterday. Brined two birds and a pork butt in the frig over night and used KC Rub on both. Smoked with hickory and the birds were at 165f in about 4 hrs. I wrapped the pork in foil when I took the birds off and...
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