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  1. garand555

    Unexpected All Nighter (Sorry, no Q-View)

    Yup, we had a family reunion today. My cousin and I got volunteered to cook pretty much all of the meat. "Pretty much all" meaning that there was some ham on a salad that we didn't cook. There might have been some bacon in the beans too. We started last night at ~6:30PM and didn't get...
  2. garand555

    Any advice on planting heirloom corn?

    I'm pretty sure that food prices are going to go up this year for various reasons and I am on enough land to help offset that somewhat if it gets bad, and I really want to learn how to grow my own non-meat food anyhow, so I decided I was going to plant, amongst other things, corn. I am...
  3. garand555

    Smoked round roast, NM style

    I've always hated round steaks because they're tough and gnarley. That got me to thinking, unless properly cooked, brisket is tough and gnarly, maybe round roasts are the same. Unfortunately, they are often priced waaaaaay too high for what they are around here, so I've never tried smoking...
  4. garand555

    Dog Woes

    Sooo, I'm currently overrun with dogs. I have four myself, and I'm also babysitting my friend's English Mastiff. One of mine is a Great Dane and the other three are rescues. I have a feral coyote-shepherd-something else mix and another that has some sort of heeler in her. Then there's the...
  5. garand555

    Gambel's/Scrub Oak FYI

    The short of it is, it is good stuff to smoke with. I burn straight wood in my smoker for a source of both heat and smoke, so I go through a good amount of wood. Where I live, we can get a lot of Gambel's Oak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_gambelii It's commonly referred to as scrub...
  6. garand555

    Brisket/Chuckie foiling question (Now with qview!)

    I may be cooking one of the two tomorrow along with a butt and picnic that I'm going to put on, though it maybe just the flat for the brisket. I don't live in a bbq state, so getting the cuts that are oh-so-suited for bbq can be a bit more challenging. Flats are common around here...
  7. garand555

    Mother's day - beer can chicken plus some

    Mother's day and mom wanted meatloaf, so I was going to make a meatloaf fatty. Then she changed her mind to stuffed bell peppers, which I do not make bland. I toned it down a bit on this because my mom prefers it that way. My sister, being a mother, also had some say in what was cooked and...
  8. garand555

    Cottonwood?

    Anybody have any opinions on it? I have a cottonwood forest behind my house, so, from a supply standpoint it looks really, really appealing. You know, walk back there, find a few large downed pieces, throw them over the clear ditch and then over my fence. I've cooked with it over an open pit...
  9. garand555

    Rough smoke experience...but I still ate well anyway

    I picked up a butt last night that was just slightly over 7lbs last night and had planned on throwing it in the pit early this morning. I figured that if I got it on at 7am, there was a chance that I could have it for dinner tonight. If not, I had some beercan chicken that I had made earlier...
  10. garand555

    Easter Ham Suggestions

    I had a conversation with my mother about Easter dinner today and it went something like this: Me: So, do you think that I ought to go out and shoot a couple of bunnies and throw them in the pit for Easter or do... Her: YOU'RE GETTING A HAM!!!!! I think the ham bit was more of a reaction to...
  11. garand555

    Hello from Albuquerque

    Well, I wanted a bbq pit and I wanted to learn how to lay brick, so, without ever having laid a brick in my life, I started on a gigantic masonry pit.  As of now, all it is missing is some chimney caps and a thermometer. My brickwork isn't as nice as a professional's, but I did have fun even...
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