- May 9, 2014
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Man do I have a big cooking weekend planned coming up this week. I have 8 of my buddies from the marine corps that I haven't seen in 20 years coming for a long weekend (I feel sorry for my wife). Now one of my buddies is a quer himself from California so I really have to step up my game and impress him. The menu is on Friday I will smoke a 13 lbs whole packer brisket in my Smokin it 3 with all the usual sides. Saturday we will do a seafood and crawfish boil while watching some college football. Sunday is when the magic happens when we will smoke 2 50 lbs pigs,6 racks of ribs, a ton of chicken thighs and a bunch of sausage. I'm inviting about another 50 to 60 friends and family over for the party. Looks like rain in the forecast but the party must go on.now with the pigs I will cook them 2 different ways. One will be in the la Caja china Cuban style and one will be smoked in the 4x6 foot cinderblock smoker I made in my yard using cowgirls help off her blog. The pig in the cinderblock smoker will be rubbed with jeffs rub and injected with some apple juice and apple cider vinegar. I'll start by cooking him skin side up for the first half and then flip him over to crip up the skin and mop him the second half of the cook. I plan on keeping the pit at 250 or so with charcoal and hickory chunks I'm guessing for 6 or 7 hours. I've got plenty of probes with the maverick and tappecue to watch the IT of both hogs. I'll throw the ribs and chicken thighs on the pit while the pig smokes so hopefully I'll time it close enough to eat together. The pig in the la Caja china will be injected with mojo and rubbed with adobo to give it a Latin kick. I did one pig on this and it came out awesome and was super easy to cook.
Now being my wife is a vegetarian the only way she would let me build the cinderblock pit was if I attached a brick wood burning pizza oven to it so I did that for her to keep the peace (works great). I will make sure to post plenty of pics of the event to let everyone how it turns out. Now to try and attach some pics of the pit.....
Now being my wife is a vegetarian the only way she would let me build the cinderblock pit was if I attached a brick wood burning pizza oven to it so I did that for her to keep the peace (works great). I will make sure to post plenty of pics of the event to let everyone how it turns out. Now to try and attach some pics of the pit.....
