Well started out Saturday smoking as a thank you to a friend who worked on getting our rototiller running. He likes chicken livers...I took chicken liver and put a chicken rub (store bought) on them and then wrapped them in bacon. I threw them in the little electric smoker with some brat's and onion and pepper sausage. He loved them and handed them out as samples, and everyone who tried them loved them.
Then I pulled the completed sausage and took them down to the VFW to watch the derby. Slice them up as sampler size pieces. Man they didn't have a chance! The brats were especially good.
Sunday, fired up both smokers. Electric smoker contained two tray of bacon wrapped oysters, hot italian sausage links, and a rack of ABT's filled with habanero lime salsa mixed w/cream cheese..Kooker had two beer can yard birds, Jimmy Dean maple, Bob Evans Bold & Spicy, Hatfield Scrapple, 10 pork prime chops (5 rubbed in a cinnamon chipotle, 5 w/garlic red pepper seasoning). Oh and a turkey tenderloin.
The scrapple was excellent!! FYI, if you try it you'll need to set it on something solid, it started to melt through the grates. Fatties were perfect, the chickens came out sooo moist. I overcooked the turkey a bit but it still tasted excellent. The pork chops were over the top, juicy, tender. The smoked oysters were hit or miss, some loved them, others were like eh...Hot sausage was great. Some thought the skin took on too much smoke though. The ABT's were not of the mild persuasion but loved by all but the weakest of tongue. Unfortunately, PC's still down, but getting home soon. I have some porn to download from my last three big smokes.
BTW, my son went away for the weekend so most of this went down to my VFW for food samplers. While down there, guys from a striper fishing trip got back and threw us a filet so it was run back up the house and smoked striper. That came back excellent also!!! Sorry for the long post!
Sunday, fired up both smokers. Electric smoker contained two tray of bacon wrapped oysters, hot italian sausage links, and a rack of ABT's filled with habanero lime salsa mixed w/cream cheese..Kooker had two beer can yard birds, Jimmy Dean maple, Bob Evans Bold & Spicy, Hatfield Scrapple, 10 pork prime chops (5 rubbed in a cinnamon chipotle, 5 w/garlic red pepper seasoning). Oh and a turkey tenderloin.
The scrapple was excellent!! FYI, if you try it you'll need to set it on something solid, it started to melt through the grates. Fatties were perfect, the chickens came out sooo moist. I overcooked the turkey a bit but it still tasted excellent. The pork chops were over the top, juicy, tender. The smoked oysters were hit or miss, some loved them, others were like eh...Hot sausage was great. Some thought the skin took on too much smoke though. The ABT's were not of the mild persuasion but loved by all but the weakest of tongue. Unfortunately, PC's still down, but getting home soon. I have some porn to download from my last three big smokes.
BTW, my son went away for the weekend so most of this went down to my VFW for food samplers. While down there, guys from a striper fishing trip got back and threw us a filet so it was run back up the house and smoked striper. That came back excellent also!!! Sorry for the long post!
