Today is a day of appetizers for the NFL playoffs at T4.
One item was to be pork shots. I mixed up some rub and cream cheese. Cut up some local sausage, and then... The bacon I got was complete junk. It was supposed to be thick cut but I'm pretty sure I couuld have read the newspaper through it... I couldn't get it to wrap around the sausage at all.
Getting more and frustrated, I said screw it and chopped up the bacon pretty course and cut the sausage slices in half. I threw them in a Weber pan and onto the kettle they went for an hour at 250°.
When that was done I brought them back in the house, mixed them with the cream cheese/rub mixture, then spooned them into a foil pan. I threw about a cup of shredded cheddar over the top and gave it another dose of rub.
From there it went back on the grill for another hour at 250°.
The verdict... It's an excellent dip! Creamy, spicy, full of bacon and sausage in every bite. My only minor complaint is that I wish I had better chips. I keep blowing out the thin tortilla chips when I dip.
Next off the grill is some smoked crab dip!
One item was to be pork shots. I mixed up some rub and cream cheese. Cut up some local sausage, and then... The bacon I got was complete junk. It was supposed to be thick cut but I'm pretty sure I couuld have read the newspaper through it... I couldn't get it to wrap around the sausage at all.
Getting more and frustrated, I said screw it and chopped up the bacon pretty course and cut the sausage slices in half. I threw them in a Weber pan and onto the kettle they went for an hour at 250°.
When that was done I brought them back in the house, mixed them with the cream cheese/rub mixture, then spooned them into a foil pan. I threw about a cup of shredded cheddar over the top and gave it another dose of rub.
From there it went back on the grill for another hour at 250°.
The verdict... It's an excellent dip! Creamy, spicy, full of bacon and sausage in every bite. My only minor complaint is that I wish I had better chips. I keep blowing out the thin tortilla chips when I dip.
Next off the grill is some smoked crab dip!
