Greetings from Connecticut!

[WaterRat]

Howdy All, I've been lurking a bit since Christmas time and finally got around to posting today. I started smoking this past fall when I borrowed a Charbroil Big Easy from a friend (neither big nor easy) but I managed to make some tasty bbq: ribs, chicken: whole, spatchcock, quarters, thighs; more ribs, and the day before Thanksgiving a bacon wrapped pheasant I shot the previous day - very tasty. I had been scouring Craigslist for a smoker and then my Father dropped a bomb and gave me a Pit Boss Pellet smoker for Christmas! So far I've done chicken multiple times on it and decided to do spare ribs for my friend's super bowl party as well as a trial run on beef short ribs which turned out well. And now, today, on a bright sunny day here in the NE that's more like spring than winter I'm doing a chuck roast trial and some more shorts ribs.

Hope to learn a lot and share where I can.

Have a great day,
Aaron

 

[ristau5741]

Welcome Aboard, I grew up in Ct. back in my younger days, Norwalk, Hell of a town. back in the 80's
I didn't see bacon wrapped chicken thighs in your list, that's a good one, only takes a couple of hours.
but that's a pretty good list there. short ribs in the smoker are always good, too.

 

[SmokinGame]

Welcome! Nice gift in that Pit Boss.

 

[WaterRat]

I didn't see bacon wrapped chicken thighs in your list, that's a good one, only takes a couple of hours.
but that's a pretty good list there.

Thanks for the welcome. And, no, no bacon wrapped thighs yet, though I did see a number of recipes where people take boneless, skinless thighs then roll various things inside them and wrap the whole thing in bacon. I stumbled across that while doing boneless, skinless thighs on the smoker to throw in some jambayala I made. I've been starting with the basics before I get a little crazy, except the pheasant, but hey, it literally fell out of the sky and I had to do something with it ;)

 

[WaterRat]

Welcome! Nice gift in that Pit Boss.

Thanks! Yes it was very nice, way above the kinds of gifts we normally give.

 

[SmokinAl]

Welcome aboard Aaron!
Glad to have you join in!
Al

 

[gary s]

Good afternoon and welcome to the forum from a partly sunny and warm day here in East Texas, and the best site on the web. Lots of great people with tons of information on just about everything.

Gary