(PICTURES ADDED)7th Annual South Florida Gathering 2017 (Nov 17-19)

[orlandosmoking]

Ruh Rohhhh ... I'm backing out... skeeeeerd

Me too. I just wanted to give everybody a heads up.

Just here stirring the pot, getting people fired up. It's working, got two more victims, err I mean competitors.

 

[cuckoo4141]

Been laying low here. I'm up for the rib competition and sitting on the fence as far as contributing to the others. Will have something though. Work has been crazy with night shifts and long days. Ready to relax and enjoy some nice weather!

 

[tiki guy]

Been gone from here a while ....wow lots to read and catch up on !
Just decided to come on Friday to relax and enjoy MORE hanging out at the Gathering .....
So ...Fri , Sat , Sunday .......

 

[JckDanls 07]

Great... glad to hear more people are getting in on the rib comp.... thinking the judges are gonna be pretty full... LOL...
Steve... there may be plenty of ribs now (no turkey needed, unless you want to) , If everybody that's in does at least a couple slabs each...
Welp.. I tried desperately... and failed miserably... on firing the smokehouse with charcoal and wood chunks.. to many air leaks to control temps... just gonna go back to electric ..

Getting close now... brought the camper up from storage and going through it... getting excited.. only 3 more days of work...YEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAA.....

 

[ojenny]

Hi! I'm looking at the food list and I'm a little confused.... Having trouble following everything.
I'm on the list for mac&cheese for Saturday dinner but that's all.... I want to bring/do more! Do I need to bring any meat for Saturday? I can smoke a mean butt.....
How about some Dutch oven pizzas for Friday dinner?
Sharon Gibson yogi and I are bringing our whole cast iron setup, and we have this down to an art! We are up for bringing some breakfast dishes for Saturday morning. Any requests? Biscuits & gravy maybe?
I know she's making her famous Cowboy beans for Saturday night. If there is anything else we need to bring let me know

 

[nimrod]

OJenny,
From past experience, some of us love a good early breakfast, most are not early risers. I know that doesn't clear it up but don't expect a whole bunch for the early morning bell. I will be there at John will be the first in line but the rest will be waking for brunch.
Oh by the way, I love biscuits & gravy...I make a good gravy but unless it is Pillsbury a poor biscuit.
Craig

 

[JckDanls 07]

Jenny... the list doesn't mean that that's all that person is bringing .. We love pizza and would like to try one made in the DO... I also would like to witness/watch DO cooking ... We also love gravy and bisuits ... We are early risers ass well...

Went and got my meat today... a twin back of butts to put towards snack sticks and breakfast sausage .. a whole ham for Fri. night (maple/bourbon) .... and a 3 pack of BB ribs .. Also my neighbor just gave me 4 packs of venison (fresh) 2 of them already made into breakfast sausage and 2 just ground up.. gonna add some pork fat to those two and make snack sticks with em ...

 

[dougmays]

Doug - I can bring my A-Maze-N and I have a lot of dust, so if you haven't ordered yet, don't.
I think I will also throw my hat in the ring for the ribs.

Awesome, sounds good bobcats110

For sides - my wife makes a Ramen noodle salad that's pretty good, and I was just thinking about maybe some smoked oyster stuffing? Too close to Thanksgiving?

I'll add these to page 1, sounds great!

Steve... I think we'll be good on the grinder...

Bobcats.. everything mentioned sounds good ...

What I do ask is that whoever is gonna bring Boston Butts for grinding to cut them up in chunks/strips and freeze them... keep frozen/partially frozen until needed.. meat grinds better when partially frozen/really cold ...

Keith - I just pulled a butt out of my freezer to defrost for the snacksticks, i'll chop it up thursday night and re-freeze

Nice for gifts..

You need to try and get one signed next time. LOL Wouldn't that be Swaggatastical?
:cool:

Rings Я Us - The first couple years we got signed ones from Jeff but recently they are dropshipped from Amazon

Been laying low here. I'm up for the rib competition and sitting on the fence as far as contributing to the others. Will have something though. Work has been crazy with night shifts and long days. Ready to relax and enjoy some nice weather!

It'll be good to meet you cuckoo4141 and i'll put you down for the rib-off!

Been gone from here a while ....wow lots to read and catch up on !
Just decided to come on Friday to relax and enjoy MORE hanging out at the Gathering .....
So ...Fri , Sat , Sunday .......

I was starting to wonder if you were still coming tiki guy since you've been quiet, glad yall can make it!

Hi! I'm looking at the food list and I'm a little confused.... Having trouble following everything.
I'm on the list for mac&cheese for Saturday dinner but that's all.... I want to bring/do more! Do I need to bring any meat for Saturday? I can smoke a mean butt.....
How about some Dutch oven pizzas for Friday dinner?
Sharon Gibson yogi and I are bringing our whole cast iron setup, and we have this down to an art! We are up for bringing some breakfast dishes for Saturday morning. Any requests? Biscuits & gravy maybe?
I know she's making her famous Cowboy beans for Saturday night. If there is anything else we need to bring let me know

ojenny and Yogi, the menu on page 1 is just kind of a tentative placeholder for people to call out what they'll be making but we generally have more then just that. So please make anything you'd like :) We generally have kind of a free for all mentatility on food so we dont have official eating times, food generally comes out throughout the day! I'd love to see some DO mastery, i'm still learning how it season mine so i'd love to pick y'all brains on that and see the setup. DO Pizza sounds amazing!



The week is here everyone, can't wait! I think we are good on Supplies. Any other lose ends we are missing from previous years?!

 

[tiki guy]

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Gettin Packed up all this week .........see ya FRIDAY

 

[cuckoo4141]

It'll be good to meet you cuckoo4141 and i'll put you down for the rib-off!

We have met before but I'll leave it to you to ponder.
Have 4 slabs of ribs to cook so there will be dinner left overs and Wendy will make tater salad.
Craig we aren't scheduled until Friday. Might take an early morning Jeep ride and pull the cooker over. Would it be OK to put on your site until I arrive with the camper?

 

[dougmays]

We have met before but I'll leave it to you to ponder.

Oh wait! I recognize the smoker, Manatee County Fair Cook Off?!

 

[cuckoo4141]

No sir. Your Spring get together. Road the bike over and visited for a short stint drinking your beer and played a couple games of cornhole

 

[ega-q]

Got site 128, a little late to the game did not know if I could get time off work. Will be showing up Thursday and staying till Sunday. I will have twice baked potatoes for Saturday Lunch/Dinner. Might join the cocktail comp probably not the Ribs (I know I can't compare to the others on the list). I will have other things (sides) for the other meals.

See you all soon
~Scott

 

[JckDanls 07]

Good deal Scott... glad you can make it.. will be good to see ya ...

Doug.. don't worry about refreezing... just bury good in ice so it will be cold ...

 

[carol506]

We have met before but I'll leave it to you to ponder.
Have 4 slabs of ribs to cook so there will be dinner left overs and Wendy will make tater salad.
Craig we aren't scheduled until Friday. Might take an early morning Jeep ride and pull the cooker over. Would it be OK to put on your site until I arrive with the camper?

Frank, Craig and I are side by side so lots if room for yor smoker.

 

[JckDanls 07]

LOL.. we have half the campground... so plenty of room for the smoker...

 

[BGKYSmoker]

I got some fresh smoked owens SS, fermented SS and some dry cured landjager im bringing. All vac sealed so we will need to slice up or cut.

Need any smoked cheeses?

 

[JckDanls 07]

Rick.. do you by any chance have any of the 7 pepper seasoning from Owens ??

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Rick.. do you by any chance have any of the 7 pepper seasoning from Owens ??

I think so. Will look in the AM. How much you need if i gots

 

[JckDanls 07]

just enough for a 5lb batch or smaller ... just wanna try some before ordering... as well as others ..