Smoked Butt, Tater Salad, Lemon Icebox Pie

[TNJAKE]

Morning smokers. Smoked a pork butt yesterday. Was so hot out I probably could have just set my smoker in the sun and wouldn't have even had to fire it up lol.

Had a 9lb butt. Rubbed with Tennessee Mojo

Then onto the smoker at 225 using pecan. About 5hrs in it hit 157° so I wrapped it in a foil pan to finish. This is right before wrapping

Smelled delicious.

Took another 4 hours to reach probe tender. That happened about 204°. Pulled it off took out of pan and double wrapped in foil and into my cooler wrapped in towels for an hour and a half.

While it rested wife was making up some delicious tater salad

Earlier in the day she made a lemon icebox pie. It was awesome

Time to pull the meat

The pieces missing were snacks for the cook lol

Got it pulled and added back some of my juice that I defatted

And my plate

All was delicious. Great end to the day. Many a shiner bock was consumed

 

[JLeonard]

TNJAKE Looks good brother. Tell the wife the tater salad looks delicious. I'm the only one that eats it at my house so I dont get it very often,

 

[TNJAKE]

TNJAKE Looks good brother. Tell the wife the tater salad looks delicious. I'm the only one that eats it at my house so I dont get it very often,

Thanks bud. I'll let her know

 

[tx smoker]

Jake, that looks awesome buddy!! Great looking meal and I love the concept of you and the wife tag-teaming it. That'll never happen around here, which is probably a blessing. It all looks great but I'd dive hear first into that bowl of tater salad. Man that just looks so good and so refreshing!!

Was so hot out I probably could have just set my smoker in the sun and wouldn't have even had to fire it up lol.

You're not far from wrong buddy. My smoker faces southwest and it was at a temp yesterday, not even fired up, that I could smoke sausage. It was reading 182* Seems like most of the country is in the midst of a heat wave. Everybody is saying how hot it is where they live.

Robert

 

[flatbroke]

Looks good jake

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Looks great Jake! That butt looks perfect and that pie looks so refreshing after a hot ass day. Nice work by you and the ole lady!

 

[xray]

What a perfect summertime meal. Pulled pork, cool potato salad and some cold lemon pie to top it all off! Great job Jake! Doesn’t get much better than that.

 

[chopsaw]

Great meal . Love me some tater salad .

 

[sawhorseray]

Beautiful piece of work Jake, I'd be thrilled to be sitting down that meal, Like! It all looks so good but that tater salad calls out to me, I want some! RAY

 

[RichGTS]

I would love a slice of that lemon pie after a meal like that. Especially with some shiners! Looks great. Cheers

 

[RichGTS]

delete-Double post - I guess it was double good looking lemon pie and beers that got me

 

[Brokenhandle]

Awesome looking meal Jake, and mrs. Jake! Like many others have said you just can't beat potato salad in hot weather. Not sure but doubt those deviled eggs would have made it to mealtime at my house!

Thankfully today is only gonna be about 80...Saturday was brutal, heat index of 108.

Ryan

 

[Sowsage]

Looks real good Jake! Your wife did a nice job on the sides too! That tater salad looks amazing!

 

[HalfSmoked]

Another outstanding meal there guy. I could pull my chair up to everything on the plate and a course the pie.

Warren

 

[MJB05615]

Looks excellent Jake. That Butt looks perfect, and that Tater Salad looks awesome. Kudos to your Mrs.! Thanks for sharing.

Mike

 

[smokin peachey]

Looks delicious Jake.

 

[smokerjim]

Looks great Jake, think I would have to start with a piece of that pie though

 

[tander28]

Great looking meal! The pork looks really moist and tender, tater salad looks great too! I'm interested in the lemon icebox pie, any chance she'd share her recipe? Sounds just perfect with all this heat we've had.

 

[TNJAKE]

Jake, that looks awesome buddy!! Great looking meal and I love the concept of you and the wife tag-teaming it. That'll never happen around here, which is probably a blessing. It all looks great but I'd dive hear first into that bowl of tater salad. Man that just looks so good and so refreshing!!



You're not far from wrong buddy. My smoker faces southwest and it was at a temp yesterday, not even fired up, that I could smoke sausage. It was reading 182* Seems like most of the country is in the midst of a heat wave. Everybody is saying how hot it is where they live.

Robert

Thanks Robert. We cook together often. She makes a few different tater salads. This one's pretty tasty. I actually just had a bowl of it with some BBQ chips lol

 

[TNJAKE]

Looks good jake

Thanks flatbroke