and, I know most of you have encountered this....but we showed up with a smoked meat and cheese tray....I offered a hickory smoked chedder cheese along with two types of canadian bacon, one smoked with alder, the other with a apple/hickory mix, and then there was my summer sausage I made also....hickory smoked as well..........so we show up and put out our spread.....and everyone there hits it hard....I mean hard.....munching big time even thou there was ..... gag..... commercial meat and cheese next to it......anyway, mine got gobbled up quick, really quick.....and of course I had a ton of folks begging me to sell the stuff to them......how many times does that happen to everyone else?????? don't you get tired of telling them "no I'm not gonna sell it, but........if you buy the ingredients or trade something else I can do this or that...." well apparently after tonight I'm supposed to get many calls on trades......and most of it was my summer sausage that I just pulled out my rear.........oh well........ was very happy that the meat and cheese was a big hit..........
was worth every minute of being up all night mixing and smoking and slicing....... hope everyone else has the same reactions to their smokes!