South Florida Spring Gathering - Apr. 28-30 W/Pics . ("You Missed It" )

[JckDanls 07]

AWWWWWW MAN.. that really sucks... was really looking forward to seeing ya Joe... for your truck.. I'm thinking junk yard is where to start looking ...

 

[dougmays]

that sucks joe! sorry to hear about the truck and not being able to come down :/

 

[tripleq]

Dam... I was looking forward to meeting you and your apple pie :)
 

 

[nimrod]

Joe, really sorry to hear about the truck. Looks expensive & agree with Keith on checking the salvage yards first. A 2 WD tranny swap is not too bad of a DIY fix. Good luck with it.

 Craig

 

[boykjo]

Tranny, transfer case and rear end all busted. I mean busted. Transfer case busted off the transmission casing and the drive shafr busted off the transfer case and the hogs head busted. Found a salvage truck with parts i need. We'll see, might still be able to make it depending hiw the rebuild goes

 

[alelover]

That sucks Joe. Should be fixed by the NC Gathering?

 

[JckDanls 07]

OK .. only 4 weeks till the BIG DANCE ... anybody started putting any thought into what they are doing yet ?? not been much activity on the thread...

Joe.. hopefully your making good progress on your truck...

Jeremy ... hows it looking for you?

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Still a go for us.

Dont know what im bringing yet.

 

[dougmays]

OK .. only 4 weeks till the BIG DANCE ... anybody started putting any thought into what they are doing yet ?? not been much activity on the thread...

Joe.. hopefully your making good progress on your truck...

Jeremy ... hows it looking for you?

Let's do this! :)

I'll start

I'll bring paper plates and plasticware (i have a bunch left over from past bbq events). 

Saturday (main cooking day) - i'll make show how i make and smoke some stuffed pork loins. I'll plan on having these for a "lunch item", as Ribs will likely be the "dinner". Are we still doing the Rib Off? I'm in if so. 

Friday there seems to be a bunch of us going to be trickling in throughout the day....maybe do some kind of Stew, Low Country Boil, Crawfish boil, or maybe a Taco bar (i also keep a relatively large collection of taco shells in my fridge...story for another time haha), or Chili.....just some ideas

Does anyone want to volunteer to bring breakfast items...eggs, bacon, potatos, etc...?

just throwing some thoughts out there. busy day at work so i dont have time to look back who else has posted meal they are bringing but if you repost i'll make up the "menu" on Page 1

 

[carol506]

I still have ton of plates. If we do tacos I make a great seasoning mix that can bring. Will bring some bacon, eggs, and potatoes. John plans on doing ribs if cookoff still on.or we can throw in a boneless pork loin. Will do slaw as a side.
Do we have a head count yet. We will be 3

 

[tripleq]

Ill bring a stack of fire wood and some Ice

 

[dougmays]

I still have ton of plates. If we do tacos I make a great seasoning mix that can bring. Will bring some bacon, eggs, and potatoes. John plans on doing ribs if cookoff still on.or we can throw in a boneless pork loin. Will do slaw as a side.
Do we have a head count yet. We will be 3

Rib Comp is on if we have the people to do it! I'm in! I'm sure @JckDanls 07  is in! :)

 
Ill bring a stack of fire wood and some Ice

Sounds good!

i'll update page 1 with all of this

 

[JckDanls 07]

Yep... I'm in for the rib off ... More than likely I will do a Maple Bourbon ham on Friday .. I still have paper goods I kept from the last gathering...

To be continued ...

 

[BGKYSmoker]

I'm going to try to bring back some goodies from Germany.

 

[carol506]

I still have ton of plates. If we do tacos I make a great seasoning mix that can bring. Will bring some bacon, eggs, and potatoes. John plans on doing ribs if cookoff still on.or we can throw in a boneless pork loin. Will do slaw as a side.
Do we hva a head count yet. We will be 3

 

[boykjo]

OK .. only 4 weeks till the BIG DANCE ... anybody started putting any thought into what they are doing yet ?? not been much activity on the thread...

Joe.. hopefully your making good progress on your truck...

Jeremy ... hows it looking for you?

I found a rear end assembly for the truck and I am going to install it tomorrow. I know I will need a transfer case and overdrive sections of the trucks transmission as they are cracked/busted. If all the parts inside are good I may be able to get it together if I can find the casings. 

I will know more in a few days whats going to happen. I still have the site reserved and friday will be the day I cancel the reservation if I see no chance of me getting the truck done. If anyone is interested in reserving the site they can get with me and we'll do the cancellation and the reservation around the same time so it doesn't go to someone not in the group

Joe

 

[JckDanls 07]

I found a rear end assembly for the truck and I am going to install it tomorrow. I know I will need a transfer case and overdrive sections of the trucks transmission as they are cracked/busted. If all the parts inside are good I may be able to get it together if I can find the casings. 

I will know more in a few days whats going to happen. I still have the site reserved and friday will be the day I cancel the reservation if I see no chance of me getting the truck done. If anyone is interested in reserving the site they can get with me and we'll do the cancellation and the reservation around the same time so it doesn't go to someone not in the group

Joe
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(in my best spanish voice) ... 'YOU CAN DEWWW IT" :biggrin:

 

[grumpa john]

On the rib smokeoff - I would like to know if we will be submitting the ribs on a bed of greens and in a styrofoam box or if on a paper plate is OK

 

[dougmays]

 
On the rib smokeoff - I would like to know if we will be submitting the ribs on a bed of greens and in a styrofoam box or if on a paper plate is OK

John - In the past we've kept this pretty "unofficial" and just fun...so paper plate is fine! :) We also dont really do the "taste, tenderness, presentation, etc...", we generally ask teh judges to pick there favorite entry and the entry with the most votes wins

 

[dougmays]

updated Page 1 with some menu items mentioned above.

How do you guys feel about doing the Rib-off Saturday for "lunch time" and then a family style buffet Saturday for dinner. This will eliminate the judging possibly elongating dinner and we can all enjoy ourselves. Turn in time for Ribs to be around 1 or 1:30pm?

If we do Ribs this way, we could do the tacos as a dinner item? Or we could do tacos along with the Ham Friday? Thoughts?