Stay home Chops, Mac & Cheese and Onions

[SmokyMose]

We had fine weather for a change yesterday and I had a couple of nice pork chops thawed for the kettle.
I decided I really wanted some of ChileRelleno's Mac-n-Cheese, of which I'm a big fan. Problem was; I didn't have any shredded Cheddar or whole milk.
I'm trying to be a good boy and only go out on Thursdays for shopping, although Target is less than a half mile away....
Then I realized I had smoked Cheddar from last fall and a couple cans of evaporated milk.

I halved Chile's recipe and I still had to break out another chunk of smoked cheddar! Oh well, I can smoke more. I made up what was lacking with packaged Mozzarella. I only had to add a little 2% milk to the evaporated to get what was needed.

Since I had all that smoked cheese in there I figured I didn't need to smoke it and just cooked it in the oven.

Of course that meant I had grill space for something else, like bacon onion rings!

As for the chops, I've been using a Pineapple Turmeric glaze for a year or so. Don't remember where I found it, but it works for wings, too.

Fired up the old Weber with a couple of Hickory chunks to cook the onions and then the chops.


I'm sure you all know how to use a glaze so I won't go into that.
No pics of the onions on the grill, but here are the chops ready to pull.

And the money shot...

Everything came out great and I "stayed in".
Kudos again to Chile Relleno for a kick a** Mac-n-Cheese!
Stay safe boys and girls and cook with whatcha got.

Dan

 

[smokin peachey]

Wow that is a good looking plate you got there Dan.

Would you mind sharing the details on the bacon wrapped onion rings?

 

[sandyut]

looks delish! im on my way!

 

[ozzz]

Man that looks good.

 

[GATOR240]

Pretty fine looking meal. LIKE

 

[chopsaw]

Nice work , looks great . I've only been out a couple times in the last month , good job on that too .

 

[SmokyMose]

Wow that is a good looking plate you got there Dan.

Would you mind sharing the details on the bacon wrapped onion rings?

Thanks, peachey!
I cut the ends off a couple of Vidalias, peeled them, sliced in half and pushed about 3 of the rings out. They wound up around an inch thick. Then I trimmed a bit out of the center to make room to push bacon through. Wrapping the bacon wasn't easy. Then I dusted them with my regular pork rub and cooked indirect until the bacon was done. That's it.

 

[sawhorseray]

Wow, I'd never heard of bacon onion rings before, they have to be great! Beautiful piece of work, big Like! RAY

 

[JCAP]

Woah that looks really awesome. I’m gonna have to put the bacon ring on my list of to-dos!

 

[jcam222]

All looks great!! I also need to add the bacon onion rings to my list of to do’s.

 

[kawboy]

Thanks, peachey!
I cut the ends off a couple of Vidalias, peeled them, sliced in half and pushed about 3 of the rings out. They wound up around an inch thick. Then I trimmed a bit out of the center to make room to push bacon through. Wrapping the bacon wasn't easy. Then I dusted them with my regular pork rub and cooked indirect until the bacon was done. That's it.

I've found that if I slice the bacon in half lengthwise, it wraps a heck of a lot easier. I may have to make some more this weekend, those look good.