What are you smoking for Christmas supper?

[JCAP]

Sounds like everyone has a pretty good plan and delicious menus. We’re doing a prime rib roast, mashed potatoes, and a butternut squash and spinach dish. All in and around the oven- supposed to be super cold here on Christmas Day and my yard is a wet mess of snow and mud.

 

[gmc2003]

Our Governor just lifted the ban on in state multi-family gatherings yesterday(limit one family). However since my DIL is a nurse, and I'm still working. We decided against an in person get together. We will be doing a stop-n-drop to say hello and exchange presents and food instead. For the wife and I she'll be cooking a ham shank and all the fix'ins It will be tough saying Merry Christmas to my 1st grandson from outside and 6ft away, but better safe then sorry.

Chris

 

[pi guy]

This last Saturday early Xmas dinner with 1 Daughter and 1 Granddaughter (damn 2020!) Only got a could of pics, to busy enjoying myself.
Spicy Creole Shrimp Dip with Ritz crackers
20# bone in double smoked ham from Compart Family farms with a Sarsaparilla Baste On the Yoder with pecan/cherry pellets @ 200°F for 2 hours then 275°F until pulled at140°FIT
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Browned butter and Green onion mashed potatoes
Asparagus and mushroom gratin
French silk pie with Vanilla wafer crust.
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Would you share the recipe for Spicy Creole Shrimp Dip??

 

[pi guy]

My wife still works every holiday on night shifts, so we always do our holiday celebrating a day or two before or after the holidays. I'm the cook in our house my wife can't boil water without a timer, and I'm not kidding, so I cook, and she cleans which is fine with me. My Mom still cooks on the holidays but with this COVID-19 CRAP happening it has just been my folks and me which sucks because she always had 20 to 35 people at the house on Easter, St Paddy's, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Some of those people I only get to see on holidays because they moved away, I really miss the big crowds and loud dinner table conversations/fights and doing shots with my drunk'in cousins.
(If you know any Irish/Sicilian families you know what I'm talk'in about.)

I hope you all have a great Christmas, Hanuka, Chrismukkah, Kwanzaa or Festivus with your loved one's!!!

My wife works most holidays, night shift, as well. She's a nurse and has to work a certian amount of holidays per year.

Your former get togethers sound awesome! Sorry you won't have that time with the big crowd this year!

 

[ofelles]

Would you share the recipe for Spicy Creole Shrimp Dip??

Sure, we really enjoyed it. Big hit. If you enjoy Cajun/Creole food there are a few good recipes on this site.
https://acadianatable.com/2013/11/25/spicy-creole-shrimp-dip/

 

[pi guy]

Sure, we really enjoyed it. Big hit. If you enjoy Cajun/Creole food there are a few good recipes on this site.
https://acadianatable.com/2013/11/25/spicy-creole-shrimp-dip/

Thank you! My son just spent a semester at LSU and fell in love with Cajun food. This would be great to make for Christmas Eve for him and the family.

Looks like the link gave didn't work, but I did find it here: https://acadianatable.com/2020/12/21/spicy-creole-shrimp-dip/

 

[normanaj]

Change o' plans!

We're apparently going to have the opposite of a nor'easter,we're having a sou'easter.
Heavy rain and 60-70mph winds,the only plus will be the warm temps but who'll be outside to enjoy that?

Pre-smoking the skirt steak tomorrow and will be reverse seared on the indoor grill Friday.Will come up with some type of lite marinade for the pheasant and probably done on the indoor grill too.

Better hope the power doesn't go out because the brand new generator is in the shop.
Last storm lost power fired the damn thing up and no juice.I do have an inverter I can hook up to the truck and/or car if worse comes to worse.

2020 really is being a bitch right to the end!

 

[Inscrutable]

2020 really is being a bitch right to the end!

Just hoping we don’t have “2020, Part Deux” too far into 2021

 

[hawtsauc3]

I am going to attempt some beef ribs for the first time, but we'll see what happens. It's supposed to be a solid 1° tomorrow so it might have to shift to baking in the oven if I can't get the smoker up to temp. I'll really be putting the fireboard through it's paces tomorrow.

 

[normanaj]

Taking a big chance but it looks like the worst of the weather might be outta here by noon,the wind is already banging,everything seems to be happening a little earlier than predicted.

I'm going to do all my smoking/cooking as originally planned and do it tommorow. Neither the skirt steak or the pheasant are going spend any significant amount of time in the smoker or on the grill for that matter.We really weren't going to be eating till 4pm or so anyways.

 

[Inscrutable]

 

[Coreymacc]

The 2.5 lb lobster tail. It was amazing. Oh and the little one was the wife's. Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

 

[MJB05615]

Looks great. Love Lobster tails, now I'm feeling like I have to have some. Nice work.

 

[mike243]

 

[mike243]

17lbs on the PB, 2 hrs smoke then 1.5 at 225, pulled at 126, was more red than the picture showed, really good, suckle busters 1836 rub

 

[Munson]

Ended up with a pork butt.