Low and slow lives here. Smoke-infused, patience-requiring meats for your BBQ rig.
When faced with the conundrum of choosing a steak, things can get tense. Do I opt for the richness of a rib eye, or do I savor the tenderness of a filet? What about the beefy satisfaction of a strip steak? Choices can be hard. But there is a way to get two out of…
We haven’t yet gone so far down the pork belly rabbit hole that we need to change the name of this site to “the PorkBellyBlog,” but that’s only by a sheer act of will. It would be easy to put out blog post after blog post, each one detailing the nuances of a new pork…
If you were coming to my place for a football viewing party and I told you that I was making spicy chicken that is slaked in flavorful, finger-licking sauce, you’d probably expect a big platter of wings…maybe even grilled wings. But if you thought that, you’d be wrong. Because the spicy, finger-licking, beard-staining chicken I’m…
I’m writing this to you in the middle of January. It is cold, it is still rather dark, and I have made a decent start on eating better this year. (Don’t worry, a certain large football game will be coming up soon to put an end to that.) I’ve already baked homemade bread and I’ve…
Tenderloin is the best piece of beef. I know, I know…what about brisket? What about ribeye? What about tri-tip? Let me clarify. Beef tenderloin is the best piece of beef in that it needs the least doing-to of any piece of meat on the cow. Brisket needs 12+ hours of smoke to become transcendent, tri-tip…
We’ve written about frying turkey, spatchcocking it, roasting it, thawing it, even smoking a whole turkey. But what if you want turkey and don’t have half a platoon of eaters coming over for Thanksgiving? Easy. Smoke some turkey breast. Smoking just the breasts of a turkey is a fantastic way to cook that lean and…
