Adventures in sausage.

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Sep 192010
 

Recently I’ve become keenly interested in all things sausages. More the point, I’ve been reading about salumi, charcuterie, and forcemeats, and fantasizing about making my own sausages, fermented or otherwise. Sausage making can be an expensive hobby, with grinders, stuffers, and smoke houses costing a small fortune. Fortunately my lovely in-laws provided me with the building blocks for my budding hobby in the form of the grinder and sausage stuffer attachments for my KitchenAid mixer. [...]

An ode to brisket.

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Jul 192010
 

As a Texan, I take my barbecue very seriously. For example, I would never throw burgers and dogs on a grill and call it a barbecue, because that would be a fallacy. That’s grilling, not barbecuing, plain and simple. I’m not suggesting that grilling is in anyway inferior to barbecuing, but cooking something on a grate over a hot direct/indirect heat source is not barbecue, so stop confusing the two. To me, barbecue consists of [...]

Smoked beer can chicken.

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Jun 202010
 

I made these chickens for a neighborhood barbecue a few weeks back and they turned out to be the star of the show. Brining the birds overnight keeps the meat moist throughout the long smoking process, and the liberal amounts of rub give the finished skin a fabulously spicy and sweet crust. You could do these impaled beauties on a grill if you aren’t in to the whole smoking thing, but the finished product is [...]