Search results

I used the reverse sear (or whatever it's called) for a rib roast on Wed and I was very pleased with the result. The pic below is my plate and for the complete story with several pics check out http://bigdudesramblings.blogspot.com/.

Krogers had whole USDA choice beef strips on sale last week for $3.99 per pound. It was just too good of a deal to pass up, so we bought a couple of them – total weight of 26 pounds. They were from National Beef Packing Co, which I’d never heard of, so I did a little research. They are owned by...

Made up my first pizza fatty yesterday and it was delicious. Check out http://bigdudesramblings.blogspot.com/ for the complete story and lots more food porn.

Yesterday was Tex-Mex day at our place. Here’s a shot of my plate - good eats and a beautiful day. Check http://bigdudesramblings.blogspot.com/ the last two days for more pics and recipes.

That looks like some serious good eats - smoked prime rib is one of my favorites

I have a friend to whom I made the mistake of serving some burnt ends a few weeks ago just to use up a brisket point and now she wants more, more, more. Like most folks, I make them from the brisket point, but I'm not always cooking a brisket with an available point. Any suggestions as to what...

Yesterday was cook day for me and of course it rained about all day, but it was still a great day. I cooked 2 briskets, 2 butts, 3 spares, 7 BB’s, ten 1# bologna rounds, a half pork loin, a split turkey breast, 5# of thighs, 5# of wings, and 20# of breasts. It kept the Stumps full all day. For...

While I've always cooked in cast iron, this was my fist time actually using it as a dutch oven. Check out the blog for lots of pot roast pics. http://bigdudesramblings.blogspot.com/

Check out my blog post for hot dogs http://bigdudesramblings.blogspot.com ,then click on the pepperoni roll link. They are easy to make at home and very good, especially right out of the oven. Can easily be made from frozen bread dough. Check out the first external link (Heffner) on the...

Whipped up a batch of stroganoff tonight. Check it out at http://bigdudesramblings.blogspot.com/

Yesterday was my monthly day to cook for friends and all turned out well. The brisket was my best ever, so I was real pleased with that. Click on the link for pictures http://bigdudesramblings.blogspot.com/

Since we had a flat iron steak in the freezer, plenty of salad material and some blue cheese dressing, Bev suggested we have black and blue salad for dinner – which I’d never heard of. We marinated the steak in the leftover roadside chicken stuff from yesterday, grilled it for 3 minutes per...

Every since I saw Bobby Flay in a muffuletta throwdown on Food Network, I've been wanting to try one. I made up the olive salad this past Saturday and the flavors have been marrying since then. I used the recipe from http://www.nolacuisine.com/2009/05/24/central-grocery/. We didn't have the...

The Stumps is heating up now - cooking chicken breasts, thighs and wholes (about 30# total) along with 4 herbed pork tenderloins and 10# of Czech sausage. Using Wolfe Citrus rub on the chicken, fresh herbs on the loin and just smoking the sausage. Then Tue will cook a brisket, 3 butts, and 13...

Our granddaughter moved in with us in May and one of her favorite foods is chicken noodle soup (Campbells - she's led a sheltered life). So I decided that if she's going to eat soup, she should eat GOOD soup, so I whipped up a batch using my dad's recipe. I left out the usual peas and added...

I have a Chech friend who got me some spice mix from a Chech meat market in Texas (old family recipe) and I made up a 10# batch today. I don't have a stuffer so I just roll it in logs about 1 1/2 " in dia and smoke it to 148F. Makes it more like a fatty but still very good. For batch two, I...

I have a friend who has been cooking whole hogs out in west Tennessee since he was a kid. After seeing a TV show a while back about whole hog cooking in that area, he advised he grew up there and sent me this pic the other day from a recent family get together. The metal to the right goes over...

We're having a terrible problem fighting the blight, but still getting pretty good production. Here's todays tomato haul - the big fella beside the softball weighed 1 lb 5oz

In case you hadn’t seen it before, thought I'd share a pic of what really good paprika starts out looking like (the pile on the left – picked today). I should have enough to begin drying by weeks end. The anaheims are starting to color a little so should have a batch for drying in a couple of...

Got the first big tomato harvest from my garden over the past 2 days. Picked about a bushel - mostly paste tomatoes and turned them into juice today. We use our complicated, super secret recipe - one tsp canning salt, one qt tomato juice. Here's half of them in the sink after washing And...

It was in the 50's when I went to get the paper this morning and the expected high for today is low 80's, both around 8-10 degrees below normal. I love it since I have several outside chores on tap for today. Just picked a big handfull of blueberries for my cereal - what a great start to the...

Usually when a grocer around here advertises babybacks, they're really loinbacks, so I was surprised when I went into Ingles today to get some of their $2.99/# special and they all weighed between 1.7 and 2.1 lbs. I could not find that they are injected with anything. They are Carolina Pride...

Tonights dinner reminds me why I grow a garden. Had some new potatoes (dug last week) boiled til fork tender then browned in butter; green beans (picked last nite) cooked with a smoked ham hock, and a little out-of-my-garden onion and garlic; and a couple ears of bi-color sweet corn (picked an...

Since we had more dough, we had grilled pizza tonight for the second day in a row - it's rough isn't it. It was a clean out the fridgr pizza. The sauce was leftover creamed spinich and then some meatballs, onion, mushrooms, olives, mozzerella and feta cheese. It was outstanding.

No pics this evening, but for dinner it's venison loin (backstrap), marinated in Italian dressing and grilled med rare, sided with fresh dug red potatoes, boiled and plate mashed with butter, S&P. I sure have ate good today.