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Archives for May 2014

Best of the West Charcoal Review

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We’re on a budget in my house.  Always. With six mouths to feed, 2 dogs, a cat, a bird and a fish, every penny saved makes a difference.  So I thought I’d try out some charcoal I found at Sam’s Club.  It was less than $10 for a 20 lb. bag which was nearly $15 cheaper than another popular name brand I’ve used.

So the first time we tried it out was on a Sunday for mother day lunch prepared by my wonderful hubby.  We were all hungry but he insisted that he would do the cooking.  After nearly 10 minutes of trying to get it to light he decided to just fry the hamburgers because “something must be wrong with that dumb charcoal”.  We had a nice lunch. He was so sweet to cook it.

We were all full and laid down to take a Sunday nap.  When we got up from the nap he went outside to mess with that grill again and it just so happened that the fire was blazing and the temperature was super hot.  Hmmmm. So, we figured we’d try it again a few nights later.  This time we patiently waited for the charcoal to get started and once it got going good we were pleasantly surprised.   It’s slow to start but boy it can get hot!  So hot it burned a hole through his sock.

I think as long as you’re willing to be patient and you can get the temperature good and regulated then it’s a pretty decent charcoal, especially for the price.  We’ll definitely be buying it in the future.

 

Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Poppers and Barbeque Sandwiches off the Big Green Egg

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Whose hungry for bacon wrapped jalapeño poppers and barbeque sandwiches from the Big Green Egg???

We had a cookout today at Jackson Heating and Cooling for our fellow neighbors and customers and boy was it good.  Vince (our General Manager) cooked 6 boston butts all night around 200°.   He smoked them on his large Big Green Egg for 12 hours and boy were they good.  He literally cooked all 6 upright at one time.  It’s really quite amazing what all you can do with these eggs!  Those 6 e made a total of 96 sandwiches and still had a lot of meat left over!  I image we could have made 125-140 sandwiches.

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Our grilled side dish was bacon wrapped jalapeño poppers.  We tried them 2 different ways and both were good.  Here’s the first recipe:

  • 1 block of cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup of mexican blend cheddar cheese
  • salt to taste
  • pepper to taste
  • 8 jalapenos
  • 1/2 package of bacon (more can be used depending on how much bacon you want wrapped around each jalapeno)

All we really did is wash each jalapeño, scrape out the seeds and re-wash any remaining seeds.  Slice each one in half.  Then mix up the first four ingredients and pack into the halves. Wrap each one with a third piece of bacon and fix with a toothpick.
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We grilled them indirect around 350º for approximately 25 minutes or until bacon looked done.

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The second batch used the same ingredients as above with the exception of replacing the mexican blend cheese with pepper jelly.  We used the jalapeño pepper jelly from Gringas Green Card Salsa which was very good.  It was definitely spicy but I’d be interested to try her pomegranate or apricot habañero jelly next time.  I bet that would be really good.

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We served it all up with some brunswick stew, chips and pickles.  I’d say it was a pretty delicious lunch! Now maybe next when we say we’re cooking out ya’ll will join us!