This cure and smoke turned out good. It was a joint effort with Mary helping a lot as we set it up and took it to the farm to turn it every day. Brought it back to Houston and smoked … Continue reading
Category Archives: Beef
6/17/2017 – First beef short ribs smoked and they turned out great. Great piece of meat from B&W, only salt and pepper for seasoning then 9 hours of smoke in the MES on Father’s Day.
6/17/2017 – For Father’s Day we went shopping to Allied Kenco, then the Farmers Market on Airline, and then B&W Meat Market on No. Shephard. Bought a 1.1 lb. Sirloin Strip Steak for $13.98/lb to try my first sous vide in … Continue reading
Recipe below is by Susan Minor and extracted from here at the WayBackMachine. Beef Pastrami From Habanero Smoker After receiving favorable review for the way I prepare my pastrami, I feel that I can now post it on this site. There … Continue reading
My Aged Sirloin From Susan Minor’s former website. Downloaded 6/12/17. [The Cook] aged a sirloin over 30 days. Here are the pictures of what I got.In this first picture after I washed it up you can see that the meat is … Continue reading
Sauce inspired by the legendary Cooper’s Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que in Llano, TX. Makes about 5 cups. This has beef stock and possibly beef fat in it so it should not be kept for more than a week or two. … Continue reading
May 7, 2017 – This is the fourth cure with a cleaned up brisket to make corned beef for Rueben sandwiches. Used the same marinade/cure ingredients. The meat is clearly solid deep red after the cure. Used a lot less rub … Continue reading
May 6, 2017 – T-Bones steaks (large, 3/4″ thick) reverse seared on the Weber with SnS with Jack Daniels Barrel wood chips and fresh corn on the cob turned out good but note medium-rare like Mary likes.
From Chef JJ: Lay paper to form a diamond bottom point toward you. Brisket in the center, horizontally corner to corner. Fold bottom point over meat to cover. Fold in side points to center. Roll the package away from you … Continue reading
5/8/2017 – This was our 3rd corned beef and we began with a whole packer brisket at 14 lbs 7 oz and trimmed off all the fat. Trimmed weight was 8 lbs total. Added Cure No.1, salt and sugar per … Continue reading