MidWest Smoke Out

[Tenpoint5]

Weatherman is saying Upper 70's Lower 80's for Saturday with a chance of rain late Saturday night into Sunday morning. I can deal with that.

[squirtthecat]

70s??   Glad I threw a light jacket in the truck..   

[Tenpoint5]

70s??   Glad I threw a light jacket in the truck..   

Squirt look at the weather thingy on my posts its 66º right now 2 days ago it was 86 already

[TwoPockets]

70s??   Glad I threw a light jacket in the truck..   

Squirt look at the weather thingy on my posts its 66º right now 2 days ago it was 86 already

Jeez.. it is 85 degrees here in Alabama at 8:30am, it's going to hit at least 96 today with a heat index well over 100. It's too freaking hot to even cook outdoors. It's almost enough to make me wish I was a yankee.... well not really.

Show us some good pictures of the Smoke Out.

[nepas]

70s??   Glad I threw a light jacket in the truck..   

Squirt look at the weather thingy on my posts its 66º right now 2 days ago it was 86 already

Jeez.. it is 85 degrees here in Alabama at 8:30am, it's going to hit at least 96 today with a heat index well over 100. It's too freaking hot to even cook outdoors. It's almost enough to make me wish I was a yankee.... well not really.

Show us some good pictures of the Smoke Out.

Yikes

[sparky]

that look so good.  nice job on it.  well done.   

[Tenpoint5]

The Overall theme of this years Smoke Out was.
 "It's All About The Pig!!"

[Tenpoint5]

OK here I go back in time a little bit. I have the some of the prep pictures Squirt has the rest.

Saturday morning the day of the Smoke Out.

I found two of these a sitting in my freezer. Si I says to Bam1. How's about some pulled beef?



They was frozen solid. I seasoned both sides with some Billy Bob's Seasoning (Thanks SouthernSmoked) and into the Traeger they went at 250º. They was pulled and shredded at 200º it was dinner time so no FTC.



Then I says to Bam1. Now we need to do some pork loin. I saw something on the forum about somebody doing this roll thing. I think we can do it if we try hard enough. I have a bone in loin we can practice with. You see first you bone it all out.



You slice it and make it look all flattened out like. Then you get you some Cream Cheese and some Garlic Pesto and some John Henry's Texas Pig Rub. Slap them all together on there





Then you roll it all up with the tenderloin that you found on there to the inside. You make a big mess tying the thing up and season the outside



Then you stuff it in the Bradley under the Boston Butt that has been running all night long.



You pull the butt and roll 1:40 of Whiskey Oak Still maintaining the 230º that the Butt was at.



After the smoke is over turn the temp down to 210 and let it roll. It looks like this after the smoke is done.



After everything is all said and done you pull the loin at 153º and send it off for a nap in FTC



Meanwhile you have yanked the butt out and sent it off to FTC as well.

[Tenpoint5]

Squirtthecat says hey lets do a Tri Tip! So he fired up the Traeger and got that to cooking.



ClassicRockGriller got started on pulling the beef



Meanwhile there was some general conversations going on



All in all It was a GREAT DAY. The HOT weather broke it was only like 83º, a light breeze blowing unless you was under one of the canopies. There was a lot of OLD FRIENDS and some NEW FRIENDS all having a good time together. There was absolutely no drinking, or any lies told during the entire weekend!! That's it I am out of pictures.

 I would like to THANK EVERYONE for coming. We Gonna haf ta do dis agin!!

[Tenpoint5]

It's Monday. It's two days after the Smoke Out. I'm thinking this picture speaks volumes!! I'm just say'n

[squirtthecat]

Here we go!

While 10.5 and another Bradley friend were slaving away in front of the cookers, Hal, Sonny and I were hanging out in Beverly Hills.  (a.k.a the Seemore's rig)




Some Dutch Oven breakfast casserole in the works.




Under the watchful eyes...




We rolled some smoke as well!   




Turned out PDG.




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Saddled up and headed to 10.5's place.


Yes Virginia, pigs do fly.




Some fried tortilla strips for snackies.




LOTS of supervisors.  BAM1, 10.5, Sonny (CRG), Hal in the background, and some really nice fellow who required a Passport to get to Iowa!?!





A Bradley what?




That came out of the back of the company car..





--


Did somebody say FOOD?

Smoked chuckies.




Couple plans of a killer meatloaf that Sonny brought (already smoked -we're just heating them up), and tri-tip-cicle out of the freezer.




Better shot.





Time to break the chuckies down.




Butt #1.




Fall. To. Pieces.






Pan of chucky love.





Stuffed pork loin.  (10.5 will have to fill in the details, I remember cream cheese and pesto..)










Meatloaf is ready.






In goes the food, and I grab a quick shot before it is hammered.






Tri-tip is coming along.



About 45 minutes later...




Curt and Holly show up with this cute little pup.





A Bradley WHAT?










Food has been demolished, and everyone slides into a coma for a bit.




Gotta sign the banner..






Fire in the hole!




Group shot.




It's all about the pig..




Cheers!

[Tenpoint5]

That Jar of Distilled water has some miles on it. It has traveled from it's place of origin, to Georgia, to Texas, to Iowa where it waited until just the right time to be shared Amongst Friends!!

As a side note i see I ain't getting any prettier with age.

[LostArrow]

In the immortal  words of Miss Stevie Smith
" And a Good Time Was Had By All"

[nepas]

Wish we could have been there again. Next year we parking by Scott & June.

How did ya like the GA, Clear water 

[Tenpoint5]

Wish we could have been there again. Next year we parking by Scott & June.

How did ya like the GA, Clear water 

Mighty Mighty Pleasing