Let's Talk BBQ
Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: Smokin Don on July 03, 2016, 09:50:25 PM
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July 03 2016
The 4th of July has never been a big cook holiday for us. For about 40 years now we have went to the St. Joseph 4th of July picnic. Most years we would get lemonade shake ups, fair fries with salt & vinegar and whole hog sandwiches. The pork burgers are fried on a flat iron griddle. I liked to drink beer and play showdown poker; the wife and kids played bingo then we watched the fireworks at 11 PM. They always have a great show. Since my back operation it’s too much walking for me.
My butcher had a leg of goat ready for me Fri. so I planned to smoke the goat leg Sunday. After getting some advice from Kevin (Stalag) and Cliff (TentHunteR) I knew about how I was going to do my first time cooking goat. I had the butcher saw the shank off so it would fit in a pan for some braising.
I seasoned it with kosher salt, a little cumin, white pepper, fresh ground black pepper and garlic flakes. It went in a plastic bag and in the fridge at midnight. After I got it in I remembered I didn’t rub it with olive oil like I wanted to.
I got up early this morning and sprayed it with some olive oil and added some more black pepper and garlic flakes. I smoked it for 3 hours at about 200 deg. grill level. I then took it inside and placed in a foil pan. I added carrots, 3 sticks of celery sliced 1 inch and cut up 2 Vidalia onions. I placed 4 sprigs of fresh thyme and 3 sprigs of fresh rosemary on the roast and a few more on the veggies. I poured 1 ¾ cup of Yellow Tail cabernet sauvignon over the roast.
It went back in the smoker and upped it to 225 deg. grill level for an hour. I then covered it with foil and went to 240 deg. grill level. That was after 4 hours total and the IT was 140 deg. I knew I didn’t need a temp probe for as long as I was cooking it. At 2:00 I went back to 225 deg. grill level. At 3:00 I took it inside and placed in a 195 deg. oven until we ate at 6:00.
I had some flat bread and Greek yogurt for making goat gyros; and I sliced up some cucumber. I steamed some baby Dutch yellow potatoes and added butter and parsley. I shredded up the goat some for everyone to make their gyros. It was fall apart tender. We had the carrots celery & onions with it on the side.
We all liked the goat meat. Next time I would cut it up some; it is very stringy and doesn’t bite through like stringy beef. The veggies had too much thyme and rosemary on for the wife and daughter. The next time I would just put it on the roast.
I didn’t note any strong smell before cooking. Since I did it outside didn’t note any smell; I might have if I did it inside. I didn’t think the taste was that much different than beef. I would definitely do this again but at $10 a pound not that often!
At 74 I finally got to taste goat, first was Cliff’s good goat burgers at the Ohio Gathering and now I did a leg of goat. I think I have wanted goat about all my life. My avatar is when I was about 4 yrs. old pulling one of my Grampa’s goats. I think I was trying to get it in a fire pit!
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Smokin Don
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Looks like it came out well, nice job Don.
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Looks fantastic ! :)
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I like what you did with the goat Don. The gyros are a nice touch!
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Where is that dang transporter when you need it......
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Very nice Don!
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That looks impressive. I've never had bbq goat but I had goat stew at an Ethiopian restaurant which was delicious.
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I wouldn't know what to go for first. It all looks so good. Nice job
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I have tasted goat several times. Using it for gyros is a novel twist. Looks good.
Art
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Very interesting Don! It surely looks very tasty! Glad you all enjoyed it too! Nice work buddy! ;)
It's always fun cooking up new things. 8)
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July 05 2016
It was a nice day and a lazy day for me; you can have these when you’re retired! I watered some new grass seed I had planted where I had two trees removed and my tomatoes. The wife went to her water exercises this afternoon and the grandson stopped in and watered flowers for us.
I didn’t need to cook since I had leftover goat meat and meatloaf from the week-end cooking. Yesterday I had made a marinated tomato, cucumber and onion salad that is best after overnight anyway.
My wife had the meatloaf and salad. I had the goat meat in a sandwich and salad. After having the goat meat in Gyros I knew it was pretty stringy and even though it was fall apart tender it didn’t pull apart very easy to eat in a sandwich. I took out enough meat for plenty on my sandwich and chopped it up some.
I heated a skillet and toasted a bun then heated up the meat in the skillet. I had some Maille Dijon mustard on the sandwich. It is pretty sharp, almost like horseradish but it’s not an ingredient.
That was a delicious sandwich. If I didn’t know it was goat I would probably guess pulled pork shoulder.
If you have never tried goat and have access to some good goat meat give it a try.
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Smokin Don
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Looking good Don..where you finding goat meat? Kah's? .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Looking good Don..where you finding goat meat? Kah's? .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Yes he just got two to do so not sure if any is left. Don
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Looks great Don!
I have had goat a few times but only once was it "amazing"
Would love to try a goat sandwich!
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Looks really good Don. Goat meat is not an easy meat to pull off like that but I'd say you nailed it!!!
Only thing I did that I forgot to mention was I soaked it in cheap whiskey for 12 hrs prior to smoking. The whiskey helped pull the gammy taste out of the meat.
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Looks great Don!
I have had goat a few times but only once was it "amazing"
Would love to try a goat sandwich!
In my opinion Mike I would say it did come out amazin. Had a lot of help from Kevin(Stalag) and Cliff (TentHunteR) Talked to Cliff on the phone and he helped with my cooking method and the amount of seasonings. I think it came out so good because of the low & slow cooking, the seasonings & herbs and braising in red wine. I finished what was left in a sandwich with some BBQ sauce on tonight!!! Don
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Really nice cook. Gotta try some goat if I ever find any.