Jul 11 2015
It was a beautiful day today! It was sunny, not too hot and not a drop of rain all day! I started early and mowed the front yard, our son came down and mowed the back for me. I had all afternoon to enjoy, smoke the bacon for sandwiches tonight, listen to music and sip some beer. Just me and the dog!
I had two of my favorite things tonight I look forward to every summer about mid-July, fresh tomatoes for BLT’s and fresh corn on the cob! The corn was fresh picked yesterday and I had some smoked jowl bacon for the and fresh tomato for the BLT’s. Sorry about showing the jowl bacon Art, maybe we shouldn’t let everyone know how great it is or the price will skyrocket! My butcher’s side bacon is about $4.75 a pound and the jowl bacon is $2.75!
I smoked the bacon on my Traeger on smoke mode 180 deg. as soon as I got the bacon on I eased it to 275 deg. and that gave me 300 deg. grill level. It took about an hour and then left 5 slices on another 10 minutes. It went in the fridge until supper time.
My wife had lunch with some classmates and did some shopping. When she got home at 5:00 I had the corn cleaned and my steamer pot ready on the Camp Chef. For the corn I just clean some of the outer husks off, trim both ends and steam about 6 minutes in the husks.
I put the CI griddle on to toast the buns and went out and turned the gas burner on. By the time I toasted the buns the water was steaming so I did the corn and took in to make the sandwiches.
My wife had mayo on her BLT and what was left of my pea salad. I had mayo and mustard on my BLT and a small bowl of my leftover beans.
Did that ever taste good! I have had jowl bacon different ways the last 3 meals and corn the last two, so got my bacon and corn fix, at least for a few days!
Smokin Don
