Sept 02 2013
Well the Labor Day week-end is over and it was not very exciting around here! I am just getting over a bout of stomach flu and have been eating pretty bland. Looking at all your cooks has had me drooling tonight! If I missed any ones I am sorry.
I did manage to get a fire going in my Chimenea for doing smores Sunday evening. The kids and grandson, and two of his neighbor girl friends came over and ate some smores. I didn’t have any, just enjoyed watching all have fun. It is funny seeing my 8 yr. old grandson get about one step more mature when there are girls around! They had a good time swinging on my rope swing. Both dogs wanted some smores but I had to get them their own treat.
I was setting up by the house and a treat for me was to have a hummingbird suddenly appear about 1 foot in front of my face and take a look then back off and go have some sugar water close by.
Tonight it was just me & Mama for supper. I thought a fish sandwich and some pasta would be good and easy on my stomach. I had some frozen Gorton’s sandwich filets and some pretzel buns. I had never done breaded fish on my Traeger so wanted to try them. The directions said 20 minutes in a 400 deg. oven and turning half way thru. It said to leave frozen but I did have mine setting out about 15 minutes before going on the grill.
I heated the Smoker to 350 deg. with the grill grates, back side up. I planned on 30 minutes total. In the mean while I got the thin spaghetti on cooking. I turned the fish at 14 minutes and they were plenty brown so in another 10 minutes I added the buns to heat up a couple of minutes. Total cook was about 26 minutes.
I finished the pasta with white truffle oil, butter and about a half cup parmesan. It all tasted pretty good; the fish were plenty done and very crispy, I would say as crispy as deep fried. I had mustard and mayo on mne.
Not an exciting post but it shows you can do frozen pre breaded food on a pellet smoker and get good results. Now I know if I need a quick easy meal I can have some fish sandwiches done pretty quickly.
Fish Filets
I didn't get a shot on the smoker but this shows they browned well
My Sandwich and Pasta
Smokin Don
