Merry Christmas everyone! Dinner tonight is a 2 bone rib roast. I trimmed all the large areas of fat and
silver skin off the roast and gave it a bath of kosher salt last night. This morning I made up a batch of
Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow Crust and mixed it with olive oil. I coated the roast and put it back into the refrigerator
to get happy with the rub for a few hours.
We had some red potatoes that needed to be eaten and we really didn’t want mashed potatoes, so we
decided on making some Crash Hot potatoes. First off I zapped the potatoes for about 4 minutes in the
microwave and then put them on my Firewire. I wanted a smoky flavor so I put them on the WSM. I am
running the WSM without the water pan and I filled up the ring with a large chimney of lump and then lit
up the lump with a ¾ full chimney of KBB. I threw in a couple chunks of mesquite for some extra smoke.
Potatoes put onto the WSM to finish cooking.
The WSM was cruising at close to 410 degrees according to my trusty Maverick so I put the roast on
with the potatoes.
Potatoes are off the WSM after about 35 minutes and a little more done than I wanted.
2 hours at 400 plus degrees (depending on the wind) and the roast is at 130 in the center.
Crash Hots were mashed with a fork, covered with shredded Colby jack cheese and sprinkled with pepper
bacon on top. They were put back onto the WSM to melt the cheese and warm the potatoes.
The rib roast is sliced. Not the prettiest slice job, but there was only the 2 and we weren't looking for small slices.
Crash Hots are done.
Plated with green beans, olives and burning bushes (shredded ham, green onions and cream cheese.)
Roast was perfect and everything else delicious too.
