necron 99's 2008 Holiday Cookin'

necron 99 · Posted: Jan 02 2009 Post subject: necron 99's 2008 Holiday Cookin'

We had a great 2008 holiday season at our house. Thought I'd post a thread to cover both our Christmas and New year's cooks.

I smoke roasted a 5 lb. boneless pork loin for Christmas dinner, modifying a recipe I found on the TVWB site. I deleted pecans since nuts are on the MIL's do not eat list, and substituted neufatchel cheese for the gorgonzola. I smoke roasted it at 325 F - ish until it hit 145 F internal and it came out great! This was my second try at brining boneless pork loin, and my first succesful one.

Stuffed and tied pork loin roast

On the BBQ Pro Deluxe bullet and ready to go. I used some OCC Rancher briquets, Picnic lump, 3 chunkettes of cherry wood and 2 chunkettes of mesquite wood. It was done in less than 3 hours.

The curved can section handle of my BBQ Pro Deluxe bullet makes a perfect mounting surface for my Maverick ET-73.

Finished roast - the wife commented it looked kind of like some varieties of sea cucumber we've seen on our scuba trips Very Happy

Carved roast - I'll cook this again, but I think I'll slice the loin to spread out the fruit and cheese mixture and then re-roll pinwheel style next time.

Christmas Dinner table with butternut squash bisque (I add a swirl of Thai red curry to my bowl), green salad with goat cheese and fresh berries, sweet potatoes with Steen's cane syrup, and apple and raisin pan dressing. We had key lime coconut pie for dessert.

For New Year's, I got to put my new tricked out k.a.m. special Mark One hot-rodded charcoal basket in my BBQ Pro Deluxe bullet rig. Check it out - it was a really cool Christmas present! The new basket is on the left, my slightly modded (extra perpendicular grate) stock basket is on the right.

Sits in the charcoal bowl on the ledges where the legs are just fine!

Loaded up with OCC Rancher, the rest of the bag of Picnic lump, and about 10 pecan heartwood chunkettes. Total about 10 pounds of charcoal, with the leftover bits of unburned fuel from Christmas dinner cook dumped on top.

I had a 3 lb. chuck roast in the freezer that needed cooking, and I gave it a light olive oil slather and rubbed it with the Cholula Chili-Lime Seasoning. The salt content wasn't high enough for me to feel I needed to blend it with paprika to cut it back. I also had a 8 lb. pork butt I gave a light olive oil slather to and rubbed with my homemade tweak to Raichlen's Sweet & Smoky rub recipe.

I used my Brinkmann Step-Up grill suspended from the upper food grate. This allowed me to put my usual drip pan on the lower food grate, yet have both pieces of meat in the cooker.

Here's the chuck roast, on the step-up grate above the drip pan.

And here's the pork butt, set right above the chuck roast, fat side down.

Finished chuck roast this morning. Came out great! I trimmed and chunked it.

Finished pork butt a few hours later, around noon - also came out great! Also trimmed and chunked.

Overall, total cook was 17 hours, with low temp around 40 last night and moderate wind. But I had a nice sleep with the capacity of the new fuel basket, thanks to the k.a.m.'s! Cool

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doojr · Posted: Jan 02 2009 Post subject:

great looking food necron, and nice looking basket. i'm just glad that y'all made it through the blizzard a few weeks ago Very Happy

it was 37 degrees at 5 this morning, i dont know how we put up with these winters.
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Kevin Randolph · BBQ Fan Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 369

Everything looks awesome!! Good job necron!!

Canadian Bacon · Posted: Jan 02 2009 Post subject:

Necron 99 thats a sweet looking stuffed loin,looks great.The whole spread looks awesome.
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k.a.m. · Posted: Jan 02 2009 Post subject:

necron 99, those are two fine looking cooks. Very Happy

I love the loin pics that looks awesome. Your Roast and Butt both look awsome as well. Very Happy

I am glad the new basket worked out I was hoping for a successful run, I am sure a lot of it had to do with the chef nice job. Wink

Jim_K · BBQ Fan Joined: 26 Dec 2008 Posts: 244 Location: SW Va

sounds like a great add to the arsenal!
Food looks great! and the setup looks like a fancy resturant.

Mrs. K.A.M. · Posted: Jan 03 2009 Post subject:

Great looking meals Very Happy

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Boomer · Posted: Jan 03 2009 Post subject:

Necron99

Great looking cooks WOW the stuffed pork loin
looked really good

Great job on the Xmas and New Years cooks.

boomer
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Fatrat · Posted: Jan 03 2009 Post subject:

That stuffed loin looked incredible, the beef and but also looked great. Looks like you've doubled your charcoal capacity with that basket. I love not having to fuel the fire so often this time of the year.

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Beertooth · Posted: Jan 03 2009 Post subject:

Necron that grub looks very nice! That basket looks like it will work really well.
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necron 99 · Posted: Jan 03 2009 Post subject:

Thanks everyone! The new basket actually triples the charcoal holding capacity, as the walls sit above the grates. Went from about 2" stock pan wall above the grates to about 6", and it still has clearance even for a Brinkmann Gourmet water pan as well as the stock shallow water pan!

My wife and mother in law deserve all the credit for the holiday table setting. I made the roast, salad, and pie, my wife cooked the other dishes. The plates we used are some her parents gave us with individual international holiday theme cartoons on them. My father in law worked in the drilling end of the oil industry, so my wife grew up mostly outside the USA, and her parents have a lot of unique knicknacks like those plates.

edit - Kevin, we may get our back deck looking nice again by summer. We've been completely unsuccessful finding an identical replacement - the metal roof is a feature that's pretty much a no-brainer vs. cloth covers in this climate / sun exposure for us, and that's been like trying to find hen's teeth. But tonight we stopped by Sam's Club after work and they have this year's model - a bit fancier, and pricier, but not too much more than what we got in insurance claim for the old gazebo.

http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=415730&pCatg=4635
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Sirsmokealot · Posted: Jan 03 2009 Post subject:

Looks great necron99!
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Serial Griller · Posted: Jan 13 2009 Post subject:

Nice job Nectron! looks like you got some nice bark there!
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Nate Hawg · Posted: Jan 13 2009 Post subject:

Looks delicious necron99. I bet that sea cucumber with a little wine hit the spot Very Happy

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NaughtyNurse · Posted: Jan 13 2009 Post subject:

Another great job necron Cool