BBQ Pulled Pork-Quick and Good

There are three steps to this recipe

Inject/marinade the roast overnight

Rub overnight

steps 1 and 2 can be combined

Cooking 5 hours on the grill

Start with a pork shoulder roast sometimes called a Boston Butt, usually 7 lbs

Basic Rub

1/4 C brown sugar

1/4 C sweet paprika

3 T black pepper

3 T coarse salt

1 T hickory smoked salt or more coarse salt

2 t garlic powder

2 t onion powder

2 t celery seeds

1 t cayenne pepper

Injection Liquid/Marinade

2 C apple juice

2 C water

1/4 C cider vinegar

1 T rub (above)

Mix the liquid and inject in the roast, all over

It will squirt out, watch your eyes

This is where you can combine steps 1 and 2

Pack the rub all over the roast. I dont' think you can use to much - trust me.

Put roast in aluminum pan, fat side up in the frig over night

If you don't have an injector pierce the roast with a fork and place in a bowl with the liquid covering the whole roast. Place in frig overnight.

Next day pull the roast and pack the rub on overnight or 6 hours

I made two on this day

There is usally enough liquid in the roast that will seep out to fill the pan 1/4" or so. If not add some beer, one for you one for the roast

Cooking on the grill

Indirect, coals at the back of the grill, roast under the vent-I am assuming that you are using a Weber kettle grill - the best grill ever made - ask Ed for details on why.

Wood chips-the best are a fruit wood, cherry, apple but hickory works too.

Soak in water overnight

Use a chimney starter to lite your coals

You only need a dozen or so to start and you will need to add 5-6 ever hour

Use the bottom damper to control the temperature, not the top

Add a hand full of wood chips every so often to keep it smokin

Cook 3 hours at 350 F uncovered

Cover pan and roast with tin foil and cook another 2 hours at 350 F

When you cover the roast don't worry about adding more liquid to the pan, you'll find out later.

Let it sit uncovered to cool then start pulling!

I dispose of all the fat and end up with very lean meat

Add your favorite BBQ sauce and your set.

Basic BBQ Ribs

This is our basic and easy ribs.
We used:
2 slabs of pork ribs
italian seasoning
garlic powder
salt
pepper
sweet baby rays bbq sauce (regular and honey bbq)

We defrosted the ribs and started some water with a liberal amount of the seasonings and salt and pepper. Tossed in the ribs (cut in half to fit in the pot) and let it go on high heat for a while haha. It was actually when it started to boil over that we took it off. Prolly only a couple mins past when it actually started to boil.
Put it in a pan with a bunch of the two bbq sauces and some pepper on top. Baked it for...20-25mins?
The change for us on this one was boiling it with all the seasonings and adding pepper on top. Ended up being great actually. We could taste a hint of the italian and garlic even after it was slathered in bbq sauce. The pepper on top added a nice kick as well.

Sweet Mashed Potatoes with cheddar cheese

Courtesy of Ray Ray:

3 lbs of sweet potatoes
a stick or less of Butter
1/2 cup Sour Cream
1/2 cup milk
shredded cheddar cheese
chopped/snipped chives

boil potatoes until soft.
add all the ingredients
mash

pictures later (or now :P lol-eddie-edits)



These potatoes were AMAZING btw. The switch from regular potatoes to sweet was top notch even after the addition of sour cream/cheese/etc.

Apple Cider Beef Stew

Courtesy of Ray Ray:

EVOO & butter
2 lbs of beef, cut doesn't really matter
salt, pepper
1 large onion
2 carrots
1 lb turnips
4 tbsp flour
2 cups apple cider
15 oz beef stock

preheat oven to 425°

chop all the onion, carrots turnips
brown beef + salt + pepper with the EVOO and butter in a big stew pot
add onions, carrots, turnips
sprinkle with flour and stir Stir in apple cider and beef stock
bring to boil. cover and transfer to oven. 45 min. done.

pictures later (or now :P)
cooking pot:























Mixed with mashed sweet potatoes
which Eddie liked but Dwayne wasn't as much a fan of
The difference was that the potatoes get REALLY soft and mostly mixed in.

Okay Ill start this off with something we made 1.5 weeks ago?
I think that was it. The night we brewed our beer also :P
This was just a simple beer chicken. Bought a whole chicken, cleaned it up a bit...put it on a full miller lite can. Also put an ENTIRE package of bacon over the sides haha.
Cooked it at like 400degrees for about 45mins.
It turned out well, but undercooked. Next time it will definitely be more like 1.5 hours I think.

Beer Chicken - mmmmm beer

Frick. I just deleted this post after finishing it. Ghey.
Anyway this is to start it off I guess. This was something Dwayne and I made on a slow friday while we were brewing our beer I think...1.5 weeks ago or so.
Really easy: Required Chicken, package of bacon, 1 beer :P
Basically just cleaned up the chicken, pre-heated oven to 400 stuck the full, opened, beer can inside the chicken and the draped the ENTIRE package of bacon over the top. Cooked it at 400 for about 45mins.
It turned out well, but undercooked. I think next time we'd cook it for something like 1.5 hours actually.

We are awesome.

This is going to be epic.
Very epic.
Be prepared.