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Archives for March 2013

March 26, 2013 Featured

Egg Recipe with BBQ Smoke

Egg Recipe Smokedeggs on smokeHere’s and egg recipe that has just two main ingredients.  Eggs and smoke.

Around Easter you may be looking for something special for that extra basket of boiled eggs. Or maybe you want a new twist for a potato salad recipe.   Try this Smoked Egg Recipe.

The trick to boiling eggs is not a big secret.   Just cover the eggs in a pot of water.  Add in a spoon of salt and vinegar and bring to boil.  Once boiling take the pot off the heat for twelve minutes and then – with a slotted spoon – plunge them in ice water.

To add the smoke for our egg recipe we used a Brinkmann “bullet” style smoker with five lumps of charcoal and one large chunk of hickory.  Because this is cold smoking you can fill the water pan in the smoker to block what should be very low heat.

Add your boiled eggs (peeled or partially peeled) on the top grate and cold smoke for a full hour.

Remove the eggs and store together in the refrigerator overnight to further strengthen smoke flavor.

I experimented with fully shelled boiled eggs and cracked (and rolled) shell on boiled eggs hoping for an aesthetic difference akin to the tea infused eggs I had seen.

The egg recipe just screams keep it simple.  Just add smoke and a bit of salt and you have something special.  You can take it further as a secret ingredient in deviled eggs or an potato salad recipe. It’s one more reason to get your kids to hunt for Easter eggs.

 

March 24, 2013 Featured

Spiral-Cut Chicago Hot Dogs

hot dogWe call ’em Hot Dog Dogs(see the full recipe) … a spiral cut show off… and we do a version of a Chicago style hot dog with celery salt, green relish, onions and a sport pepper.

It’s time for opening day and baseball season so we took the time to re-imagine this all-American favorite.  Couldn’t find Vienna All Beef but made due.

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March 18, 2013 Featured

Easter Recipe: GrateTV Rack Of Lamb

lamb9Rack Lamb EasterTo BBQ Fans an Easter Recipe is more than colored eggs and jelly beans.  This week on GrateTV we scruff up a Rack of Lamb per Adam Perry Lang and reverse sear the rack before slicing and slathering in a board sauce.   Sound Good?  Check the video here and see how it’s done step by step at the Rack of Lamb page at http://gratetv.com

March 11, 2013 Featured

BBQ St. Patrick’s Style

corned beefIt wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day without Corned Beef and Cabbage.   The beef brisket is the same you’d start with when smoking a brisket Texas style… but then you cure and pickle it.  Or just buy it already “corned.”  That works too.  Take a look at how GrateTV’s Jack Waiboer does it and try your luck o’ the brisket this week.

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GrateTV is a short-form, educational web series focused on making barbecue fun! We release a new episodes every week typically originating from the LowCountry of
South Carolina “the Birthplace of American BBQ.” Each episode is brief – about a beer in length. Our focus is on fun but easy barbecue tips and tricks plus
entertaining information.

Category
Food Home & Garden Learning & Education
Starring:
Jack Waiboer and Bill West
Written by:
Waiboer/ West

 

 

 

March 7, 2013 Cook

What Is London Broil

london broilYou may have wondered what London Broil really is.  It’s not really a special cut of beef or from a particular part of the cow.  It’s actually a STYLE of cooking or grilling a piece of beef.  Typically London Broil is Flank steak but not necessarily.

Many times (like in the above London Broil video) the supermarket will use or label a top round steak/roast as London Broil.

So Just What Is A London Broil?

In North America London Broil is basically an affordable cut of beef – marinated – grilled and sliced thin.

In Canada London Broil is thought of as a ground meat patty wrapped in flank or round steak is known as a London broil.

Ironically, the dish is unknown in the English city of London.

In general the meat will be a tough cut, but generally affordable.

You can go from tough to tender by following a few general tricks and tips for the BBQ.

First pound it with a meat mallet.  In a way – not to be gross –  it’s almost pre-chewing it.  Break up the tough fibers a bit.  Don’t worry about the meat looking mashed.  In the end your BBQ will still look pristine.  If it’s a larger cut just hit it harder!   Good stress relief.   Tip:  wrap the meat in plastic wrap to avoid splatters.

Next, use a  marinade like this Steak Marinade to soften the newly damaged fibers.  Any high acid marinade will aid the tenderizing effects.

Then use what’s called the reverse sear – cook it slow to an internal temp of about 120 — then pull it off until the the center just starts to lower and finish the cook with a fast sear direct over red hot heat.

Finally, let the cooked meat rest for five to ten minutes or so before slicing AGAINST the grain of the meat fibers or perpendicular to the strands of beef in pencil thin slices.

For more on tenderizing check out 3 Tips For Tenderizing HERE.

March 6, 2013 GrateTV

Chicken Pops and Daylight Grilling Time

BBQ FeastTime is ready to change again and despite what some say we think more daylight is the perfect event to kick off grilling season.  To celebrate we fire up an entire meal all on the grill and have family in to chow down.  take a look at the fun HERE and above and get recipes and more from the weekly webisode HERE.

We BBQ chicken pops, pepper poppers, and rotisserie pineapple.

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