Dualing Fatties

[Winz]

A buddy of mine gave 5 lbs of wild boar sausage a while back.  I am working on a project with him this weekend, and thought I would make us some lunch using the sausage in a couple of fatties.


I won't go though the whole fatty assembly process as it is pretty well documented.  One of the fatties had my standard filling; chicken sausage, New Mexico roasted green chilie, onion, garlic, yukon gold potatoes, and a couple of scrambled eggs.  All ingredients cooked in a cast iron pan and then stuffed into a fatty piston and chilled.


For the second fatty, I got creative.  After scanning the fridge for options, I decided to use cheese and sausage stuffed tortellinis for the filling.  I stuffed it into the fatty uncooked, reasoning that the moisture of the sausage would be sufficient to soften the pasta.


Wapiti gets the call:





Smoked at 250 using wine barrel oak, until internal temp was 160.


The payoff:







The sausage had a great smoke ring.  The pasta was cooked, and gave the fatty a nice texture.  Because the cheese is inside the tortellini, I got great cheese taste without cheese leaking out of the fatty.  I think raviolis or any other type of stuffed pasta would work great.


Winz

[1buckie]

W. W. W. D. ?

(What Would Winz Do?)


Those look really good.......

[MrHoss]

"The sausage had a great smoke ring."  No shit!!! Looks good enough "to make a puppy pull a freight train"!

[1911Ron]

Wow!  I'll take a slice of each please!

[mirkwood]

That looks incredible Winz, kind of curious as to what all the barrel oak brought to the party? 
And yeah, that smoke ring is flipping amazing..

[GregS]

yum. 

[BBcue-Z]

looks incredible!!!

[Nate]

 Ohhh yeah

[Craig]

Looks awesome!

[Troy]

I love that you put pasta inside.
I bought some pasta today after seeing this thread

[Winz]

That looks incredible Winz, kind of curious as to what all the barrel oak brought to the party?  And yeah, that smoke ring is flipping amazing..

Mirkwood - I have a bunch of projects lately involving reuse of wine barrels.  I cut up some of the staves to use as smoking wood.  It has a nice, mild nutty flavor and produces LOTS of smoke.  I get you some to try out.


Winz

[mirkwood]

Mirkwood - I have a bunch of projects lately involving reuse of wine barrels.  I cut up some of the staves to use as smoking wood.  It has a nice, mild nutty flavor and produces LOTS of smoke.  I get you some to try out.

Winz

Thank you sir, that would awesome.

[1buckie]

This stuff is not wine barrel, but small oak chunks soaked long term in wine.....



Very smokey.....










But curiously, no bitter taste at all.....very smooth tasting......never seen that with any other wood..........

[mirkwood]

Was wondering about the flavor the wine imparted and whether it masked/controlled any bitterness..
Howdy 1buckie, how ya doing ?

[MacEggs]

Those fatties look outrageous!  Awesome job.