I'm out of control!

[HankB]

My name is Hank and I like meat. I also like a good sale and one of my favorite groceries has a sale on meat today.  It's been a long time since I left the store with this much meat. It included:

20 lb. chicken leg quarters (38¢/lb.)
4 lb. wild caught salmon ($4.99/lb.)
2 racks (5 lb) baby back ribs ($2.49/lb.)
6 3/4 lb. pork neck bones (89¢/lb.)
11 1/4 lb. fresh picnic (99¢/lb.)
5 3/4 lb semi-boneless chuck ($2.99/lb)
5 lb beef neck bones ($2.29/lb)

Woo! 54 lb. meat and 4 lb. fish! They also had Jonagold apples - my favorite - for 49¢/lb., avocados for 59¢ each.

Now... aside from the problem of what cooker to use for which meat (aside from what will go directly into the freezer) is that wind is at 25 mph and gusting to 50.  Not a good day to fire up the kettle. Maybe I'll start cooking tomorrow. I'll smoke the neck bones and freeze them for making stock down the road. Beef chuck is for Pepper Stout Beef. I'm not sure how I'll do the leg quarters. I like the Jerk chicken recipe but I might use some other rubs as well. They'll all be cooked, portioned and frozen. I'll smoke the picnic for pulled pork. I'll save the bone in that (and the skin) to add to the stock I make with pork neck bones. I could shelter my little WSM and smoke the baby backs today.

[Troy]

thats a lotta meat!

we buy a lot of pork neck bones - my wife uses them in this filipino dish that she makes once a week or so. (sinigang)

i've been on the hunt for eye of round to make a BIG batch of jerky

[pbe gummi bear]

Hank, my favorite thing for pork neck bone is Korean Gamjatang- pork bone stew. It's perfect for cold weather!

[HankB]

Those both sound good though the sinigang sounds like it might be more amenable to starting with smoked neck bones (vs. browning them first.) The Gamjatang recipe I found says to soak the neck bones in cold water first. I wonder what that does and if I could start with smoked neck bones instead and not totally trash the recipe. Feel free to point me toward better recipes if you have links (or just copy them here.)

[pbe gummi bear]

Those both sound good though the sinigang sounds like it might be more amenable to starting with smoked neck bones (vs. browning them first.) The Gamjatang recipe I found says to soak the neck bones in cold water first. I wonder what that does and if I could start with smoked neck bones instead and not totally trash the recipe. Feel free to point me toward better recipes if you have links (or just copy them here.)

Hank, I think soaking them just removes the blood before you stew it. I am not sure how smoked pork neck bones will affect the dish though.

[Troy]

Those both sound good though the sinigang sounds like it might be more amenable to starting with smoked neck bones (vs. browning them first.) The Gamjatang recipe I found says to soak the neck bones in cold water first. I wonder what that does and if I could start with smoked neck bones instead and not totally trash the recipe. Feel free to point me toward better recipes if you have links (or just copy them here.)

we skip tomatoes and green beans, and add a couple banana peppers, spinach, okra, bok choy, and taro root

i season it afterwords with morton's hot salt.

[Jeff]

Ok Hank...which store has the baby backs at 2.49/lb?

[HankB]

Ok Hank...which store has the baby backs at 2.49/lb?

Valli Produce on North Avenue and Bloomingdale. Limit two, today only and then $3.49.

[HankB]

And today my chickens are coming home to roost. (Pun intended. ) 10 lb. jerk chicken done! Picnic and chuck in the 18 WSM a d cruising at about 250°F. Beef neck bones on the 26 and smoking at about 300°F. two racks of baby backs on the mini-WSM at about 215°F. This is work! I haven;t had a break since I started cooking. (Except for wolfing down a jerk chicken leg quarter.) Pork neck bones and another 10 lb. leg quarters still to do.

[1buckie]

 Yee- Haw !!!!!

I forgot to check back in & see how this huge load of stuff went.....


 Didn't know if you were going to cook all the way thru the rotation or freeze some items.....appears you went the whole hawg route !!!!

 GGOD SHOW!!!!!!