Another Random Roundup

First of all, a belated Happy New Year to everyone and many thanks to all who took the time to read through my poor writing and/or offered their comments and opinions throughout these years!

There are many things I need to take care of this year that I didn’t do on the last one so we’ll see where that goes. The custom-built smoker was taken care of but the home-brewing idea fell by the wayside and that can’t happen this year. Speaking of smoking, many thanks as well to those who offered tips on taking care of my pork shoulder/butt problems. After some serious fighting with my conscious I left some of those chunks of meat to smoke away until the right temp for pulled pork. They came out so well that they practically fell into shreds on their own.

Speaking of smoking again, I’m extremely impressed with quebracho blanco as a smoking wood. So much so that I still haven’t tried quebracho colorado and lenga.
Also, everyone else was quite impressed at our New Years Eve feast.

There was a little chopped pork left over so I did a quick stir-fry along with red onions, green bell peppers, grated carrots, and a splash of Dale’s sauce that I picked up on my recent trip to the States. Mmm mmm, the meat came out like fried bacon. I came across Dale’s years ago when I lived in Alabama and I think it is mostly available at stores in the Southeast U.S. Maybe that has changed. Anyway, the stuff is awesome. A concentrated soy sauce mixture that fully marinates meat in 15 minutes–no more or else it’ll be too salty. If you haven’t tried it but can buy it, do so!

One last thing. Due to my primitive category system and the current design of this site, some posts are a bit buried and hard to find. I’m in the middle of creating a site map with all of the posts linked on one page.