Just hamming it up with my Meat P0rn

Smoked chicken with homemade cheesy cornbread. Had a mixed vegetables to go with it.

Made my version of Texas hot links with pork and beef. Smoke them up, just pulled them from the smoker and waiting for them to cool so that I can get them in the vacuum bags.

My eye of the round roast inject with a mix of Pa’s Black Bull and imitation bacon seasoning, then vacuum sealed and marinated for a couple of hours. Sous vided it to 125 degrees and then sprinkled on some Grill In Grill Out seasoning and seared it on the CharBroil to 135 degrees.

Pulled my bacon from the smoker, now cooling a bit before hitting the fridge. The belly on the left is Maple Bacon and the one on the right is Pastrami Bacon. Both were brined for 12 days and smoked cold for seven hours and hot for two hours to get my temps. Will post the sliced pictures after they cool overnight.

Somedays you just have to do something besides meat or dinner. I had a couple of over ripe banana’s sitting on the counter plus some in the freezer that were begging to be taken care of. Decided to make banana bread in two varieties, one standard with walnuts from my tree and a tropical version with macadamia nuts, coconut, pineapple and candied orange pieces. Sampled the original version for quality control purposes since it was mom’s recipe. I sure she is looking down and pleased with the results as I am.

Processed my chicken sausage today, just small batches to see how they turn out, 3 lbs. apiece. Going to test the results tonight for dinner, the trays are hitting the freezer to firm for vacuum sealing.

Rib-eye steaks, cauliflower, and fresh greens beans. What more could one want except desert. There ice cream in the freezer, might have to indulge in some of that later tonight.

Chicken pot pie night. Had a couple of chicken carcasses left in the fridge, one smoked, one rotisserie. Decided I better take care of them, so what better thing to have on a cooler overcast day.

Sous vided a pork loin tonight injected with a blend of rosemary, sage, savory, toasted onion powder, garlic powder, dried basil, paprika, salt and pepper, then covered with the leftover juice. Seared on the CharBroil to 145 degrees. I served it up with some homemade Mac and Cheese and deep fried brussels sprouts with a reduced balsamic glaze.

Jonathon The hotlinks were great. I thought the pork might change the flavor quite a bit, but it added some extra fat as well as flavor. I had one the other day that had been vacuum sealed and in the fridge. The longer they sit the better they get.

Jonathon And what calibers is that available in?

JustinT Welcome to the community and to Walton’s. Try what you might think your tastes are. Jonathon makes a lot of samples. Once you get hooked, you’ll start figuring out ways to change recipes to make them even more to your own personal tastes.

processhead I might be looking for a new bed Paul. I would not mind it, I have used the imitation bacon seasoning in it as well, not quite the same thing as real bacon. I have also put ground bacon in as half the meat bill, that went over poorly with the wife too. She would rather have the bacon crisp I guess.

RafterW $500 is quite a steal, they are almost 3K new. Great find!

Went for my old staple today, smoked meatloaf wrapped in homemade bacon. You can’t go wrong with bacon unless you listen to my wife. She asked me what was up with the bacon all over the meatloaf “flavor”! I don’t think I overdid it, how about you? Told her to take it off if it was to much and I would make breakfast for her with it.

zbigjeff Sorry to hear that Jeff, it is not something you want to have happen. We are still perplexed on what really what happened. We were going to have a necropsy done, but it required logistics of going to a specialty vet, then delays and the possibility of not being able to cremate her when all was done. We just decided to say it was her time to be with her maker.

Just planted the beans today before the rain hits again tomorrow, also got most of the squash seeds in as well. Spinach and beets are in, so now all I have left are pumpkins and they go in the compost bin, but I have to get the chickweed out first with the eco-friendly weed killer since the bee’s are busy.

Thanks everyone for your condolences on our loss of Haley, she was only 4 years old. It was a shock to find her. She hadn’t been down long and I began lifesaving attempts with her along with my son. I believe she had some sort of heart issue or stroke and it took her life right away since I found her right next to her ball that she had been playing with. Her brother has been visiting with her knowing she passed until we can get her to the vets office when they open and have her cremated. Thanks again to all of you in this community for being here, I certainly appreciate it.

I use the gravel to keep the soil from the drain hole along with the landscape fabric over the gravel. It give a place for the water to sit below the soil and the ability to drain without taking a whole lot of soil with it. It only take a couple of inches.