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Exactly. I do hope it was a noticeable thing, them ribs were truly good. Thanks for cropping the picture, didn't want any competition.

Looks really tasty. 😁👍👍

Today I combined a good Italian marinara with a Tomato jelly and made a finishing sauce for a rack of ribs and then covered it all with mozzarella. I've made ribs every which way from Sunday using various rubs and sauces but I wanted something different. Now I had my doubts, but after I combined the two and heated them on the stove I knew they belonged together. You can vary the amount of jelly if you want for the marinara to come through more in the end or sweeten it to your liking....it's all good. Rubbed the ribs with meat church Gospel rub and sat them overnight in the frig. I did a wrap during the cook and used the sauce which had thickened after it sat and cooled for some time, then I spread a good thick coat on the ribs when the ribs were close to coming off. The sauce stayed in place, didn't run off the edges, they also set well with heat, then add the cheese to melt. Let the ribs cool some before you slice to keep everything entact and looking good.

This pic was 4 hours in, I wrapped it 3 hours ago. It should be done soon and the finished product 😁

I just ate and that brisket is making me hungry again! Excellent job!

Remi, you nailed that dinner. 😁 👍👍

I have a brisket thawing in the fridge right now, your's looks great !!!!

We had a public holiday here today/ and had old friends over for lunch. 7kg brisket, cooked for 11.5hrs, 4hr rest. Meat church holy cow. Plenty of sides- smashed roast potatoes, no-kneed bread, coleslaw, espresso BBQ sauce, horseradish cream, spicy smoked salsa. Very happy guests, and very happy me!

No, I just make an appropriate fire, no splitter. I do own two charcoal baskets, which facilitates saving extruded coconut fuel in place, swapping in other charcoal for e.g. a pizza or bread cook. I store the other basket on a "box store" terra cotta plant saucer.

@SyzygiesI recently bought a double bottom drip pan for my 32" and I just got it. I got it with the intent to use as a heat deflector and I see you do the same. Because of airflow, do you still use the splitter cooking low and slow when using the drip pan?

It was a large pot, about 4 gallons. I give an amount away, but fortunately, gumbo freezes beautifully, it’s actually better after frozen. It’s a tradition in this part of the world, one I’m proud to be a part of. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Coming from the northeast and having a good chowder cross my eyes generally tells what to look for. I'm not from the south, but those two pics show a distinctive quality a chowder here would need, however worlds apart in taste and prep. It sure looks good, do you freeze the remainder or have an abundance of friends?......That was some pot!

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Looks like the Holy Trinity is at work here.

Nice looking roux!

@Justin MulweeI used the half grate last week for my reverse sear ribeye cook. Check it out! I found that it's a great (no pun intended) size and I wouldn't want it to be smaller. I cooked the ribeyes on the half grate til about 100⁰ and then I threw them on the lower grate to sear and pulled them off at 128⁰. Perfection!

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I had 2 pounds of lean ground pork that needed to be used. Decided on a meatloaf but thought it might be too greasy. Chanced it, added the kitchen sink and here it is. Not at all greasy, tasted lovely, would do this again. The carrots were just in from the garden, so roasted those and added a baked potatoe and added some broccoli sprouts to the plate.

Reverse seared ribeyes at 450⁰ topped with chanterelles simmered in a garlic butter sauce. Steamed and grilled the corn and broccolini on the Napoleon grill at medium heat for about 15 minutes. Pulled the ribeye off the lower grate at 128⁰ internal temp and it's perfection. YUMMM!

I'm episodic in my pasta. For a while I was only making Sicilian busiate by hand, or rolled pasta with my Marcato Otello (a definite upgrade on their Atlas, several of which I've broken over the years. Laurie and I are just back from a food tour of Sicily with Rosetta Costantino, author of My Calabria. She and her husband were debating importing a powered pasta maker, and PastaBiz is having their annual die sale. So I returned yet again to see what I could figure out, making a Bigolaro easier to use. When I worked (math professor), one administrative skill I demonstrated was looking at a list of requirements that couldn't possibly all be satisfied at once, and killing off a requirement. The puzzle with a hand pasta extruder is this: They don't generate as much pressure as a powered machine. The Model B torchio that various of us own also accepts dies meant for the Lillo powered machine, but these Lillo dies allow less "flow" than the dies designed for a hand extruder. So one wants a dough wet enough to extrude by hand, but dry enough to not stick together and make a mess. This window is small, perhaps negative width. Meanwhile, people love how extruded pasta dough is just flour and water. Um, there's our candidate requirement for deletion. The obvious conclusion is that one needs to reformulate pasta dough to pass through a hand Bigolaro and Lillo dies. It's better to knead dough, but then it's too stiff? Um, add water. It's better to rest dough in the fridge for hours or overnight, but then cold dough is too stiff? Um, add water. If one is at all worried about "A1C" numbers for pre-diabetes, adding sourdough starter and resting dough overnight changes its carb profile for the better. You will worry about A1C if you live long enough, if something else doesn't kill you first, so it would be kind of stupid not to consider this. But you're off the hook! Just as sourdough bread dough that ages in the fridge for day(s) tastes spectacular, so does pasta dough handled this way. So extend your life and your quality of life by being a hedonist! I'm doubling pressure using a custom handle, and I'm adding a small amount of psyllium hush to my dough, which stabilizes water that would otherwise make the dough sticky. I'm adding sourdough starter, and resting the dough overnight, good for both health and flavor. And I've never experienced such an easy time using a Bigolaro. I stare at the shapes I can now perfectly produce, "I did that?"

The flan was in the center of the squash and they blended great together. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

SteveL, Not sure I know what Parmesan Flan is, but that squash looks delicious.

I have a 23 Ralph like Toney has so it might be different considering the acreage difference. Sometime I'm in a hurry so I open the vents up quite a bit and get the coals rockin, then I shut the vents to my general running temp of 250 and let it heat soak and settle in. I'm thinking it's around 200, works for me if I don't get distracted. After a few times you'll just know where the runway is and you'll be cruising. Nice backyard outpost, enjoy your new toy.

I enjoy overthinking! (Plus I can't help doing it.)