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Happy New Years Everyone. Still no KK but sharing a nice meal cooked with the tried and true Midwest winter cast iron over stove. Smoked reverse seared filet with blue cheese sauce. Smoked on the old faithful master built. Sockeye salmon, blackened with seared skin (really crispy this time). Fresh fruit...usual suspect. Broccoli salad and some cheesy potatoes because we do live in the Midwest. Cheers to everyone. May 2021 bring us all the best! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And finally for the wife and I our annual NYE tradition Midnight moon, OG Krystal, Humboldt Fog, Frommage D’Affinois (served with honey crisp apple and fig jam). Sopresada rustica on the side with seedy sourdough baguette from Bread & Cie. Laurent-Perrier Rose & Joseph Phelps Cab Savignon

My dad, mother and brother all got COVID last week. Mom ended up having to go to the ER on 12/23 cause she had asthma and they were concerned about her breathing. After keeping her for 12 hours with no updates they diagnosed with her COVID pneumonia/fluid in her lungs. They gave her this Regeneron drug cocktail that Trump got and they sent her home. Whatever was in that cocktail worked because now a week later she’s almost completely healed. Scary stuff. I say this because today 12/31 is my Dads birthday and after they had to spend Christmas on quarantine they also have to do NYE and his birthday in quarantine, which sucks and they live two blocks away from us. My dad loves Prime Rib and had been telling me for 2-3 years he’d like me to do a standing rib roast for him, but I never had cause my wife likes her meat well done and we’ve never had the right occasion. I was thinking of doing it this year and having extended family over for Christmas so I could do multiple mains, but COVID stopped that so tonight after going through all this BS the last week I thought I’d cook my Dad a standing rib roast that he could share with my mom and brother. I did a baked potato rubbed in butter and garlic as well as ceasar salad kit, Fred horseradish sauce and Trader Joe’s lava cakes with vanilla ice cream. prime rib was rubbed with Worcester sauce, dusted with salt & pepper and roasted on the rotisserie at 350 with coffee char and mesquite wood

NYE Dinner. A combo of lamb shoulder & chicken drumsticks cooked over CoffeeChar. Forgot to take photos after it had been carved sorry... Too many IPAs by then

This is an undoctored photo taken on the barrier reef..... saying goodbye to 2020. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Non-KK kontent New Year's Day brunch: Tamale casserole, Hoppin' John and Mimosa. Covering all the food bases to ensure a new and better 2021 (how terrific to be able to use 2021!)

Happy New Year everyone. Good to hear your folks are doing better @Troble - I wish them a continued and speedy recovery. We decided that we'd do some seafood for a change having been made hungry by @Basher on more than one occasion! We started out with Carlingford Oysters. I bought a chain mail glove some years ago much to the consternation and judgement of my wife. I also paired it with an excellent Rosle oyster knife which saw me shuck a dozen in under 5 minutes. A friend is an ER doctor at a hospital located in a wealthy area of London. He always jokes that stabbing yourself in the hand at New Years is a middle class festive ritual of choice. Since I showed him the chain mail glove, he has been telling his patients to buy one. Should have got a commission. He says he gets at least 20 casualties on a good night and even has a rating system, much like the oyster sizing system. I've refused offers of pictures - he says the hall of famers over 10 years in emergency medicine are a strong field. But anyway, back to the food. The oysters were great, no stabbings and we served them with a mignonette. I ordered in some prawns that were on special due to the latest lockdown in the UK. The restaurant delivery driver asked if we were having a party. I apologised and just said that there were only two of us and that we were just pigs. We've got plenty of freezer space so they'll be spread out over the next few months. We did some King Prawns and large Carabineros which are very attractive and have a superb taste. Cooked simply and basted in garlic butter. I used a grill basket in the 19KK which fits perfectly to cook them all. It was -3 with a freezing fog and the cap on the 19KK had actually frozen shut so much so that I had to open the lower door to drive enough heat through the coal bed to loosen it. I leave it covered all the time too. As we were doing prawns, I wore flip flops as well which earned further consternation and judgement from my wife. Heated floor in the kitchen felt twice as good when I was back inside. My wife deserves huge credit for her skills in preparation so this is my shout out to her. She also deserves credit for the strength of the garlic butter. Ever since I bought a Dreamfarm Garject garlic press, we seem to always end up eating more garlic as she loves playing with it. Vampires wouldn't have touched us yesterday. They probably wouldn't today either if I'm being honest. I think the meal was a high point of 2020. Start as you mean to go on.

Totally down with the snags and Pliny. My NYE dinner was a Prime grade NY Strip, rubbed with Gunpowder and Dizzy Pig Raising the Steaks. Direct, lower grate, 325F with mesquite and post oak. Came out a perfect medium. Plated with melting potatoes, shrooms, a bit of chimichurri, with a Greek salad and baguette. An absolutely stunning Inglenook Cab (2014). Happy New Year, Everyone! Let's just keep on cooking great food in 2021!

You know what bugger 2020 what a stupid year Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk

Happy New Year! 2020 taught us how much we can change when we have to. I look forward to seeing what the coming years will bring.

Happy New Year all. Good looking NY cooks too. Pleased to hear your folks are on the mend @Troble. It is uplifting to hear of treatments working and vaccines being rolled out but there is a long way to go before things are on more of an even keel. Here is to finding ways to prevent these types of crises in the future.

One last time, shout out my mantra for this year, as loud as you can! - F@ck 2020!!

Happy New Year folks They say the darkest hour is just before the dawn, 2021 will bring light. RD

@Troble - glad to hear that your folks are on the mend. Nice that you cooked them a favorite meal to celebrate with. Not too shabby a spread for you and the Mrs. either! Happy New Year Everyone!!

Hey Tony, The KK was heat soaked for an hour at 500F first. The stone was put in after the heat soak and after 30mins, the KK at dome was back at 500F. I don’t have a therma gun so unable to confirm what the temp was on stone. Pizza crust did turn out crunchy which I was super happy with. Happy New Year everyone! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Same@Troble! Glad to hear everyone is recovering and looking forward to a healthy 2021. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Happy New Year to you all!

First of a couple posts from me today on NYE. Checking in at a crisp 61 degrees we start out with bourbon sausages over coffee char, with mesquite chips, toasted brioche bun and whole grain Dijon mustard. Served with a crisp Pliny the Elder

A Happy and Healthy New Year to all!

Not to forget when your grate has finished soaking a special tool to scrub the still stuck on mess away is needed. This I use for cleaning my cast iron when relatively good efficiency. Using a new scrubby green pad is also good but it fades and wears the longer it's used so I found this with the scrubby doing an excellent job. On Amazon under Cast iron cleaning as a chain mail

@Braai-Q truly awesome looking cook. I still need to get me a grill basket like you have another “gadget” that will need storage. I love the fact that the guy asked if you’re having a party, but when you’re cooking good food night as well make a lot and store it. Lovely meal you and the Mrs put together. Happy New Year

I can confirm they were. Same to you Steve.

@Braai-QThose prawns looks awesome. Happy New Year!

@Troble, it was great to read the good news about your parents and I think they must have been super happy with your Care Package.

2020 was of the Richter scale let's hope 21 brings relief .to you all Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk

Happy New Year to the members of this group, Dennis, and his team!

Glad to hear they're all doing better Troble. Prime rib looks great

Kiss gooooooooooobye to 2020, the year we all shall remember. Happy New Year to Everyone

My first time sport fishing and we caught this while we were fishing for tuna! Weighed in at 760lbs. We were in Mexico. Gave most of it away to the poor people who needed food so nothing went to waste. Catching this fish is a really weird and funny story but a little to long to put in this post. I hope everybody has a wonderful New Year and stay safe. Looking forward to posting more next year.

Absolutely beautiful cool! I can almost taste that Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I read some place that if you live in Singapore and are doing the burn-in for a KK you only need a couple of tea candles to reach burn-in temps.