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Easter with the family here- so for the adults I prepared Bistecca Fiorentina; each of the steaks weighed 1kg. Indirect and then reverse sear, few pear wood chunks. Served with smashed roast potatoes and a classic caramelised pear/rocket/Parmesan salad. Happy days…

A little early Easter dinner as we are going to a friends house for a non traditional Easter meal (paella) tomorrow.

A nice 3 inch prime rib steak dinner was the cook of the day- along with some fried mushrooms and roasted potatoes. The rib steak was marinated for 24 hours in a mix of soy sauce, beer, oil, Worchester Sauce, garlic, Dejon mustard and pepper. I know, I know, I sliced the steak too thin but it tasted wonderful.

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soup is 95% cooked on a stove, just used it to toast the cheese on top. but it was very very good. next time i would roast the onion to get more color and add even more cheese.. 🙃

It turned out fine, but it didn't blow me away. Fair smoke ring and the meat was moist. Next time I'll leave wrap later. The people a the party were used to a braised brisket so this was fine for them. I served the flat last night and kept the point for myself for leftovers for the next few days. 😈

Started off this Easter Sunday with a salmon and asparagus quiche (not cooked on the KK) BUT, dinner was done on the KK. Lamb chops and asparagus, lower grate, 325F, grape vine for smoking wood. Plated with melting potatoes and a Greek salad. Hope the Easter Bunny was good to all y'all! 🐰

Yep, FOGO uses quebracho wood, which has a very distinct flavor.

@ Poochie, I thought about it but I knew you were going to cook something wonderful for Easter and I didn't want to get a reject letter.

You did it again MacKenzie... another beautiful cook and you forgot to send my invitation. It really does look delicious!

Indeed. Closer to end of July here. 😢

Good luck. Hope you get your money back so you can get the "real McCoy!"

I have messed things up in it but it does provide nice even heat! Worst thing I have done is when I finished a pizza and pulled it out with the turning peel instead of the full sized peel, bumped my hand on something and promptly dropped the pizza on the ground! Thankfully I always have extra dough but it was a great looking pizza! 😢

@Troble or how about near the end of July.

I can’t wait that long. I think that was June last year….

its very forgiving, and im not afraid to cut hard on it, but what i have is like a cocktail board size. i just ordered a larger aomori hiba wood board. we”ll see how that goes…

barnacle season is a short one, maybe two months? so when we saw them at the pier, we grabbed a basket. not as big as the ones we had in spain orportugal, but still a taste explosion.. simply steamed with thai seafood sauce on the side, but the flavour is so intense it doesnt really need sauce..

Your thousand dollar refund is the exact amount you need to reserve the real McCoy.

I hope you get your refund. I definitely believe that you’re doing the right thing by upgrading to a KK. There’s definitely none better! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Many years ago I used to frequent this Portuguese bar called the First base Cafe. They served Periwinkles a small whelk or seafood snail that was served in a bowl with a 3" steel pin used to pull them out after they were cooked. Their shell was black in the shape of a snail and I believe they were 50 cents and were very tasty. They were commonly found around the coast gathering and clinging to the rocks in thousands and all you had to do was scoop them up with a hand.

Soup cooked in a pizza oven! You can't beat that. It looks delicious!

Looks fine to me. I usually use the leftover flat to make pulled brisket sandwiches. The point is easily the best part.

I am so stealing this one lol

Ok, so I figured it might take 3 hours or more at 350 -375 so I put it in at 7:30 AM. Well 90 minutes later it was 125 internal and as high as 140 in some spots so off it came. We let it rest for an hour while we got the Greek salad ready. The cupcakes were made last night. Overall we were happy with the results Happy Easter/Passover everyone !!!!! my favorite part was the cupcakes, they were amazing. Carrot cake with buttercream frosting 🧁

Meat, potatoes and corn, it doesn't get any better. Well, actually it does but I'll take that 3 days a week for sure. Bon travail.

Yeah, what @MacKenzie said! Not fair, not fair at all!

I guess Troble didn't get the memo, "No posting pixs of fresh corn on the cob until Tony and I can get it locally!"

After 6 weeks KK free, I've finally managed to get the 32BB into position at our new house... Our movers were great, but the KK caused some serious dramas when the weight of it put their truck off-camber in the narrow laneway access to our garage; resulting in them being stuck fast half way down and having to push it the rest of the way while the guys in the front of the cab had to get out through a window and walk around the block! Wish I'd taken photos. Couldn't get into final position as a section of pool fence had to come out... so this morning had my builder and a few of his crew around to get the pool fence off (and later back on), and then some grunt to get it over a step and some grass. He'd clearly forgotten the mass of the thing and bought some thin plywood sheet which gave way- the morning was saved by a section of steel from the basket splitter which did the job the plywood couldn't. Now in final position, so i can rest easy. Thinking of a porchetta for Easter! Been great checking out all the amazing meals here in the interim, looking forward to getting back in the game... Remi

Chicken breast and sparerib cook. Ribs were for the grandkids visiting and they gobbled them up. The chicken and broccoli was made with the breast meat with a side of a shrimp concoction I made. All served on my limited collection imported china.

Thank you for sharing @Troble. Good friends stay with you forever.

A very good friend of mine died last September, very tragically, on my birthday none the less. He was a big marvel and Avengers fan and we had a long conversation about the Avengers campus at California Adventures and the shawarma cart & Infinity Stone hand /drink holder they sold there. Since he didn’t have kids I promised to bring him home the shirt and drink holder. Unfortunately he didn’t make it to accept it but I went to Disneyland l/CA Adventures with my family last week and I bought the shirt & cup holder as promised. Made the chicken shawarma meal tonight that he would’ve been here for. Some meals mean more than others and tonight was a special one…..

That young lady is quite talented!! What a work of art this cooker is. I don't think I could cook in it and mess it up!

My wife is a professional artist and our Pizza oven (that it will be near) has square tiles so tile shape and color were completely her choice! 🤣 Pizza oven picture attached:

INGREDIENTS 153 grams 00 flour (1 cup plus 1 tablespoon) 153 grams all-purpose flour (1 cup plus 1 tablespoon and 2 teaspoons) 8 grams fine sea salt (1 teaspoon) 2 grams active dry yeast (3/4 teaspoon) 4 grams extra-virgin olive oil (1 teaspoon) PREPARATION In a large mixing bowl, combine flours and salt. In a small mixing bowl, stir together 200 grams (a little less than 1 cup) lukewarm tap water, the yeast and the olive oil, then pour it into flour mixture. Knead with your hands until well combined, approximately 3 minutes, then let the mixture rest for 15 minutes. Knead rested dough for 3 minutes. Cut into 2 equal pieces and shape each into a ball. Place on a heavily floured surface, cover with dampened cloth, and let rest and rise for 3 to 4 hours at room temperature or for 8 to 24 hours in the refrigerator. (If you refrigerate the dough, remove it 30 to 45 minutes before you begin to shape it for pizza.) To make pizza, place each dough ball on a heavily floured surface and use your fingers to stretch it, then your hands to shape it into rounds or squares. Top and bake.

I purchased a “23” ultimate” KK on eBay. The photo doesn’t look like any of the photos in the KK gallery. Is it a fake, or an earlier generation/ original KK? eBay link