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Cooked two ribeyes and a filet tonight for the College Football Championship game. Wife had the filet which was reversed seared in a cast iron skillet with some thyme, butter, and garlic. The two ribeyes were cooked different. The smaller one was salted for 48hrs then straight seared for 6mins each side for an internal temp of 132 degrees. The bigger ribeye was salted 2 hours prior and indirect cooked until 130 degrees internal then finished with the filet in the cast iron skillet. I temp checked the top of the sear grates and cast iron skillet, they were at 720 degrees while the 32BB dome gage was at 500 degrees. The 48hr salted and regular seared ribeye was the best tonight!

Crappy weather, so I was cooking indoors last night. Had been wanting some Moroccan food, so I did a chicken tajine. Pretty traditional setup - marinated the chicken thighs (boneless/skinless) in green Harissa and EVOO for 3 hours, then seasoned with Berbere spices and browned in the tajine, removed the chicken and then browned the onions and garlic. Return the chicken thighs to the tajine and then add the green and black (salt cured) olives, preserved lemon peels, cherry tomatoes, chicken stock, lemon juice and Ras El Hanout. Here's the new twist - the recipe called for chickpeas and at the end, you mash half of them into the liquid to thicken the sauce. Well, I didn't have any cans of chickpeas/garbanzos in the pantry, but I did have some hummus in the fridge, so I tossed a couple of TB of that in to make the sauce - worked like a charm!! Served over saffron rice, with a nice side salad and crusty bread. Toss in a glass of chardonnay and call it din-din!

Bucked up and wrestled the frozen cover off the KK last night (freezing rain and snow over the weekend) to do a nice fajitas dinner using a skirt steak (Thanks, Jon!) marinated in tequila (why not?), lime juice/zest, cilantro, green onion, garlic, EVOO and SuckleBusters Gunpowder. On the KK, direct, with mesquite @ 350F. Plated up with all the fixings, including some Hatch chiles that I'd roasted and put up last summer, and a nice bowl of chile beans (under the cheese!)

Love it! https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/

Tried the Meater for the first time tonight. I am very impressed. Really easy app with good functions to preset different meats, cuts and also adaptive for tailoring. Boned out lamb shoulder. seared first down near the embers with a bit of sea salt and cumin. Then finished up high with the Meater in place and added garlic and basil after the sear so it didn’t burn. The time left until target temp is a great function and the ambient temp on Meater read 10 deg f( 5 deg C) less than the Tel Tru in the dome. That’d be about right given there was a tray under the lamb for indirect indirect finish. I had to leave for an hour as soon as I pulled it off the KK and by the time got back the kids had devoured most of it. Here is my leftovers plated. Looking forward to trying this further with the rotisserie. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Tasty cook, Tony.

Made a nice quesadilla with the leftovers for lunch.

Nice cook Tony!!! Looks delicious.

Perfection!

Only probe out there that will do this! That's why I backed it during their Kickstarter funding.

'Comedy gold': A UK journalist has fallen for a drop bear prank that's gone viral http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-13/uk-journalist-pranked-into-holding-a-drop-bear-during-bushfires/11863942 Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk

Looks delicious! I've been using Meater/Meater+ for almost 1 year now, it really works perfectly!

That's Awesome .some people down here complain about our international aid to other country's and have posted on social media saying when is the help coming our way .I hope this shuts them up the over welming responce from country's all over the world and donations has been 100%. Bloody fantastic .these fires have been bloody brutal .right of the Richter scale something we and the world has not seen . Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk

A couple of our US Forestry Service Firefighters from Alabama just got over there to help. We are praying for Australia.