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I really wanted pork chops today and I found these nice thick ones at the butcher shop. And they also had chicken breast with apple and sausage stuffing. Do I figured I might as well cook both 😁And I also found a local source for some decent BBQ supplies so I grabbed the sauce, I like it !!!!!

OK, had been reading about this latest trend in foodie world - crispy hot sauce from China. It's loaded with fried garlic and onions, to add texture to what otherwise would just be a Mala sauce (chiles & Szechuan peppercorns in oil). I actually ended up trying this one, which is made in the US, as it was getting equally good reviews on Amazon to the "standard" Chinese version. The jar arrived yesterday, so of course I had to try it out on dinner! It went on sauteed green beans and mushrooms. Plated with a nice lemon pepper honey mustard pork chop. Pork chop on the main grate, direct, 350F. Lemon pepper rub to start and then sauced with the lemon pepper honey mustard sauce. OK, now I see what all the foodie buzz is about - this stuff is good! Glad that I only went 3 stars hot and not the 4 star version (which has ghost peppers in it!) Nice heat, love the crunchy texture it added. Will be experimenting more with it. I hear that it's great in scrambled eggs?

Those pork chops are beautiful, C6Bill. That first photo could be in Bon Appetit'

Hey guys. Wanted to thanks those that helped me with ideas for cooking Thanksgiving turkey. It turned out great. I cooked two of them. Definitely moist. Thanks for the help. I used applewood pellets in the cold smoker. I think though next time I may just use very little smoke though. As I did this cook though I came up with some questions which I will post in the other topic areas. Everyone was pleased with the end product.. komodo kamado for life.

@tony bis this stuff the same do you think? If so, I shall have a good laugh with my best friend. She is Welsh and doesn't particularly like chillis but two weeks ago she sent me this photo and said, "Have you tried this stuff? Gosh its good." I thought a) it can't be better than the chilli oil with dried shrimp that I make from an A.Wong recipe and b) what do you know about chillis anyway? If it turns out that she was ahead of me on this one she will die laughing. Good thing is, she didn't die of COVID when she caught it and in fact just got better self-isolating at home. The side effect is that her temporary (?) loss of taste means that she is now up for eating more chilli!