May 28th, 2009

Beef Brisket, How I Love Thee

My eternal love affair with all things beef continues . . .

The weather around here is heating up (thank goodness!) and so is our electric smoker. We broke it out this weekend to smoke up a wonderful beef brisket.

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If you love beef, I’m telling ya, you’d love this brisket.

We just put a garlic, salt and pepper rub on the brisket before putting it in the smoker at 200 degrees F for 10 hours. Ours was about 13 lbs. so it was pretty big.

We then put some hickory wood chips and a couple of charcoal briquettes in the wood box, closed the door and voila!

We use a SmokinTex model 1400 cuz it’s so easy. And we like easy.

We actually did it overnight. So, as we slept, our brisket was smoking. What a delight to wake up the next morning to the smell of a smoked brisket!

We wrapped it in foil and let it sit in the oven (we didn’t turn it on) until we were ready to heat it up and serve it. About 45 minutes before we were ready to eat we heated it at 250 degrees in the oven. Just to warm it up.

Oh. Yum. 

We whipped up some mashed potatoes, had a salad, poured some BBQ sauce over it and we were set!

But that’s not all. Tomorrow I’ll show you what else we made . . .


May 21st, 2009

Steak Recipe: Memorial Day Menu

Looking for an entire, ready-made Memorial Day menu?

Look no further than this little carb-smart baby here.

It includes an ENTIRE menu, shopping list and recipes for all of this . . .

  • T-Bone Steaks With Grilled Onions
  • Cucumber Bullseyes
  • Deviled Eggs
  • Sesame Green Bean Packets
  • Company Broccoli
  • Down Home Cole Slaw
  • Cauliflower Fauxtato Salad
  • Cherry Coke Salad
  • Georgia Peach Iced Tea
  • Cherry Lemonade
  • Couldn’t you just die? It all sounds so delicious I’m ready for Memorial Day to happen RIGHT NOW.

    Look, even President Obama would wait in line for some of this . . .

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    So head on over to this link if you want to get crackin’ on your shopping list for Memorial Day weekend. Wheeee!!

    Menu courtesy of carbsmart.com.

    Photo courtesy of chetculver.com.


    May 20th, 2009

    A Day to Remember

    This is awesome . . .

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    I plan to focus on the food — for sure — this weekend, but I won’t forget the reason we have Memorial Day to begin with.

    Thanks to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defending our country, we still have a country to defend.

    Cartoon courtesy of Joe Heller/Green Bay Press-Gazette.


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