Spring has arrived (wingdings, steaks, pecan pie)

smokeybreeze

Finally getting around to posting about last weekend...

Started out with the chicken wings for a late lunch with neighbors. I used only the Habanero Seasoned Salt for seasoning, nicely dusting the wings. As the wings were smoking on the BGE (3 hours, indirect @ 225 dome), My 19 y/o son and I made garlic-garlic dip and ranch dip.

After the wings came off the egg, I shut the vents, thinking the egg was done for the day, but no, a couple of hours later, some steaks came out of the freezer and got the granite counter top thaw treatment. While they were thawing, I opened up the vents on the BGE and added a paper towel with some going-stale seasoned dipping oil to speed up the relighting of the egg.

When the steaks were consumed, my son asked about desert, I told him that we didn't have any, but we might have all the ingredients for a pie.

He volunteered to make a pie crust from scratch while I pulled out what we needed for a pecan pie. I taught him how to let the dough tell you what it needs as you make a perfect pie crust, and his crusts are darn good.

So into the egg the pie went and it turned out fantastic. My memory and the following pictures are all I have left of that memorable day:

The wings before:


The seasoning for the chicken wings was just this:



The wings just before hitting the BGE:


The wings about ready to be served:


The steaks:


And the pecan pie before and after:



A couple of additional points:
I used Dipstix steak seasoning on the steaks. (www.dipstix.com, and no I am not affiliated with them, I'm just a happy customer)
I have my egg about 16 ft from the closest window, so I have turned the dome thermometer so that when the needle is pointing straight up, I am at the temp I desire. This makes it easy to check at a glance whether or not you are too cool (needle is pointing left of center) or too hot (needle is pointing right of center)

Yesterday, the summer tires went on the vehicles and tomorrow, another round of pizzas are scheduled for the egg.

cookn biker

Very nice cooks!

WeberWho

It all looks really good. Watchout, next thing you know your son will be asking for his own egg! Can you find the habanero seasoned salt at your everyday grocery store?

smokeybreeze

WeberWho? wrote:

It all looks really good. Watchout, next thing you know your son will be asking for his own egg! Can you find the habanero seasoned salt at your everyday grocery store?

Hehe, that's not all he wants. He wants my cast iron cookware, my Henkel knives, my Viking cooktop and my Thermador pro oven too. At least if I died tomorrow, he'd make better use of all that than my lively bride since I'm the master chef of the household and he's following in my footsteps.

As for the habanero salt, I think you have to go to the www.dipstix.com website (http://www.dipstix.com/index.php?target=categories&category_id=2) to order the salt and other great spice goodies. I've never seen it anywhere retail and dipstix is a local company.

smokeybreeze

WeberWho? wrote:

It all looks really good. Watchout, next thing you know your son will be asking for his own egg! Can you find the habanero seasoned salt at your everyday grocery store?

Hehe, that's not all he wants. He wants my cast iron cookware, my Henkel knives, my Viking cooktop and my Thermador pro oven too. At least if I died tomorrow, he'd make better use of all that than my lively bride since I'm the master chef of the household and he's following in my footsteps.

As for the habanero salt, I think you have to go to the www.dipstix.com website (http://www.dipstix.com/index.php?target=categories&category_id=2) to order the salt and other great spice goodies. I've never seen it anywhere retail and dipstix is a local company.

Egg Juju

looks delicious... my mouth is watering just looking at those wings.