Sunday cook: Deer ham and Boston Butt

tarheelmatt

My brother has been pretty successful hunting this year. Has a nice deer ham ready to cook, so I told him to bring it on. Picked a butt up last night for Monday and Tuesday dinners.

I am hoping these will be done soon. I have some steaks to go on too so I can enter the throw down. If not, I'll just cook them on the stove.

Been an interesting day and night. My little girl is teething since last night. Running a low grade fever and just a little cranky. It's getting better though.

More pictures to come later!

She's come up to temp



The deer ham. Poked holes in it and shoved butter and rubbed with bacon grease. Then rubbed with mustard. Coated with Cosmic Cow and Jim's Own Smokey rub.

SGH

Standing by for the finale.

blind99

very cool, looking forward to the rest of the cook!

good luck with the little one, hope she feels better.  maybe she'd like a piece of deer to teethe on?

tarheelmatt

Man what a day!  Had a lot of company stop by today that impeded my progress.  Didn't get to take pictures like I wanted due to time constraints, but go some at least.  

My brother wanted slices from this ham, so that is what I did.  I pulled at about 160°.  This would have made a great coarse chop.  Still very tender, but not fall apart or mushy.  

I pulled the butt at 180° and let set for about 45 min and coarse chopped it.  Man it was good.  A little more work to do it like this, but I like the results better.  

Made a little Lexington style sauce to go along with the deer ham and butt.  

Finished the night with two bone in rib-eyes that I reverse seared.  Followed with some roasted potatoes and stuffed mushrooms (spinach, mozzarella, and jack cheese).  

Pictures....

Deer ham

Da Butt

Ribeye

Sliced deer ham...

Shrooms...

tarheelmatt

@blind99, thanks.  She has actually done a lot better today.  I can feel the tooth on her gum so I guess that means it has protruded.  I have read that normally they are relieved when it break through the gum.  

tarheelmatt

tarheelmatt said:

@blind99, thanks.  She has actually done a lot better today.  I can feel the tooth on her gum so I guess that means it has protruded.  I have read that normally they are relieved when it break through the gum.  

Thanks @SGH, it is done brother.  I hope I did well for the Egg God's!   

theyolksonyou

Beautiful food as always. Although it goes way too fast, don't miss teething, or diapers, or not sleeping thru the night, or....I'm just too old for that crap.

blind99

tarheelmatt said:

@blind99, thanks.  She has actually done a lot better today.  I can feel the tooth on her gum so I guess that means it has protruded.  I have read that normally they are relieved when it break through the gum.  

Who knows! I'm guessing my kids got a fair amount of extra Tylenol when they were cranky and we thought they might be teething!

Ok the steaks look fantastic but those mushrooms are killer. How do you make the stuffing - is it the frozen spinach that comes in the square package?

SGH

@tarheelmatt‌- Looks like a winner to me brother tar ^:)^ =D> ^:)^

fusionhq

That's great!! I'm hungry again!!

johnmitchell

Wow Matt..That is some great looking grub all round..You certainly were busy. Great to hear your daughter is feeling better...Also glad you included your favorite fork in the steak shot.... ..Once again great pics as always.

Central_Bama_Egger

Fantastic cooking.

Mattman3969

Wow!! It's looks like it was a fun day at your house.

Dillonjm

Great looking cooks! Everything you cooked looked like a home run..

Griffin

Damn, Matt!! Everything looks great. Not sure what I would attack first.

tarheelmatt

theyolksonyou said:

Beautiful food as always. Although it goes way too fast, don't miss teething, or diapers, or not sleeping thru the night, or....I'm just too old for that crap.

@theyolksonyou Thanks man.  Last night was a little hairy.  I think she is cutting two at a time.  Up every hour on the hour for about four hours straight.  Coffee if my friend!  

blind99 said:

@blind99, thanks.  She has actually done a lot better today.  I can feel the tooth on her gum so I guess that means it has protruded.  I have read that normally they are relieved when it break through the gum.  

Who knows! I'm guessing my kids got a fair amount of extra Tylenol when they were cranky and we thought they might be teething! Ok the steaks look fantastic but those mushrooms are killer. How do you make the stuffing - is it the frozen spinach that comes in the square package?

@blind99, had to give her some Tylenol last night.  Crazy night last night.  Think two of those suckers are coming in at the same time.  

The spinach was frozen type.  Just thaw, ring out all moisture, place in a bowl and add all kinds of goodies.  Make sure you season the mushroom too.  

SGH said:

@tarheelmatt‌- Looks like a winner to me brother tar ^:)^ =D> ^:)^

Thanks @SGH! 

fusionhq said:

That's great!! I'm hungry again!!

Thanks @fusionhq!  

johnmitchell said:

Wow Matt..That is some great looking grub all round..You certainly were busy. Great to hear your daughter is feeling better...Also glad you included your favorite fork in the steak shot.... ..Once again great pics as always.

Thanks @johnmitchell.  Last night was a little crazy, but I hope all is well today.  She acted fine this morning.  So hopefully we're in the clear.  

I am thinking of making a avatar switch.  I believe I am going to a nice macro shot of, "The Fork".  I dunno... Just kicking around ideas.  

Central_Bama_Egger said:

Fantastic cooking.

Thanks man!  

Mattman3969 said:

Wow!! It's looks like it was a fun day at your house.

@Mattman3969, it was a crazy day for sure, but full of food!  

Dillonjm said:

Great looking cooks! Everything you cooked looked like a home run..

Thanks @Dillonjm!  

Griffin said:

Damn, Matt!! Everything looks great. Not sure what I would attack first.

Thanks @Griffin!  

The ham was for my brother, but I took some too.  The butt is for tonight and tomorrow dinner.  The steak was for Sunday.  

Now, did I sample everything?  You betcha!  I am ready to dig into that pork.  I pulled it early, around 180° and FTC'ed for a while and coarse chopped it.  Man it was good.  

tarheelmatt

Whoaaa... The forum just let me post all that without saying it needed approval!  Nice!  

Today is going to be a good day boys.... I can feel it..

Ragtop99

Busy day...  I'd would like to have tried the deer ham.  

tarheelmatt

@Ragtop99, it was really good.  My brothers girl friend tried it (miraculously) and liked it.  So that was a good indication that it was good.  

ksmyrl

My brother has a nice dear at the processor now. I told him to get a ham so we can eggsperiment with it. Now I know what I'm going to do. Nice job Matt on all of them, I'm hungry. My kids are pre teens now...honestly, I do miss the teething days, just a little. I like sleep more.

tarheelmatt

Thank you @ksmyrl!  What I initially wanted to do was to poke holes all throughout and get some pork fat to push in but didn't stop by the store to get any, so I just used butter and bacon grease.  I do feel the butt really helped at keeping the ham moist throughout the cook.  I placed the butt fat down as well.  

johnkitchens

Excellent job Matt. Your pics are very impressive.  ^:)^

tarheelmatt

Thanks for the kind words, @johnkitchens!  

MaskedMarvel

Gotta ham in the freezer I'm about to start on... Great pics and great thread THM! You said you thought slices of pork fat would be best? And what temp did you have the egg on? Standards plate setter setup? Thanks bro. TMM

cook861

Nice looking plate of  of food

tarheelmatt

MaskedMarvel said:

Gotta ham in the freezer I'm about to start on... Great pics and great thread THM!


You said you thought slices of pork fat would be best?

And what temp did you have the egg on? Standards plate setter setup?


Thanks bro.
TMM

@MaskedMarvel‌, thanks for the kind words.

I cooked this probably around 275°, pulled around 160. When my thermapen went in easily I pulled. Legs up on the plate setter (standard setup).

Yeah, I think pork fat would have helped in the holes instead of butter as butter solidifies quicker, however the butt on top helped a lot.

Sammi

That's a winner right there!

tarheelmatt

Thanks @cook861 and @Sammi!  

MaskedMarvel

Finally thawed and ready to go on either tomorrow or miiiiight save for the super bowl. Just updating and saying thanks for the follow up!

tarheelmatt

Well, how did it turn out?