OT - What are you doing right now?

YukonRon

Happy Easter!

Botch

Yesterday I got the trees trimmed away from the roof, gutters cleaned, finished raking the yards and fertilizer down.  Taking it easy today, and supposed to get snow/rain and wind the rest of the week.  Happy about the timing!  

DoubleEgger

tarheelmatt said:

Had to throw my first butt away ever. Fire went out last night. Woke this morning and the Jr. was at 100°ish and the butt was at 100°. When in doubt, throw it out. 

That sucks Matt. Red heads can be hard to handle. 

tarheelmatt

DoubleEgger said:

tarheelmatt said:

Had to throw my first butt away ever. Fire went out last night. Woke this morning and the Jr. was at 100°ish and the butt was at 100°. When in doubt, throw it out. 

That sucks Matt. Red heads can be hard to handle. 

I still haven't gotten over it. I should have checked on it sooner, but had some other complications and wanted to keep the peace.  

I'll be ordering an adapter for my Party Q (assuming they make one) so this will not happen. 

DMW

tarheelmatt said:

DoubleEgger said:

tarheelmatt said:

Had to throw my first butt away ever. Fire went out last night. Woke this morning and the Jr. was at 100°ish and the butt was at 100°. When in doubt, throw it out. 

That sucks Matt. Red heads can be hard to handle. 

I still haven't gotten over it. I should have checked on it sooner, but had some other complications and wanted to keep the peace.  

I'll be ordering an adapter for my Party Q (assuming they make one) so this will not happen. 

I'll bet the fire grate got clogged. The Jr has the worst fire grate I've seen. I upgraded to a High-Que recently and it's much better.

Lit

Easter brisket.

tarheelmatt

DMW said:

tarheelmatt said:

DoubleEgger said:

tarheelmatt said:

Had to throw my first butt away ever. Fire went out last night. Woke this morning and the Jr. was at 100°ish and the butt was at 100°. When in doubt, throw it out. 

That sucks Matt. Red heads can be hard to handle. 

I still haven't gotten over it. I should have checked on it sooner, but had some other complications and wanted to keep the peace.  

I'll be ordering an adapter for my Party Q (assuming they make one) so this will not happen. 

I'll bet the fire grate got clogged. The Jr has the worst fire grate I've seen. I upgraded to a High-Que recently and it's much better.

I'll get one of those too. Thing cooked the hell out of the chicken, burgers,  and steaks last night. 

Lit

The 6" or so of flat I took off the brisket becoming burgers for lunch.

Lit

1601 IT. Burgers ready and gonna roast some veggies soon.

lousubcap

Trying to nail the soccarat-but I'm getting some heat from the consumers.  It is a mixed-bag cook, chix, sausage, shrimp and a few scallops.  Samples are pretty good.   No patience

Lit

Best brisket I ever made. Choice angus from RD. Cut like half the flat off and made burgers. Rest was fork tender. The pic is weird but you can see even at a quarter inch thick plus it was just flopping over.

Jeepster47

Woke up this morning to a gas burner being ignited ... that on, then off, then on, then off again sound.  Turns out we were being buzzed by these:

WeberWho

Botch said:

WeberWho said:

Our car salesman recommend we go try out Portillo's for lunch while we were still in Illinois. He said we had to go try the chocolate cake. So we grabbed a hot dog, roast beef sandwich, and their famous chocolate cake. Our salesman wouldn't tell us what the secret ingredient was until we got back to the dealership and tried the cake. (I have to admit the chocolate cake was super good) He goes, "you still want to know what that secret ingredient is? - It's mayonnaise" Crazy. I'm far from a baker but never heard of such a thing. Mayonnaise and cake. I like it. (Not my picture but found a picture of their chocolate cake) Going to have to find a recipe that's based around their chocolate cake

I love Portillo's but never tried their cake; need another trip to Chi-town.
 
One of the recipes I made sure to get from my Mom when I left home was her "Sour Cream Chocolate Cake", it may be similar:  
Cook until thick, then cool:  2 squares baking chocolate in 1/2 cup milk.
Mix in bowl:
3 eggs
1.5 cup sugar
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp red food coloring
Add to mix:
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
Add chocolate/milk mixture last
Bake in 9x13 pan 350F 35 minutes, test w/toothpick
 
(you're/we're on our own for frosting, I don't have that).  

Thanks for the recipe @Hotch

bhedges1987

Walking dead

Botch

@Jeepster47, where do you live?  Your signature says Illinois but that pic looks very desert Southwest.  

WeberWho

@Botch Thanks for the cake recipe. Was thinking you but wrote hotch. 

Jeepster47

Botch said:

@Jeepster47, where do you live?  Your signature says Illinois but that pic looks very desert Southwest.  

We're on vacation in Arizona right now ... good eye my friend.

tarheelmatt

Don't mind the in laws, but there's no place like home to drop a deuce. 

Just got in the door from the Buckeye state. 

johnmitchell

tarheelmatt said:

Don't mind the in laws, but there's no place like home to drop a deuce. 

Just got in the door from the Buckeye state. 

Nicely put Matt... Welcome home..

tarheelmatt

Quickly going through photos from our trip.  My little girl is growing up!  

YukonRon

Tenderloin rubbed in bacon fat, then using my own spicy rub for crust.
It was delicious, done on the MM.

Legume

That pic is outstanding @tarheelmatt

Jeepster47

If you live near Phoenix, you've got to stop by Standard Restaurant Supply in Mesa.  Here's one of the views from just inside the front door:



110,000 square feet (yep, more than thee-and-a-half foot ball fields) of cooking STUFF!  Prices were good and if they don't have it, you probably don't need it.  Cotton candy machine ... yep.  Snow cone machine ... yep.  Popcorn machine ... certainly.  Stock pot for a shrimp boil ... they start at 8 qt and go up to 160 qt.  Think a MM will fit inside the 160 qt pot.  Made a repeat visit today ... didn't have my hiking boots on last week.

Edit: Smaller stores are in Salt Lake City, UT; Lakewood, CO; Denver, CO; Albuquerque, NM; Boise, Idaho; Las Vegas, NV; Tucson, AZ.

bgebrent

Legume said:

That pic is outstanding @tarheelmatt

Matts pictures always have a bad perspective and weird lighting.  I'm hoping to help him at the NCBB.  It's an outreach program out of Kentucky.  Expectations are low.

Eggcelsior

bgebrent said:

Legume said:

That pic is outstanding @tarheelmatt

Matts pictures always have a bad perspective and weird lighting.  I'm hoping to help him at the NCBB.  It's an outreach program out of Kentucky.  Expectations are low.

Trust this guy, he's a doctor.

Legume

If it was my kid, I'd at least spring for some color film.

pgprescott

tarheelmatt said:

Quickly going through photos from our trip.  My little girl is growing up!  

Looks like an heirloom pic to me. Enjoy life. 

northGAcock

Sitting outside on a gorgeous afternoon / evening with a nice little breeze. Some tunes (Allman Bro's at the moment).....having a Bloody Mary in hand.

YEMTrey

DEMPSEY!!!!!!!

YEMTrey

Now this is much better!