Memorial Day Weekend So Far....

DainW

Had some some friends come up from Austin to stay the weekend with us. They came up Friday. Another of our friends was celebrating her 40th birthday on Saturday, and our outdoor kitchen had just been completed the weekend before, so it was the perfect storm to do a lot of cooking. 

Friday I broke in the wood fired oven with some pizzas. Had made some homemade pancetta and used that as a topping with caramelized onions and Alfredo sauce for the adults, cheese pizza for the kids. Fire control is a learning curve, but pizzas turned out great. 

Saturday we had a big party. I put a 14lb brisket on at midnight Friday and had plans for a cochinita pibil as well. Glad I had the pork butt, because the brisket didn’t finish up until 8 o’clock on Saturday, so 20 hours. I was stressing but most of the attendees were well lubricated already and the pork tacos held people over until the brisket was ready. Ended up being a great time. Pics to follow in next post. 

DainW

johnmitchell

Awesome post and fantastic looking food

Legume

Damn.  Going out in a limb here (not really), post of the day.

DainW

Oh forgot to post a picture of the pancetta. 

lousubcap

That is doing it up right!  Congrats across the board.  Great bark on the (meteorite) brisket as well.  

BigreenGreg

Udaman

JohnInCarolina

You win!

attaboy

Wow!!!......well done!

dbCooper

Just fabulous!

StillH2OEgger

My goodness! It all looks wonderful.

kl8ton

So far so good I would say!  If you wake up from your food coma soon, please cook and post more pics!

Foghorn

Great weekend.

caliking

Boss... you can’t drop a thread like this , and not ‘splain things a bit

I’ll have to come back to this a few times. Kudos!

DainW

caliking said:

Boss... you can’t drop a thread like this , and not ‘splain things a bit

I’ll have to come back to this a few times. Kudos!

Lol thanks man. Tell me what you want explained and I’ll do my best. 

nolaegghead

I like it

caliking

DainW said:

caliking said:

Boss... you can’t drop a thread like this , and not ‘splain things a bit

I’ll have to come back to this a few times. Kudos!

Lol thanks man. Tell me what you want explained and I’ll do my best. 

I'll take the cochinita pibil, for $400, Alex!

DainW

caliking said:

DainW said:

caliking said:

Boss... you can’t drop a thread like this , and not ‘splain things a bit

I’ll have to come back to this a few times. Kudos!

Lol thanks man. Tell me what you want explained and I’ll do my best. 

I'll take the cochinita pibil, for $400, Alex!

Cochinita pibil was actually pretty easy. The hardest part for me was sourcing a couple of the ingredients. The marinade is 2 packages of achiote paste which I found on Amazon, half a cup of orange juice, a quarter cup of lime juice, cumin and coriander. You put it in a roasting pan wrapped in banana leaves (found at my local supermercado), and the foil over that. I put 2 cups of water in the pan to steam and keep things moist before putting the foil on, and into the oven at 325 for about 5 hours or so. Served on corn tortillas with some pickled red onions and queso fresco. 

Teefus

Very nice, and everything looks tasty. It was just me and Bride of Teefus this weekend. Locally sourced Brats on the Weber Saturday, pork butt on the Egg Sunday, and burgers on the Weber Monday. Not fancy, but we ate well.