A proper plate of food

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Eaker Barbecue in Fredericksburg Texas. Legit central TX BBQ

1 lb brisket 50/50 (lean and fatty)
1/2 lb jalapeño cheddar sausage (made from brisket trimmings)
1/2 lb pulled pork
1/2 lb turkey   

Sides:

mac n cheese
kimchi fried rice
potato salad 
kimchi pickles 

Fatty point sandwich on white bread with pickled onions,
pickled  jalapeño, pickled onions, and kimchi cucumbers with a little sauce. 

Wooderson

Damn

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Little sparkling wine tasting after in the vineyard (Heath Sparkling Wines). A few more wine stops ahead. Pretty good day so far 

6baluts

I am liking all the pickled toppings on that sandwich. 
On my next sammie build I might have to go in that direction. I have worn out regular cole slaw, broccoli slaw etc and recently been topping with salsa criolla, but I am about due for a change.
Thanks for the post and idea.

Photo Egg

Love it!
Fantastic post and photos.

caliking

Living well again today!

Glad to hear good things about Eaker. They've been on my radar since earlier this year, but haven't quite made it out that side. Figured we'd roll it into a trip out to see y'all at some point. 

lousubcap

Great day in play and ever better groceries.  That's enough of a hook right there.  

johnmitchell

Great post. That’s one heck of a meal😳

alaskanassasin

Good gracious 

TechsasJim

Awesome!!!   Weather is cooperating for you.   I had to help my buddy roll his Klose pit under cover due to monsoon rains down here.   

Langner91

I should move to Texas.

Great looking grub!

JohnnyTarheel

Mercy what a meal!!

Stormbringer

Nice one.

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Hye Cider: (Hye, Texas)

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caliking said:

Living well again today!

Glad to hear good things about Eaker. They've been on my radar since earlier this year, but haven't quite made it out that side. Figured we'd roll it into a trip out to see y'all at some point. 

Door is always open. 

Ybabpmuts

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Little sparkling wine tasting after in the vineyard (Heath Sparkling Wines). A few more wine stops ahead. Pretty good day so far 

You have the darkest grape clusters of any man on the forum. I'm sure of it.

SB

TechsasJim

Hye, is that also the base for Garrison Brothers?

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TechsasJim said:

Hye, is that also the base for Garrison Brothers?

It is. Several wineries and distilleries in Hye. 

dmchicago

JohnInCarolina

Holy chit!

loco_engr

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Eaker Barbecue in Fredericksburg Texas. Legit central TX BBQ

1 lb brisket 50/50 (lean and fatty)
1/2 lb jalapeño cheddar sausage (made from brisket trimmings)
1/2 lb pulled pork
1/2 lb turkey   

Sides:

mac n cheese
kimchi fried rice
potato salad 
kimchi pickles 

Fatty point sandwich on white bread with pickled onions,
pickled  jalapeño, pickled onions, and kimchi cucumbers with a little sauce. 

Dayum!
Added to BBQ Crawl bucket list!
Thanks for posting

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loco_engr said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Eaker Barbecue in Fredericksburg Texas. Legit central TX BBQ

1 lb brisket 50/50 (lean and fatty)
1/2 lb jalapeño cheddar sausage (made from brisket trimmings)
1/2 lb pulled pork
1/2 lb turkey   

Sides:

mac n cheese
kimchi fried rice
potato salad 
kimchi pickles 

Fatty point sandwich on white bread with pickled onions,
pickled  jalapeño, pickled onions, and kimchi cucumbers with a little sauce. 

Dayum!
Added to BBQ Crawl bucket list!
Thanks for posting

Come on down and let me know if you do. 

wwinnc

Dang! Great looking grub there! I'm hungry!

shtgunal3

Awesome looking day! Hye looks like my kind of place.

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shtgunal3 said:

Awesome looking day! Hye looks like my kind of place.

Hye is cool. Some great wineries, garrison Bros. Bourbon distillery, hye cider, and some other cool stuff nearby. It’s all part of the Texas Wine Trail out here by where we live. Super fun to get out and about (although we do it way too often ha ha ) 

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Cooked up some homemade brats today and braised the onions in the hop cider we got yesterday. Son’s GF is GF (gluten free and has legit celiac so we have to be super careful). She always misses out on beer brats so I decided that the hop cider we bought yesterday (GF) would be a good alternative to beer. I figured pork and apple goes well together and we were not disappointed. We sweated the onions in butter and then braised them down in the hop cider. Way better than beer braised onions with the bonus (for us) of being Gluten Free. I’ll never make them any other way now. 

Didn’t get a pic of loaded brats but they were fantastic- homemade brats, cider braised onions, homemade kraut. We cracked a nice rosé that we picked up yesterday on the wine trail and drained the rest of hopped cider as well. 

Headed out to ramble around the ranch and see if we can’t scare up some critters. 

TechsasJim

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one of my really good friends recently sold his ranch in Harper that we’ve been going to for 20+ years.   It’s amazing to see the growth Hye has gone through.   So many small Texas towns are going after that Round Top, etc vibe, which is a good thing.  

Enjoying your chronicles…

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TechsasJim said:

@The Cen-Tex Smoker

one of my really good friends recently sold his ranch in Harper that we’ve been going to for 20+ years.   It’s amazing to see the growth Hye has gone through.   So many small Texas towns are going after that Round Top, etc vibe, which is a good thing.  

Enjoying your chronicles…

For better or worse, we are part of that change. We are “those people from Austin” ruining the neighborhood. We are like the John in Carolina of the Texas Hill Country 😂

TechsasJim

Well if you are. “The people from Austin” with pink hair, tattoos on every bit of your skin, piercings in unmentionable places, I can see where Fredericksburg folk may give a second glance.   I’m guessing it’s not that extreme.  

However I get it, being from The outskirts of Houston and having the bulk of my family living/have lived in the hill country for decades I have been called “city” a time or two.   Is what it is…

blind99

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

shtgunal3 said:

Awesome looking day! Hye looks like my kind of place.

Hye is cool. Some great wineries, garrison Bros. Bourbon distillery, hye cider, and some other cool stuff nearby. It’s all part of the Texas Wine Trail out here by where we live. Super fun to get out and about (although we do it way too often ha ha ) 

For some reason I have a beer coozie “I’d rather be drinking garrison bros bourbon” 
No idea how that got up here. Lost weekend?

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blind99 said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

shtgunal3 said:

Awesome looking day! Hye looks like my kind of place.

Hye is cool. Some great wineries, garrison Bros. Bourbon distillery, hye cider, and some other cool stuff nearby. It’s all part of the Texas Wine Trail out here by where we live. Super fun to get out and about (although we do it way too often ha ha ) 

For some reason I have a beer coozie “I’d rather be drinking garrison bros bourbon” 
No idea how that got up here. Lost weekend?

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