This Weekend’s Cook

CTMike · February 16

Husband and wife coworkers of mine - he’s a Senior Reactor Operator and she is the station nurse - are going through some sh!tty time as she has cancer and having a rough go of it.
So I was cooking up some proteins for us and decided to double up to make some meals for them to give them a bit of a break.

Starting off this evening with 3 yardbirds seasoned with Montreal Chicken. This will be followed by some ABTs, ribs tomorrow morning, and a brisket and pulled pork Sunday morning. All to be dropped off Sunday afternoon.

More photos to follow as the weekend progresses.

JohnInCarolina · February 16

You are a good man, Mike!

GrateEggspectations · February 16

Nice gesture. Very sure that’ll be well appreciated. Looking forward to more photos.

Have a great weekend.

gmanrva · February 16

Good on you! I am sure they will appreciate it.

JohnnyTarheel · February 16

Way to step up my friend..

lousubcap · February 16

That is a great gesture as noted above. Never mind how good you will appropriately feel for doing this, they will be an order of magnitude more appreciative. Way to step up.
Been a while since I posted; Cancer sucks. Take no prisoners!

CTMike · February 16

Chickens on the XLBGE, and ABTs prepped and ready.

CTMike · February 16

2 of the birds are done and looking tasty:

CTMike · February 17

ABTs done, chickens split in half and vacuum sealed. Ribs early in the morning as we are going to the UConn - Marquette game tomorrow afternoon.

kl8ton · February 17

CTMike said:

Chickens on the XLBGE, and ABTs prepped and ready.

Mother of Pearl I need an XL in my life. Great job sir!

caliking · February 17

"some ABTs"... *cooks enough for the whole village*

You're a good egg, @CTMike. I can imagine how much they will appreciate this.

bluebird66 · February 17

That's a great looking meal!

CTMike · February 17

4 racks of baby backs, rubbed with a hot honey maple rub, just hit the smoke at 300 F.

DoubleEgger · February 17

Very kind and thoughtful.

Foghorn · February 17

Where's the "Love" button? I want to click it.

Ozzie_Isaac · February 17

What a great thing you did.

lkapigian · February 17

Solid Work @CTMike !

CTMike · February 18

Two butts with a Memphis style rub, and a Costco Prime Brisket with Black’s Original 1932 rub:

Putting the MEATER block to work for remote monitoring since it is 26 F outside.

Obviously the MEATER algorithm doesn’t account for the stall based on the time remaining for the brisket.

ETA: Using some of the Canadian Sugar Maple lump and a couple fist sized chunks of hickory.

CTMike · February 19

Well unfortunately I didn’t get any after action shots, but the final tally given to my friends was:

- 40 ABTs
- 2 yard birds, spatchcocked, smoked, and split in half
- 2 racks of baby backs
- 1 Boston Butt
- 1/2 a Costco prime brisket
- 2 qts of doctored up smoked baked beans
- Couple pounds of smoked kielbasa
- A batch of Lemon Blueberry scones

All of the proteins were vacuum sealed in “meal for two” serving sizes so they can be tossed in the freezer, then put in to a hot water bath to reheat without drying them out.

They were very appreciative.