Smoked Pulled Chicken & Hash Brown Potato Casserole
We all find ourselves with leftover pulled Chicken now and then … whether it’s from a Rotisserie, Baked, Roasted, BBQ, Smoked or any multitude of other Chicken recipes. The question is – what to do with it? I, like most, love comfort food and always pull leftover chicken from the carcass to vacuum seal and freeze for use in casseroles, quick recipes calling for cooked chicken and Soups. Read More
Stuffed Red Bell Peppers on MAK 2 Star Wood Pellet Smoker-Grill
The tightly digitally controlled cooking temperatures of the MAK 2 Star Wood Pellet BBQ Smoker-Grill allows it to easily function as a Convection Oven fueled with your favorite flavor/brand of BBQ Wood Pellets. The MAK imparts heat assisted by fans to force air movement. The air circulation, or convection, tends to eliminate “hot spots” and thus food may bake more evenly. The MAK 2 Star can Smoke foods at 170ºF, set cooking temperatures in 5 degree increments from 200-450ºF, and achieve High temperatures of 500+ degrees F.
These features allows me to virtually convert any and all recipes for use on my Pellet Smoker-Grill. Another fine example of this flexibility is how easily I adapted my Stuffed Red Bell Peppers to be baked in the MAK 2 Star. Read More
$4 Smoked 14lb Spatchcock Turkey
Yup, you gotta love it when you check out the frozen section in your local grocery store and you find a “Special Today” sale … Found this 14.4 lb Turkey for $4.18 … Couldn’t pass it up so I bought 2 of them. For $4.18 you can’t buy a quarter pounder meal let alone a whole bird!!!! This time of year these birds normally go for $1.99/lb. Don’t care why they marked them at 29¢ – Their loss, my gain. Read More
Hickory Smoked Chicken Quarters
I’ve often wondered why Chicken Legs (drumsticks) and/or Thighs are always higher priced than Chicken Quarters since the quarter is a leg and thigh!? Guess they have to charge extra to separate the two pieces! Found some Chicken Quarters for 78¢/lb and figured it would serve us for 2 meals. Read More
Hickory Smoked Yoshida’s Chicken Breasts
Marinaded a couple of bone-in Chicken Breasts with Mr Yoshida’s Marinade & Cooking Sauce and McCormick Grill Mates Montreal Chicken Seasoning. After applying the marinade and seasoning, I threw them in the freezer for future use. Defrosted the breasts in the refrigerator which took 2 days. Read More