Four pork shoulders into the Sous Vides as preparation for the 4th of July officially starts! 💧🔥🐖
Cooking
Outdoor cooking experiments—primarily on my Big Green Egg and new Traeger grill—are documented here. Posts recount brisket attempts, sous‑vide pork butt sessions and holiday tenderloin traditions, with candid notes on smoke, temperature and results.
Making pizzas on Blackstone pizza oven for first time.
Finished pizza.
I added a Pellet Sensor to the Traeger this morning. Good confidence thing to have for long smoke sessions.
Smashburgers! 🍔🍔🍔
Traeger Grill
My brother-in-law got a Traeger Grill a while back and he found he was never using it. They decided to get a Blackstone Flat Top and I volunteered to provide a good home for the Traeger they didn’t want. I got it fired up for the first time tonight. Why get this when I’ve got a …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Traeger GrillGot to do a firmware update on the Traeger Grill. 🤓
First smash burgers of 2025! 🍔
SMOQEHOUSE
Smoqehouse opened in 2016 in the now defunct Faribo West Mall in Faribault, MN. This was a short drive from our cabin and they had delicious pulled pork sandwiches. This became a regular part of our cabin weekends — a dinner visit to Smoqehouse. A year after opening this first …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: SMOQEHOUSETraditional π Day dinner is all pies! Tonight Tammy’s completely homemade chicken pot pie and a new pie for dessert — Samoa Pie themed off of the Girl Scout cookie.
Homemade Marshmallows
My brother-in-law Denny recently decided to make homemade marshmallows. I guess it makes sense that this is something you can make but I honestly had no idea that was even a thing you could do. He made some for this weekend and we decided to take them out to the fire pit and see …
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