smokeyjoe

cheesecake looks really good. not sure if i can que yet due to having a fall on some rocks, am only just walking again, but i will defo enjoy reading about some cooking.👍

for a camping trip it would have to be the smokeyjoe and something simple so went with sheekh kebabs. for the kebabs, mince lamb, onion, garlic, red and green chillis and the following dried spices, 1 tsp cumin, 1 tsp corriander, 1 tsb garam masala, ½tsp turmeric, 1 tsp salt and 1 of black pepper. everything was chopped, mixed and stuck in the fridge till needed. today was a joint cook, my missus made the bread, it's a turkish flatbread recipe she does at least once a week, a mix of 2 flours, warm milk, yeasy, and the following spices are added to the dry mix to give the bread loads of flavour, salt, chilli powder, onion powder, cumin and corriander, garlic powder and black pepper. the cook itself, well the kebabs went onto the skewers and over the coals while the missus rolled the bread. then as soon as the kebabs came off it was on with the bread. i ripped the first bread but it still tasted good. the missus cuts her's and has a garlic mayo. me, well i'm more a "just jam it on and eat", and i take salad cream with mine, yup, might sound weird but it tastes good. thats it folks, thanks for reading, see y'all next month.👍

some good looking food indeed, am still hoping to get a cook in before the end of the month if health allows.

main reason you dont see copper smokers is "offgassing" copper will give off a toxic gas.👍 if you want to go down the diy route, then i would suggest a food grade oil drum via fleabay.👍

weber coals are pretty good and will normally burn for a good couple of hours, if you had them in the starter for 20 mins and then on the grill for another 15mins, they should have been ready, as has been said, could they have been dripped on? that sounds like what your describing.

you thought right, i'm from Liverpool.👍

heard good reports about the "meaty" ribs from costco but those seem a bit on the expensive side to me for what they are, might be worth asking locally before you order. up my way, full ribs like that are known as "bacon" ribs by the locals and are only used by a few oldie's for making soup hence the reason they are way cheaper than any "cut" ribs.

yup, looks and sounds really good.👍

full report is here... cook local grub is the spuds, cauli and spring onions, not going to count the meat as it may be from a foreign county, lol.

pork chops for tea, local butcher, big thick un's, they are local pork but i cant remember if he said the pork or the poultry was from just up the road so i wont count the meat as local cos it might actually be from the next county. the spuds are from my garden, along with the spring onions, so very local and the cauli is from a roadside farm shop in upholland which is a couple of miles from me. started the night before with a brine of salt/sugar, garlic and plenty of herbs and spring onions. it was a nice day for it, this is my que area. the cauli cheese was made with a mature chedder plus parmesan, spring onions and contained some bacon bits that i had crisped up earlier. that went on first but only a few minutes before my skillet. as soon as the skillet was ready, it was in with the spuds and a load of spring onions, i had added the fat that was left from crisping the bacon earlier along with a touch of olive oil. once the spuds were underway, the chops went on the heat to sear then i moved over to cook through. went ok with no issues and we still have a cauli cheese left (i'm gonna snaffle that in a minute for my breaky) was nice, plenty of flavour got into the chops, the missus loved it so s'pose thats all that matters. thanks for reading.

good stuff, did you get the smoke into the filling?

looks good Adam, who doesn't love a good pie.👍

i'd have a go at that, can we start with darts or monopoly...........oh, not those kind of competitions, yeh, i'd still be up for a friendly cooking comp.👍 themes, i'll stick 3 up for starters. 1. indian. 2. chicken. 3. gameday munchies.

my old weber kettle from early 90's, along with my smokey joe cover all my cooking needs.

how did it turn out?