First pizza

Made my first pizz last night. It came out really good but... I bought a 16 oz ball of pizza dough from the grocery store and it said to let it rest out of fridge for an hour. I did for 1.5 hours and wound up being kinda touh to roll out and very springy. I used to run a pizza joint in Key West in the 90's and cant remember what I did. After the dough rises do you flour the outside then roll it? or does it need to stay more stickey? Also the crust was thin and yummy and was very filling, but almost to filling. I dont know how to describe it but it was almost like it shold have been a thicker crust but I rolled it to much maybe. here she is. I opted to use an airbake instead of a pizza stone. I like the results.

S&S Birthday

Had the family over Sunday to celebrat Sophias and Selenas birthdays. I cook 14 lbs of pork butt and 10 lbs of chicken. I cannot beilive how good they both came out. Everyone talked up how good the food was and then upon exit took some home leaving me with 1/2 a sandwich bag of chicken a bag and a half of pork....Damn vultures!

Lemon pepper thighs and BBQ wings

Last night I made Lemon pepper chicken thighs and BBQ chicken wings. I homemade the lemon pepper sauce for the thighs and used Dickies BBQ rub and sauce on the wings.

Top ordered

Ordered the Granite for my top today. Settled on Baltic brown.

Beef Ribs

I have never ever cooked beef ribs and have them come out any other way than a greesy mess. I decided to give them a go on the egg...my wonderful wonderful egg. They were EGGCELLENT! I bout some regular and short ribs to give them both a try. I used the BBQ rub from BGE cookbook and slow cooked indirect for 3 hours at 250 Removed plate setter, bumped heat to 450 and basted with Mayday BBQ sauce. Its made local and DAMN it taste good!!! It all came out perfect. Served with Squasha and home made potato salad

fair chicken

Well I made some chicken last night that I thought was only okay. Wasnt even worthy of takeing photos of. I thinking smoking it on a beer can, or sittin chicken in my case made it relly juicy and wet. The wetness is what threw me off i think on the taste. Ill try again...

First Spatchcocked chicken

So I made my first spatchcocked last night and all I could think while eating it was "OMFG I cannot beilive that I cooked this!" It might be the best peice of chicken I have ever eaten. I was concerned while it was cooking because of all the smoke from what I am guessing is chicken fat but it didnt hurt it. see pic below, it bellowed thick smoke like this once I made the first flip (20 minutes) and didnt stop till done. I know it should be a very light clear smoke but all in all it tasted good

Table almost done

I worked on the table today, it went very smoothly and I am surprised how well it came out.I also submitted for quotes for the granite top and decided not to put a fridge in it. As cheap and as easy as this was i think I may build another and see if I can sell it. All the wood cost about 49$ (cypress) wheels 20$ screws 30$ misc supplies 30$ Granite top est 300$ ________________ Total 429$ A new store bought table is right around 600$ and that was with a cypress top and not nearly as nice as what I have done.

Table has begun

Worked on the table last night some. Went rather smoothly. Lumber only cost 49$ Willl post
pics when done.

Baby back ribs

I started preping my ribs yesterday for today.Baby backs from the New York Butchor (senu removed)coated bone side with Dickies dry rub flipped and coated meat side with mustard (I think to much) and then doused with more Dickies.




The plan is to do them at about 250 degrees for 4.5 hours then last 30 minutes bring heat up and saue them. I heard that every 30 minutes of so I should mist with a 50/50 muix of apple juice and apple cider.


12:00 Grill has been going and stable. Time to put um on....

Well I did it, I just completed my first sucessful 5 hour cook With the help from some fellow eggheads I was able to get temp on without much trouble. Stayed spot on 275 for 4.5 hours then finished at 335 for 30 minutes basting with sauce.

These are done

and these are finished.

Buffalo Chicken

So we had some Buffalo Chicken from diner Dinner A'Fare. We usually do this on the gas grill but no need to now.
Brough BGE up to 400 and cooked them up.
Served with carlic and chive mashed potatoes.
Very good!

Table ideas

Well I think I found what I will use as a plan for my BGE table.
http://www.nakedwhiz.com/tableplans/tableplans.pdf

I may try and modify it so I can add a refrigerator and shelf for the stereo along with some other mods.

Ill probably price the lumber today.

This is going to be alot of tasty flavor filled fun.

Wingy dingy

Well its Sunday and all I can think about is firing up the egg and getting some wings on there.
I bought 4 lbs of wings
Removed the tips
rinsed
Coated both sides of wings heavily with Dizzy Pig raging river dry rub
put in fridge for 3 hours
Pulled wings out 30 minutes before cookoff to bring to room temp.
While they were coming up to temp I added some soaked some apple wood chips to my lump whicand kicked the fire off
We did direct heat at 400 15 minutes each side
Checked temp and spot on at 180 degrees
Let wings stand 10 minutes
DAMN!

The lump charcoal was really easy to get started and the temp on the grill was easy to maintain. The bugers cooked nicely and had a nice "bbq" red t them

Wow they tasted good.

Here it is

So I bit the bullit and bought myself a large big greeen egg this today. I have been wanting and egg for many years and finally did it. I think burgers will be first up on the break in.