There are times when you can’t host the party, and carrying your Big Green Egg with you is a bit patronizing. Well, this great recipe will make sure everyone knows you are still the top cooker!
This is easy to prepare and an instant hit. While you can cook the chicken in the slow cooker, I prefer to grill the chicken a bit on the egg coated with my favorite rub before adding it to the mix.
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This has become a family favorite. Adapted from a Paula Dean crock-pot recipe, this one can cook on the Egg very easily in a clay roasting pan while you smoke some other meat! The smoke flavor adds another dimension to the meal. Read more…
There are several ways to get your lump fired up. For my first few cooks I took a paper towel and dropped some vegetable oil on it, lit it, and covered it with new lump. This got old, though.
As regular followers will know, I have recently jumped into the BGE world. The food tastes better cooked on the Egg (though some may argue it tastes better because of the price you’ve paid!!!), but there is no doubt that the Egg does a better job than any gas or charcoal grill I’ve ever owned.
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Tonight’s menu, our second on the Big Green Egg, was some wonderful salmon grilled on a cedar plank.
One of the best things about steakhouses is the extra flavor their steaks have. Visit most any steakhouse and you will find that their steaks are cooked at high-heat and that they have a crust of flavor that is normally not achieved in the home kitchen. Read more…
For years BBQ chicken has been a favorite. In my single days, I would make many a meal of chicken thighs and a box a macaroni. A little fun on the gas grill and some boiling water would feed me for a couple days. Unfortunately, I found that the gas grill was turning tasteless and the effort involved was simply not worth it. I moved to the Alton Brown smoker and enjoyed my outdoor meals flavored by long smoke sessions.
That changed today. Read more…