Our second foray into smoking meat.

Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Courtney

This past weekend we smoked an 8 pound, bone-in pork shoulder. This smoking adventure actually started Saturday night and went on until Sunday afternoon.  An 8 pound pork shoulder takes about 12 hours to cook and we didn’t want to have to get up at 4 A.M. to start, so we had the brilliant idea to [...]

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Fun Friday Feast is Cancelled this Week

Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by Courtney

I know everyone was really looking forward to FFF, but I just wasn’t able to cook dinner on Friday before work. I had hives!  Have any of you ever had hives?  It is one of the most awful things I have ever experienced.  I can’t really compare them to anything, because I don’t remember having [...]

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We are no longer virgins.

Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Courtney

To smoking meats, you dummies! Before we went to Las Vegas we bought a gas smoker, and Sunday was the first time we were able to try it out.  For our first time I think it went extremely well.  We cooked a 5 pound chicken and a 2.5 pound brisket. Our set-up: I know there [...]

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Fun Friday Feast

Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Courtney

After eating out all weekend in Vegas, it’s nice to come home this weekend and eat a bunch of home-cooked meals. We will be eating dinner on our friends’ dime Saturday because they are getting married, but on Sunday I think we are going to try smoking some sort of meat in our new smoker [...]

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Weekend in Vegas

Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Courtney

We were in Las Vegas from last Friday afternoon until Monday morning. We had a lot of fun, but we decided that it probably isn’t necessary to go back any time soon. I don’t really feel like rehashing every detail of the trip, so I will give a rundown of the highlights (and low-lights in [...]

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Patio Project- Week 4

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Courtney

The patio is done! Well, the hard part is at least.  We will still be adding a water feature (small pond/waterfall) and landscaping around the patio and deck, as well as a pergola over one corner of the patio (the corner farthest from the deck).  But besides all that- we are done! The last weekend [...]

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