Meatcation day five consisted of chili and steaks. (some shots taken by Sam)
We made corn bread with the chili and sweet potatoes with the steaks. We also picked up our suckling pig. Woo! Tomorrow, we’ll start smoking it… and hopefully finish for Saturday. =)
Yes, day four of Meatcation. Today is the day of the elemental bacon. Bacon = bacon of the earth, scallops = bacon of the sea, and duck = bacon of the sky.
The day started with preparing the duck for smoking:
After it was cleaned, we started on a whole black drum fish for lunch, which we baked in a cast of kosher salt.
We also made plantains:
The fish is done!
Back to the duck…
The fish is gone.
It’s smoking time:
Andrew made dessert - a lemon almond tart.
As an aside, I also received my tauntaun sleeping bag! Woo!
It’s bacon + scallops time:
Elyse, Heather, and Steph joined us as we neared completion:
Woo! That was awesome. More pics in the flickr Meatcation set.
Mark and I started the day off by eating bacon with oatmeal we slow cooked the entire night (we got oats from Whole Foods, not that instant stuff =).
Then, we smoked salmon for lunch:
And had some mangoes with that:
Then, we (by we, I mean mostly Mark and Andrew) went totally awesome on ribs, despite the rain causing a lot of havoc on maintaining the appropriate temperature in the smoker. Despite that, they turned out pretty great:
And… we wrapped up the meal with peas:
Tomorrow, bacon of the elements (bacon, scallops, duck) for dinner and some undetermined whole fish for lunch.
For day two of Meatcation, as planned, we started smoking a large chunk of brisket and made our own sausages from scratch. Here’s a video of the sausage stuffing craziness:
I will say that our sausages were a great success despite there being doubt we could actually stuff them properly (we did not have the specific tools to make the job easy). Andrew and I got creative (as you can see from the video above) and made it work. For dinner, we also made our own BBQ sauce and cream corn.
I’ve added these to the Meatcation set on flickr.
Meatcation has begun! We kicked off the week with some tasty lamb chops with asparagus. We also built a questionable structure to guard our flame against the water from the heavens.
As usual, Flickr has more Meatcation pics.
I also somehow managed to watch Star Trek three times last week (four if you count once with the commentary). Although, to be fair, I did fall asleep half of the last time through it (food coma). Here are some photos of my crazy sisters from Thanksgiving:
We plan on starting the smoker at ~3AM to cook brisket for Monday night. On to day 2!
Andrew, Mark and I reserved our suckling pig for next week. Woo! We don’t have any idea how large it is or how much it will cost, but we kind of like going into it blind. =)
If anyone plans on dropping by on a day other than Saturday (where we will likely have plenty to go around), either:
Now to obtain a smoker…
I have had plans to take a self-portrait to put above my fire place for a while now. I took the first stab at the photo for it today, which turned out better than I was expecting!
I haven’t printed anything large with these types of Photoshop effects on it, so I’m not sure how that will go. As a test, I’m printing out a large 20x30 at Costco to see how it looks. If it looks good, I’ll be printing it on canvas. Woo!
Some notes for the future:
One year after The Great Food Roadtrip of 2008, there will be MEATCATION!!! Behold version 0.87 of the Meatcation agenda:
Open house dates will be announced and people are free to show up whenever bringing meats of their own for us to cook. =)
Brook & Frances gave me a Fujifilm Instax 200, which is like a wide-screen Polaroid. Now, witness the fruits of the first cartridge, starring Sexy Sammy!!
Oh, I will also add that we had an epic downing of XT in Ulduar where we were under-manned, under-geared, and under-experienced. It was awesome.
SNOWMAN!
And Brook gave me these:
