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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Hickory Smoked Beef n Barley

I love barley..... and I love beef.
Seemed like a good combo to try. :)

I layered some thin sliced beef steaks, overlapping to make one sheet of meat....



Topped with barley and minced scallions that I cooked in beef broth and seasoned with pepper..



rolled and tied.
I folded in the ends as I rolled, sort of "eggroll" style... then sprinkled with Big Poppa's Secret Steak Seasoning.



drizzled brussel sprouts with olive oil, seasoned with cracked black pepper and kosher salt, then wrapped in bacon..



Made some Big Poppa party potatoes. These are sliced, layered with onions, sprinkled with slivers of garlic, Little Louie's Seasoned Salt with Pepper, then drizzled with melted butter.



into the Memphis Pro at 295F with hickory....
I basted the beef rolls with butter to keep them moist.



The smoked barley stuffed beef roll was excellent!



I might be the only person on the planet who likes brussel sprouts.. :)
These bacon wrapped smoked sprouts were tasty!




I loved Big Poppa's potatoes too...



I'll be making this one again. :)

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Wild Eats.......Lambsquarter and Venison

Lambsquarter season is here... I pick the plants before they get very big.





I've also been using the wild onions around the farm..







My sandhill plum wine for the morel mushroom sauce...



I saute wild onions in a bit of oil, add my hydrated morels, (dried from last season), also add the morel infused water, sandhill plum wine and a few herbs...



Fried a few slices of bacon, cooked more wild onions in the bacon drippings...



added the washed lambsquarter, salt and pepper to taste..



grilled some backstrap from this last deer season...Venison



The grilled backstrap with morel wild plum wine sauce, lambsquarter and wild onions..







one of my favorite meals...