goEMAW.com bbq, smoking, grilling, etc. thread!

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

eggplant lasagna

cook mushrooms and onion and garlic in a pan set aside.

sauce bottom of skillet, layer eggplant slices, onion/mushroom/garlic mix, cheese, repeat until pan is full.

a little healthier and cheesy.

GRIZZZZOOOSSSSSS

[Gooch]

eggplant lasagna

cook mushrooms and onion and garlic in a pan set aside.

sauce bottom of skillet, layer eggplant slices, onion/mushroom/garlic mix, cheese, repeat until pan is full.

a little healthier and cheesy.

GRIZZZZOOOSSSSSS

Yeah. Meat or GTFO.

[ben ji]

Need some suggestions on what to cook Ben Ji's GF tonight, will probably grill something.

Last time I grilled some salmon with asperagus, thinking grilled chicken and some sort of veggie this time.

Needs to be less than 30 minute prep, only enough time to marinade for 1 hour.

What would you cook?

Grill some artichokes.  Here's the recipe I have used before.  It's amazing.

-Trim the artichoke as you would for any recipe, removing the toughest, outermost leaves, trimming the top, and snipping off the spiky ends of each leaf.
-Steam or boil the artichokes until tender.
-Drain the artichokes and cut them in half, lengthwise.
-Scoop out the choke, which will be exposed and visible once you slice open the artichoke.
-Brush the cut surface with olive oil and grill it (a grill pan will work fine, too) just until you get some char marks.
-Drizzle with a vinaigrette or herbed, melted butter.

Will do this next time.

Ended up grilling some herb chicken and kale because it was in my fridge and didn't have time to go to store.

[AST]

Cire that lasagna sounds awesome, will have to try it sometime

[Cire]

Cire that lasagna sounds awesome, will have to try it sometime

super good, probably have to cook it a little longer than you'd think.

[AST]

what we have here my friends is 111lbs of all natural, grass fed, corn finished, dna certified choice angus beef brisket along with 15lbs chuck ribs from the same cattle

   



not pictured is 25lbs yardbird leg quarters

someone from the internet/tmb getting married as hell saturday and I'll be damned if anyone at the reception is going hungry

[HerrSonntag]

Not saying a wedding reception is the best place to try things out, but i made a brisket that i substituted half of the normal seasoning with Curry seasonings (from parts, not the premixed crap from Dillons) and it was pretty awesome.

What kind of wood smoke will be gracing all those fallen beeves?

[AST]

mesquite all day long for this fool

[bones129]

what we have here my friends is 111lbs of all natural, grass fed, corn finished, dna certified choice angus beef brisket along with 15lbs chuck ribs from the same cattle

   



not pictured is 25lbs yardbird leg quarters

someone from the internet/tmb getting married as hell saturday and I'll be damned if anyone at the reception is going hungry

 

[sys]

grass-fed, corn-finished?

[jtksu]

Now is as good a place as any to ask: Why the corn finishing? 

[yoEMAW]

Consider it a last meal...like a death row inmate getting pizza and beer right before they fry his ass.

[jtksu]

Consider it a last meal...like a death row inmate getting pizza and beer right before they fry his ass.

I feel like I've been told it's for weight gain.  Like, it's a bad thing.  But, I've been told so many things about cattle feeding in the last few years it's hard to remember exactly what is supposedly good or bad.

[bones129]

Consider it a last meal...like a death row inmate getting pizza and beer right before they fry his ass.

They might get pizza, but I'll bet they don't get beer. That said, I'd give them any booze they want just before they go.

[AST]

it adds fat too them as the corn is generally slightly fermented.  the japaneese do this to the point of basically feeding them beer the grain has fermented so much

100% all grass is very healthy but quite lean

100% corn you are going to be trimming away so much of the meat and have huge intermuscular caps to deal with

Grass fed corn finished leaves you with great intramuscular fat but not huge amounts of intermuscular fat

[Institutional Control]

Just had the second best brisket ever yesterday. Slow Bone in Dallas. Good stuff.

[Mikeyis4dcats]

purely grass fed beef sucks, gotta have the corn finish.

I'm jealous you have a meat fridge.   I don't even have a beer fridge.

[sys]

grass-fed, corn-finished is how basically every standard american steer is raised, then fattened.  it's a weird thing to brag about.

[AST]

grass-fed, corn-finished is how basically every standard american steer is raised, then fattened.  it's a weird thing to brag about.

That's pretty weird because every farmer/rancher I knew or worked for growing up ALWAYS fed their cattle from a feed truck year round even when it was pasturing.  You know, go out to the pasture, pull up to the trough, drop the chute on the feed bin, turn on the auger, drive down to the end of the trough slowly so the whole thing fills up with little proccessed feed pellets

Sounds like you've heard about cattle but never actually worked around any

[Cire]

grass-fed, corn-finished is how basically every standard american steer is raised, then fattened.  it's a weird thing to brag about.

That's pretty weird because every farmer/rancher I knew or worked for growing up ALWAYS fed their cattle from a feed truck year round even when it was pasturing.  You know, go out to the pasture, pull up to the trough, drop the chute on the feed bin, turn on the auger, drive down to the end of the trough slowly so the whole thing fills up with little proccessed feed pellets

Sounds like you've heard about cattle but never actually worked around any

my grandfather raised Hereford this way.  The calves that he would have butchered were done AST's way.

[sys]

That's pretty weird because every farmer/rancher I knew or worked for growing up ALWAYS fed their cattle from a feed truck year round even when it was pasturing.  You know, go out to the pasture, pull up to the trough, drop the chute on the feed bin, turn on the auger, drive down to the end of the trough slowly so the whole thing fills up with little proccessed feed pellets

Sounds like you've heard about cattle but never actually worked around any

where did you grow up?

both of my grandparents raised cattle and i've spent decent chunks of my adult life working on cattle ranches in kansas, new mexico, arizona and mexico (but not with cattle).

cattle are also an interest of mine, so i've read a fair bit on them.  i never heard of anywhere where producers normally feed pastured beef cattle year round.  the closest i'm aware of would be areas with really soft grass like the gulf coast where some producers offer protein supplements to pasturing animals, but that's decidedly atypical and is a specific remedy for having low-protein pastures.

[bones129]

My money is on sys's analysis.

[meow meow]

I rough ridin' love, LOVE! A good grass fed vs corn fed beef debate

[jtksu]

My money is on sys's analysis.

Generally a good idea but I'm struggling with this one because AST seems to have pretty intimate interest and knowledge of meat. 

[bones129]

I rough ridin' love, LOVE! A good grass fed vs corn fed beef debate