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Overnight. I'm hearing from different sources that oil does nothing to tenderize meat, and there's plenty of oil in Italian dressing.

Thanks.

Some parts were more tender than others. It was pretty good for a first shot. We got another picnic, so we're trying again real soon.

...just some grilling experimentation: After indirect-cooking a pork picnic for what seemed like four days and having it come out dry, we wanted to see if boning and marinating would make that cut more tender. Local store had half-picnics on sale. I found a small piece that felt like there was no bo...

Who eats live baby eels? Which nation? That's definitely too much. I have eaten eel but I can guarantee you it was very dead. A story: I was in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass; took a lunch break at a small French Restaurant [ around the corner from Julia Childs home ]. I ordered a poor-mans lunch,...

Pixie wrote:If you Google the Galloping Gourmet on YouTube you can watch him! I did it last night and ended up watching a couple of his old shows!

It was GREAT!

Coool! Must try. Thanks!

:lolh: He was the funniest guy!!!!! You can watch his shows on YouTube!!!!! He had great cooking shows but I am not sure about all of his recipes... sometimes they seemed over the top, but he was a great personality. I used to love his show; he was a hoot. Then he got a bad case of Liberal Food San...

:shock: This isn't the same Frugal...oh, never mind... I was thinking of the Frugal Gourmet! Not the Frugal Chef! :lolh: Gosh, now you guys know how old I am! :lolh: Does anyone here remember the Frugal Gourmet! I had every one of his cookbooks. Me! I had one of his cookbooks, too, but used to watc...

This is a very adaptible recipe...might try it with Ritz some day.

Muahahaaaaa....

Actually we were gonna get a portable oven, too. Would have come in handy today and tomorrow. Oh, well, that's what crock pots are for.

Great ideas. I will have to try this on Black Friday.

I freely admit I swiped this recipe off another forum, but DANG they are guuuuuud. And easy to make. I made a one-third recipe. Used butter because I don't own margarine, and used a combo of walnuts and pecans 'cause that's what I had on hand. Could get away with using slightly less butter. Should h...

Thanks! Too bad we don't have Taste-O-Vision.

I had picked up a package of pork on sale that said, Country Ribs. But it wasn't. This was instead a couple of loin slabs. Not a lot of fat. They were going to be too dry for what I had in mind. So we wrapped the individual cuts in bacon and loaded them in BBQ shake. They went into a pan on the gas ...

I'm pretty sure it's just almonds ground to a powder.

Wow, that is fabulous! Good for you! That is the kind of store I would visit often, even if i didn't need anything. I would love talking to those Italians. It's actually a little dangerous for us to go there. ;) Anyone coming to my neck of the woods gets a standing invitation to tour Unca Gee's.

Uncle Giuseppe's: a limited East Coast supermarket chain. Like a giant high-end pork store. We call it Unca Gee's. Good Lord, that is the most magnificent website and store I have ever seen! Of course it's no surprise that it's in NY. The videos are fantastic, and they even give you the recipes. I ...

Uncle Giuseppe's: a limited East Coast supermarket chain. Like a giant high-end pork store.

We call it Unca Gee's.

The first time we did a whole picnic I was scared.



It did come out reeeel guuud, though.

Try it! It's just about my favorite way to do pork that isn't ribs.

The cut has to be from a Boston butt, not a picnic.

How 'bout now?

This is quick-n-easy, and you can manage it either on a gas rig or coal-burner.

Great web site.

In fact, that's kinda how we do it, and we're lucky if there are leftovers.

Gotta try this. Uncle Guiseppe's sells ready made meatballs that are reeel guuuud.

Definitely.

Now we gotta wait a year to try it.

We took a lot of storm damage from Sandy that year, which blew down four or five big trees. Our regular landscape crew was able to remove the downed trees but suggested there were others that needed pro removal and stump grinding, so we had called a tree removal company this spring before storm seas...

One of these days we'll find out and file a report.

Why, thankee!

We saved a bit of the wood for BBQ smokeage. It's mostly oak and swamp maple, neither of which we've tried before.

Here's what we had in our yard up until yesterday.

Amen! Would those be BEEF short ribs? Can not find them here, noway nohow. I am really surprised if you live where I think you live. Dang, i didn't think there was anything you couldn't get in that area. NYC area, right? Remember, you can't even get salt, butter or a big soda in 'that area.' :lol:

Amen!

Would those be BEEF short ribs? Can not find them here, noway nohow.

Thanks, ever'one....we have yet to try the 3-2-1 rib method. We never foil-wrap but I'm curious, and we still have a temporary Big Box Store membership. Time to buy more ribs.