It's barbecue day!

[HellHound]

three beef briskets, two boneless pork loins, three more hunks of pork (for pulling), several racks of ribs, three ducks, and a turkey in smoking. The fish (salmon and haddock) goes in at 3pm.

Des this have anything to do with the power outage?

Last time I cooked THAT much meat was because we had lost power and weren't getting it back for a few days, so we cooked everything in the freezer.

 

[Piratecat]

Actually, it wasn't at my place. We used to host it every other year, but three things happened:

1. The two other co-hosts got married to one another
2. The two other co-hosts bought a big house with a huuuuge lawn and a pool
3. The number of people attending grew to roughly 90 people

Thus, we now have it up in New Hampshire. The only down side is that as dusk falls, their mosquito population is positively vicious. That's a pretty small price to pay.

The day was a huge success! We cooked 98 pounds of meat, had 90 people attend (give or take a few), and had absolutely ideal weather. This is the 7th year we've done it, but this might have been my favorite. For one thing we finished preparing the food relatively early. . . last year the evite accidentally told people that the bbq started at 2pm instead of the 4pm we all assumed, and we were really caught off guard when folks showed up "early."

I have a few photos; I'll post them when I find my camera.

Final meat list:

Beef brisket
Pork Morocco
Braised pork ribs
Smoked turkey
"Best" duck
Jamaican jerk ribs (the only disappointment -- we'll cook them differently next year)
Tuscan pork
Pulled pork with mustard/vinegar sauce
Duck Morocco
Ginger salmon
Mesquite halibut

Thank goodness everyone else brought side dishes and desserts.

 

[Wyn A'rienh]

My mouth is watering.

 

[Umbran]

Mmmmmm....... 'Nuff said.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Oh, the irony that there was not an uncooked slab of steak left over for Cris' eye.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

Sounds good. I wondered what the smell in the air was.

You're from Jersey?

And you assume that smell is smoking MEAT? I'd go check to see exactly WHAT/WHO is on fire.

 

[Steve Jung]

You're from Jersey?

And you assume that smell is smoking MEAT? I'd go check to see exactly WHAT/WHO is on fire.

I just checked. My car was on fire.

 

[Maldur]

Sounds great , I still remember that pulled pork from last year

Actually I remember it so well I got hold of my own vertical smoker, and Ill be picking it up this afternoon ( that was really hard, they are pretty much unknown around here).

So any BBQ advice would be great.

Kevin, can you send me the isbn/name from that book?