Cooking

Outdoor cooking experiments—primarily on my Big Green Egg and new Traeger grill—are documented here. Posts recount brisket attempts, sous‑vide pork butt sessions and holiday tenderloin traditions, with candid notes on smoke, temperature and results.

March 31, 2014

Well hello St. Louis BBQ! So good! At Sugarfire.

A rack of smoked BBQ ribs with dark bark on butcher paper, with a cut rib showing pink smoke ring and a side of mac and cheese.

December 15, 2013

Holiday cookie baking at friends.

My job on cookie day: spritz gun!

Adults and children pressing chocolate Hershey Kiss candies onto peanut butter cookie rounds on baking sheets at a kitchen table.

Baking sheet covered with unbaked spritz cookies in flower and ring shapes, with piping tips in a plastic container nearby.

November 27, 2013

Making Wassail Tea. Holiday can officially start now.

November 9, 2013

Getting ready for Big Green Egg steak time.

Big Green Egg smoke.

Five raw ribeye steaks with visible marbling resting on a wooden cutting board on a kitchen counter

Big Green Egg cast iron ash tool resting on top of a smoky ceramic grill lid outdoors at dusk.

October 5, 2013

Looking for dinner ideas.

Disney's Mickey Mouse Cook Book held open showing Mickey Mouse dressed as a chef carrying a platter of food with Chip and Dale at his feet

August 18, 2013

Blank Big Green Egg canvas. Awaiting its subject.

Whole tenderloin ready for Big Green Egg.

Today’s PSA: always burp your Big Green Egg

Tenderloin meet Big Green Egg.

Big Green Egg progress.

Time to eat! Big Green Egg

Homemade apple pie from Tammy for dessert.

Big Green Egg kamado grill open with flames visible through the cast iron grate, sitting on a wood deck

Raw whole beef tenderloin seasoned with salt and pepper on a wooden cutting board on a kitchen counter

Hairy forearm covered in fiberglass insulation strands held near a ladder on a wooden deck

Seasoned whole beef tenderloin tied with twine cooking on a Big Green Egg kamado grill over glowing charcoal flames.

Whole beef tenderloin with crosshatch grill marks cooking over open flames inside a Big Green Egg ceramic grill

August 1, 2013

Mom grilling for sisters birthday!

Colorful vegetable and meat kebabs on skewers cooking on a large gas grill outdoors

July 6, 2013

Whole tenderloin (4 lbs) came off the Big Green Egg great!

Sliced beef tenderloin with a dark crust and pink medium-rare center on a white plate with a fork, on a colorful table.

June 15, 2013

Not my Big Green Egg. Still awesome.

Large green Big Green Egg ceramic charcoal grill on a wooden table outdoors, with a bottle of Southern Tier Unearthly IPA beside it.

May 11, 2013

Mothers Day BBQ Ribs

Made dry rubs for 5 full racks of ribs and pork shoulder. Firing up Big Green Egg today for Mothers Day BBQ. Ready for dry rub. Rubbed. Time to get Big Green Egg smoking. Even the little Big Green Egg is working today.

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