NEVER GO FULL ROYAL IN THE KITCHEN!

This herb butter rocks on a good steak.

It'd probably go well with a t-bone, but I don't care for strip steaks much.

it was my first real brisket. I'd done a flat about 7 years ago in a bullet smoker, and you can imagine how that went. Now that I've gotten back into smoking and have proper equipment I gave it another go.

The thin end of the flat got a little dry, but not too bad. Other end and point were nice and juicy. I made burnt ends and frankly wish I had used rub instead of sauce, but I ran out of rub ingredients.

OK, so this is kind of an southern engineered up mess of making supper.

So here's the story. I bought a cold smoke attachment for my rig, because the wife dictated that I would smoke her cheese. It came in a few weeks ago and I've been too busy. So I decided yesterday was the day. I bought the cheese. I'm sitting here thinking it is dumb to use this giant ass smoker for 2 blocks of cheese. I've got some tenderized round steaks that need used up. So I took a shot in the dark and decided to cold smoke them, and sear the **** out of them on the grill, and hopefully it would retain some of the juice. It made sense in my head. The main thing is that if it was terrible, oh well, it was tenderized rounds and I needed to get rid of them anyway.

Anyway, here's what happened.

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Here is the cheese and round steak in the smoker. I didn't season them before I stuck them in there.

As a side note, I hope I don't kill myself by having raw meat in the same cooker as cheese. I'm pretty sure they have to touch the same surfaces (I made sure they didn't), but if I die, that's probably why.

http://i.imgur.com/ce6LLW6.jpg

Here is my smoker setup. I was trying to explain it to Lewdog and did a poor job. Anyway, the tabletop next to the smoker is really useful. And the chip storage below is neither here nor there, but it is nice to keep all the shit contained in a neat package. It fits really nice next to my wall mounted air compressor in the garage. Really space efficient.

http://i.imgur.com/TQVqqD8.jpg

I didn't get a picture on the grill, but this is what they looked like off the grill. I put a little seasoning on. I wish I'd have measured and written it down, because it was pretty damn good, although I should have put more on. Anyway, it consisted of:

chili powder
cumin
onion powder
kosher salt
A few flakes of crushed red pepper

I grilled them as damn hot as I could get the grill. I ended up over cooking 2 of the 4, but it went pretty well. I should have trusted my instincts and taken them off, rather then being scared of undercooking them.

I then chopped them against the grain.

Here is the finished product:

http://i.imgur.com/N4byDw7.jpg

So I'm looking at this thing, and thinking to myself that I just GRILLED a tenderized round steak with some dumbass rub that my dumbass just threw together. This is going to suck. Bad.

It didn't. It was REALLY good. Not world class, it's still damn round steak, but it was faaaaar better than I anticipated. There was some nice smoke flavor, along with my ghetto seasoning. It ended up being better than when we use chicken and fajita seasoning. Maybe I should have cold smoked some chicken breasts and compared the two, but I didn't get it done.

The one thing that I was disappointed in that I couldn't achieve the seal in the juices with the sear, I imagine it had to with the tenderized part. It wasn't dry or tough, but it wasn't nice and juicy like you'd like.

Overall, though, it was really good for using junk meat. If I'm going to run the cold smoker again, I'll do this again. Maybe I'll throw on some burgers or steaks and see how the tastes transfer through the grill.

The cheese turned out really good.

Here is the salsa I used. I love it.
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What's everyone eating?


We need some more pics damnit
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Hey what's a good fajita seasoning recipe?

A fajita seasoning packet

McCormick Skillet Sauce with roasted chili, garlic & lime.

Wrong. The laughable concoction I came up with was better than the packets we normally use.

Now peanut butter is an idea.

Im gonna drink a bottle of Nalley's cat radish Potato Sauce.

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The younger son got a great post-op checkup today, is up to "soft" food (from blenderized), so it was sushi baby....

Good to hear about the youngin