Posts Tagged ‘barbecue’
Smoked Leg of Lamb
Smoked Leg of lamb
Due to work commitments there has been very little BBQ action happening recently as weekends have been spent writing. This finally got done in early June, so the first weekend afterwards it was time to make up for last time and try out something new. Today were are going to try out a smoked leg of lamb. Back in the UK, lamb is much more common than it is in the US but in the UK you don’t get a chance to do BBQ very often (at least not in the dry). So I was keen to try a smoked version of something I don’t get very often and kinda miss. Read on to see how it turned out.
Rubbed leg of lamb ready to go on the smoker
Santa Maria-style Tri-tip (Reverse Sear)
Santa Maria-style Tri-tip
Wow, its been a while hasn’t it… ? A combination of lots of travel, meetings, holidays and other problems has meant that there has been a definite lack of barbecue action (and even what little BBQ action has happened such as the pulled pork I made for the Superbowl has not been written up here). Today we are going to try and rectify this by a cook of Santa Maria style Tri-tip. While I have cooked this before (I’m pretty sure cooking of it is mandated in CA’s overly long Constitution…), I don’t think I’ve recorded the process and I’ve also never been fully happy with how it has turned out (as the state BBQ dish pretty much, it seems important to me to get it right…). So inspired by a different method proposed by Meathead in his amazing book which Miss AdventuresInBBQ got me for Christmas, I decided to give it another go via the method of reverse searing.
The tri-tip undergoing its final sear over direct heat just before it comes off the grill.
Pork Rib (Baby back ribs, dry Memphis style)
Pork Baby back ribs (dry rub Memphis style)
Today we are doing pork ribs in the dry rub/Memphis style. Traditionally this uses St.-Louis cut spare ribs but since these seem to be rarer than hen’s teeth (which don’t make good barbecue…) in these parts, we are attempting it with the smaller baby back ribs instead. Read on to see how they turned out.
Baby Back Ribs on the smoker