Smoking Meat with Papaw

02/24/2025

02/24/2025

Hey folks,has spring sprung or is Mother Nature just pulling us to sleep lol!Anyway,I am still smoking but the weather has been hard on Ol Papaw!Just some pics of a brisket and a pork butt from a couple of recent cooks,all good BTW!Today for Sheryls birthday I smoked some chicken quarters.Used the new Lanes Legendary Chicken Rub cooked on the Masterbuilt at 310 degrees to crisp the skin.Great tasting chicken,I got Gabes seal of approval too! Keep your fires lit folks! Papaw Greg

02/10/2025

01/09/2025

Hey folks,been a little quiet through the holiday weeks,lots of family,snow,snow, oh and the snow and more on the way,I have to clear areas in the yard for the three dogs,lol,thats fine tho! I did smoke some pecans and cashews for the holidays,pretty tasty!The pecans I coated with some dark maple syrup and Kinders Brown Sugar Rub,Cashews got a thin coat of Blue Ridge Butter Infused Olive Oil then a dusting of Lanes Maple Pecan Rub!Smoked at 225 for about an hour and a half then into the Christmas Tins!Think I might do them more often!Then to fill some time ,Reorganized my BBQ cabinet,can you tell this might be an obsession?I even got some new ones for Christmas!Happy New year folks and keep your fires lit! Papaw Greg

12/31/2024

Gonna be better,RIGHT!

12/24/2024

🎅🎄Merry Christmas Everyone 🎄🎄🎅

12/24/2024

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12/12/2024

12/02/2024

It was a busy 24 hours for Mr and Mrs Papaw!We were helping some hungry folks with their Thanksgiving meal prep which I am more than happy to do!Started about 6 Wednesday evening with a 10 lb pork butt which was finished 12 hours later.I filled the void in the OC with our 2 12 lb birds and an 8lb breast,they were in need of some smoke!Next I fired up the MB GRAVITY and filled it with a 12lb ham, a pan of brisket beans and a pan of mac & cheese!What a rush!Timing was great all pulled by 11:30 am Thursday!We're still eating turkey,lol!Keep your fires lit folks! Papaw Greg

11/12/2024

Howdy folks,Papaw did some light work this weekend!Smoked a pan of brisket beans and couple racks of ribs ,and a couple flavors of smoked cream cheese.This was all for some friends and I enjoy taking care of my people!I kept the fire hot and threw on a 6lb pork loin for our own dinner.I used a new rub I found at the Habitat for Humanity Craft Fair.BTW,the rub is Big Belly Pork Rub,small company out of Fortville,he gets my reccomendation,really good flavor!We'll bout time to decide what size turkey I want to smoke,plenty of time.Well folks,keep your fires lit!Papaw Greg

10/19/2024

We are their whole world!

Pets, it turns out, also have last wishes before they die, but only known by veterinarians who put old and sick animals to sleep. Twitter user Jesse Dietrich asked a vet what was the most difficult part of his job.
The specialist answered without hesitation that it was the hardest for him to see how old or sick animals look for their owners with the eyes of their owners before going to sleep. The fact is that 90 % of owners don't want to be in a room with a dying animal. People leave so that they don't see their pet leave. But they don't realize that it's in these last moments of life that their pet needs them most.
Veterinarians ask the owners to be close to the animals until the very end. "It's inevitable that they die before you. Don't forget that you were the center of their life. Maybe they were just a part of you. But they are also your family. No matter how hard it is, don't leave them.
Don't let them die in a room with a stranger in a place they don't like. It is very painful for veterinarians to see how pets cannot find their owner during the last minutes of their life. They don't understand why the owner left them. After all, they needed their owner’s consolation.
Veterinarians do everything possible to ensure that animals are not so scared, but they are completely strangers to them. Don't be a coward because it's too painful for you. Think about the pet. Endure this pain for the sake of their sake. Be with them until the end.

10/19/2024

Dinner and a show!We just ignore them! Lol