Firecooked!: Recent Comments

Comment on Pots from pottery class

Mom — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:53:48 GMT

I like your pots. The one in the middle and the face on the end are the ones I like best. Looking forward to seeing more.

Comment on Bread for stuffing and other Thanksgiving comments

Deb — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:31:08 GMT

I sometimes channel my inner grandmother, but only when using bread my actual grandmother would have made!

Comment on Thanksgiving's coming

Deb — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:26:55 GMT

Just a note -- the Alton Brown recipe worked well, everyone loved it!

Comment on Bread for stuffing and other Thanksgiving comments

Phyllis — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:59:19 GMT

Your stuffing was great, but way too much work for me. My mother always had a basket in the cupboard to put slices of bread in. This filled with all kinds of end of the loaf pieces which was made into stuffing.

Comment on Bread for stuffing and other Thanksgiving comments

Lou — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:52:27 GMT

The stuffing is great. Starting into the second container of it today and I have not run out of gravy. Yea! Sorry I didn't like the Brussels sprouts, maybe they just need more bacon??
The bad juju in Pepperidge Farms stuffing is HFCS.
I figured ribs might be a bit heavy so smoking wings it was.

Recipe

Smoked Chicken Wings

4 to 7 lbs of Chicken wings (depends on how big your smoker is)

Couple of cups of lemon juice
Paprika
Cayenne Pepper
Lemon Pepper
Minced Garlic

Chop wings into into 3 pieces, throw away tips. Put wings into a dish with garlic and enough lemon juice to cover the wings. Put into the fridge over night. Move wings around two or three times to get the lemon juice in everywhere.

Load smoker with enough wood for about an hour to an hour and half of smoking depending on how much smoke flavor you want or depending on the wood you use. I use mesquite for this.

Smoking time is very dependent on your smoker and how hot it runs. I use an electric one with allow you cook at a consistent temperature.

Lemon Pepper Wing Sauce

1 Lemon.
1/2 to 1 stick of butter
Pepper
Garlic Powder

Put butter into a sauce pan and heat on medium. Scrape some lemon zest (aka lemon peel..) into pan. Squeeze juice from lemon into pan. Add garlic salt and pepper to sauce. I grind the pepper on to a medium to large size. How much depends on your taste buds.

Red Hot Sauce

Buy Red Devil Hot sauce and follow directions. Since we did not have any we messed around some stuff which did not come out too well but did get me thinking about a mustard based sauce which I will play around with next time I make wings.

One variant to this and to speed it up is smoke on the smoker for the first hour and put in the oven for 1/2 hour to an 1 hour.

Thanks again to Debbie, Phyllis, and Sharon for a wonderful Thanksgiving Day dinner. It doesn't get any better than good family, good friends, and great food. Don't want to forget Roy for picking out a great bottle of wine to go with dinner.

Comment on Thanksgiving's coming

Deb — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:00:36 GMT

Here is the recipe I'm planning to use... http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/best-ever-green-bean-casserole-recipe/index.html

May still use the Durkee Onions, need to look at the can to see if there is some awful stuff in them.

Comment on Thanksgiving's coming

margaret — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:18 GMT

Deb - post the recipe for the mushroom soup, will you? The casserole seems like a great way to get my four-year-old to eat vegetables, but I hate cooking with the junk in soup cans if not necessary! Thanks

Comment on Thanksgiving's coming

Roy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:12 GMT

Don't forget the move away from RediWhip and the introduction of hand whisked whipped cream for the pies!

>> How could I forget! Deb

Comment on A good book, at last!

Richard — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:57:46 GMT

off topic for your entry, but as I posted on Chow:
http://www.windsorparkhotel.com/

a friend and his son stayed there recently and sounded satisfied, maybe a 10 minute walk to Metro and a good variety of restaurants. very safe neighborhood near Embassy Row.

.... Thanks Hill Food! I will look at this. Deb

Comment on Hawaii Trip

Mom — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:20:56 GMT

Clicked on more pictures, but got message page not avalible

>> The link has been fixed. Deb