What's for Dinner?

Went simple tonight - spaghetti and homemade meatballs. It's a bit of work to do your own meatballs, but I think they are better than frozen, and I enjoy the process. Used ground beef, pork, and chicken tonight. Pretty tasty!
This was discussed when we went to dinner with friends at an Italian restaurant last night. I announced that I have never in my life ordered spaghetti in a restaurant and I never will. Because I make it at home so often why wouldn't I try something I don't make?

I admit it, I had veal. I have not had veal in decades for obvious reasons. It was fantastic but I won't be doing that again for a long time.
 
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This is from Bradley Smokers regarding their version of a Hawaiian Sausage - https://www.bradleysmoker.com/blogs/recipes-pork/hawaiian-style-portagee-sausage

Smoked Hawaiian Style (Portagee) Sausage Recipe​

Hawaiians often refer to this style of sausage as ‘Portagee Sausage’ (no insult intended). Portagaee sausage is the Hawaiian variation of Portuguese Linguica. It is sweeter and not as “hot” as the original Linguica-style sausages. The formula was developed as a result of my tasting several different version of Hawaiian sausages and selecting my favorite flavours.

From Kamanodental

Ingredients​

2 ¼ Lb pork butt
¾ Lb fat back
2 Tsp salt
6 Tbsp cane sugar, brown
2 Tbsp paprika
1 Tsp Phosphates (optional)
½ Tsp Instacure #1
2 Tsp garlic - granulated
1 Tsp anise - ground
4 Tbsp pineapple juice
3 Tbsp soy sauce
1 Tbsp hot sauce-optional (I like to use red Italian pepper flakes)
32 Mm hog casings

Preparation​

Cut the meat and fat into cubes, partially freeze, then grind them together through the medium plate of the grinder.
Combine the salt, Instacure # 1, and phosphate with the pineapple juice; stir well to dissolve and then mix in well with the meats.
Sprinkle sugar, paprika, garlic and anise over the meats; pour in the soy sauce and hot sauce and mix well.
Refrigerate 12 hours to develop flavors in the meat.
Stuff into 32 mm hog casings; tied off in pairs–8 inches long.
Air dry the casings; a small fan helps out here.
Place in a 160°F preheated smoker; apply a light smoke and hold until the internal temperature of the sausage is 150°F (use your smoking method if different).
Cool at room temperature; then refrigerate (extras can be vacuum sealed and frozen).
 
Wow, that's great! I got my work cut out for me. Thank you. I've never made sausage before - I'm a little nervous about messin' around with phosphates and stuff.

"I like to use red Italian pepper flakes." Is that you talking, AD? You've made this?

Yes, I've read they are spam freaks over there. :ROFLMAO: When I was in HS, my friend and I would make spam and baked beans for lunch at his house. Best lunch ever! :p
 
Wow, that's great! I got my work cut out for me. Thank you. I've never made sausage before - I'm a little nervous about messin' around with phosphates and stuff.

"I like to use red Italian pepper flakes." Is that you talking, AD? You've made this?

Yes, I've read they are spam freaks over there. :ROFLMAO: When I was in HS, my friend and I would make spam and baked beans for lunch at his house. Best lunch ever! :p

Not me. The recipe and all their comments are from Bradley. My sausage knowledge is buying Wegmans chorizos and sweet German ones.
 
Drove to West Virginia today to stock up on more beef ribs. We buy them four bones per rack and then cut them down to 2 bones since there's only the wifey and me. I'm smoking one tomorrow and the rest are going into the freezer. More pics tomorrow for that smoke.


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What fish are you kabobing? I've never done fish like that before since mine would just fall off the kabob during the cook.
 
I usually use salmon cubes but using some inexpensive swai. Octopus is fantastic as well.
 
I've made a ton of sausages in my life. The trick is the fat content and the seasoning. I only use curing salt if I'm going to slow smoke the sausages. Let me know if I can help.
 
Up early to start the beef ribs. Most times I use my own all purpose rub which is 1 part salt, 2 parts pepper, and 1/2 part garlic powder. Today though, I'm using Goldies BBQ rub which is very popular in Texas. I've seen several youtubes where guys like Chuds rave about Goldies rub.

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I'm running these on my traeger inside my screened porch since they were calling for rain tonight or tomorrow. I try to keep the rain off of my chest smoker so I use this traeger when they call for rain.

Firing up the smoke tube since pellet smokers rarely give off enough smoke.

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That looks fantastic. I gotta get me some hoisin sauce now. Is that similar to teriyaki sauce and do you make your own or buy it?
 
It's a plum-based sauce, very sweet. Any grocery will have it in the Asian ingredients section.
 
Supper last night. Nice marbled ribeye from HT. Dry brined for four hours. Cooked indirect on the weber, flipped at 85, then seared over the coals when it hit 115 F. But the grate wasn't pre-heated hot over the hot coals. Took it inside at 128 F. Rested it. Wife complained of inadequate grill marks. She is merciless but keeps me on my toes. We split the steak - we each get half the spinalis and half of the rest.

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Tried something new last night. I started out with Myron MIxon's Peach glazed grilled chicken recipe which I've made several times, but the chicken was never tender enough for me. His recipe is pretty much marinade in peach glaze, grill it, and brush a little more peach glaze on.

Instead of that I seasoned the chicken with salt and pepper, grilled it to 160, and then foil panned it with the peach glaze/sauce for 15 minutes back on the grill. It looks pretty good but still not tender enough so next time I'll pan it for 30 minutes instead of 15.

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