Wow! Really. Wow! Merry Christmas!

You've outdone yourself... again! Merry Christmas to you and your gang!

Looks great. Where was my invitation? :-(

My DH and I are with you, Annie. Rare/medium rare is the only way to go!

You did a great job. Nice work! Now you've made us all hungry again, LOL.

Annie....YUM!!!

colleen, I do actually like vegetables, nearly all of them, and it's definitely time for some. Both the girls like vegetables but their husbands? Not so much, it's meat and potatoes for both of them. (shrug) Fine, more for me! That star was the work of The Princess, of course, she likes fiddling around like that. I ought to introduce her to dcarch, LOL.

jakkom, I agree, rare all the way. Actually, that middle could have been even a bit more rare and I'd have liked it. Elery asked me if I'd like some of the leftover slices this morning and I told him that reheating it would overcook it and just make it really expensive pot roast. He shook his head and smiled....

John, the invitation is open, all the time, I'd love to feed you!

Ellen and Plllog, Merry Christmas to you too. Ellen, I know we discussed tenderloin in the past, but I seldom have them cut, my family wants the Porterhouse steaks for the grill in the summer. This year, though, I just decided to go for it and got the tenderloin when the butcher asked for cutting instructions. Everyone loved it, so maybe next year again...

Mamapinky, I hope your meal was just as "yum".

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Annie

Annie, explain Elery's smoked "meatballs" .. Just sausage surrounded in ground beef wrapped in bacon and smoked?

Duan would scarf that down.

Will you get his time and temp instructions?

My husband isn't much of an explorer.. He likes baselined instructions.

One of the favorite simple smoked things around here is a sausage roll rolled in my rub mix and then smoked and sliced. It's like summer sausage.

And I'll have to remember the Monkey Princess' cheese tree shape for next year.

Terri!!!! Welcome back, I'm happy to see you.

Elery took links of sausage and sticks of cheese, surrounded those with a ground beef mixture seasoned with Montreal Steak seasoning, wrapped the whole thing in bacon and put it in the smoker at 240F until the centers reached 165F. He thinks they would be better if he had basted them with sauce while they were smoking, and he said it took about an hour and a half to cook them.

He's also made "armadillo eggs", which is a filling of cream cheese and chopped jalapenos, wrapped in sausage, wrapped in bacon and smoked, those are really good. The middle can actually be stuffed with anything you want, from pulled pork to corned beef and sauerkraut to ham and cheddar. Meat can be sausage or beef or a mixture or a layer of both. The only thing that's not negotiable is the bacon, LOL.

They are actually a miniature version of a "fatty", and he got the idea from a website called smoking-meat.com. They try hard to sell their rubs and sauces, but they have some really interesting recipes and Elery gets a newsletter from them. I've been trying to convince him to make the "pig shots". Of course, I've also been trying to convince him to smoke a whole beef brisket....

Annie

Thanks Annie, It's nice to see everyone is still doing their thing! I'm on winter break from school, so have quite a bit of down time right now and with the PNW rain.. Not much else can be done, but surf the web, play with the grandpup I'm raising and plan my next remodel stage.

I highly encourage the brisket! It's become a requested meat off the Traeger here!

I make him load that thing up on cooking day. Lol.. Then I use the meats in various ways through out the week.

I had him deep fry and smoke a turkey on Thanksgiving. That smoked turkey stock.. Wow!

Adding cheese to those "balls" hmmm even better. I told him about them. Can't wait for him to give them a whirl..

Annie, lol. A meat feast!

After 3 days of seafood we have had burgers, steaks, empanadas, (meat pies) and now making chili. : )....catching up with you. Just took a smoked fresh ham chunk out of the freezer.