Picanah

Smoked Picanah Roast

I recently bought a 2.7 lb picanah roast from the organic butcher in McLean.  Picanah is the sirloin cap.  If you are interested in what that means there is a good picture of where picanah comes from here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picanha#/search.  

 

Cast Iron Blueberry Cobbler

Smoked Cast Iron Skillet Blueberry Cobbler

Ingredients 

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon rosemary (minced)
• 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1 cup granulated sugar 
• 1 lemon (zested and juiced)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups blueberries
• 4 tablespoons granulated sugar to coat the blueberries

 

Smoked Easy Delicious BBQ Bacon Meatloaf

I was at the pool today expecting to grill up a beer can chicken.  Well, those plans went off the rails and I needed something quick an delicious to make.  My wife had a meatloaf recipe that is fantastic that she has modified from one of those low-calorie, good for you recipes to fully add the delicious fat back into the recipe.    More importantly, the local butcher had some dry aged beef on sale for $5.99/lb.  I figured this was the perfect opportunity to kick the recipe up a notch.  Then, I decided it was time to take that recipe and try it on the smoker.  It turned out delicious.

Random Funky Wines

I recently attended a gathering where the only instruction was to bring a bottle of funky wine.  Now, understand that almost everyone that attended this gathering was a wine connoisseur, so the wines were all over the place but were definitely funky.  Therefore, if you are looking for funky wines and don't know where to start, this blog post may be for you.  I have done my best to try to find the current prices for these wines. 

Dirty and Rowdy Wines

I had the privilege of having a fantastic roast pig dinner with Hardy, one of the owners of Dirty and Rowdy wines the other night.  He brought some of his best wines and we sampled wines with delicious pig.