Have I told you lately how much I love food? More accurately, how much I love cooking? First there is the research, then the shopping, the prepping, the mixing, the composing, and finally...a dish to build a dream on.
Yesterday I made pulled pork sandwiches and potato salad for the Super Bowl. I started the pork with a brine of 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup kosher salt, and 1 gallon of water. It sat in the brine for 8 hours, then I drained off the brine, rinsed the pork shoulder, and rubbed it with Creole Seasoning and brown sugar. I then placed it in a glass baking dish, covered it with foil, and baked it for 5 hours at 275 degrees in the oven. You would think that I should be done at this point, right? Oh no, I then placed on the grill and cooked over indirect heat with hickory chips on briquettes, for another 4 hours, smoking the meat at a lovely 200 degrees.
When that meat made it's way back into my kitchen, the whole house filled with the most mouth watering aroma and I realized that I am falling in love with BBQ. I am not talking about grilling or Faux Q but real old fashioned BBQ. I want a smoker and time to cook more meat and create more "died and gone to heaven" dishes.
It doesn't stop with BBQ though. I have been cooking more lately and for people who appreciate what I put together. I'm starting to dream in food and the word restaurant is cropping up more and more in my vocabulary. The food industry is a hard industry to work in. It is relentless, non stop, work work work. Oh, but the satisfaction of seeing others enjoy the fruits of your labors.....it may be my dream to pursue.
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What the heck..I made a comment and it doesn't show? Bahhh...anyway, you should send me some BBQ next time you make it ;)
ReplyDeleteMake the comment again.. ;) I will cook for you when you come to visit me in July. Are you going to come??
ReplyDeleteWe need Granddaddy's old smoker.....
ReplyDeleteI think of that all the time. I told Chuck about it and he and Mike are going to get barrels soon and make one. Hooray!!
ReplyDeleteI found you...sounds like a project to do. Your dad says become a chef-isn't there a school for that?
ReplyDeleteThere are many schools to become a chef. I would enjoy going to learn the technical aspects of cooking and refine my technique. Other than that, unless I want to work in a commercial kitchen, it doesn't supply much else.
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