Saturday's Rib Roast Smoke

Although it was only 13 degrees out last Saturday, this rib roast had a date with one of my smokers.

Rubbed with salt, pepper and a little garlic powder


I brought my small gas smoker in the shop for the job. To get the smoke from the stack to go outside instead of clouding up the shop, I bought a piece of aluminum dryer exhaust hose and slipped in over the smoker exhaust and through a window. One pane was replaced with an aluminum plate which had a hole the size of my exhaust hose.








It still needs some work, but it worked for the rib roast.

After being in the smoker @ 235 for three hours.


5 1/2 hours in the smoker, it's ready to be wrapped up to rest for another hour.


Final inspection.....looks good enough for me to eat!!


I need to tweak things a bit, but I think I'm going to do more winter smokes with this setup. :)

Gene

Gene's Culinary Skills.....LOL

We took out my little "kitchen" out of the shop to make room for the woodstove and firewood for the winter. I've been using the woodstove for cooking dinner for the two pigs that are temporarily living in the shop until the ground thaws enough to put up a fence for them.





A pot of turnips (greens n' all) on the stove


All cooked


Chopped up


Now the good part

add some doughnuts......


some grain.....


and mash it all together



I know, it doesn't sound or look very good at all......

but they love it!!


LOLOL!!!


Gene

I need some sleep!

Okay, I love animals just like the rest of you but this is getting serious! We have not had a full night of sleep for over 10 days now! Three in the morning and again at six the coyotes that are “vacationing” at our farm are driving us crazy! Even Diesel has had it with them! Each night I hope that they have moved on to wherever they go after vacationing at our farm but NO! Each night the barking and howling calls back and forth to one another are driving me insane. If I get up and peer out the back of our house to see if I can spot them I see nothing but the moon shining on the snow cover. No sign of them! Diesel can hear/smell them and wants at them badly. One he could handle but not four or five so we hold him off. I wonder if they can smell our piglets? Hmmm I hadn’t thought of that before. Someone asked me today “Oh, you have pigs?” Yes, I said! Pork Chops and Bacon! “Is that what you named them?” they ask. “No!” I say that is what they will become!


Chris

Piggy Vids...LOL

Hopefully this video comes out a little better than the last one!

Gene

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New Piglets

Per requests....our newest family members, Choppy and Hammy.

They may seem alittle crazy, but they sure are gonna make some great BBQ!

Gene

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Tobacco Stalks

I haven't gotten to take any pics of taking the tobacco down from the shed, or of stripping the leaves off yet this year....I will get some the next time we take some down. I did however get some pics of pulling the stalks off the lath.

Here the leaves are in 30 lbs bundles, the stalks and lath are piled behind the bundles.


Ed Sr. feeds the lath with stalks through the Lath Puller.



Two rolls pull the lath through the headboard leavin the stalks on a shelf.




The lath are tied into buldes of about 50 and piled in the corner of the shed for next years use.
The stalks are piled into a wagon and will be spread out on pasture and corn fields.

The white circles in the pics are the camera capturing the flash reflecting off all the dust in the air.

One shed done....two more to go!



Gene

Cooling Down

Well this is certainly a day to see the frost on the pumpkin………that is IF we had any pumpkins! Some crops did sooooo well and others not so much! Even our “pup” Diesel didn’t want to crawl out of bed to get a biscuit! That is saying something. It’s definitely turning cold now and it will make it much harder for the guys to strip the tobacco. Even being in the shed with some protection after the sun goes down it gets cold very fast.
The geese are flying south but also finding some of the fields to make a stopover and the gun fire is abundant. First thing in the morning you can hear the shots being fired. Several farms around us must have them set to go off!
My windshield needed scraping this morning too! I am not ready for cold weather! I would have liked a few more weeks of 45-50 degree weather but I think we are in for some pretty low temperatures now. I guess that means the turnips will be much sweeter this year! Jean brought out his coveralls and so the season goes on!
On our farm the work doesn’t stop because the season is over! Now some of the other work begins. This weekend sweet corn was cooked and packaged for the freezer. The sheds will house some of the tractors as the tobacco is stripped and bundled. The stalks will be put out in the fields to go back in the ground from where it came.
At home our Oak trees are sharing their abundance with us too! Lots of acorns and many, many leaves to cover the ground…….now of course we expect the rain because each year we have not been able to rake or pick up the leaves due to continual rain! Let’s hope we can get some of them up!


Chris