Blog Archives - Craig Tabor, "There's nothing I haven't grilled!!"

Leftover Turkey...

11/30/2014

Like most, we have leftover turkey. I get tired of eating plain old turkey for days on end. I like to try to re purpose some of these leftovers.

I took the holy trinity (onions, carrots & celery. Also know as a mirepoix) and sweated them in a hot pan. Once translucent, I added a qt of home made stock, brought to a boil, then simmered for 20 minutes. In a separate small skillet, I created a roux (cooking raw flour in melted butter). I added the roux to the pot pie filling to thicken it.

I greased a 10" Lodge Cast Iron skillet with butter flavored crisco. I cheated and used a premade pie crust. Cooked at 450 for approx 20 minutes.

You should make some type of slices in the top crust. The"BGC" was just a little fun.

Click HERE for the full recipe

A Big Green Egg Thanksgiving

11/30/2014

We went to my mom & dad's for Thanksgiving this year. I was asked to bring the turkey. At the last minute, my mom told me that she was making a "back-up" turkey. "You know, just in case the Egg'd turkey doesn't turn out..."
Since there was going to be a traditional bird anyways, I decided to go non-traditional. I halved a 13# bird. One half is BBQ and the other half is buffalo. I made a compound butter for each using the rubs for each.

The BBQ bird was injected with a butter mixture, discs of the compound butter under the skin and rubbed with a BBQ rub.

The Buffalo bird was injected with a buffalo/butter mixture, discs of compound butter under the skin, rubbed with a spicy rub and basted with buffalo sauce towards the end of the cook.

The poor back-up bird was never touched...

I also coked a twice smoked ham. I added full cloves all over, basted with an apple/juice/honey mix and seasoned with a mixture of Meat Church Honey Hog, turbinado & brown sugar.The sugar made a honey baked ham type outer coating.

Flame Boss 100 Kamado GIVEAWAY!!!

11/23/2014

The Flame Boss 100 Kamado GIVEAWAY! 

The nice people from Flame Boss want to make your temperature control easier...for FREE!!! They want to give one away! You enter by "LIKE"ing the Flame Boss Facebook post of my review of the Flame Boss 100!

You must go to the Flame Boss Facebook page and "LIKE" the review post to be entered into the contest!

The giveaway will be implemented by choosing someone at random that "LIKES" the Flame Boss Facebook post about the review. The giveaway is limited to US residents using their personal Facebook account.
***The giveaway will end at 9 AM EST on Friday, 11/28***
The winner will be announced on the Flame Boss Facebook page on Friday morning.

Click HERE for the full review!

Pensaola EGGfest Highlights

11/18/2014

I was fortunate enough to judge the Pensacola EGGfest along side Moe Cason, Chris Grove (NibbleMeThis) & Christina Leavenworth, The setting for the EGGfest inside the Blue Wahoo's Ball Park overlooking the gorgeous Gulf of Mexico. All of the proceed's went to Chain Reaction, a teen leadership institute. With 60 Eggs and 40 teams cooking, there was tons of great grub! Here are some of my highlights.

Click HERE for the complete photo gallery.

Big Green Craig is Headed to Florida!

11/11/2014

I'm headed to Pensacola this weekend to judge the Pensacola Eggfest, presented by KIA Autosport ! Stop by and say hello!

Does the Mini Max low & slow?

11/9/2014

I have an XL and a Medium Egg and know what to expect on charcoal consumption throughout a low and slow cook. I wanted to test the Mini Max.

Does the Mini Max low & slow? I say yes!

I filled my fire bowl with some Carbon Del Sur charcoal. (First bag and I wanted to test it. I used zero smoking wood bc this was a charcoal test) I rolled a rack of St Louis cut spares and was surprised with the room still left. The Mini Max smoked an entire 6 hours at 250 and I had half of the lump left afterwards. I was really concerned about having to refill the coal on the MM due to it's shallow fire bowl, but it seems like it's a non-existent issue.

Very happy with the Mini Max so far!!

Big Green Egg Holiday EGGstraviganza! - Saturday, Dec 6

11/9/2014

I'll be demoing some recipes at Roswell Hardware Do It Best on Saturday, December 6. Come out for the best Egg deals, great food and great people! Stop by and say hello!!

The Eagle Has Landed... (Mini Max)

11/8/2014

The looooong awaited BigGreenEgg Mini Max is HERE!!! Roswell Hardware Do It Best in Roswell, GA received the very first Mini Max shipment and was nice enough to reserve one for me! A huge 'Thank You' to Jason and Gary White!

Jason White / Roswell Hardware

Gary White / Roswell Hardware

Mini Max photo gallery

A Burger from Hell...

11/2/2014

My neighbor brought me a sack of jalapenos. There must have been 40+ in the bag. I love jalapenos, but I was trying to figure out how I could use all of them. I decided on a roasted jalapeno relish for a burger. I removed the stems and cored about half of them. I roasted the jalapenos, then threw them into a food processor along with 1/2 an onion, a tomato, garlic and S&P.

The burger is ground chuck and pattied into 1/4lb patties. I topped the burger with habanero cheese, jalapeno relish and mayo and served it on a toasted pretzel bun. This burger was great and I will definitely do this again.