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Saturday might MoSup
asked Hucker if we could bring anything to the Christening. "Yes,
Danny's famous pork bbq," he answered all smart-alecky, referring
to my BIL's famous pork bbq that he stays up all night to pamper into
something so delicious that it was nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize. Ha-Ha. Sunday morning I decided to grant his
request, and this is where the heresy comes in. It begins with
another bit of bbq unorthodoxy.
Oft
times MoSup will say, around 5 PM, "I shor would like me some ribs
tonight." So this one time I decided to try and come up with a
passable version for 6PM dinner.
I grabbed a rack of frozen ribs from the freezer, and snapped them in
half with a sharp crack on the edge of the butcher block so they fit in
the pressure cooker. I prepare my ribs for freezing by rubbing
them in Schlong's famous dry Rub,
and vacuum sealing them, so nothing more was added. I pressure
cooked them for 30 minutes, and let them sit for another 15 minutes
while the steam dissipated. When I opened the lid, the ribs were
near falling off the bone. I tonged them onto a cooking sheet,
sprinkled some more Schlong's on them, and popped them under a waiting
broiler for about 10 minutes, just to crisp them.
How good were they? Good enough that MoSup won't eat them any other way.
Shhhhh.
So, Sunday morning I thought , hmmmmm. I ran up to the Food Lion and bought a pork butt that weighed about four pounds. I coated it with Schlong's and
popped it in the pressure cooker for 90 minutes, then let it
decompress another 15 minutes. After pouring the meat and
cooking juices into a baking pan, I pulled my pork with a fork (owwy), then to
the gas grill. I packed the smoker pan
with some dead tree limbs (plum),and let it go at 300° for an
hour.
HMFS! I know it was good, because by this time Rahouy, a famous
food snob, had arrived and could not stop eating it. "This is
better than Danny's," he said. There is no greater BBQ compliment in my family. So, the next
time you need a great tasting Pork BBQ in under 3 hours, try it.
But don't tell anyone you weren't up all night baby sitting it.
BTW, I also made someone else's world famous cream corn bread recipe,
henceforth known as "Schlong's Famous Canned Corn Casserole." I
know what you're saying, but trust me here and don't let the name fool
you. It's one of those deals where everybody who eats it will
demand the recipe.
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- 15 0z can drained whole corn
- 15 0z can cream style corn
- 1 box Jiffy corn muffin mix
- ¼ or (sweeter) ½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs well beaten
- 1 stick melted margarine
- 1 cup sour cream
Heat oven to 350°
Mix together all ingredients in a bowl. Pour into well greased 9x13
baking dish and bake for 45-60 minutes, or until center is firm.
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The casserole looks tasty but it is sorely lacking in the hot pepper department. Couldn't you dice up a fresh jalapeno in there?
ReplyDeleteDo anything you want!
ReplyDeleteooh I bet canned chilis would be good in it too!
ReplyDeleteI usually slow cook and grill on the gas grill but gosh we go through alot of gas that way. This is a good way to cut down on how many tanks of gas we go through.
I remember as a child my parents would always par-boil any meat that was grilled ( my mother needed to make sure it was good and done!). I guess the pressure cooking accomplishes the same thing too!
TFV
Of course all of this is moot if the finished product isn't good, and you'll have to decide that, but I'm betting you'll like it. Don't tell anyone how you did it though, until after it's et.
ReplyDeleteDammit!
ReplyDeleteI just spent an hour running all over town looking for sour cram!
I must be living in the sticks, because no one has even heard of it out here!
Well, I thought it was funny...
Your celebration of the hog on Saturday doesn't hold a candle to mine, mon ami.
ReplyDeleteI had pulled pork for lunch at Corky's in Memphis, and I had pork loin (aks chops) at the Rendezvous, also in Memphis.
The hog is a glorious animal which should be revered and celbrated often.
Shoot!..And I sat home Saturday night,pulled my pork, and had a fried bologna sandwich...Dang!
ReplyDeleteRog, did you add any liquid to the pressure cooker?
ReplyDeleteCasca
Always in a pressure cooker unl;ess you're cooking watermelon. :) I'm guessing 3-4 cups?
ReplyDeleteMmmmmmmmm...
ReplyDeleteHey Rodge, did you try that fried chicken recipe I sent ya back a couple of months ago?
food snob?
ReplyDeleteshit. i know what's good.
Of what? Water?
ReplyDeleteCasca
I'm thinking pineapple juice.
ReplyDeleteyes water, but I may try apple juice next time
ReplyDeleteIn the pressure cooker:
ReplyDelete2-3 lbs of meat (whatever)
1/2-1 coarsely chopped onion
Other seasonings and stuff to taste.
1 bottle of Newcastle or other dark ale
cook until done.
You are not only the King of France, but the King of the Kitchen. That BLT Pasta recipe you gave was amazing! So I'm off to the supermarket in the morning to prepare this dish, too.
ReplyDelete--Jack
The corn casserole is very much like our tamale pie recipe, just add some mexican-seasoned finely ground beef covered with shredded cheese between layers of the casserole, and drop some sliced jalopenos on top before baking. Yummy!
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