Entries Categorized as 'smoke'

Brisket Butter and Green Beans

July 17, 2010

So back to that Texas brisket jag again. Came up with another use for leftover brisket. Into these beans went chopped up bits of salty, peppery, smoky, crusty, beefy brisket with its thin silky fat cap and it beat the pants off same-old ham hock, good as that is.  Talk about the ethanol of ingredients.  [...]

Lardo, Texas

June 22, 2010

We’ve been obsessed with smoking brisket since returning from a recent barbecue tour through the Hill Country around Austin, Texas. We’ll write about our home Texas barbecue shenanigans later (it’s a long, happy story).  For now, here’s one important thing we didn’t expect to learn. Lardo, Texas style. Sure, we enjoyed plenty of the brisket [...]