Mid Week Cook: Office Party

As usual, I volunteered to cook BBQ for a crowd.  Some things never change.  Today my department is having a holiday party combined with a birthday party for a couple of people.  We’ll have biscuits and fatties for breakfast.  Brisket, pulled pork, baby back ribs, cheesy potatoes, and green beans for lunch.  Hopefully someone remembered to get a cake.  The picture above is what the baby back ribs and pork butts looked like before I wrapped them in foil to finsh.  The cherry pellets make a nice color.  I can tell you that the smell was fantastic.

We have a few folks in the office who don’t eat pork: Kosher, Muslim, or allergies.  I didn’t want them to be left out on the fatties, so I’m trying a Honeysuckle Turkey Sausage.  Straight from the package, it wasn’t as firm as a normal pork sausage.  I like to use Jimmy Dean Regular or Hot.  So for the Turkey Sausage, I’m curious to see how it turns out.  I’m hopeful that it sets up like a pork sausage would and isn’t mushy.

I’m using the FEC-100 for the first time in about a month.  That is one excellent cooker.  It was 30 degrees when I went to bed last night.  The insulated FEC-100 chugged along wonderfully, and everything was as I would have expected several hours later.  I sure love that cooker.