Looks like your days work went better than mine. Inspired by Food Network's Sandwich King, and an urge to do something new over the fire, I decided to be inspired by the old white trash classic, a fried bologna sandwich. I went to the grocery store and had the deli slice boars head bologna in burger thick slices. My son loved it. like a hotdog in a burger. I think my wife best liked that she didnt have to cook. i was hungry when the idea struck and had higher hopes. It wasnt a failure, but I will take it back to the drawing board if I try it again.
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I love a fried boloney sammich on toast with mustard.
What kind of bread did you use?
What are the condiments?
Maybe instead of thick slices do a bunch of thin slices with some sort of whacky brown sugar glaze on the edges. (like a honey backed ham). You'd have that sweet and salty flavor with a nice kick in the ass from the mustard.
Get a nice bread that would stand up to being grilled.
I like my fried boloney burned around the edges. Maybe lay some foil on the grates.
Maybe chop it up into little chunks like pulled pork?
Man, you've got my mind thinkin' I want to throw some bologna on the grill.
Update: Dude, check this out. I would've never thought in a million years to put bologna on the grill.
I made up a homemade ketchup that I found a recipe for. Other than that, the condiments were just standard hotdog condiments. Mustard, relish, etc. and I picked up some kaiser rolls that I toasted on the grill.
Thin slices that you could get to slightly carmelize on all sides might be interesting. Something like a brown sugar glaze could be good. Somewhere I have a recipe for a ham glaze that's mainly sugar and gentleman jack.
Btw, the homemade ketchup is the base for a BBQ sauce recipe I found. I decided to put the ketchup together today and then cook up the sauce this week to try on some ribs next weekend.
Civil War reenactment is LARPing for people with no imagination.
Btw, the homemade ketchup is the base for a BBQ sauce recipe I found. I decided to put the ketchup together today and then cook up the sauce this week to try on some ribs next weekend.
Dont' be afraid to share that recipe. We'll be like a couple of old cacklin' hens trading recipes. LOL.
I've gotta find a few new recipes. I'm running out of ideas. My kids won't eat grilled shrimp. I'm going to make a dough and grill a pizza tomorrow. Ive chicken'd, and rib'd them to death already.
My goals for this year... 1. Grill some fresh fish that I've caught. 2. Do a whole brisket. (Not doing this until I get a real smoker) 3. Do a pizza, all fresh ingredients, make the dough, the whole shebang.
I like to grill on the weekdays and bbq on the weekends because of time needed. I've got an awesome butcher shop by me (that my father in law worked at for 30 years) that I get all of my meat from, I also buy all my coleslaw potato salad etc from them. My wife literally hasn't cooked a thing in weeks.
When I went on my camping trip a couple weeks ago, one of my friends brought two briskests and put them on a grill over the campfire all day on Saturday. He had already rubbed them down before he left home, so they set in the rub for at least over night, maybe two nights. The grill was set between three and four feet above the fire. They cooked real slow and picked up just the right flavors from the smoke and open fire.
I'm thinking about building an open fire pit in the back yard and make a setup for all types of cooking. I know a kid that is going to school for welding. I could probably get him to do all the metal work for me for a fifth of good bourbon. And I have a customer with a great bourbon collection that is always offering me a bottle of good stuff.
Civil War reenactment is LARPing for people with no imagination.
Except bigger and sturdier. It could function as a backyard fire pit, and also cook over it. I want to dig the pit out, the lay the sides up in brick. Keeping the fire below, or mostly below ground level reduces the wind from lowing fire around. And, when cooking over open fire like that, heat is controlled a lot through height. Dropping the fire down is easier than moving the cooking area up more. I would like to have it large enough to have a grilling area and a Dutch oven going at the same time.
I also recently found a couple old fuel tanks. I want to convert at least one of them into a cooker that I can put at least a 150lb pig on it. Although, if I end up finding a big enough spit to put over a fire, I may lose interest in this project.
Civil War reenactment is LARPing for people with no imagination.
Ya know what I think would be cool, to build something like that, but have the fire cage/pit on some sort of a crank system so it could be raised and lowered as needed. I'm not mechanically inclined enough to build it though.
In your case, if you had the walls built with the bricks, you could have a crank on the outside of the brick that you just crank and raise and lower the fire wherever you want it.
If you're out there just enjoying a fire, crank it all the way up so its sitting high on top of the oven/firepit for visual appeal and warmth in autumn. When you want to do some serious cooking lower the fire back down into the hole that you dug.
Ya know what I think would be cool, to build something like that, but have the fire cage/pit on some sort of a crank system so it could be raised and lowered as needed. I'm not mechanically inclined enough to build it though.
In your case, if you had the walls built with the bricks, you could have a crank on the outside of the brick that you just crank and raise and lower the fire wherever you want it.
If you're out there just enjoying a fire, crank it all the way up so its sitting high on top of the oven/firepit for visual appeal and warmth in autumn. When you want to do some serious cooking lower the fire back down into the hole that you dug.
You are kind of in the same direction that I am thinking. However, I don't need to move the fire. Even for just a nice little fire to sit around, having the top of at ground level is ideal. Again, the wind doesn't push it around. It's what we do when we go camping. But I would like to build the grill rack and pot hooks where I could crank them up and down. I would also like to be able to put a rotisserie spit on it. Its a project that I have been wanting to do for a while. And I think I will probably start it this summer. Getting the fire pit in place is the big deal, then I can experiment with the rest and let it evolve with use.
Civil War reenactment is LARPing for people with no imagination.
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