Mesquite Smoked Meats

We start with the basics around here. A very good, no, a great smoke-house that has been set for smoking extra lean meats is a, well, great place to start!

Contained within the walls of one great smoke-house are satisfying cuts of Beef Brisket that are specially rubbed with spices before smoking, giving each slice the wonderful BBQ Mesquite Smoked taste.

Since the basic premise of the BBQ Mesquite Smoked Beef Brisket is the meat, then all you really need is the potatoes to carry it further. Heated and served with potatoes or a salad, it makes a great dinner. Take the leftovers and slice them up for BBQ Beef Brisket sandwiches. Or shred a cupful and sprinkle it over a baked potato with cheese or over a gumbo for some extra spice.

When you start with the basics, you’ll taste something great!

When traditional gatherings and meals come up in conversation, one of the most delectable meals at any time of the year is also the one most oft mentioned for New Year’s Day. A nice hot bowl of black-eyed peas simmered with tasty ham makes your Hoppin’ John great!

The easiest recipe for Hoppin’ John starts with black-eyed peas and ham. With a Honey Glazed Spiral Sliced Ham, savor the slices for sandwiches or pile them high on your dinner plate, then save the hamhock chunks just for Hoppin’ John.

Toss the hamhock bone and the thicker bites of ham into a simmering pot with black-eyed peas, some olive oil, salt, pepper, and let it heat up. Serve with fresh-from the oven cornbread to ring in the New Year. This tradition goes back for generations, saying that the more black-eyed peas you eat on that first day of the year will bring you plenty of prosperity throughout the rest of the year.

So ring in the New Year with a hand-glazed, mesquite smoked Honey Glazed spiral Sliced Ham and some black-eyed peas to bring you a full belly and much prosperity.

Bite on juicy and tender meat that is delicious even when cold on the buffet table or served warm as a dinner’s main course. A lighter variant of the traditional brisket, the barbecue turkey breast is just as satisfying. It is all-natural, skinless and boneless. The breast is rubbed with garlic and a little brown sugar to finish off the delectable surface look.

This tempting piece of meat is great for family reunions and other special occasions. Order more than one to satisfy everyone’s craving. The barbecue turkey breast is great too to bring for potluck parties. You can also give it away as gifts to special families close to your heart.

Replace your junk food cravings with healthier choices. Beef snacks like jerky are award-winning nibbles made with lean strips of tangy, dried beef prepared from an old pioneer recipe. They are high in protein and 99% fat free so they’re really good for your body. Delight jerky lovers by surprising them with a ½ lb piece of jerky in a burlap bag from the Ranch House.

Aside from being the perfect healthy treat, beef jerky is also great for bringing along to camping trips. It doesn’t spoil easily like moist foods do. It can give hikers something to chew on and are easily carried in one’s pocket.

Nothing will get a sleepy-head out of bed faster than the smell of sizzling Peppered Bacon cooking up in a frying pan.

With a hefty slab of pork that has been lovingly prepared with peppers and spices all ready to go, you just peel the slices of bacon off to lay in the frying pan and turn up the heat.

The Peppered Bacon will sizzle and kick enough to wake a sleepy household in time to sit down to a hearty breakfast.

If you happen to have a few pieces left over, which is rare, save them to crumble up over a salad at lunch or place in a BLT sandwich. The Peppered Bacon can go a long way!

Pull up your chair to the table set for a large family dinner, and one of the first things you’ll notice is the wonderful smells of a table full of hearty foods. Maybe the hot buttery smell of corn on the cob catches your attention, or perhaps the enticing scent of garlic wafting from the mashed potatoes draws you in closer.

No matter what, the best presentation and tastiest smell will be coming from a Mesquite Smoked Turkey served center and forefront.

Served as part of the dinner menu, a Mesquite Smoked Turkey can evoke the sense of memory and tradition of holiday dinners past. Carving a few slices to accompany the delectable platefuls of stuffing and vegetables will make sure every hungry mouth around the table is fed. The delectable mesquite smoking keeps this bird juicy so that every bite is filled with the savory taste of spices.

With a Mesquite Smoked Turkey at the table, the hardest decision will be who gets to pull apart the wishbone at your family dinner?

Wonderfully rich in smoky spices, serving a dressed plate of West Texas Tenderloin can make an great meal no matter how you choose to serve it.

Serving West Texas Tenderloin sliced and chilled makes an excellent compliment for a platter of cheeses. Offer a variety of breads, from rye to sourdough, to make simple sandwiches for party guests or large family gathering.

Or a heated platter of steamed vegetables to accompany fresh from the oven West Texas Tenderloin can make a Holiday Dinner plate for the entire table. Since the tenderloin is rubbed and prepared with peppers and spices before smoking over mesquite, the only flavor compliment needed is hot buttered carrots or garlic mashed potatoes.

There’s something about a hearty plate of Barbeque Pork Ribs that will make a hungry man’s mouth water. Maybe it’s the sweet and spicy smell of Ribs drenched in Barbeque sauce, just begging to be licked off each sticky finger.

This rack of St. Louis style is slow smoked over mesquite so that every succulent bite is pulled off the rib bone to be savored as you chew. As the choice meat is prepared and smoked, you know with a stack of Barbeque Pork Ribs, you’re serving the best cut of meat to a hungry table.

With a busy schedule of school and work and family, sometimes just thinking about what to make for dinner each night can be exhausting. Sure, the microwave can be sooo easy, but that gets boring fairly quick. I’m always on the look out for something tasty and easy to make to keep everyone happy.

So a Barbequed Turkey Breast fits my list of easy, good, and happy. How? Because the taste is perfect, not too spicy, not dry or bland - just the right amount of kick and juicy meat for feeding everyone.

Combine a hot bowl of French Onion Soup with a sliced Barbequed Turkey Breast sandwich and the tastes are wonderful. I love dipping the french bread wrapped sandwich into the soup so the onion flavors mix with the Barbeque spices on the Turkey. It tastes so good!

We also shred the slices to top off a salad with, giving a usually boring salad a bit of kick! This can be complimented by dried cranberries and a hearty bleu-cheese dressing.

The Barbequed Turkey Breast has many facets that make it a great meal.

Quoted from a copy of “The Kentucky Housewife”, a book dating back to at least 1839:

To Bake A Brisket Of Beef

Select a brisket from a fat, young beef, which has been recently killed, and remove the bones as smoothly as possible. Prepare a stuffing of minced oysters, shred parsley, grated ham, grated stale bread, yolks of eggs, salt, pepper and nutmeg; make numerous small incisions in the under side of the meat, and fill them with the stuffing. Rub it over with salt and pepper, and put it in a pan, on some slices of bacon; put round it some small force-meat balls; pour in a pint and a half of water, and enough wine or caschup to season it well; lay slices of bacon over the top, to prevent its getting too brown and dry, and bake it with moderate heat till well done. Then take off the bacon, shake on a little finely grated bread through a dredging box, put on some broken bits of butter, and brown the dredging a little. Garnish the brisket with the force-meat balls, and serve the gravy in a boat.

Let’s pause for a moment and remember that at the time this was published people knew what a ‘force-meat ball’ was and they didn’t have timers on their digital ovens! But it is nice to know that good meat and good food have been around for years. Even better to know is that picking up or ordering a tasty West Texas Wild Brisket is so easy, you don’t have to mince those oysters in effort to get a delicious meal!