Ours was wonderful. The baby back ribs only had to smoke for ~4 hours. They got a nice smoke ring from the cherry wood, and were neither overdone, nor underdone. I usually get them right, but there have been a couple of times I’ve screwed up and overcooked them, although those were the St. Louis style ones. It is possible to smoke animal flesh on a classic charcoal Weber kettle grill, but keeping the heat just right for the duration is impossible. We’re not in TX, so mesquite isn’t what we have around. Usually, we use hickory, but this time around, what we had on hand was cherry wood.
I made pasta salad to go with it. We were running low on potatoes, so potato salad wasn’t really an option. Pasta with ham, peas, some sort of gourmet hard cheese we had, and Italian dressing worked. Could have made a mayonnaise dressing, but didn’t want something that heavy. So, dinner was pork, and more pork.
We set off less than half our supply of fireworks. They kept us entertained for an hour or so. We left the biggest ones for the rest of the weekend, and just set off the ones that were roughly the size of a smallish adult foot. Pffft … boom. The remaining ones will have to be set off on the back lawn, much farther away from the house than the patio.
Evidently, one of our neighbors a block away invested megabucks in their fireworks. They didn’t quite clear the 40′ tall trees between our property, but they came close enough that we could sort of see them. Those had to have been mortar fired. Ours are mostly of the “light the fuse, then back off 20 feet” variety. The sparks maybe went as high as the attic windows, and they did make noise, but that was about it. We’re not trying to set any of our buildings on fire. That would not go over well with our insurance company.b firework
My parting shot to King George III is a tip of my Yards Jefferson’s golden ale, and a nice big firework in his general direction. Cheers, buddy.
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