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Here is a step by step brisket cooking tutorial for your enjoyment. You can use this with a charcoal grill or smoker. If you use a charcoal grill cook only over indirect heat.

The first step to delicious brisket is to prepare the meat. A 10-12 pound brisket works best for me. Make sure your brisket has some fat on it as this is a key to tenderness. The first thing you want to do is drain you're brisket in the sink for at least 10 minutes. Once you have done this you should score the fight layer by cutting squares right down to the meat. Now you have a decision to make. Do you want to use a dry rub or marinate your brisket in a liquid concoction.

Here are recipes for wet marinade and a dry rub
wet
5 slices bacon, minced
1 c. minced onions
1 1/2 c. beef broth
1/4 c. vegetable oil
1/2 lemon, quartered
2 tbsp. chopped fresh thyme or 1 tsp. dried
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper
cook bacon and add all ingrdients to sauce pot and heat until bacon is done
put brisket in a glass,stainless or copper bowl or pan(never use plastic) cover, refrigerate and let stand overnight

DRY RUB:

2 tbsp. seasoned salt
1 tbsp. cracked black peppercorns
1 tbsp. cracked white peppercorns (I substitute ground white pepper)
1 tbsp. garlic powder
1 tbsp. onion powder
1 tbsp. paprika
1 tbsp. dry mustard
1 tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp. distilled white vinegar

mix all ingredients together and pat unto brisket
wrap brisket in aluminum foil and let rest in refrigerator 2-4 hours

Now its time to cook
Start your fire. I use a charcoal water smoker grill with beef broth in the water pan
when the coals are ready(usually around 30 minutes)its time to place the brisket on the grill. ALWAYS cook the brisket fat side up as the melting fat is what will tenderize the brisket. Cover the grill and cook for 8-12 hours. Remove brisket from grill and wrap with foil. Let brisket rest for 1 hour. Slice and enjoy
It is really a very easy process to make a great brisket so please give it a try

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Here is a wonderful little recipe for a middle of the day snack while waiting for your BBQ to cook. It can be found at bbqaddicts.com Enjoy Read More......

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Here is a wonderful recipe for a potato salad from our friends at Preemptive Karma

BBQ Potato Salad - No Mayo!
I just made this this morning for a picnic I'm going to this afternoon. It occured to me a week or two ago that BBQ sauce might be good in potato salad (it is!!). So I started looking for recipes and found a small handful of them, two of which I liked and the following draws inspiration from those two but also diverges significantly enough that I'm going to pass it off as my own.

Ingredients
5 lb bag of Red Potatoes, diced
12 slices crispy Bacon (preferably applewood-smoked), chopped
6 hard-boiled Eggs, finely chopped
1 small Walla Walla Sweet Onion, finely diced
1 cup BBQ sauce (I prefer Sweet Baby Ray's original)
1 lb container of Sour Cream (about 2 cups)
2 tablespoons spicy (brown) Mustard
Sea Salt
Black Pepper
Smoked Paprika (optional but I used it)

Directions
I have yet to find the perfect way to boil potatoes for potato salad. I've seen descriptions of a number of fundamentally different ways that are supposed to work flawlessly. Either they don't or I'm not doing it right - probably the later. In any case, I use red-skinned potatoes because they hold their shape much better than other varieties, and I also like to chill them in the fridge before cubing them and making the potato salad because being chilled also helps them hold their shape... especially if you've slightly overcooked them and are worried about ending up with lumpy mashed potatoes.

Boil and cube the potatoes as you see fit. Other than that, just combine the ingredients in a large bowl. It's not rocket surgery. However I do find it easier to mix everything BUT the potatoes together first and then mix the cubed potatoes into it.

That said, this is also the first time that I've ever substituted sour cream for the more typical mayonaise in a potato salad. I like it! And I also like the fact that there isn't a drop of oil in this salad. Mayo, as you know, is mostly oil & egg whites with some flavoring. Future potato salad experiments will likely involve substituting only part of the mayo with sour cream - just to see what that's like. Supposedly the sour cream makes the salad creamier in texture. Read More......