"Two Bubba's BBQ" Traveling Road Show

So a few years ago I made a big BBQ smoker out of an old oil tank. Over the years there have been many modifications but I have it pretty much where I want it now. My buddy Drunken copied my design and now we have two (actually three, one needs some surgery and is OOC at the moment.) We call my original BBQ Bertha and the others are B2 and B3 respectively.

So this past Saturday we traveled out to West Stockbridge, Ma, at the far western end of the Mass Turnpike to cook two small pigs for a friends hillbilly wedding. We could have done one larger pig but ended up doing two small ones due to a lack of availability of a larger one.

We drove out the night before and punished our livers while sitting around a big bonfire. Then, slightly hungover, we got up early Saturday morning and started the fires.



Our latest refinements on the smokers is additional ventilation for the fireboxes. Makes all the difference when you can damper down the fire if the heat gets too high or open it up if the cooking chamber gets too cool.



Next time we need to put the two Bertha's a smidge closer to each other so you can step from one to the next, would have been much simpler.



And on goes piggy #1.

Since we had the pigs on the fire by 7 there was really nothing to do till afternoon except tend the fire, make the BBQ sauce, bake the baked beans, make the cole slaw, potato salad, garden salad, etc. And lunch for ourselves. You need to make lunch of yourself, so to that end I had prepared a 'Big Fatty' the day before.

Two pounds of ground pork spread out on some Saran Wrap.



A couple of frozen hash brown potato patties.



Some corn and some roasted red peppers go on next.



Then I put on some Pepper Jack cheese and some Mango Chutney.



The whole mess gets wrapped up so that you have a sausage burrito, with all of the good stuff inside the sausage, then you make it all exponentially better by wrapping the whole thing in bacon.




Unfortunately, I neglected to take a picture of the Fatty coming out of the smoker but use your imagination, it was everything you can dream of and more. So much more. We smoked it at 225*F for about two hours and it was perfect.

We also made some snackage for while we were waiting. We could have had an apple or some carrots or maybe some celery sticks but c'mon, an apple? Cellery? I don't think so. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce the "Atomic Buffalo Turd."

Some jalepeno peppers, cut in half, deveined, seeded and some cream cheese.



Fill the peppers up with the cream cheese, then the next step is to take some linguica and cut it so that you have a good size stick and lay that on the cream cheese.



Wrap those bad boys up with a rasher of bacon and you are done prepping. Into the smoker they go and don't open the door for an hour or so.

When your hour is up this is what you have.





That is some word class snackage right there, folks. The peppers aren't too hot because you've deveined and seeded them. All you get is some hot, sweet pepper goodness with the hot cream cheese, linguica and bacon working together to bring a little bit of heaven to your mouth.

Meanwhile, back to the hawgs.

PTN

Here are the Two Bubba's tending to the sauce.



Two pots of BBQ sauce, one a tomato based red sauce and the other a cider, cider vinegar and mustard base, cooked right on the firebox.



We still have a few hours to go, which is good cause now we can enjoy lunch.



The first piggy was ready it's time to get to work. Off the fire and commence to chopping. We made sure to get rid of the head before the bridal party showed up.



Chopped Q, with our secret rub and some apple cider mixed in. It got covered with aluminum foil and kept warm in the smoker till serving time.



The Pig is Pork! Come n' get it!!!





"Two Bubbas BBQ." Coming soon to a party near you.



PTN

This all sounds and looks amazing.

That "Big Fatty" is a ridiculously awesome idea. Great flavor combinations.

I've decided I'm going to get divorced, just so I can then get re-married and have you two cook the food for the reception.

Nice write-up, Paul. Now I'm hungry!! I also like the way you presented your hog...wait...er..um...that didn't come out quite right!

That apple is also much better in the pigs mouth than yours, especially when there's "Atomic Buffalo Turds" on the menu! I'm going to have to try those.

Thanks for sharing!

I am in awe

the_bird said:

I've decided I'm going to get divorced, just so I can then get re-married and have you two cook the food for the reception.

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Show this thread to the_wife and you might get your wish.

PTN

I love you guys.

Totally in a platonic way, of course.

Of course. I've got a bit of a man crush on the Atomic Buffalo Turds myself. It's just not right to feel this way about some food but damn, it feels so good!



C'mon, tell the truth. The above picture speaks to you in a way that few other things do.

PTN

You better stop it with those pictures!!!! My mouth is watering!

Very nice.

I love me some ABTs. It is rare that I fire up the smoker without tossing some on. Best ones I have had so far we stuffed with some left over steak fajita meat.

Way better than corn flakes, which is what I'm having for lunch right now.

PTN

dataz722 said:

I love me some ABTs. It is rare that I fire up the smoker without tossing some on. Best ones I have had so far we stuffed with some left over steak fajita meat.

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Also good stuffed with shrimp.

Mike M said:

Also good stuffed with shrimp.

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That sounds good. Haven't done that yet because I usually make them with whatever leftovers we have in the fridge and we never have leftover shrimp.

That is SO getting done this weekend! Way good idea.

PTN

(yawn)... J V

Lemme know when you want to learn how to do it right. We'll roast a real one... not those freakin pork-chops you did. How many people did you feed with those things? 12?

We're not worthy, we're not worthy.....

To gaze upon such pure piggy pleasure with our mortal eyes.

Awesome setup guys, so when are you gonna start competing?

When will we see you on TLC's BBQ Pitmasters?

Sunday I made some spares and ABTs. The trimmings, from cutting down to st louis, wouldn't fit in the smoker so I tossed them in the oven with the pan covered in foil at 250 for about 2 hours. I chopped up some of that and used them to stuff the ABT's. As of right now it is by far my favorite I have made.

wow, I am hungry all of the sudden

What was on Tap and how many times was the defibrillator used? Good lookin stuff PTN. I just made ABT's yesterday, but I play roulette with mine, leave some seeds in a few.

I flat out stole Data's idea and used shrimp the last few times I made these, first to try and second time to bring to Big John and Melanas place. Wicked pissah way to make them but I think I still prefer the sausage inside.

Something about wrapping my sausage in bacon just speaks to me on a visceral level. Anything that wrong has to be good.
PTN

I'd love to take credit but the shrimp wasn't my idea, does sound damn good though.


Rib meat is my favorite though.

You are right, Data, it was Mike M. My bad. Props to MikeM.

PTN

Revvy said:

We're not worthy, we're not worthy.....

To gaze upon such pure piggy pleasure with our mortal eyes.

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YOU!!!



Ya, YOU!!!! In the black suit and white collar.



Walk away from this thread and don't look back! I believe they are serving tofu in the tent over there. We don't want you in our tent. People grabbing their chest and falling to the ground are wicked bad for business. Put down the rib and walk away. Don't make me go all medieval on your Most Reverend Arse. (More to the point, don't make me do CPR on my day off.)

Really, carrots aren't that bad. Honest! Certainly, they are GREAT compared to me having to pull out the Brillo pad and scrub your dingleberry dangling arse when you end up in my ICU. That **** pisses me off and you don't want me in a foul mood. Believe that!!!

PTN

I love you, in a purely hetero way of course, Man!!!

Hey, I think of this thread as the ultimate of foodporn....I might not be able to touch, but I can still look.

paulthenurse said:

YOU!!!



Ya, YOU!!!! In the black suit and white collar.


Really, carrots aren't that bad. Honest! Certainly, they are GREAT compared to me having to pull out the Brillo pad and scrub your dingleberry dangling arse when you end up in my ICU. That **** pisses me off and you don't want me in a foul mood. Believe that!!!

PTN

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you must be mellowing out. didn't you use to use a wire brush on a drill to clean up the patients?

What makes you think I've stopped?

PTN

Did a panful of Buffalo Turds this morning to bring to work tonight and tried something totally different. I used Cubanele peppers (light green, not hot at all and about twice the size of jalepeno's) and layed in the creme cheese. THen I took a bunch of crumbled blue cheese and layed that on top of the creme cheese. I used linguica because the grocery store was out of the Little Smokies and wrapped in bacon as usual. Had one before I went to bed and I have to say, they are wicked good. I've been telling the girls that they are SubAtomic Buffalo Turds.

PTN