Smoke Pulled chicken

There are so many wonderful ways to serve this wonderful  pulled chicken. It is marvelous just piled warm and steaming on a plate with no sauce. Many people make the mistake of dumping a bottle of sauce over the meat smothering it to deaf. Please don't. The taste of hot flavor from the smoker is unmatched.

The best way to eat a pulled chicken is a great sandwich.

Use two forks to tear away the meat.

Use your favorite sauce

You can used chicken leg Quaters

You can smoke it on a grill for about 6-10 hours

This the best way to get that really good favor is to smoke it.

You can place in a oven on 350 about 3 hours or more you can add liquid smoke.

Last you can put it in a crock pot and leave it for 8 hours. no smoke taste just good and tender meat.

Always remember to add your favorite spices

Sweet Potatoe Pie

Sweet Potato Pie has to be my all time favorite dessert. I can make it any day of the week and absolutely love it. I like the regular pie crust not the graham cracker crust. Sometimes it’s hard to find a good sweet potato pie.


Ingredients:

4 large sweet potatoes or yams (I like yams better)

2 whole eggs

2 egg yolks

1 can of evaporated milk (use less if you what your pie thick)

1 1/2 stick of unsalted butter

1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

1 tablespoon lemon extract

1 tablespoon  nutmeg

dash salt

1 1/2 cup of white sugar

2 deep dish pie crusts

Directions:
Preheat oven to 425° F. Place sweet potatoes on a baking sheet and roast (skin on). Bake until soft. Remove from oven. Allow to cool . Remove the skin carefully. Or boil potatoes with skin on in water until fork tender. Place sweet potatoes into large bowl. Sprinkle salt and butter. Mash with a potato masher until  smooth. Mix nutmeg and add sugar. Mix well. (you may use a  mixer, on low speed this will help make the pie smooth) Add the whole eggs first and mix, now add the egg yolks and mix well. Slowly add evaporated milk, vanilla, lemon extract.Mix until a smooth .cut the oven to 375° F. Place pie shells on a baking sheet. Pour sweet potato mixture into pie shells evenly making some peaks. Bake on center rack for 45 minutes or until peaks are dark brown. Allow to completely cool.

Beef Liver And Onions

My mom used to cook a wonderful beef liver. The liver was calf liver, it was tender and very tasty. I request the liver dinner for her to cook when she came down to my home in Mississippi. My mom passed away that year and went  home to be with the Lord. That meal will always be with me forever.I love you Mom.

8 tablespoons bacon dripping

2  Large onion, sliced

2 teaspoons white sugar

1 pound calves' livers

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

salt and pepper to taste


Directions

In a medium skillet melt bacon over medium heat.

Stir in onion and saute until softened. Stir in sugar and continue to cook until onion caramelizes set a side.

Rinse liver and remove thin outer membrane and beat liver with a pounded until tender

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Heat bacon dripping in a medium skillet over medium heat

Dredge liver slices in flour and salt and pepper to taste

and brown in melted bacon dripping for about 1 to 1 1/2 minutes per side.

Remove from heat and season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve liver smothered with caramelized onions.

Smothered Beef Liver Recipe -

Use the same direction as above when the onions is caramelized set aside in a pan

add mix beef gravy and pour gravy over the liver and onions.

add caramelized onions and simmer about 5 mins and serve with hot cooked rice.

How to Pick A Watermelon

Watermelon is one of the best ways to cool off in the summer.

How to pick the perfect watermelon

When you walk up to a watermelon bin give the watermelon a good shake. If you hear water or juices running around, put that one down and go to the next one. This means it isn't as dense as it should be, and will not be as flavorful as a better specimen.

Give the watermelon a thump. The transfer of sound and vibration should be very satisfactory, the thump should be audible and less like a pulse. A "pulse" like tone means that there is more water in the melon than there is melon.

A lopsided watermelon will have underdeveloped seeds, which means less sugar and less flavor. Turn the watermelon over and look at its belly, the spot where it sat on the ground. If it's white, find another melon. You want yellow, the color of butter.

Now look at the stem, which should have a black ring around the base. That blackness is crystallized sugar. Sometimes you find beads of black crystallized sugar on the rind as well.

A Watermelon Treat...

Watermelon Sorbet Recipe

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup or light agave nectar (the syrup or nectar makes the resulting texture quite smooth)
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime or lemon juice
3 fresh mint leaves
3 pounds watermelon, rind and seeds removed, cut into chunks


DIRECTIONS
1. In a small saucepan, bring the sugar, corn syrup or agave nectar, lime or lemon juice, and mint to a boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and let cool.
2. In a blender, puree half of the watermelon chunks. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer into a large bowl. Repeat with the remaining watermelon.
3. Add the slightly cooled syrup to the watermelon and mix well. Place in a 2-quart container, cover, and freeze for 3 to 4 hours.

Flake the mixture with a fork scoop it up and serve.