Recipe Box, Grilling with Bobby Flay
Happy February 💗 and Happy Super Bowl Sunday 🏈 !
Now, just in case you have some time to kill before the big game tonight, how about working on a big BBQ meal to sink your teeth in while you’re watching~
Last weekend HHjr decided to make a complete Bobby Flay dinner extravaganza
Okay!
My husband and son have been doing so much grilling lately I’ve had time to tackle some big projects
Like painting a “Butterfly Garden”…
Actually, these glasses are headed to a gift shop in Selma, Alabama. They are expecting a lot of visitors because of the recent Oscar nominated movie about the Civil Rights Movement, and they asked me to paint the town’s name and signature butterfly on stemmed glasses. If you go to Selma, be sure to stop by Carter’s Drugs on Broad Street and pick up a little souvenir~
I also finally got up my courage to paint the secretary in our family room, you know with all this free time I had on my hands~ but more about that another day…
Because I was happily doing my own thing, I was not following HHjr around with my camera and don’t have a ton of prep photos, but I did catch the brisket, coated with seasoning, on it’s way to the grill
Here’s our menu derived from The Food Network show, Bobby Flay’s BBQ Addiction: Bobby’s Basics, episode, Don’t Mess with Texas BBQ here
The secret to cooking brisket is low and slow, on a covered grill to absorb the smokey flavor and develop a rich dark “bark.” You can find the recipe for Bobby’s Smoked, Spiced Rubbed Texas-Style Brisket here
You end up with a profusion of texture, the crisp, crunchy crust, and the soft tender meat within
It was served on homemade Texas toast, thick slices of bakery Italian bread, buttered, garlic seasoned, and toasted
with Pickled Red Onions, from Bobby’s Texas Style Potato Salad here
homemade Easy Breezy BBQ Sauce [see recipe below]
barbeque style pinto beans
The beans are cooked with grated carrots, bacon, onions, some of the BBQ sauce, and the “burnt ends” of the brisket for added flavor. You can see Bobby’s Pinto Beans with Burnt Ends here
and grilled Corn with Maple and Chipotle here
Needless to say, it was a feast!
Juicy Details
Ask your butcher for a smaller brisket cut if you aren’t serving a lot of people, this piece was just right for 4-6.
This is the sauce my son used, our favorite homemade sauce, it is so simple to make, you can put it together in under 5 minutes and then let it simmer for 15 minutes and it’s ready to go. You can also keep it for 2 months in the fridge, but it won’t last that long 😋
Easy Breezy BBQ Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 cups white vinegar
- 1 1/2 cups Heinz ketchup [substituting another brand will change the taste]
- 1 1/2 cups packed dark brown sugar
- 2 T chili powder
- 1 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 T kosher salt
- cayenne pepper optional if you want more heat
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients in a non-reactive saucepan and bring to a boil over medium high heat.
- Lower the heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until the sauce coats the back of a spoon. It won’t be overly thick.
- It can be used right away or stored in a jar in the refrigerator for 2 months
Just in case your grill is covered with snow, get out your slow cooker and make some Peachy BBQ Chicken here
or an oven dish like Oven BBQ Ribs here. You can enjoy fall off the bone ribs in as little as 2 hours!
If you need a super fast, crowd pleasing, meat lovers, appetizer, try these Bacon Wrapped Smokies here from Better Homes and Gardens [their photo] , little hot dogs wrapped in bacon and sprinkled with brown sugar, and baked
Get some BBQ something going to spice things up for Super Bowl Sunday!
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OMG… You’re killing me here!!! That brisket looks amazing, nice to see the new grill is doing a good job! Have fun and eat well today Jenna:@)
I know, so sorry, I feel bad for all my snowy friends. Tomorrow’s post might be painful too, so I’m apologizing in advance 🙂
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Wow that looks SO yummy!
Jenna, You’ve been a painting fiend with your secretary and butterfly garden! I’m sure they will take flight and reorders will be in your future 🙂 Your meal looks delicious! It’s been forever since we’ve had brisket, I’ll have to try to rectify that! I’ve had BF’s pickled red onions before with his Short Rib Tacos, so easy and good! Love the idea of the pinto beans with the bark of the brisket! We’re smoking a butt next weekend for my hubby’s family, we might have to try the bean/bark trick then 🙂
Jenna, a perfect meal for the big game, the brisket looks amazing. Love the glasses you painted. I’m sure they will fly off the shelves.
Enjoy the game…………
thanks so much Emily!
My mouth is watering. I love good BBQ and sides. Have a fun time eating and watching the game.
thanks so much!
That brisket looks amazing! I’ve really been pushing protein with J. We love brisket.
Those wine glasses are fabulous!…how great that they asked you to paint them for their shop. Brisket is one of my favs…looks so delicious!…Glad that they boys are doing the cooking while you worked on those great projects…I have still not gotten the nerve to paint my secretary….yours looks so pretty!!!
thanks Shirley, the secretary was so scary to paint but it is all done now except the waxing, I love the way it turned out so I’ll probably post it soon~
I seriously have a taste for Texas style BBQ brisket after seeing your post, I have only had the “real” thing once, but that is a taste you can never forget. Right now our grill is covered in about four feet of drifted snow but I vow that I will attempt grilling one this summer one way or another. In the mean time I will have to settle for deli brisket (aka corned beef).