Smokin'

Yesterday I ended up with a 16 pound brisket that I didn't know how to cook. After researching for a while we decided that almost all recipes required a meat smoker. Amazingly a smoker appeared in our driveway that very day and we were ready to begin our first Texas BBQ! It was an all day event, starting with soaking the wood at 5am and finally eating at 6:30pm. Of course the smoker did most of the work, but it required some babysitting and feeding! Here it is smoking away.

And 11 hours later we open the door, held our breath, and found this:


Which turned into this on the dinner table that night! Yum!