{"id":956,"date":"2009-10-03T02:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T18:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/?p=956"},"modified":"2015-01-02T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T04:10:14","slug":"smoke-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/03\/smoke-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/021020091232.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-957\" title=\"Smoked Pork Chop\" src=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/021020091232.jpg\" alt=\"Smoked Pork Chop\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/021020091232.jpg 500w, https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/021020091232-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, I am pleased.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What you see above is a specimen of my successful attempt at smoking meat. Yesiree, the red around the edges of the pork chop is caused by low heat, slow cooking pork.<\/p>\n<p>It is also my first attempt at brining meat.<\/p>\n<p>I soaked the 1&#8243;-thick meat in a solution of water containing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 tbsp kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp sugar<\/li>\n<li>whole peppercorns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For about 4 hours. I was afraid to over-brine the meat as it could cause the meat to become mushy. However, the pork chop had good bite and wasn&#8217;t too tough. I think I can go longer on the brining, and shall attempt 5 hours on my next try.<\/p>\n<p>However, I did slightly overcook the pork. What to do? I am so afraid of under cooking pork and causing stomach problems for people.<\/p>\n<p>I finished the pork chops with Famous Dave&#8217;s Barbecue Sauce, which was quite good. Overall, it had a salty smoky porky taste.<\/p>\n<p>The pork chops came with a Sweet Potato mash with Balsamic vinegar and a fried rice of tomatoes, garlic, onion and ginger stuffed into a green pepper and grilled till completely soft on open flames.<\/p>\n<p>Then, as we ate these, I threw on some corn on the fire.<\/p>\n<p>We completed our meal with a root beer float with the Daily Scoop&#8217;s Salted Mr. Brown on a root beer in a classic all-American frosted <a title=\"External Link: A&amp;W Mugs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.islandnet.com\/~kpolsson\/mugshots\/\">A&amp;W mug<\/a> I lugged back from the US. It is a larger 20 oz specimen which is perfect for the foamy frothy head that is produced when ice cream meets root beer. I only have two of these glasses, which are being sold at A&amp;Ws as part of their 90th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[108],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}