Happy 4th Everyone!!!!

[reinhard1]

As we celebrate the birthday of our great Nation and honor all of our Troops who give us our freedom daily, lets also get that grill/smoker going today for a fantastic meal.

i've got so many ribs on hand i chose chicken today . going to split a couple today, put some rub on and later mop them with my ketchup/western salad dressing/apple juice sauce. going to make those deviled eggs in the smoked eggs thread and some Asian Noodle Salad [which i'll put in the Time for Summer Salad Recipe thread]. so happy 4th everyone and stay cool. good luck.

[chaffmj]

Happy 4th Everybody!

[Leaky]

So RH, How'd the meal turn out? I need to try that mop sauce. Sounds like it would be great on chicken. Do you wait until the skin crisps up a bit before putting it on or keep moppin right from the start? Did you do them in the smoker or on the grill? That salad look great and I'm a huge deviled egg fan.

[reinhard1]

didn't get a chance to take a picture. i took the chicken and set it on it's back and cut from the breast strait in the middle till i got to the backbone and butterflly'd it. seasoned it and put it breast side down on indirect heat for an hour and then tured it over and put the sauce on. left it another hour and turned it over again and sauced the other side. then fliped it every 5 minutes and mopped it each time until done. the salad was good and so where the deviled eggs.

like i said before about the mop sauce. it was given to me by a retired meat cutter years ago. it was so simple i didn't think much of it. but i use it now most of the time. i did the chicken on my Char-Griller barrel with the fir box.

one third western dressing [i use the western dressing with the bacon flavor]

one third ketchup

one third apple juice

i put it in a pan and let it simmer a little while stirring. when hot i bring it outside and start moping away as i said above.

when i do ribs i like to use

one third western dressing like above

one third ketchup

and 1/4 cup apple juice

and 1/4 cup brandy

i also spray the ribs with a 1/2 cup apple juice and 1/4 cup brandy mix in my spray bottle while in the unwrapped mode. good luck.

[Leaky]

Just bookmarked this thread. Thanks!!