Labor Day a Long Weekend of Smoke - Traeger Recipes

Labor Day a Long Weekend of Smoke - Traeger Recipes

Labor Day SmokeFest

The wife left town for a few days to wish her mom a happy birthday in Iowa, so its just me and the dog,  It Looks like I have a Long Weekend of smoke ahead "Traeger on".  Here is what the proposed menu looks like.

Saturday Dinner

Dinner is Ready

Bacon Wrapped Filet

Lobster Tail

Pineapple

Corn on the Cobb

Traeger Recipe

The beauty of cooking the Lobster Tail, Bacon wrap Filet, Pineapple and Corn on the Cobb Together is that all start and finish at the same time,  I go into greater detail about the cooking methods elsewhere in this blog but the Readers digest version is Pre Heat to 225 cook steak and Lobster to an Internal Temperature of 135 to 140 about 45 minutes

Bacon Wrap Filet and BBQ Recipe

BBQ Corn on The Cobb

BBQ Smoke Pineapple

Sunday Lunch

Sunday Lunch and Leftovers Pork Steaks, Brats and SweetPotatoes

Pork Steaks

Cheddar Brats

Sweet Potatoes

Traeger Recipes:

Pork Steaks:

These pork steaks are pre-seasoned with Bobs BBQ seasoning.  Cook them at 350 on the Traeger till an internal temperature of 140 to 145.  About 10 Minutes on each side

Cheddar Brats

 Cook them at 350 on the Traeger till an internal temperature of 140 to 145.  About 10 Minutes on each side

Sweet Potatoes

I wash the Sweet Potatoes

Cut them in half wrap in tin foil

Cook at 350 on the Traeger until soft about 60 Minutes.

Sunday Dinner

Porterhouse Steak

Traeger Recipe Porterhouse Steak see Video

If Video dosent paly Try Porterhouse Video Link click here

I will follow the Video except

I will use Trader Joe Garlic and Coffee Rub

Monday Dinner

Pulled pork

 Pulled Pork Traeger Recipe

Ingredients:

Bone In Pork Butt 6 to 10 lbs or more

Your favorite Dry rub for Pork

Apple Juice in spray bottle

Preperation

Rub Pork Butt all over with your favorite rub

Grill Setup

Start Traeger on smoke for 10 minutes with lid open'

Preheat lid closed to temperature 225

Some People smoke for first 3 hours either using 180 or the smoke setting

then raise to 225.

The Cook

Right before placing on grill spray with apple juice all over

Place Pork Butt on Traeger

Spray with apple juice every 30 minutes or so

After about 3 hours you can move to shallow pan with enough apple juice to cover bottom of pan

At about 6 hours place temperature probe in Traeger.

Continue to cook till an Internal Temperature of 203 degrees

The Wrap and Rest

Once desired temperature reached removed from grill double wrap in foil and place in cooler to rest for 1 to 3 hours.  Pull and enjoy.  We use a light coating of Jack Daniels BBQ sauce after we pull

Recipe Notes

I delay putting the Probe in because its going to take 10 hours or more to cook and the probe gives the smoke a few more places to escape.

Some people wrap the butt  (Texas crutch) at about 160 to get past the stall

Tong Test if you dont cook to temperature --When you can lift the Butt with Tongs and the bone falls out its ready

For more Labor day cooking ideas see the Traeger Blog

Please Note:

Any recipe I make is just a guideline.  I am not a big fan of gooey sauces so almost everything is I cook would be a dry rub.  You of course should experiment and see what works best for you.  I don't often recommend a rub because it is a matter of personnel taste.  These recipe would also work well on most other pellet grills or charcoal and gas grill using indirect heat for the low temperature recipes.

My Favorite Traeger Day

My Favorite Traeger Day

Brats and taters 

Steak and Lobster

My Favorite Traeger Day

Traeger Recipe
One could argue that any day I cook on my Traeger Junior aka Tjr is my favorite Traeger day.  With my schedule its not often I get to cook twice on Tjr in the same day.  Yesterday was such a day.

My morning errands included stops at Paul's Market, where I purchased bacon wrapped Fillets and Apple Brats.  I then stopped at the supermarket and purchased sweet potatoes and Brioche hot dog buns.

I fired up TJr and made the apple Brats and sweet potatoes for lunch.  Then a few hours later I fired up the T again and cooked the Filllets and Lobster for diner. 

The diner was special because my mom was in town and my wife picked up our 6 year old grandson from school.  My grandson only ate the fillets but every one else had filet and Lobster.  It was the first time I cooked for mom, she finally was able to visit.

The Technical details:

BBQ Lobster

BBQ Lobster

Cut shell with Scissor

Brushed with melted butter
Smoke at 225 for abt 45 minutes Internal Temp should be 135-140

BBQ Bacon Wrapped Filets

Bacon Wrapped Fiilets

Rubbed with Trader Joe's Coffee rub
Smoke at 225 for abott 45 minutes to an Internal Temperature of 135-140

The Rub

Apple Brats

Cooked Apple Brats at 375 about 30 minutes flipping once.  Got a nice char both sides

apple brats

Sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes

Wash Sweet potatoes
Cut Sweet potatoes in half
Wrap Sweet potatoes in foil
Cook Sweet potatoes at 375 for about an hour till soft like butter

please note:

Any recipe I make is just a guideline.  I am not a big fan of gooey sauces so almost everything is I cook would be a dry rub.  You of course should experiment and see what works best for you.  I don't often recommend a rub because it is a matter of personnel taste.  These recipe would also work well on most other pellet grills or charcoal and gas grill using indirect heat for the low temperature recipes.

Apple Brats and Sweet Potatoes on The Traeger

Apple Brats

Apple Brats and Sweet Potatoes

Traeger Recipe 

Whats for Lunch.  Apple Bratwurst fresh made from a local butcher and Sweet Potatoes.  The Brats had a really nice Char and the Sweet Potatoes were amazing soft and sweet

Apple Brats Recipe

Follow normal Traeger Start up procedure

Then Close lid and preheat to about 375

cook about 30 minutes turning once.  

When you have a Nice char on them they are done

Brats ready to eat

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Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Rinse Potatoes

cut in half 

wrap in tin foil

cook for about 60 minutes or until soft like butter

dont burn your fingers unwrapping foil

Enjoy

Click Here for another sweet Potato recipe from Traeger

Please Note:

Any recipe I make is just a guideline.  I am not a big fan of gooey sauces so almost everything is I cook would be a dry rub.  You of course should experiment and see what works best for you.  I don't often recommend a rub because it is a matter of personnel taste.  These recipe would also work well on most other pellet grills or charcoal and gas grill using indirect heat for the low temperature recipes.

Smoked Pork Tenderloin - Traeger Recipe

Smoked Pork TenderLoins

Traeger Recipe

Smoked Pork Tenderloin.
I have cooked it with a dry rub or Marinated in Italian Dressing.
The Method is the same either way.

Smoked Pork Tenderloin Traeger Recipe

Startup Procedure
Start Traeger on smoke for 10 minutes with lid open'
Preheat lid closed to temperature of 225
Place on grill
cook till an Internal Temperature of 145.
If you don't Marinate you may want to spray with apple Juice every hour or so

The Sweet Potatoes cooked for 2 hours at 225 they could have used an extra hour.  The Microwave makes up for under-cooked potatoes.

Please Note:

Any recipe I make is just a guideline.  I am not a big fan of gooey sauces so almost everything is I cook would be a dry rub.  You of course should experiment and see what works best for you.  I don't often recommend a rub because it is a matter of personnel taste.  These recipe would also work well on most other pellet grills or charcoal and gas grill using indirect heat for the low temperature recipes.