Prime Rib & More on the Davy Crockett Grill

Since there will only be the two of us for our Christmas dinner this year and the weather looks nasty for 13 of the next 15 days, we decided to celebrate our Christmas meal a few days early as we do like to do it outside on a grill.





I started a green bean casserole with a few slices of bacon and about 1/2 pound of aged (20 months ) country ham for seasoning.

I also rubbed peanut oil over a couple of those big baker potatoes and then added a sprinkle of rub.

We plugged our 5.10 pound roast with garlic, rosemary, and thyme and Jan selected a rub with some dill in it for the meat. I sprinkled on a fairly heavy dose of the rub and the first stage of our meal was ready to go on the cooker.





I rolled the little GMG Davy Crockett around to our cooking patio and fired it up and set the temp at 170 degrees for the first hour to be sure we got some smoke flavor into the roast. I then raised the temp up to about 325 measured on the cooking grid to finish this part of the cook. Was a cool 19 degree morning for the cook.



Just before the meat got done, we made up the Pineapple Upside Down Muffin Cakes for our dessert. I also got my yeast rolls ready for the cooker.



When the meat was done (120 internal), I pulled it along with the potatoes and green bean casserole off of the cooker and added the yeast rolls and the dessert cakes. I then foiled the potatoes and the roast for about 40 minutes before serving.







The meat and potatoes looked great coming out of the foil after the rest period and the balance of the meal looked good as well.



I sliced the roast into three pieces for serving.







As plated...Jan made up a pound of compound butter for the potato and rolls and also a nice tossed salad with some sliced hard boiled eggs and poppy seed dressing on top. The dessert cake was plated with some ice cream and this was our early Christmas dinner.

Christmas Spread

After a week of just pitiful cooking weather with ice storms, rain, and high winds, Christmas day was a joy to see. Sunshine but very cold with the temp around 13 degrees for most of my cook. I used my trusty pellet cooker for this cook.
My cook was to be a 3 bone in standing rib roast, baked potatoes, green beans, sweet yeast rolls, and the dessert was to be a couple of pineapple upside down cakes. The appetizers were to be 80 ABT's and about 30 hot chicken wing pieces. I planned to do all of the above in the cooker.



I prepared my ABT's by combining the 4 pounds of cheese with my finely chopped onions and about 2 pounds of pulled pork into one large cheese ball which make doing a large amount of these treats real easy.



These are the 80 peppers ready for the fire.



I got my breaded hot wings ready next. The breading was flour, cornmeal, onion powder, garlic powder, black, white, and red pepper. I run them thru an egg & milk wash first and then the hot and spicy breading.



My standing rib roast was graded choice and looked very good. I am not one to apply a whole bunch of stuff to a great cut of meat as I want to taste it so I used a little garlic salt and some fresh cracked black pepper on the outside of the roast. After starting up the cooker, I placed my cast iron griddle on the hottest grid in the cooker and turned the cooker up to 450 degrees for my sear which I needed to do first to prevent a fire in a cooker.



I seared 5 sides of my roast and it came out well. The roast then went into the fridge as I didn't need it on the cooker yet.



I dropped the cooker back to about 300 degrees for my appetizers. They filled up three grids in the cooker.



My breaded and crunchy hot buffalo wings came off first. I then put my standing rib roast back on the cooker.



About a half hour later, I got my ABT's off the cooker. Ate 5 !!!
Cheated a little on my green beans as I got my seasoning ready on the stove. I used a couple of strips of bacon and about a quarter pound of some great 2 year old country ham. Rendered it out some in a skillet on the stove and then poured it over my beans in the casserole dish.
Applied peanut oil and some Smokin' Guns hot rub to my potatoes.
Wife fixed up my yeast rolls and then made up two pineapple upside cakes for the cooker.



I upped the temp on the cooker to about 350 degrees and loaded it all up on the cooker with my roast.



The potatoes and green beans came off next.



Then came the pineapple upside down cakes.



The yeast rolls look great.



Add a little salad, the wine, and a drink and I am ready to make myself sick with this big meal but it was worth it!!