Smoked pickled eggs, pickled smoked garlic, smoked old cheddar, along with a few beers & onion crackers make more than an excellent snack while watching hockey. It lends new meaning to the "Dutch Oven" :mrgreen: ,especially when the blankets rise like a hot air balloon and you have pulled them over ...

Sweet, pickled, smoked garlic cannot be beaten with a stick. It beats the snot out of pickled fresh garlic by an Alberta "bush mile"!!!!! The "war department" does it up all of the time now. Her family are Brit and had an aversion to both the taste & smell of garlic until I showed her how to use it....

I had a "brain fart" a several months ago, deciding to throw some garlic in the smoker and giving it a try. Separate & peel several heads of garlic. Spread out on smoker racks, put in smoker and cold smoke them for a minimum of 4 hrs for starters. Your next batch might need more or less depending on...

It pleases me that you would try that recipe!!! I have also used it for my Canadian Bacon, however, when doing the bacon, I fire in 1/2 cup of maple syrup, instead of the demara sugar. Makes a delectable dish, especially with beer pancakes, eggs, & fried potatoes for breakfast!!!

An Albertan asks "What kind of meat, damn well better be beef."

steelchef, check out Halford Hide in Edmonton at http://www.halfordsmailorder.com. They have a huge selection of blended spices or spices that you can blend, and best of all their prices are reasonable and are offering free shipping on web orders within Canada until Aug. 2011. They also have a wide ...

What is your judgement on the outcome of the spice? I am grilling up a couple of "Alberta" rib steaks tonight for the "war department" and myself, with baby red potatoes and clover honey glazed parsnips & carrots. I have the privilege of having a friend who is an apiarist. His honey is purchased by ...

No matter where beef comes from, it is recognized that Alberta, Canada has the best beef in the world, including Kobe beef!!!!!

Here is a spice blend that I have found to be rather to my(and friends)liking on grilled Alberta beef :wink: 1 tbsp coriander seeds 1 tbsp mustard seeds 1 tbsp cumin seeds 2 tbsp freshly cracked pepper 2 tbsp coarse or kosher salt 1 tbsp dried red chilies 1 tbsp dried onion flakes 1 tbsp garlic powd...

Chuckwagon, up here in snowbound Alberta we have a saying that might you might find appropriate. "If bs were music, you might have the largest brass band in the world!!!!!" Love your commentary.

I am presently consulting a rather renowned orthopedic surgeon as to replacement of my ankles. He will do it, but is rather hesitant at this time, because as he put it "knee & hip replacement is quite common, and the technology is quite advanced. I cannot say the same for ankles. The decision is you...

I spent my summers while attending university as a lifeguard. After university, I worked in the financial business for 14 years, after which I operated my own business for 8 years. After selling the business, I sold gas compressor valves throughout northern Alberta and Saskatchewan for the world's f...

This is my mother's canned venison recipe, all the way from sunny Saskatchewan, as I recall it. It goes back to when my grandparents immigrated to Canada. Dollars were short, and you had to be self sufficient. Trim meat of fat & "silverskin" and cube into 1/2 - 3/4" pieces. Pack semi tightly into ho...

The Hutterites are an amazing group. They live in a colony situation of up to 100 people(including children) on a very large farm, where they raise grain, livestock, including large dairy & beef herds, hogs numbering in the thousands, chickens, ducks, & geese. They also have large market gardens. Fo...

When I was a young'un on the farm, butchering chickens was an annual ritual in September. My mother insisted that we have at least 80 chickens, of which half were roosters and the other pullets. The roosters were for meat, while the pullets provided the family with eggs, and as you describe, butcher...