While I was piddlin' around the cabin yesterday I thought I would smoke a few things on my Vision Kamado. The Boston Butt went about 7 hours, the bone in chicken thighs went about 4 hours as did the baby back ribs. I don't normally do baby back ribs, but that's all they had at the Foodland in Section, Alabama when I was passing through. That little store actually was very nice and had a good selection of meats.

I just rubbed them all down with my own rub that that threw together:

Salt
Pepper
Garlic powder
Cumin
Paprika
Brown sugar

Pretty simple...

No brine. The closest thing to a brine was rubbing down the butt with plain yellow mustard before the rub. Mrs. Irish did some baked beans and our friend Bettina brought a really nice vinegar based slaw and some banana cake with praline icing for dessert. I felt like a stuffed tick afterwards, but the Cigar, Bulliet Rye and the conversation were all good afterwards.

Good food, good cigars, good whiskey and good friends = good times.