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  1. robbo

    Leg Of Lamb Smoked & Q-view

    I live in southern France and have smoked one leg of lamb. It's one of my favorites, although a bit pricey unless you can find it on sale. We have a lot of olive trees down here, but I never thought of using it as a smoking wood. Have friends coming over Saturday with another leg getting ready...
  2. robbo

    Smoked sea bass !!

    I live in the south of France on the Med. I was teasing a friend about the small size of the fish they catch and keep. Mainly soup size. He just brought me a 3 pound sea bass that came in to one of islands during spawning season. I rubbed it with dried dill and let it sit overnight. Smoked it...
  3. robbo

    Anyone ever smoke catfish?

    I lived in Africa for a while and they smoke catfish all the time. They smoke them whole, for six hours or so. The skin gets crackly hard, the intestines dry up. They simply break off the head, crack off the skin, the dry intestines fall out and they eat the flaky meat off the bones. Excellent...
  4. robbo

    Lamb is good meat

    I live in France and lamb is a pretty common meat here. Before France I lived in Chad, Africa where goat and lamb were staples. Lamb is a great meat, very savory and moist. It is almost impossible not to succeed. I have smoke 4 or 5 legs of lamb in my homemade smoker. See pics...
  5. robbo

    Cheated and the Ribs were still great !

    I had gone to the butcher and bought two racks of babybacks. My wife froze them right away and a week later thawed them out overnight and asked me if I could smoke them for lunch that day. I thought 'No Way!'. These need to be smoked for 4 hours or so and I would have had to get started by 6 or...
  6. robbo

    Salmon

    I often coat salmon filets/steaks with some olive oil. Been trying different wood also. I have a sage bush in the yard and broke off some branches and threw them on the coals. Very tasty gives a bit more lively flavor than traditional heavy woods. Especially with a nice crisp white wine! Also...
  7. robbo

    Just follow the directions

    We moved to southern France from Chad, Africa about 4 years ago. I learned a bit about smoking from a Marine guard at the embassy there. We just bought a house and once we got settled in I decided I needed a smoke. The house came with a grill, ok for steaks, but not for real bbq. I found some...
  8. robbo

    Dolphin and Wahoo?

    Never cooked these, but in Africa we had a large fish called Nile Perch or Capitaine. I would buy them around 5-7 pounds, scale and clean them, rub them in oil and pepper, stuff some lemons and onions in the cavity and slow cook / smoke them about 8 hours in a round Weber barbecue. Using just a...
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