Smokinlicious® Wood Recipe Blog

Our Art rendition of the steps in making the Smokey Jack Frost Cocktail

JACK FROST GOES SMOKEY- THE COCKTAIL!

Also known as the winter piña colada, the Jack Frost cocktail is perfect for introducing a little smoke flavor to. If you like sweet, smooth cocktails, then the Jack Frost is for you. I’ll give you the recipe and the easy technique for smoking the entire drink that you’ll enjoy sipping all winter long. Pick your favorite festive cocktail glass and let’s take Jack Frost to the smoky side.

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Our Savory Corn Muffins on the cool down rack. Just waiting to be served!

ADDING A SMOKY INGREDIENT FOR A SAVORY CORN MUFFINS

Ready for a savory take on the standard corn muffin recipe? I’m adding a smoked chive to bring these muffins to a whole new level.

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Grilling our Spam® on a chimney starter for a quick preparation for Asian sliders- yes we used Spam®

Cooking Spam® on a chimney starter Click To Tweet

Although Spam® may not be your go to meat choice, there are a lot of recipes that have been created around this canned meat. With 6 primary ingredients – pork with ham, potato starch, water, salt, sugar and sodium nitrate – Spam® was key to feeding our troops during WWII and retained some popularity since its introduction in 1937. Although this is a high sodium food item, it can offer some easy meal prep and is super easy to smoke. In fact, due to the small size of the servings, I’m going to show you how to grill-smoke this using my chimney starter only and a grill rack. Then I’ll take these charry slices and make an Asian Inspired Spam® Slider. Go select your favorite variety of Spam® and let’s get this smoked in no time!

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Spam® on a Chimney Starter- Plain or with a Little Marinade Boost

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By our stove top smoked chives techniques we will be adding a pinch of smokey flavor to these wonderful bright green chives

Fresh chives are in season so why not do something different with this wonderful herb and try your hand a smoking them! One of the easiest methods for controlling the heat and smoke level to a delicate item like herbs is to use a stove top smoker or stove top smoker set up with a cast iron pan. The point of smoking the chives is to add a depth of flavor to any recipe.

INGREDIENTS FOR STOVE TOP SMOKED CHIVES:

• A stove top wood smoker or cast iron pan with an insert pan for the chives and a lid
• SmokinLicious® Minuto® Wood Chips in Size #6 or #8 in your choice of species
• Fresh chives

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Smoke trapped in the bottle infusing the Smoked Maple Syrup Marinade

Try our Smoky Maple Syrup Marinade and Glaze Click To Tweet

A point that I regularly try to drive home is that when it comes to smoking foods and ingredients, it doesn’t have to be the traditional items thought of. A great example of this is our Dijon Maple Marinade recipe that is especially good with pork.

When you don’t want to smoke the actual protein, think about smoking another ingredient that will be married to the pork. For me, that was the maple syrup I use in my marinade recipe. I’ll review for you the cold smoking technique for this and then provide my recipe for this great marinade that can be used on fish, chicken, turkey, pork, and goat.

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Discover a great taste with wood chips by cooking Swordfish A LA Plancha!

SWORDFISH A LA PLANCHA

Colder weather can often end your outdoor cooking but it doesn’t have to take away your desire for wood fired foods. I’m going to show you an easy method of keeping wood fired flavors going even in the coldest, snowiest weather by taking the indoor plancha to my stove top. I’ll prepare a tasty swordfish using wood chips for flavoring to the fish and finishing with a ginger-garlic butter sauce. Purchase some fresh swordfish and let’s bring authentic wood flavoring to this great cut of fish.

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Our Charred Broccoli soup ingredients, in the pot and finished soup

CHARRED BROCCOLI SOUP WITH GRILLED BROCCOLI FLORETS

Known as the mini tree, broccoli is part of the cruciferous vegetable family that includes cabbage, Brussels sprout, cauliflower, and kale to name a few. Broccoli is low in calories and packed with nutritional value including Vitamin K, C, folate, and potassium.

Although popular as a steamed or stir-fry vegetable, one of the great things when grilling broccoli is it doesn’t lose any nutritional value and you gain great flavor.

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