Water works well with cornstarch as a thickening slurry but if you're using flour, I recommend making a roux with butter, olive oil, or bacon grease (depending on the taste profile you're looking for). Cooking it as a roux will get rid of the uncooked taste of the flour. Alton Brown had a great explanation on "Good Eats" of the food science behind what's happening when making a roux but the shows aren't available on YouTube anymore.
Here's a recipe from Alton for a white roux (just the recipe, no Mr. Wizard-type explanations):
https://altonbrown.com/recipes/white-roux/
Interested for sure, thanks.
I finished off the standard wings last night and that has been my favorite sauce for sure. The base is Frank's Red Hot, garlic, and butter. Always an entire stick of butter, but this time I hand crushed the garlic with a pestle and mortar. I used a tiny bit of cayenne, but the real kick came from the Diablo Arbol sauce I mixed in there.
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4 lb pastami going on the smoker.
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'Unless a law-abiding individual has a firearm for his or her own defense, the police typically arrive after it is too late. With rigor mortis setting in, they mark and bag the evidence, interview bystanders, and draw a chalk outline on the ground' - Judge Benitez , 2019, Duncan v. Becerra.
'One of the ordinary modes by which Tyrants accomplish their purpose without resistance is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms.' Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840.
Some thin sliced pastrami.
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'Unless a law-abiding individual has a firearm for his or her own defense, the police typically arrive after it is too late. With rigor mortis setting in, they mark and bag the evidence, interview bystanders, and draw a chalk outline on the ground' - Judge Benitez , 2019, Duncan v. Becerra.
'One of the ordinary modes by which Tyrants accomplish their purpose without resistance is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms.' Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840.
Front quarter wild hog. More of slow Q than smoke job. Sweet heat marinade. Apple smoke for few minutes every hour for about 4 hrs.
Maybe can remember after pics and not just left over pics.
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Perfect timing, I was just looking up recipes for smoked carnitas. That's going to be my group dinner contribution in Moab this weekend. I'm going to try this recipe.
https://heygrillhey.com/smoked-pork-carnitas/