My 9 y/o has cooked for the past two days. He has had football practice for 3 hours a night Mon-Thurs for the past two weeks, so being off last night I guess he was bored AND hungry.
One of the things he knows how to cook is sauteed chicken breast. So last night I talked him through turning that into chicken picatta by adding some lemon juice, broth, and capers. He did every bit, I just told him what to do. He insisted on wearing the hat that his brother's girlfriend brought that morning.
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With school starting next week, Trevor asked if he could smoke some bologna. It's his favorite lunch meat. It's actually pretty good and I don't like bologna.
Yeah, smoked bologna. The first time I heard of it was at a BBQ competition and I thought it was a joke too. But it's something many BBQ enthusiasts have done to entertain themselves during a long cook. It's basically a chub of bologna, slathered with mustard, rubbed with a bbq rub and smoked for about 90 minutes.
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I think I'm seeing WHY he likes making smoked bologna so much, it's like playing in mud!
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He had too much smoke here, but got it burning cleaner within the first 10 minutes.
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One was glazed in BBQ sauce the other with honey/butter.
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Of course, we don't let him use the electric meat slicer, yet!
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It's a good thing I got my black belt in karate...I might have to start fighting this kid for kitchen time.