Oh, what a joyous day. I love the Super Bowl. I love the culmination of the NFL season. I love the commercials. I love that it is practically a holiday that everyone gets together for. And most of all I love the food. And this year we may have gone a little overboard. If you are a health nut, this is not the place to be.
Here is the main event. This thing is all the rage right now so we decided to give it a try. What's not to love? Bacon wrapped sausage wrapped bacon? It's a cardiologist's dream. And what a perfect time to try one of these monsters - Super Bowl Sunday?
We started with two pounds of Italian Sausage, a pound of thick cut bacon (formed into a weave), a half pound of cooked bacon, a half shallot, some garlic, black pepper, some KC sweet and smoky rub (courtesy of Mr. Raichlen), BBQ sauce, some cheddar and provel cheese.
Mix up the sausage, garlic, shallots, black pepper in a bowl:
Add some roped provel:
Drizzle on some BBQ sauce of your preference:
You will notice that I did not apply the stuffing ingredients all the way to the edges. This is so the stuffing can be sealed within the fatty.
Since this has cheese in it it really needed to be smacked around pretty hard to make sure there are no cracks and crevices. My dad was having a hard time grasping the concept behind why we need to smack the crap out of the sausage so my mom stepped in to help out.
A few toothpicks later and that bad dog was wrapped well:
Coals on each side, a make shift drip pan made of tin foil and a chunk of cherry on each side. Instant smoker:
And then we have the Bacon Explosion on the grill:
About an hour in we have this:
Two hours in:
It is starting to look and smell really good right now. So much so we started attracting a crowd:
Hmmmm....Future entry on GrillinFool.com? I've got a rotisserie just waiting for one of those guys. That will have to wait for another time. Back to the grilling. Here we have the GrillinFool tending to the Fatty and some ABT's:
Remove the toothpicks, add some foil:
How about a closeup of that smoke ring with a different flash setting:
I gotta be honest here, this thing was good, but wasn't all that. The bacon on the outside was amazing but the rest of it was sorta, well, meh. With all the hype I just expected to be blown away. I wasn't. Not by a long shot. Here's what I would've done differently:
- The Italian sausage was a little overpowering. Probably should've gone with some generic bulk sausage rather than the Italian.
- It needed more cheese.
Will I try this again? Yes. With a different kind of sausage and more cheese I expect it to be better, but I still don't think it will live up to the hype. I do plan on doing the bacon weave around a pork tenderloin in the near future. This thing is a lot of work for something that just wasn't all that great.
Dude, she's not beating HER meat - she's beating yours!
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