A break in the weather

We had a nice last weekend in January so I cleaned out the BGE to prepare for cooking some things for the next week. Snow was predicted. The egg was almost out of charcoal which might have been part of the reason that the Christmas turkey cooking was completed. Nothing original just what I know and that was Hormel pork tenderloin with honey mustard, boneless Honeysuckle boneless turkey breat and Honeysuckle ground turkey breast. I added pecan chips to smoke and everything had wonderful flavors! One of my best. As a side note I had purchased some black lentils from Mamma Jeans and found a wonderful recipe in Food and Wine for an indian Black Lentil soup by Rajat Parr. Google it if you are interested. Really nice, different flavors.

Christmas continued

According to my notes at 7:30am the temp was 285 degrees and I had the top and the bottom wide open. At 7:45am I put the cap with holes on since it was spitting snow but by 7:50am the temp had dropped from 300 to 250 so I took the cap off. At 9:15am it was still 250 degrees. 10:00am 250 :(. By 11:00am it was 150 so we took the turkey off and put it in the oven at 350. By now it was snowing quite alot. The turkey breast temp was 140. The pumpkin and pecan pies were done, thank goodness. We took the turkey out at 12:30pm and it was done. This turkey was larger than the one at Thanksgiving and although it was good it was not as moist at the earlier turkey.