Smoked Cream Cheese Dip

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This quick and easy recipe is great for game day!

1 Block of Cream Cheese

1 Tsp Favorite BBQ Rub

10-12 Cherry Tomatoes

Wheat Thins is favorite crackers to dip with

Pepper Jelly

Place cream cheese block on a foil covered baking sheet. Make diagonal cuts in top of the cream cheese, creating a “cross-hatch” pattern. Dust with the rub or seasoning. Surround with cherry tomatoes. Start grill, smoker, or oven and set to 225F. Once up to temp, add the cream cheese on baking sheet. After 2 hours, remove and let cool. Add a few tablespoons of pepper jelly to the top of keep to the side. Surround with crackers, and dig in!

Review: Allen Brothers Wagyu Ribeye Steaks

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Thanks to Matt Crawford (@SasquatchBBQ), I was able to try two Allen Brothers Wagyu Ribeyes earlier this month.

What a treat! The steaks came out juicy, tender, and packing big beefy flavor.

For the crust, I started with an olive oil base, and rubbed down with coarse salt and fresh cracked pepper.

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Smoke Ring on a Traegered Packer Prime Brisket

How to smoke a prime beef whole packer brisket

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I took the opportunity of the first three day weekend of the year to try my hand at a full packer brisket. A “packer” contains both the point and flat.

Weighing in at 16 pounds, and $2.99/lb at Costco, this was by far the most ambitious (and expensive) cook yet! Video below shows all of the basic steps in the recipe. At bottom are a number of links where you can find the tools of the trade that made this LONG cook a success (remote thermometer, utility knife, Traeger Century 22, etc). Let’s get started …

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Garlic Herb Butter Crusted Prime Rib

Recipe Review: Traeger’s Garlic Herb and Stuffed Prime Rib Roast Recipe

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When we haven’t done a recipe before, and are cooking for a big party or family gathering, we like to do a dry run a week or two before. As you saw with our Traeger Turkey Recipe Review, it’s usually flawless. But we always seem to learn something that improves the final product. Taking our end product from good to great!

After looking at a dozen or so mouth-watering Prime Rib recipes around the web, we decided to improvise on Traeger’s Garlic and Herb Stuffed Prime Rib Roast.

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