Smoking chicken and the garden

Hello again, do you like smoked food? Paul has had a few attempts at smoking a split chook and this time he used part of our little bbq kettle in the bottom of the new large smoker as not enough air flow (which we discovered and later read about) and the temperature at least rose to near 100 Celsius

It certainly was a lot hotter and more efficient ☺ 

A bit of a blurry shot of the big bbq smoker in action.....

The chook smelt great and had clear juices but.....

to be on the safe side we gave it a further short cook in the oven ☺ it was delish and skin crisped up a bit better

I have been meaning to split the rhubarb which I had in the front lawn area for a few years so......

split I have, and do hope they survive as now have 3 plants ☺☺ and I have attacked all the weeds now....

The moon was looking larger on Tuesday afternoon, so of course I took a pic.....full moon is expected here Friday...it is a special friends birthday that day so "Happy birthday" Diana ♥ and enjoy the full moon's smile on you ☺☺

The rosemary has been going really well and I have quite a few plants ☺

Another thriving.......

Plenty of weeding has been needed as I have neglected for a while....

Newspaper and even a pizza box helps keep those pesky weeds at bay lol 

Oregano and thyme going crazy ☺

The garden along the back of the house, with even a plant that smells and tastes like olives ☺and a couple of sage and lemon thyme as well 

The succulents and aloe vera have been cut back as going crazy, even though I have never actually watered this area......

Today (Thursday), I have now put down plenty of sugar cane mulch ready for the Autumn time in the garden so lets hope the weeds get lost under all that......

A good feeling to finally have fixed this area up and will plant more herbs as at least I CAN grown them, they are very forgiving lol 

And I made this cute owl crochet hat over 2 days and do hope a certain little baby likes this, oh and her Mum and Dad too ♥♥ The pattern is available for free crochet-owl-hat-pattern thanks to a lovely blog lady Sarah ☺☺

It is for a 6-12 mth size so plenty of time to wear over winter ♥

Well how is the weather/life where you are? Here the weather has been incredibly dry as I have said on other posts....with Autumn now here lets hope some rain falls as this area where I live is normally quite wet.....take care out there xoxo

Something a little different

Hello my faithful friends ☺☺ Thanks for dropping by ♥ We have been wanting to do more with smoking food......so we bought these wood chips to have a test run....

And this little faithful smoker had seen too much work and needed to be replaced.....Photo from when it was still quite new.......so

We got out our little kettle bbq and put inside a little metal box which holds the wood chips over the charcoal.....

Here it is after cooking and does have a lid that goes over the top

A bit of smoke happening ☺

And here are 2 of the snags.....they were quite tasty, almost like a chorizo sausage

And we ate them with this little walnut lettuce salad.......We also did some more today but were not quite as good so not sure about the smoked snag thing.....chicken yes, fish yes.....

This is the new bbq smoker which is a lot bigger than the original tin box lol and quite impressive it is......

Can even check that temperatures are going ok......

Plenty of room in here for smoking a few layers ☺☺

And a bowl to hold water to keep moisture happening within the food.....

We are wondering if we could make use of the herbs we have here in the smoker ☺ Rosemary

Sage

Thyme ☺☺ Food for thought lol 

And finally I am back on the sock knitting with the mini circular......lets see how much I stick to it....

Thank you again and may life in your neck of the woods be okay.....

xoxoxo