cookingjnj
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Hi all,
So last night my wife had her family and close family friends over for Passover dinner, and I was given the task to prepare the mains for the dinner. Because brisket is a tradition with her family, I needed to include brisket as part of the offerings. Now, I do not like brisket the way her family normally prepares it (braised which comes out a lot like pot roast), but I LOVE when I cook brisket on the RT. I decided on brisket and a lemon tarragon marinated chicken breast as mains. Since it was Good Friday, I had to come up with a non-meat dish for myself and my mother (of course anyone was able to have the fish as well). Came up with making a panko crusted take on Broiled Boston Scrod using tilapia as the fish to be baked in the oven. Found out way late in the game the entire oven was going to be used for making the sides, so had to re-group.
I have never in the years I have had the RT used it as an oven, but there is a first for everything. Once the brisket was done to a perfect 205 internal (both by temp test and by probe softness test), the brisket went into FTC for a few hours to rest. RT fired up to 450 to get ready for the fish. Ran out of room so the chicken was grilled on my gasser.
Sorry the pictures are not great....still need that photography class, but here is the result of the dinner. I did not get pictures of the chicken at all...ugh. All in all, the three dishes came out outstanding according to our guest. I can attest to the fact the fish was outstanding, and the visuals of the brisket (might look dry in the picture, but was as moist as a brisket can be) and chicken were spot on. Dinner was a success. I will be having brisket sammies for lunch today to ensure guest were not just being kind with the praises.....hahahaha.
Brisket on the pit at 7am at 225
Brisket sliced after reaching internal of 205 and FTC for 2.5 hours
Fish going on pit at 450 for about 15 minutes (could have gone just a tad longer to get more browning on the panko
Fish off the pit after 15 minutes at 450 (I did check progress a few times to ensure panko was not burning)
So last night my wife had her family and close family friends over for Passover dinner, and I was given the task to prepare the mains for the dinner. Because brisket is a tradition with her family, I needed to include brisket as part of the offerings. Now, I do not like brisket the way her family normally prepares it (braised which comes out a lot like pot roast), but I LOVE when I cook brisket on the RT. I decided on brisket and a lemon tarragon marinated chicken breast as mains. Since it was Good Friday, I had to come up with a non-meat dish for myself and my mother (of course anyone was able to have the fish as well). Came up with making a panko crusted take on Broiled Boston Scrod using tilapia as the fish to be baked in the oven. Found out way late in the game the entire oven was going to be used for making the sides, so had to re-group.
I have never in the years I have had the RT used it as an oven, but there is a first for everything. Once the brisket was done to a perfect 205 internal (both by temp test and by probe softness test), the brisket went into FTC for a few hours to rest. RT fired up to 450 to get ready for the fish. Ran out of room so the chicken was grilled on my gasser.
Sorry the pictures are not great....still need that photography class, but here is the result of the dinner. I did not get pictures of the chicken at all...ugh. All in all, the three dishes came out outstanding according to our guest. I can attest to the fact the fish was outstanding, and the visuals of the brisket (might look dry in the picture, but was as moist as a brisket can be) and chicken were spot on. Dinner was a success. I will be having brisket sammies for lunch today to ensure guest were not just being kind with the praises.....hahahaha.
Brisket on the pit at 7am at 225
Brisket sliced after reaching internal of 205 and FTC for 2.5 hours
Fish going on pit at 450 for about 15 minutes (could have gone just a tad longer to get more browning on the panko
Fish off the pit after 15 minutes at 450 (I did check progress a few times to ensure panko was not burning)
