Big Green Egg Live Cooks with Meat Smoke Fire
At 11:30 am on Saturday, approximately twice a month, we go live and cook three recipes. What better way is there to get many BBQ recipe ideas.
To watch the videos live and ask your questions, you need to follow us on Instagram at @MeatSmokeFire. You need to log into Instagram and you’ll be notified we’re doing a live video as soon as we start at 11:30 am.
The beauty of these live cooks is you get to interact, ask questions relevant to the cook or anything to do with the Big Green Egg or your grill. Â We cook three dishes, share how we do them and then publish the recipes.
2025 live cook schedule
| Month | Live Cook 1 | Live Cook 2 |
| January | Saturday 4th | Saturday 25th |
| February | Saturday 8th | Saturday 22nd |
| March | Saturday 8th | Saturday 29th |
| April | Saturday 12th | Saturday 19th |
| May | Saturday 10th | Saturday 31st |
| June | Saturday 7th | |
| July | Saturday 12th | Saturday 26th |
| August | Saturday 9th | Saturday 23rd |
| September | ||
| October | Saturday 4th | Saturday 25th |
| November | Saturday 8th | Saturday 22nd |
| December | Saturday 6th | Saturday 20th |
Saturday 8th February – Indian with Grace and Nic
This week, we were joined by Grace, whom we met at Highgrange Devon during one of their superb feast nights. Grace worked with Luke and Sara for a year and is a very talented fire chef. Roll on a year, and Grace asked if she could come and cook with us, and of course, we were delighted to host her. Based on this performance, she’ll be back soon.
Grace came up with this week’s recipe ideas with the exception of the Roti:
- Tandoori spatchcocked chicken – we roasted this on the OFYR but the recipe would work just as well in the Big Green Egg or Charlie Oven.
- Tandoori curry dipping sauce – a lovely sweet curry sauce, and not too spicy as Grace isn’t a massive fan of chilli heat.
- Roti – simple wholewheat flatbreads, perfect for eating chicken and sauce with your hands. They contain just three ingredients.
Whilst preparing for the live cook, Grace and Nic decided to have a ‘Bhaji Off’, here are their recipes
- Red Onion Bhajis – using red onions and her own spice mix
- Onion Bhajis – stuck with this original recipe, which has proved very popular in the curry classes
Saturday 25th January – Savoury tarte tatin, breakfast in a potato basket, and a mini pizza.
We cooked the following:
- Beetroot and goat’s cheese tarte tatin – earthy but so simple and amazingly delicious.
- Crispy potato baskets with bacon and eggs – breakfast in a bite. These are so good.
- Margherita puff pastry swirls – the three colours of the Italian flag, in a puff pastry swirl.
Saturday 4th January – Winter Warmers
Our first cook of 2025 and it was freezing. We had to defrost the Eggs in order to open them.
We cooked the following:
- Flat basket rotisserie chicken – rotisserie chicken everyone loves, done the easy way.Â
- Ratatouille – we’ve been meaning to do this one for a while and it didn’t disappoint. Chunky veg with tomatoes.
- Chilli and lime roast potatoes – a dish we’ve been making for years. It’s a lovely twist to standard roasties.
