Live Cooks with Meat Smoke Fire
We started this series at the beginning of lockdown. Each had a theme of #SaturdayNightTakeAway, replicating take away dishes. 15+ weeks on and we’ve dropped the theme but are still doing 3 dishes in 45 minutes (or there abouts), every Saturday.
The beauty of these live cooks is you get to interact, asking questions relevant to the cook or anything to do with the Big Green Egg.
To watch the videos live and ask your questions you need to follow me on Instagram at: @MeatSmokeFire. At 11:30am each Saturday we will go live. You need to log into Instagram and you will be notified we are doing a live video as soon as we start at 11:30am.
Saturday 6th August 2022 –Eastern Mediterranean / North African cook
We love spicy food and this week’s cook was beautiful. Not only did we use the Big Green Eggs, but we also used the DeliVita wood-fired oven to make some garlic flatbreads for the kebabs. We cooked three main dishes:
- Lamb shoulder kebabs with red onion pickle, tzatziki, and garlic flatbreads.
- Baked feta with red onion, chilli, parsley and oregano.
- Charred hispi cabbage with a tahini dressing, and pomegranate seeds.
Saturday 30th July 2022 – Fish week
I was supposed to be fishing this week but the weather didn’t play ball. No worries, Waitrose to the rescue. To be honest with my track record, I would have probably just gone to Waitrose anyway.
Instead of the 3 cooks we normally do, today we did 5:
- Rotisserie bream with an Asian dipping sauce.
- Lobster tails with herb butter melted with charcoal, this cook is theatre and delicious.
- Mackerel on a bed of fennel and tomato, cooked in the DeliVita pizza oven.
- Rainbow trout en papillote.
- Fried whitebait with spicy paprika flour, lemon and sea salt.
Saturday 23rd July 2022 – Asian BBQ Week
While away on holiday we found a few dishes we wanted to try:
- Thai chicken skewers – sweet, spicy, moist and full of flavour.
- Korean pancakes – vegetable pancakes with a dipping sauce.
- Asian roasted cauliflower – sticky and spicy, it’s delicious.
Saturday 9th July 2022 – Corn ribs, lamb smash burgers and La Mams tomato salad
This was a great live cook. The food was hoovered. The corn ribs are an absolute winner.
Our cooks were:
- Lamb smash burgers with tzatziki and grilled halloumi. These were served in our homemade brioche rolls.
- Corn ribs – you have to try these. They are simply stunning. Be careful cutting the corn though.
- La Mams tomato salad – this is a taste of my youth. So simple but such a winner, especially with a lovely baguette.
Saturday 2nd July 2022 – Fruit on the Egg
We wanted to do a week themed around fruit but not all desserts.
We cooked:
- a grilled watermelon, avocado and red onion salad with feta and mint.
- a grilled pineapple salsa.
- a flat peach galette.
Saturday 18th June 2022 – Nibbles Week 2
After a 4 week break due to classes and holidays, we’re back.
We cooked the following 3 nibbles dishes:
- Turkish Pizza – pizza boats with a lamb mince topping
- Bitterballen – Dutch mince roux balls
- Sweet potato wedges – crispy and spicy
Saturday 11th June 2022 – Nibbles Week
After a 4 week break due to classes and holidays, we’re back.
We cooked the following 3 nibbles dishes:
Saturday 7th May 2022 – Beer-braised food
Fancy a dish cooked in beer? Well here are 3 of them, all cooked on the Big Green Egg with a bottle of beer or two in each.
We cook:
- Beer-braised, smoked paprika pulled pork belly tacos.
- Beer-braised spicy chicken burritos, with fried rice and beans.
- Beer-braised breakfast beans on toast.
