Smoked Soy Brined Salmon and Tuna

To celebrate the end of that sunny weekend, we smoked tuna and salmon with a simple soy-based brine:

Salmon and Tuna in the Fire Box

Salmon and Tuna in the Fire Box

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Apple Juice Brined Pulled Pork

After brining fish (see “Cedar Planked Smoked Sesame Salmon and Tuna“) and thanks to Greg I’m now exploring brining pork shoulder for pulled pork. Pulled pork is amazingly simple, but requires preparation work. Brining adds to this, but is well worthy.

Pulled Pork Sandwich

Pulled Pork Sandwich

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Salmon on Cedar Planks

A smoker is great for big pieces of pork, beef or chicken. Putting fish directly on the grid is usually not an option because the fish can fall apart or is difficult to remove. Instead wrapping it into aluminium foil or putting it on a metal or stone plate, I prefer to put fish on a cedar plank. In my opinion the best way to BBQ fish:

Salmon on Cedar Plank

Salmon on Cedar Plank

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BBQ with Baby Back Ribs and Pulled Pork

Having a total of 14 guests in the evening, why not preparing a great BBQ? A smoker can take a lot of meat, so for this I decided to smoke two kinds of Baby Back Ribs plus one pork shoulder for pulled pork. Everyone is helping with preparing desert plus the salad dishes:

Salad bar

Salad bar

My job was to get up early to deal with the fire and meat 🙂

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