Smokehouse Recipes

By: Andy Lightbody One of the best ways to wake up in the morning is to the smell of fresh coffee, and something sizzling on the grill or in the frying pan. One of the best treats that are simple and easy to make is homemade sausage patties! And while ground pork is likely to be the top choice for most folks, you can make great sausage patties with everything from venison and elk to domestic beef. It just comes down to what you like and what you have in your freezer. Commercial breakfast sausage is made for the “masses,”...

By: Tiffany Haugen (www.tiffanyhaugen.com) Mexican Cinco De Mayo Celebration! We don’t need an excuse to make tacos as they are a favorite around here. But with Cinco de Mayo right around the corner, it’s time to make some spectacular Smoked Carne Asada Tacos filled with flavorful, smoked meat and cheese. Easy to smoke ahead and be ready for a crowd or to put together quickly for a family dinner, these tacos are sure to please. Smoking foods, using the Smoke Chief Cold Smoke Generator and BBQ pellets, prior to grilling or cooking, takes a little time but it’s a great...

Use your “freezer fish,” and avoid fishmonger sticker shock! Depending on where you live, it seemed like a long and cold winter, where cleaning out the freezer of last season’s salmon and trout fillets just wasn’t in the cards. Now that most of the “arctic blasts” are over, it’s time to start reliving some of last year’s great angling memories and making room for some of the fresh fish from springtime adventures that are just around the corner! The big bonuses for doing some “refrig-rummaging” is that not only are you going to win a few points from your significant-other...

Nearly identical to our Original Smoked Salmon Recipe this recipe is perhaps the best smoked trout recipe that works great for rainbow trout, brown trout, kokanee, steelhead, brook trout, cutthroat trout, sea run trout and all the rest of the trout species. Smokehouse Products has been using this smoked trout recipe for over 40 years since when we began making our Big Chief and Little Chief Electric Smokers back in 1968. The recipe is basic, it’s simple, and it consistently makes absolutely mouth-watering smoked trout. With just two ingredients, salt and brown sugar, (or use our premixed Smokehouse Trout and Salmon Brine...

Coming from a family of butchers, fisherman and hunters, this recipe has been tested on some big guys with big appetites. If you're looking for a little more specialty, homemade summer sausage recipe that will knock the socks off your relatives when they come over during the holidays... well, look no further. You can tweak it as you see fit, but be careful because this recipe has been tweaked to perfection already. This recipe will make 10 lbs. of sausage.  INGREDIENTS 8 tbsp plain salt (non-iodized) 7 tbsp course ground pepper 2 tbsp white sugar 3 tsp modern cure 1...