Bachelor Life with Victor

 I love steak.  I will eat chicken, and I will eat pork, and I like both of them, definitely pork on the smoker, but steak, steak is where it is at.  Give me a medium rare grilled steak and I am in heaven.  With my grill officially gone I cook the steak on the smoker.  The smoker essentially doubles as a grill if you turn the temperature up higher, so that is what I do.  I turned it up to 475 degrees and put the steak on.  Before I put it in the smoker, I put worcester sauce, McCormick steak seasoning, and Lawrys Garlic salt on it.  Anyway, put it in the smoker, 10 minutes cook time, and it comes out amazing.  There is no need to add steak sauce because it is tender, juicy, and full of flavor. 

As I said in my introductory post, I love cooking, especially with the smoker.  I love all kinds of meat.  Pork is amazing on the smoker.  Though beef is great too.  More on that later.   A food that I love is seafood!  A groomsman in my first wedding, and my best man in my second wedding totally got me into oysters, clams, and mussels.  I could write a whole series of posts on him, but I will spare you (and him). Anywho!  Yesterday I decided I was going to do mussels on the smoker.  Yes, I could have just steamed them, but I wanted to try it.  I cooked them in a cast iron skillet in butter and minced garlic.  Mussels taste great with no extra flavoring like butter and garlic, but, still.  I cooked them at 400 for 10 minutes.  First I melted the butter, and added the garlic.  After that, I added the mussels and cooked for 10 minutes.  Flavor was amazingly good.  If you have a smoker, and like mussels, I...