You don't want a very high temp. to smoke the peppers or you'll burn them. Somewhere between 150-200 degrees. You don't run the smoke all the time either or you'll get a really bitter tasting pod,especially if your using Mesquite for wood chunks. I use Scrub oak and hickory most of the time.I like the sweetness of hickory and the dry smokey oak taste combination. One of my smokers has hangers for skewers in it.I like to thread my pods and hang them from the skewers in my verticle smoker to dry them.hanging they dry really fast and I can fit a ton of them in there as opposed to racks stacked in the smoker.I don't have to rotate or stir the pods around like I did when I was using tin foil covered grills in my barrel smoker. I sent you a PM from this site a couple days ago.Tim couldn't get my E Mail fixed on my puter yet.He was in a hurry and didn't have much time. Don't know if you got it. Yellowtail is my favorite smoked fish.Excellent stuff. Smoked thick pieces of beef jerky are good too but they somehow dissapear too fast. Smoked Turkey and Ham day is comming up soon too. When Chuck is on sale buy a whole 20lb chunk.Poke holes in it all over the place at different depths and put garlic,green onion and a slice of hot pepper in the holes. Rub it down with a hot pepper rub and let it sit in a plastic garbage bag in the fridge for a couple days (to soak everything up) then cold smoke it(200%-250% smoker temp.) for about a day or so (depending on fat content etc.up to 30 hrs.)till it reaches about 180 inside. Outside will be well done and it'll be like you do prime rib-gets rarer as you cut it. Put a throw away aluminum pan under the meat to catch the juices so you can cool them in the fridge to take the fat off easier. Cut it with beef boulion or it will be too smokey tasting and have too much of the rub in it from the meat, reheat it for AU JUICE.Or add flower for gravey. You can add a dash of onion and garlic powder but usually the spice rub from the meat seasoned it enough. ou can shred the meat and mix in the sauce for pulled beef sandwiches on a hard roll(soaked with hot juice,covered with a slice of cheese too) or burritos,tostadas etc.

Good Morning! I opened Sharon's (GMOM)cookbook fun last night!!!!! Love it all Sharon! *Several crochet and handmade pot holders....I think the ones with the birds are pot holders???? I will email you! *Gardening gloves *America's Country Inn Cookbook *Promise Yourself a Good Meal With Optimism Cookbook (Optimist Club) *Fresh Delights Fruits and Vegetables Cookbook *Tropical Blossoms Of The Caribbean...a little book just about specific Caribbean flowers...pics and descriptions! *Sweet and Salty Mix Thanks so very much!!!! Annie

Hi everyone, Just had to pop in and make sure our hostess knew I finally sent the box to Becky (ramazz) and I sent lots o' goodies along w/ the plants too :) Becky sent me a lovely box a few weeks ago absolutely full to the brim of plants and a GORGEOUS copperwired butterfly windchime.. I collect these so this was a lovely bonus! So thanks Becky :) Just wanted to sorta apologize too for not being too 'chatty' this RR, as some of you know my mom has cancer. Well she has been getting weaker and weaker the past few weeks so I find myself at her house daily doing whatever needs to be done or just holding her hand.. We found out on Tuesday that her liver is now 80% covered with cancer and she is literally a bright yellow color (like a jaundiced baby..) She is growing a new tumor in her belly (she just had 2 removed in March that weighed over 12lbs all together..) and the cancer is spreading to her interior stomach lining and up to her lungs.. We got her to a cancer center in Mexico this past week that does things a lil bit differently than they do here in the U.S. They focus more on herbal healing, and positive thinking. There's no guarantees of course, but since her oncologist basically wrote her off, this was her last hope. Please keep her in your prayers, her name is Janice. All this cancer started initially as cervical cancer.. so all you gals go get your yearly screenings.. this is NOT something to play around with! :( I'll probably be away more than here on GW for awhile, just wanted you all to know I appreciate your kind words and thoughts and I'll pop back in when I can. Hugs, Wendy / sassybutterfly_2008

We survived a similar situation last winter.... spent two months in the 12' living quarters space of our horse trailer parked out on our new driveway. Me, the 6'7" husband, a 90lb German Shepherd and a cat... .it was cozy! As far as the storage, this is what we did. There are no climate controlled storage units within 100 miles so we had to make do. All wood pieces and furniture, books, paper and fabric things went inside the new house. We had several rooms downstairs that we piled up the furniture in stacking some things with cardboard between them. We piled it all neatly and away from the walls so that the electrician could still work and workers could get through the rooms to the bathrooms etc. The ceiling fans and central light fixtures were installed prior to the move and the ceilings were all finished so there was never any need to get to the center of the room again. Then we draped off and covered everything with plastic sheeting. We did the same thing in our master bedroom only it was mostly wardrobe boxes. The mechanical room was a similar situation and so was our storage room and another walk in closet. Anything that a mouse, water or weather couldn't hurt went outside. If you pack carefully, this is more than you might think. We rented a storage unit in town, got the one pod that was available delivered to the construction site and also had part of our garage at the new house available. All of our artwork, prints etc were packed in art boxes and went to the home of some good friends who gave over an extra bedroom to them until we could get them again. Every single box was numbered and labeled so that movers knew whether it went to the pod, garage or house. I used a program called Evernote to keep track of what was inside each box and where each box should be located. My husband made sure that our contents were covered by our insurance... he used to be an insurance agent so knew to look into this. I believe that we had to have some sort of residence other than our RV, so we "rented" the guest house of other friends for a dollar so that if something happened we legally had a residence. Whatever you do if you store things at your new residence or in a pod on the property, make sure that it's all covered by your insurance in case of fire, robbery etc. As far as the building inspectors, we really didn't care. It was going to be our GC who would be in hot water with them and we were a little peeved that the house was about 4 months past our longest expected time for completion. It took us 2 years! The inspectors really didn't care as long as they could get to all of the light switches, receptacles etc. Our rental landlords were awesome, but we'd told them that the house would be finished in October and they'd advertised the rental and had new tenants lined up almost immediately. We had about 6 weeks to be prepared for the move so it wasn't as bad as it sounds and we truly didn't blame our landlord. New tenants are hard to find and it didn't make any sense to ignore a new year lease just to keep us around for 8 more weeks. Good luck! With planning, you can swing it!