Merry Christmas everyone! Dinner tonight is a 2 bone rib roast. I trimmed all the large areas of fat and
silver skin off the roast and gave it a bath of kosher salt last night. This morning I made up a batch of
Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow Crust and mixed it with olive oil. I coated the roast and put it back into the refrigerator
to get happy with the rub for a few hours.
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We had some red potatoes that needed to be eaten and we really didn’t want mashed potatoes, so we
decided on making some Crash Hot potatoes. First off I zapped the potatoes for about 4 minutes in the
microwave and then put them on my Firewire. I wanted a smoky flavor so I put them on the WSM. I am
running the WSM without the water pan and I filled up the ring with a large chimney of lump and then lit
up the lump with a ¾ full chimney of KBB. I threw in a couple chunks of mesquite for some extra smoke.
Potatoes put onto the WSM to finish cooking.
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The WSM was cruising at close to 410 degrees according to my trusty Maverick so I put the roast on
with the potatoes.
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Potatoes are off the WSM after about 35 minutes and a little more done than I wanted.
![Shocked :o](https://letstalkbbq.com/Smileys/akyhne/shocked.gif)
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2 hours at 400 plus degrees (depending on the wind) and the roast is at 130 in the center.
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Crash Hots were mashed with a fork, covered with shredded Colby jack cheese and sprinkled with pepper
bacon on top. They were put back onto the WSM to melt the cheese and warm the potatoes.
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The rib roast is sliced. Not the prettiest slice job, but there was only the 2 and we weren't looking for small slices.
![Wink ;)](https://letstalkbbq.com/Smileys/akyhne/wink.gif)
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Crash Hots are done.
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Plated with green beans, olives and burning bushes (shredded ham, green onions and cream cheese.)
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Roast was perfect and everything else delicious too.