Hearth & Home

Watch for us in this months Hearth & Home magazine! Don't forget to check out the Smokin'Sidekick website! http://www.smokinsidekick.com Cheers, Smokin' SideKick Team

October Update!

Well folks it's official the Sidekick is going to be released all across North America in thousands of stores starting January 2009!

Don't forget to checkout the Smokin' Sidekick website! Here is what you will see when you do:

-Features

-Model Information

-Manuals

-Recipes

www.smokinsidekick.com

If you have any comments, questions, concerns please let us know as we always enjoy hearing from you.

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Website is UP!!

The website is up! There will be minor changes over the weekend and beginning of next week, for photos and such but that is the Smokin' Sidekick! Enjoy! For more information please feel free to contact us.

-Sidekick Team

Corn Bread Muffins

• 1 ½ cups yellow cornmeal
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tbs. sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 ¼ cups buttermilk
• ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
• 2 egg whites
• 2 tbs. vegetable oil

Pre-heat the Smokin’ Sidekick™ to 400°F (200°C). In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Combine buttermilk, applesauce, egg whites and oil; stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack. Makes 12 muffins

Smokin’ Garlic

Select large, firm bulbs of fresh garlic. Cut off tops and brush off excess skin around outside. Drizzle with olive oil or dot with butter. Remove the water tray at add hickory wood chips to the chip tray. It takes very little wood to flavor garlic. Smoke at 225°F (110°C) for 1¾ hours or until soft to the touch. Serve warm with crackers or use as a flavoring in salsa, smoked vegetable puree or other dishes.

Apple Smoked Pork Loin

• 2-2 ½ lbs. boneless pork top loin roast (single roast)
• 1 tsp. onion powder
• 1 tsp. paprika
• 1 tsp. salt
• ½ tsp. white pepper
• ¼ tsp. ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp. fresh grated nutmeg

Removing the membrane and excess fat from the pork loin, rub with olive oil, and then lightly season it with a bit of this dry rub mixture. Smoke the loin (using apple wood in the Smokin’ Sidekick™ box, and water in its tray) at 225°F (110°C) for two to three hours, or until the internal temperature reaches 155°F (75°C). Move the smoked pork loin to a platter, cover lightly with foil and a kitchen towel. Let it rest for fifteen minutes before serving with an apple cinnamon sauce.

Smokin’ Bourbon Spareribs

• ½ cup of Jim Beam
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 1 can of beer
• 2 tbs. soy sauce
• 2 tbs. Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbs. chopped garlic
• 1 tsp. black pepper

Heat the marinade ingredients in a saucepan, bringing to a boil to dissolve the sugar completely. Allow to cool. Marinate a whole sparerib slab overnight. Pre-heat Smokin’ Sidekick™ to 220°F (110°C) fill the water tray with water and the chip tray with hickory wood chips. Remove the slab from the marinade and allow it to drain. Pat dry before smoking, then remove when the internal temperature reaches 160°F (77°C).

Smoked King Crab & Lobster Tails

• Apple or alder wood chunks
• 1 cup butter or margarine, melted
• ¼ cup fresh lemon juice
• 1 tbs. minced fresh parsley
• ½ tsp. grated lemon rind
• Pinch salt
• 5 pounds frozen king crab legs, thawed
• 4 frozen lobster tails, thawed (about 2 pounds)

Soak wood chunks in water to cover at least 30 minutes. Pre-heat the Smokin’ Sidekick™ to 350°F (170°C) and place water tray in the Smokin’ Sidekick™; add water to fill line. Add wood chips to Smokin’ Sidekick™ and allow to smoke for 20 minutes, than remove the chip tray. Stir together butter and next 4 ingredients. Divide lemon-butter mixture in half. Crack crab legs, and split lobster tails. Brush lobster and crab with half of mixture; set aside remaining mixture. Coat rack with cooking spray. Arrange crab legs and lobster tails on rack. Smoke crab about 20 minutes and lobster about 45 minutes to 1 hour or until flesh is white and firm and its internal temperature reaches 145°F (60°C).

Comming Soon to an Internet Near You!

September 12th is a day that will go down in history as the day that the Smokin' Sidekick's website was launched. Be on the look-out this spring for the Smokin' Sidekick at your local BBQ store!

5 in 1 Cooking!

The Smokin’ Sidekick™ allows you prepare you food 5 different ways! It lets you keep the food warm for those late guests.

Smoking: From beef to poultry and fish, the Smokin’ Sidekick™ can deliver that true down home smokehouse flavour to all your foods. Even the toughest of meats come out tender with the new smoke temperature control. Smoke-roasting, exposes the food to both a roasting and smoking environment, by cooking with both wood chips and water. Smoking your food is the best way to ensure your remains moist and it gives you the opportunity to create different tastes with the same meat or seafood.

Roasting: Turn you side burner into an outdoor oven. The Smokin’ Sidekick’s™ precise temperature control system allows you to cook everything from roasts to vegetables.

Baking: The Smokin’ Sidekick™ provides terrific consistent heating temperatures to deliver the perfect cooking environment. It works great whether you are baking a cake or making corn bread muffins.

Warming: The best solution for cooking for a crowd! The Smokin’ Sidekick™ will keep everything warm & its moist air control system prevents food from drying out. The warming temperatures allows even the Smokin’ Sidekick™ to operate as a slow cooker.

Steaming: The Smokin’ Sidekick™ provides terrific peak heating temperatures to deliver an intense steam effect when quick cooking vegetables or shellfish. It is also great for steaming hamburger or hot buns.

Smokin Sidekick

Ever wanted that hickory woodys taste to your foods? Ever wanted to use your BBQ for more than just grilling hamburgers and steaks?

Imagaine cooking a complete meal including dessert on your BBQ! No, I'm not telling you to get some new fangled BBQ but something that you can use on your sideburner.

The Smokin' Sidekick™ is the most versatile outdoor cooking accesssory ever! It allows you to smoke, bake, steam or simply keep your food warm!

The Sidekick™ is powered by the heat of a gas grill side burner and delivers you a new level of grilling. Now you to can bring your kitchen outside by maximizing the most underutilized part of your gas grill...the side burner. Interested?