Texas Twinkies

hey guys it's matt pitman of meat church and welcome to our tailgating series today i'm gonna make you guys a recipe that is my number one tailgate recipe texas twinkies stick around [Music] we're super excited about this series i grew up in the south rooting for alabama moved to texas as a teenager went to work for the dallas cowboys out of college being a water boy for the dallas cowboy cheerleaders and in a life full of bad decisions i quit that job at some point went to season tickets this will be my 21st year of season tickets and if you follow the cowboys my saying is it's got to be more about the tailgating than the football because it's been a sad state of affairs for a while but we're hopeful this year so we'll see if dax really recovered anyway no matter who your team is we've got a handful of recipes for you guys coming throughout the fall they're going to be really easy to make and super tasty but let's jump into again what i said is my absolute favorite texas twinkies overview we're going to take a fresh jalapeno we're going to core it then we're going to smoke them for a little bit i'm going to bring them out we're going to stuff them with cream cheese and brisket wrap them in bacon season them and smoke them for 90 minutes and trust me they're going to be so awesome they could just be a meal so let's get into it first things first fresh jalapeno i'm going to take a boning knife and i'm just going to make a slit directly down the pepper i'm actually going to cut it like a tea because we need to get inside of this thing you could cut the top off but then you kind of run the risk of all the guts coming out during the cook process so i like to open it up like this and then use a spoon to clean it out now you can do this coring part that i'm going to show you here either now or after we do the initial smoke i normally go ahead and take it out now the heat in a pepper comes from the veins inside the pepper not the seeds so it's up to you how much you want to take out of this i'm going to scoop all this goodness out of here if i had a sink here i'd rinse these out but this is good enough for this video this is what they're going to look like pro tip most people and most videos on youtube have people stuffing them just like this take these put them in your smoker for 30 minutes at 2 50 25 30 minutes and this is what's gonna happen they're going to end up being nice and pliable like this where you can just kind of pop them right open and you can feel them much easier some people say it takes a little more heat out of it let's get to stuffing another thing i like to do let's let's let's uh be meat church style and kick it up a notch instead of just stuffing these with just regular old cream cheese we're gonna stuff them with smoked cream cheese and chopped brisket so this cream cheese we seasoned with the gospel we smoked it at 225 for two hours on this little piece of foil that we sprayed with some cooking spray so you can see it moves around really easy and then i've got a bowl of chopped brisket i've actually probably got too much brisket but there's no such thing where i come from let's just mix that up actually let's go this bigger bowl [Music] this is what makes this way hearty right you're going to wrap this thing in bacon but you're going to stuff it with all this brisket that we smoked look at that i mean my good buddy justin martin of duck commander tells me that when he makes these cream cheese mixtures he could just eat it straight so that's an option too we might get into that here in a little bit now that it's mixed nice and thoroughly take your pepper open it up and stuff it just stuff it nice and even so that you can close that pepper up at the end you want to fill it up but don't overfill it so you can close up the pepper keep in mind you're wrapping this in bacon that's nice and full shout out to my buddy tim hutchins of hudson's barbecue in mckinney and frisco hutchins is super well known for their texas twinkies i've known tim for a lot of years and he gave me the tip on putting these in the smoker putting the peppers in the smoker to get to this stage but i appreciate him being willing to share his secrets with us so i could share them with you guys so if you're ever in the dallas fort worth metroplex you got to go up to hutchins and check those guys out uh it's the best best deal on a buffet in the world all right so let's pull some bacon out here and let's get these babies wrapped so depending on the size of your pepper this is going to take usually two slices of bacon it could take three we did some huge ones recently and it took three and i wasn't mad about it no toothpick needed i just left the cut side open if it overlaps that's a bonus i'm using standard cut bacon i say that in all my videos with bacon i don't like the thick cut that way you can get these cooked properly uh the bacon will be cooked it to me at an hour and a half cook the bacon will be just right and you don't have to worry about um thick cut bacon that takes you a little bit longer to cook that's just my preference you guys use what you want so there's a couple right there looking mighty pretty now we gotta season em now you could have put some seasoning in this as well you guys watch our our videos on jalapeno poppers and such and see that i normally season the cream cheese but today we're gonna season ours with holy gospel this is our all-purpose that has a touch of pepper in it it's a mix of the gospel and holy cow so it's kind of like a peppery more garlicky version of holy cow so let's season these on all sides feel free to use whatever you want i like to go with a rub with a little bit of a sweet flavor profile to offset the heat that's going to come from that pepper and then i'm going to go a step further and i'm going to put some coarse cracked pepper on top so i love this stuff by the way you don't have to use this but south side market coarse smoked oak smoked pepper it's really good but i can just use regular pepper if you don't have that sprinkle across the top give you another little pop and it's a really good contrast after they cook so let's talk about the cook process let's get them in in the smoker here today we're cooking these on our mill scale 94 gallon offset smoker she's a beauty by the way dead on at 250 degrees i'm running a post oak fire other woods that would be good hickory mesquite pecan you can replicate this on any type of smoker you have if you're running out to a tailgate and you just have a grill then you can move the charcoal to one side and do a two zone fire and put these on the cooler side but we'll put these directly in the grill or in the smoker 250 degrees and they're gonna be 90 minutes or until the bacon looks right i'm going to show you that real quick because i've got some that have been cooking for 90 minutes because i didn't want to make a 101 minute long cooking video look how pretty those look so that bacon is rendered perfectly you see how pretty that looks these these are ready to eat except that they're gonna be volcanic hot so i'm gonna let these sit for a few minutes so they cool off because i got to take a bite for you on camera we'll be back in just a minute all right guys these have cooled off and ironically while they were cooling i got a text from my buddy johnny owner of goldie's barbecue who just happened to be the meat church barbecue supply shop picking up some supplies you probably know him from our brisket series so i was like why not come by and taste test these so look who's here what's going on man good to see you good to see you too i'm sorry what are you doing at the shop uh just getting uh some butch paper and some of your seasonings for uh for a new series i have going on amazing youtube channel tons of secrets amazing technique uh let me just take this second to say matt pittman's prediction in the month of september before the famous texas monthly top 50 barbecue joint comes out he doesn't know that i'm going to say this goldie's is going to be on that list not only that goldie's is going to be super high on that list is my opinion so if you've not been to goldie's in kennedale texas trust me the only guys bold enough to have an instagram account where they follow no one because they're that badass that's not the reason but that yeah that is true that is true but um so we've made some texas twinkies for tailgating um which by the way i don't think people know this but i was thinking in the beginning of this video i said as a cowboys fan i have a lot of football heartache you too often have a lot of football hearts uh i'm actually i'm a huge atlanta falcon fan and uh because i was born in georgia i grew up in texas but i was born in georgia i just never switched up and uh and i'm a huge fan and some of y'all have probably seen my leg uh and i'll show you all the means um yeah let's give you something here come over here so tell the story everyone remembers this game so uh when the the falcons beat the packers to go the super bowl um i got i was super pumped up as first time i never thought i'd see them do it or anything but uh um i got a little too excited and i got a tattoo and i got it on my leg uh right here um that says super bowl champs how did that super bowl turn out against the patriots uh we won the first half we won the first half so uh it's pretty good pretty good but uh but yeah yeah i mean i got to play in this no no i uh i was just you know i was so excited i really thought they were going to win i mean they should have 28-3 patriots come back and ruin your tattoo and i want everyone to know this was not planned today i don't know i just uh no i not a whole lot of people know that's my leg when you google it i just i i did keep my face out of it you can just see my leg and uh it went a little viral i got i mean there's some there's some posts about it and stuff so uh hopefully this year works out better yeah i hope so hope so probably not well let's let's just jump hey like i said you gotta you gotta have fun in the parking lot because you might end up with a bad tattoo later okay that's true we're gonna we're gonna throw one of these down and just cut it open here see how this looks look at that that was great i'm gonna let you here's your beer i'm gonna let you let you do the honors all righty i'll follow him behind you that was delicious that's great yeah that's super good well if we go tailgate at the bins i'll make these for you definitely definitely i could definitely see myself eating these every sunday watching the falcons blow a super big lead it'd be perfect that would that would be perfect how about we go get a little fox brothers barbecue yes and then we just go hang out in the parking lot and then we head to the bench that would be that would be so fun that'd be so cool definitely jonathan and justin will host us so we're going to make that happen all right fox brothers we're coming for you definitely i think these were delicious um i mean i could go through the description of that smoked cream cheese which i didn't tell you that we smoked the cream cheese so i get a little more smoky element the brisket in it i can taste it i love it nobody's mad about smoking cream cheese it might be a silly viral trend on tick tock but good god it's super good delicious wrapped in bacon little seasoning that's a pure texas bite there so if you like this please like and subscribe our channel check out the tailgate playlist we got a lot coming for you all this fall good luck to your team we'll see y'all next week [Music]

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Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 08 2021