So what did we do? \u00a0We bundled up, cranked up the smoker and made some seriously delicious beef jerky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I have a rather embarrassing confession to make. \u00a0I love, love, love beef jerky. \u00a0Yes – the kind you buy at the grocery store. \u00a0You know the stuff I’m talking about – the super salty, super chewy, super awesome stuff that comes in bags and has the shelf life of a Twinkie. \u00a0YUM.<\/p>\n
Despite my love for this product, I never, ever, ever allow myself to buy or consume it as I am well aware of the ridiculous amount of sodium as well as numerous random chemicals and preservatives.<\/p>\n
Our local grocery store had an awesome sale on beef round, so for our romantic Valentine’s Day, we challenged ourselves to make our own jerky. \u00a0 Love is in the air folks!<\/p>\n
To start, we sliced\u00a0the beef as thin as we could – approximately 1\/16th of an inch. \u00a0We put it in the freezer for an hour so that it was easier to cut.<\/p>\n
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Once that was done, we started on the marinade. \u00a0We went classic – our thoughts were to try to replicate that traditional, smoky, salty flavor with our jerky.<\/p>\n
Classic Jerky Marinade<\/strong><\/p>\n Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well.<\/p>\n We then placed the sliced beef into Food Saver bags, and poured the marinade over it. \u00a0We sealed the bag, trying to get rid of any air bubbles. \u00a0Once sealed, the bags were placed in the fridge, and were left to marinate overnight. Once the beef had a chance to hang out in that yummy marinade, it was time for the dry rub.<\/p>\n Dry Rub<\/strong><\/p>\n Remove beef from the marinade, and place on a flat surface. \u00a0Apply rub liberally to both sides, patting down the excess as you go.<\/p>\n From there, we placed the beef on the smoker racks, and put it in the smoker.<\/p>\n Happy Valentines Day! \u00a0Nothing like waking up to discover that it is is -27 Celsius outside! \u00a0Oh – and our pipes are frozen so we have no water. Awesome. So what did we do? \u00a0We bundled up, cranked up the smoker and made some seriously delicious beef jerky. I have a rather embarrassing confession to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[11,14],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meat-fish","tag-breakfast","tag-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eKp1-2K","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC_0214.jpg?fit=6016%2C4000&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeaugratin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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