Oinkions on my new Rec Tec Mini!

Hey y'all!!

So I am extremely excited. My Rec Tec Mini came in today!! I am so ready to start cooking on it.  This will be my first experience with pellet grills, but I think it will be a great time.

With that said, I needed to season the grill and I was hungry!  I figured kill two birds with one pig.

I came across this recipe for "Oinkions" over at GOBLUEBBQ.  I love their site.  Lots of good stuff.  Basically they are onion rings without batter but bacon as the outside. umm....YUM!!

First let me say, if you have kids and/or you value every second of your free time, do NOT, I repeat DO NOT, try this.  It takes forever...haha.  It's not particularly hard but its pretty tedious getting the bacon wrapped around the onions tightly.

So I started with some sweet Vidalia Onions.  These came from Glennville, GA.  Cannot go wrong there.

I cut them up into roughly 1/2" slices, give or take..ha.

I took the middles out and left two rings per slice, I read that others do 3-4 but I cannot imagine biting through 3-4 slices of onion at once, no way.  So two it is!

Here is all I used.  Bacon, Sriracha, my homemade Kansas city BBQ sauce, some long toothpicks.

I coated half of the onions in Sriracha and half in my BBQ sauce, just our of curiosity.  

I wrapped them all up, took forever.  Ok, really it only took like 45 mins or so but it felt like forever.  I also put at least two toothpicks in per oinkion, to try to hold the bacon on tightly as well as to keep the onion together.  Some of them turned out pretty good and some of them...well, did not!  I also sprinkled some of my homemade rub that I use on ribs and pork butts.

I preheated my Rec Tec mini to 300 and put those babies on!  They would go on to cook for about 90 minutes.  

Also, because I am a little weird and/or because I am a lot awesome, I like my bacon and my onion rings with honey mustard sauce.  Think alice springs chicken at outback.  So I whipped up a batch of my honey mustard.

3/4 cup mayo

1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon honey

2 tablespoons dijon mustard

Mix it all up and chill it for a few hours.  Seriously, chill it.  When first tasted, you will think, this is NOT honey mustard.  Well, after a few hours swimming with each other, the ingredients get really acquainted, fall into a love triangle and it gets awesome. 

*Note: If you even think about using Hellmans or Miracle Whip in this recipe, a kitten will die.

I also made some chicken wings to go with the oinkins...cause, I had neighbors to feed...ha..

Here is the wings and oinkins on the rec tec...starting off!!

Just about done!

I only got a shot of the oinkins...the wings were gobbled up....it was delicious!