Get Your Grill On

No, no, no, it’s not what you think!
Pass the Pigs is a great little game using pigs as dice. This very portable “beer & pretzels” game comes as a pocket travel case containing 2 pig dice, two pencils and a scoring booklet that also includes the scoring table. The pigs are actual pig […]

Ok, maybe not that big, but each one was more than a quarter pound! That’s a lot o’ prawn! My wife and I found these at Jungle Jim’s in Fairfield, Ohio, and I couldn’t pass them up.

I wanted to do something a little different with these than just boil them and dip them […]

Saveur Magazine has just released it’s 2008 Top 100 list and guess what tops the list. Yup, it’s BBQ. Barbeque rules!

1. Most Beloved National Pastime
The frenzied grilling, the enormous barrel smokers, the piles of tender ribs—is it any wonder that COMPETITION BARBECUE is our favorite sport? Pluck, hubris, and good humor are on […]

Two of my favorite foods in the world are not barbecue. Surprised? Second to ice cream, good cookies are hard to beat. If they have chocolate in them, even better. As a child, my mother’s favorites to make were oatmeal chocolate chip. Fortunately, they are my favorite to eat. […]

Growing up in NW Iowa and SE South Dakota, barbecue meant something very different to me than it does now. BBQ was Kingsford charcoal, a Weber kettle grill, and some kind of grilled meat slathered in BBQ sauce, which I can still smell burning over the coals.
I remember my father’s red Weber kettle in the […]

Today I’m reviewing Rod’s Rub Original.
Before testing, I visited Rod’s website to try and learn a little about the rub and about the creator himself. I enjoyed reading the history behind Rod’s Rub and learned quickly that we share a few things in common. First we both have careers in Law Enforcement, and second were […]

I guess I’m a real sponge for information. I’m always asking questions, jotting down notes, cutting and pasting information from internet forums and highlighting passages in cookbooks. It’s funny because the little tricks or tips that I find interesting are usually one-liners, they are easy to miss in conversation or overlook in print.
Today […]

As I stared at my 13 pound prime rib roast on Christmas day, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to trim my own personal steaks. Knowing that I had a new grill sitting in the garage eager to be fired up, probably had something to do with it. With a healthy dose of Kosher Salt […]

Barbecue, (or is it barbeque, BBQ or Bar-B-Que), can be a noun or a verb. It can be food, like a plate of barbecue, an event, like a church barbecue, or it can refer to a piece of equipment like a barbecue grill. Not surprising is the fact that real barbecue folks draw […]