Get Your Grill On

The Annual Big Apple Barbeque Block Party line up has been announced and the pit masters selected and The Village Voice gets all snarky. Don’t you just love it?
Robert Sietsema takes the time to rate the barbecue as presented by the various pitmasters and frankly, he doesn’t have much love in his heart. According to […]

On Saturday I lit the fire in the Bubba Keg, oiled the grates and the dome’s vents, burned off any miscellaneous packing materials and played with the fire. Dinner on Saturday was some chicken legs and grilled asparagus and Sunday was grilled rib eye with homemade potato au gratin. Man, cooking on the Bubba […]

IKEA, the Swedish home furnishing giant, is running a Wednesday night food special; BBQ ribs! They’ll serve you 1/2 rack of BBQ ribs with fries and a piece of cornbread all for $7.99.
There’s no information on their website about how long this special will run, so take advantage while you can. Now I’m pretty […]

Ingredients:

2-3 tubes refrigerated biscuits
3/4 to 1 Cup Pizza sauce
1 1/2 - 2 Cups Cheese
Pizza toppings - pepperoni, olives, sausage, pineapple, onions, peppers

Instructions:
In a 12″ or 14″ Dutch oven, press enough refrigerated biscuits onto the bottom of a lightly oiled Dutch oven to cover the bottom. Evenly spread pizza sauce on top of biscuits. Top sauce […]

Quaker Maid Meats is sponsoring a contest that just might be perfect for your homemade burger recipe … if you have Steak-umms in it.  To enter, just use a special local food in a recipe created around Steak-umm Burgers. Entries will be judged on originality, taste, visual appeal, creative pairing of your hometown ingredient with the Steak-umm product, […]

Wow. That was fun. Putting the Bubba Keg together is pretty simple, once I downloaded the assembly instructions. Why aren’t they included in the box? Also, I was missing two screws. Not a good sign of quality control boys. I
t took about 20 minutes to assemble the beast; almost as long as it does […]

I recently received a Bubba Keg and while I still haven’t had time to cook on this beast, and it calls to me constantly, but here’s some pictures of un-boxing and assembling.
On the left, here it is as delivered. Looking at the box, it’s not much smaller than an 18 1/2″ Weber Smokey […]

Fast Company has a great article today about the explosive growth of barbecueing and grilling during the last year. Check it out…
The Business of BarbecueBy: Dan Macsai Where’s the beef? During National Barbecue Month, it’s usually sizzling over charcoal with pork, poultry, and (sometimes) veggies. As Memorial Day, the unofficial beginning of the summer grill […]

Here’s a unique barbecue contest, Good Morning America Weekend is looking for the best barbeque joint in your neighborhood. They’re looking for “The one place that captures the flavor and uniqueness of your town, but more importantly, has barbecue (ribs, chicken, beef, pork, etc.) that everyone lines up around the block for.”
All you need to […]

Grillin’ On The Bay and The Brooklyn Chili Smack Down Sponsored by RUB BBQ and Butternuts Beer and Ale with The RUB Rapid Fire Challenge Sponsored by Pat LeFrieda Meat and RUB BBQ Saturday, April 4th, 2009 Corner of East 18th Street and Ave Z Brooklyn, NY 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM Free Admission. $10 […]