Get Your Grill On

I consistently receive email asking which smoker I would recommend for a beginner. The answers varies ranging from your experience in BBQ, where you live and how much you plan on preparing and sharing with family and friends.
With this in mind, I had the privilege of testing a smoker that could be used by the […]

 
For Father’s Day weekend, we took a short, very short, camping trip.  We are fortunate enough to have two beautiful lakes within a couple miles of our house: Blue Springs Lake and Lake Jacomo.  Both have campgrounds.  This weekend, we secured a spot less than 50 feet from the playground at Blue Springs Lake.  Mom […]

Potatoes cooked right on the hearth of an open fireplace.
Any baking potato will do, these were russet burbanks. It’s difficult to give exact directions on how to go about it as there are a couple of variables - how hot the coals are and how far the potatoes are from them and how large they […]

Today I am making my version of Paella. It will be made in a custom barbeque called the ‘Texas Party Wok’. The Party Wok is made out of recycled plough discs. The middle disc holds charcoal to heat the top disc. The top disc is polished smooth to create a great cooking surface. This Party […]

While camping a couple weekends ago, I captured some great stills of the campfire with my digital camera. The first picture is a normal shot. My camera has a “manual” setting which is 1/800 and F4.0.

The South will rise again. Or will the North kick some ass? This looks really cool and I’m a sucker for anything that has this type of history. This article and pictures come to us from the Walker County Messenger of LaFayette, GA.
Fire up the smoker for BBQ contest in Chickamauga.
New this year: Chickamauga […]

This time of year brings us lots of good stuff in the Midwest.  Tomatoes are still ripe and coming off the vine to make BLTs.  Blackberries are fresh and full of sweetness and good flavor.  Soybeans are… well, there are soybeans.
And there’s sweet corn!  One of the great gifts of the waning summer.  In the […]

I read lists of tips all over the place, so I came up with my own, my 9 tips for cooking outdoors:
1. Have a fire extinguisher handy.
Ok, first one is boring, but, really, have a fire extinguisher on hand. You never know when you need it, and even seasoned cooks have issues. When you’re cooking […]

My mate Leigh was peering over my shoulder as I wrote an article for Get Your Grill On. “I’ve got some pictures you can use” he said and downloaded pictures of one of his many campfire cookout breakfasts he and his mates regularly make by the bank of the mighty Murray river, Australia’s biggest and longest. […]

OK, so you have seen the best rubs I have in the arsenal – so I figured it’s time to take it to the next level. The next level of flavor that is. Mops. I don’t have nearly as many mop variations as I did rubs - But, the ones I do have, […]