Get Your Grill On

Smoked Turkey is the one topic I’m emailed about the most, especially this time of year! Questions range from the best brine to use all the way to the best way to carve a holiday turkey.
Because of this, I wanted to post a video to one of the best turkey carving videos I have seen. […]

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
¼ cup sugar
1 can (16 ounces) pumpkin
1 package (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding mix
2 tsp. Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 cup cold milk
1 tub whipped topping, thawed
30 Gingersnaps
1. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in pumpkin.
2. Add pudding mix and pie spice; mix well.
3. Gradually beat in […]

Hey all you Yankees. You think you can cook? Ya don’t know squat! You need to learn from the masters! Don’t worry, they can handle you, they’re Yankees too.

Smokin’ Joe’s True-Blue Texas Barbecue, Inc. In cooperation with
the Staten Island Historical Society at Historic Richmond Town Presents
BBQ Pitmaster University
Saturday, July 19 or Saturday August 16th
$75 […]

May is National Barbecue Month here in the United States. I’m sure you’re itching to break out those grills, smokers and dutch ovens and cook. I know I am. But what if you’re uncomfortable about cooking over a live fire? Or what if you don’t know what makes great barbecue?
Well, the National Barbecue Association is […]

Next week, I’m going to be cooking in front of a group of people, along with my barbecue teammate, Mark (we make up the Bucky McOinkum’s Barbecue competition team). What’s the reason? We’re holding a cooking class!

So you hop around the Internet looking at food blogs all day. Maybe you learn from them, maybe you […]

Anyone associated with or around competition barbecue has heard of Lotta Bull BBQ. Mike and Debbie Davis are currently the most prolific team in the country. In 2006, they were Grand Champions at 16 contests including the $75,000 Championship BBQ Series on the Versus network. In 9 other contests, they were Reserve […]

This year alone, a million different arguments will break out over the question, “what is BBQ all about?” Some may say the sauce, some may say the meat, and the smokeys out there will cough and hack and tell you of the wonders of pecan. All that may be true, but I say the really […]

I can’t believe we are in the 9th week of “Rub of the Week”! Where have the last two months gone?
John requested a rub that incorporates ground nuts a couple weeks ago. I love a good challenge! I had hoped to have one tested that I could share this week. Unfortunately, I have not […]

… what a master BBQ class is like?
Here’s some pictures from a recent Paul Kirk School of Pit Masters that was held on the Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City, Queens. It was sponsored by RUB Restaurant of Manhattan to benefit the St. Mark Sports Association of Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn. Sorry The […]

Hopefully by now you’ve had a chance to experiment with some of the rubs and get your own mojo workin!
This week is back to the basics. This is one of those rubs that you can start with as a base and then branch it out into many others for specific needs. This is what I […]