Get Your Grill On

Sunday afternoon I was trying to decide what to make for Superbowl watching, flipping through my backlog of Tivo’d shows and landed on Sunny Anderson’s Cooking for Real.  She was making “gameday food” and one of the dishes was an Interstate Chili, so named because it combined chili flavors she loves from San Antonio, Texas […]

One of our favorite steaks to grill would be Tri-Tip Steaks. The Tri-Tip Steak is a roast that is cut on one side of beef loin from the sirloin primal cut. Tri-Tip is also known as bottom sirloin or triangle roast because of the shape of the roast.

Unfortunately in a lot of areas of our […]

Guy Fieri is one of the popular winners from The Next Food Network Star who has made it beyond the competition.  He has gone on to either host or be part of several Food Network shows since then, and his fame and popularity seems to be on a steady incline.  I love his exuberance and […]

Commander’s Palace has been a fine dining institution in New Orleans since 1880. Executive Chef Tory McPhail and managing partner Ti Adelaide Martin have mined this restaurant’s extensive collection of recipes to coauthor the Commander’s Wild Side: Bold Flavors for Fresh Ingredients from the Great Outdoors.
As the title suggests, the book focuses on wild game […]

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.  I love the season and I look forward to having family time and mounds of food that we all bring together for this special occasion.  One of our favorite foods on the smoker is smoked turkey. What I would like to do is share the procedure I use when […]

This is a traditional Mexican recipe of pork slow cooked in chile sauce (adobo). Yes, this recipe takes some time to make. Yes, it has LOTS of chilies in it.  But it is well worth the effort, as much of the heat cooks out and you end up with these chunks of amazingly tender pork […]

It’s getting to be the end of Summer and the peppers are at their prime. This is an easy one-dish cook that melds the sweetness of the peppers, the spiciness of the sausages, and smokeyness of the grill.

1 large onion, sliced
1 clove garlic, chopped
6 cups mixed sweet peppers (bell, Hungarian, banana…) sliced into strips
2 tablespoons […]

My dog Oscar has an idea how to make Pulled Beef. I turned my back for an instant and look what happened. Luckily for both of us he only got a taste. Today I am smoking a 7 bone Monster Roast. This is a very flavorful cut of meat. It has a lot of marbled […]

One of the challenging things of barbeque is trying new things. The challenge for me is to try new things and in the process make them not only edible but something both family and friends would want to eat again.
I recently had the opportunity to try my hand at smoking buffalo (Thanks Ben for the […]

I ordered in some Beef Brisket, nicely trimmed, with just the right amount of fat left for flavor. I took the brisket and headed to the smoker. First I rubbed the brisket down with pepper, garlic, salt, and a blend of Asian Smoked Seasonings. I was going to create an east meets west brisket and […]