Monthly Archives: April 2007

Dr. BBQ’s Competition Class

Last weekend, Mark and I pulled the smoker up to Detroit, MI, for Dr. BBQ’s Competition BBQ Class. The class was very much oriented toward Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS) competitions, and Ray (Dr. BBQ) certainly has the background to talk about comps!

The class ran from 3:00 PM on Saturday until about 2:00 PM on Sunday, with set up starting at noon on Saturday. The weather couldn’t have been better. Highs in the low 70s, low in the high 40s overnight, clear and gorgeous. The class was held at an engineering/manufacturing firm, and John Ford, the owner, has a GREAT pellet smoker inside, with a fantastic kitchen, so we did the classes inside mostly, taking the food outside to cook. Continue reading

My first sponsor

I was recently contacted about accepting a site sponsor, and I agreed…  Our first official sponsor is…  Bizrate.com!  On the left sidebar, there are links to barbecue and grilling specific links on the Bizrate.com site. Please help me in welcoming … Continue reading

Shish Kabob

The weather has been warming up, until the middle of this week, at least. When it’s warm, I want to grill things, and I decided, with my wife’s prompting, to do shish kabob one day. This is a great meal to grill as you can do everything on skewers, minimizing the need for dishes to be dirtied. Continue reading

A new, to me, sauce

A few weeks ago, I got an email from Dave at Nando’s Peri Peri. It was a somewhat typical email from a company asking for a link. Well, so far, my only links listed on the blog have been to non-commercial sites. It was a nicely worded email, though, and not a form letter. I replied that I didn’t want to start adding to my links with commercial links, but that, after looking at the website, the sauce sounded pretty good. Continue reading