BBQ
Here is where I talk about my love of outdoor cooking, including BBQ, smoking, and grilling. You’ll find sub-categories about certain areas related to BBQ like recipes, equipment, restaurants, and product reviews.
By Mark on November 9, 2009
With Thanksgiving and the Holiday Season fast approaching I decided to put together a new recipe for cooking Turkey on the Big Green Egg. Last year I had great success with an Apple Juice Brined Turkey. It came out fantastic and everyone loved it. This year I want to do something using beer (imagine that) [...]
Posted in 4 Mugs, BBQ, BBQ Videos, Beer, Beer and Food Pairings, English Brown Ale, Poultry Recipes | Tagged big green egg, Samuel Smiths Nut Brown Ale, smoked turkey, thanksgiving
By Mark on November 3, 2009
Time To Cook
Alright, the votes were counted and tabulated. Now, it’s time to cook! Here’s the menu you said you wanted to see:
Pork Ribs cooked low and slow (BBQ)
Make a dry rub and sauce for the ribs
Drink/use Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron beer
I added “Hoppin John” & beer bread to the menu as well
I decided [...]
Posted in 4 Mugs, American Brown Ale, Barbeque Recipes, BBQ, BBQ Videos, Beer, Beer and Food Pairings, Dry Rub Recipes, Pork Recipes | Tagged bbq dry rubs, bbq sauce, hoppin john, palo santo, pork ribs, tell me what to cook
By Mark on October 28, 2009
Well, the votes have been counted and we now know what you all have tasked me with cooking:
Palo Santo Beer
Pork Ribs
Cooked Low and Slow (BBQ)
Make A Dry Rub and Sauce
Thank you very much to everyone who participated. There were 39 responses which was great. Here’s a video reviewing the results:
I plan on cooking the meal [...]
Posted in BBQ, Beer and Food Pairings | Tagged palo santo, tell me what to cook
By Mark on October 23, 2009
Audience Participation Time
Ok, time to get all of you viewers to involved! I wanted to do something a little unique that would combine my love of beer and food. So, being the risk taking guy that I am (hey, I do ride my bike on the road with all the crazy drivers) I’m going to [...]
Posted in BBQ, Beer and Food Pairings, Polls and Surveys | Tagged beer cellar, big green egg, tell me what to cook
By Mark on October 22, 2009
Eggheads Unite
This past Saturday (October 17th) Pam and I attended “Eggtoberfest” here in Tucker, GA. For those of you who are not familiar with it, Eggtoberfest is the annual get together for Big Green Egg owners and wanna be owners (Eggheads). It is held each October at the headquarters for Big Green Egg. Somewhere around [...]
Posted in BBQ Videos, Beer, Pork Recipes, World Of BBQ | Tagged big green egg, eggtoberfest, Marinades, Porter, stone smoked porter
By Mark on October 17, 2009
Well, after months without posting on this blog…..I’m Baaaack!
I have been neglecting this site big time and it’s not because I lost my love for the Big Green Egg. It’s basically because life has gotten in the way and my interests switched to pursuing my passion for craft beer. Because of that I have been [...]
Posted in BBQ
By Mark on January 15, 2009
OK, the Atlanta area is in one of the coldest periods of the year. Not cold by Northern standards, but still cold. Being from the North originally and only having moved to Atlanta a couple of years ago from Chicago, I’m still not too affected by temps in the 20’s or high teens like we’re [...]
Posted in BBQ Videos, World Of BBQ | Tagged cold weather bbq, Extreme BBQ
By Mark on December 4, 2008
Now that we are into the holiday shopping season I thought I would list some great BBQ gifts that you can get for the chef in your family, or maybe even for yourself. You don’t need to spend a ton of money either. There are many great barbecue gifts that are relatively affordable. [...]
Posted in World Of BBQ | Tagged bbq gifts
By Mark on November 18, 2008
If you have done any cooking at all you know the importance of temperature. It controls just about everything we do in the kitchen or out at the BBQ. So,obviously it is very important to keep an eye on the temperature of the stuff we’re cooking. But what’s the best, most accurate way to do [...]
Posted in Barbeque Tips, BBQ Product Reviews, Restaurant Reviews | Tagged bbq thermometers, digital thermometers
By Mark on November 5, 2008
A few weeks ago I wrote “Let Me Be Your Barbecue Guinea Pig” in which I was explaining how you could tell me what to cook, thus making me your “Barbecue Guinea Pig” in the experimental sense. What I didn’t expect was that Google searches for “Barbecue Guinea Pig” would be so popular.
Apparently BBQ Guinea [...]
Posted in World Of BBQ | Tagged World Of BBQ
