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 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 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
By Mark on October 27, 2008
Hope all of you had a good weekend and got a chance to do some BBQ. You didn’t? Well, just how often do you use that grill or smoker?
To some of us, our BBQ grill or smoker is like family, we interact with it on a daily basis. To others, the grill is [...]
Posted in World Of BBQ | Tagged bbq polls and surveys
By Mark on October 21, 2008
A few weeks back I posted a survey to see what kind of BBQ equipment people were using. There wasn’t a ton of responses (we’re getting more participation each time we do one of these) but the results were about what I expected. It seems most of us have more than one piece of equipment. [...]
Posted in World Of BBQ | Tagged bbq polls and surveys
By Mark on October 20, 2008
In a few days we will be traveling to San Antonio and Austin Texas to take part in a bike ride but we also plan on doing some sightseeing and trying some good food which will definitely include BBQ. I have spent some time researching restaurants in the area and have found some places [...]
Posted in Restaurant Reviews, World Of BBQ | Tagged bbq restaurants, mexican food, Restaurant Reviews
By Mark on October 10, 2008
Well, tomorrow is my birthday and I have the menu pretty much picked out thanks to the survey that everyone voted on. Here is what I will be having:
Grilled Shrimp
Grilled Beef Ribs
Salad
Rice Pilaf
Beer (either brown, belgian, or wheat)
Pinot Noir
Chocolate Cake
I haven’t completely decided how to prepare the shrimp and ribs. I’ve got a couple of [...]
Posted in Barbeque Recipes, World Of BBQ | Tagged grilled beef ribs, grilled shrimp, tell bbq guy what to cook
By Mark on September 27, 2008
Since it is the weekend and I know most of us are tired of thinking too hard I have put together a very simple poll to find out what type of BBQ equipment everyone has. There’s only one question but you can check multiple boxes if you have more than one piece of equipment.
I [...]
Posted in World Of BBQ | Tagged bbq equipment, bbq polls and surveys
By Mark on September 4, 2008
Barbecue is a wonderful thing. Millions of people all across the world cook meats, fish, and vegetables over an open flame on a regular basis. Food cooked over an open flame or with smoke is almost impossible to resist. If you are already using a grill or smoker to cook food then you know what [...]
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