Southwestern Frito Pie because at our house Taco Tuesday isn’t just about tacos. We were invited to a southwestern themed tailgating party and we wanted to make something a little different and not spending much money. Plus, most of these ingredients we had on hand. Ken likes the chili cheese Fritos and Patti likes the regular, so we used both. A nice thing about…
How to Cold Smoke Garlic, we use a lot of garlic in our recipes and have found that “Smoked Garlic” gives your cook “A Kiss of Smoke”. Every month we cold smoke 3 or 4 pounds of garlic that we either use as whole, mince or make into our “Garlic Sauce”. We also make a “Chipotle Garlic Sauce”. Our garlic sauce is creamy and…
Chicks Rollin’ in Smoke was a delicious dinner. I can’t believe just how they flake apart tender and juicy. These chicks were kissed with honey and apple smoke. We made extra so we could be chillin’ with chicks the next day for a picnic lunch. We injected our chicks with Butcher BBQ Bird Booster Honey Flavor. A little secret: the directions call for 2…
KC BBQ Kielbasa Sliders were easy to make for feeding a Tailgating crowd. This is an easy one and you can adjust larger or smaller to fit your needs. We made it larger so we could enjoy these sliders during the week. We smoked some Kielbasa in our new Smokey Bourbon Bacon KC BBQ Sauce, a sweet sauce with a hint of spicy heat,…
Easy Smoked Piglet, we did a 35-pound piglet on the Green Mountain Grill this week. I have to say I was surprised at just how easy it was to do. In fact, the hardest part of the whole process was getting the pig here in Southern California. Like trying to find Tri-Tip in South Carolina, you can do it, but it’s an adventure!!! I…
I make a great garlic mayo that we enjoy and my friends are always asking for more. I can’t keep up with the requests. A few weeks ago I was talking with my friend Michael Wright, I got the idea of doing a Garlic Blue Cheese Mayo. He has a Blue Cheese yogurt sauce that Patti says looks wonderful, and she wants to try…
Black Pepper Sauce because if you love black pepper, you’ll love this little sauce. It’s a quick and easy, a savory pepper sauce with hints of garlic and onions. Spoon it onto your food as you serve it and it’s a sauce. Or brush it on as your grilling and it’s a glaze. It’s great either way. Depending on your taste you can adjust…
Pepper Glazed Pork Chops were a hit! We cold smoked our chops then sealed them up and let them get “Happy” for a few days. What a treat! Pork’s mild flavor lends itself so well to rich coffee smoke and the savory pepper glaze that Patti made for us. We seasoned our chops with Loubier Italian Seasoning that just brought all the flavors together…
Uncle Bubba’s Zippy Taco Burgers is another camp meal Uncle Bubba made with his “Shredded Beef”. He went “South of the Border” with a 6-hour slow smoke until he had a mountain of “Fork Tender Spicy Shredded Beef”. One night he made us “Zippy Taco Burgers” topped with his “Cowboy Queso” and we ate burritos in one style or another along with tacos and…
Fiery Piggy Balls, an extra spicy appetizer wrapped in bacon, of course, for game day. Happily we just got some wonderful and extra zingy sauces from All Spice Café, so we knew we could put their Cayenne Habanero Sauce to good use. This is a variation of our “Chipotle Bacon Bombs” using hot sausage balls instead of ground beef. You can use mild sausage…
Mickey’s Mac & Cheese was made in honor of our dear friends Mickey & Fred’s anniversary. It was super easy with a base of jar Alfredo sauce, plus lots of smoked cheese and frozen thawed broccoli for color and to make it healthy. Then, Patti added chopped bacon because everything is better with bacon. Then that “Kiss of Smoke”. Patti and I have set one…
https://youtu.be/4OS-47DMVbM Zippy Beef Jerky Zippy Beef Jerky, we have always liked jerky and have wanted to make our own for years. This jerky is packed with flavor. A bit zippy with lots of black and red pepper mixed with Green Mountain’s “South of the Border rub”. Then, I pulled it off the smoker while still a little tender as jerky goes. I didn’t want to…