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Egg Nog Chipotle Battered Shrimp

On my Facebook page I post a “Topic For Discussion” each morning.  A couple of weeks ago the topic was Egg Nog.  The topic turned into a discussion with Laura of Laura’s Best Recipes on how hard it would be to come up with a couple of recipes that used Egg Nog as an

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MOINK Balls “Sizzle On The Grill” Today

The history of the MOINK Ball along with the original recipe has been posted on Char-Broil’s “Sizzle On The Grill” website.  Check it out! 

Sizzle On The Grill

Who would have thought…

OINK! OINK! Pig Candy!

Bacon and brown sugar!

I can slave over a brisket or pulled pork and my friends will be thankful for a taste.  But if you ask many of them what one item they’d me want to make for them the answer is Pig Candy.  Who would have thought that combining bacon with brown sugar and

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MOINK Balls Go International

My friends at the Dutch BBQ Forum love to make MOINK Balls. This weekend several of them decided they would make MOINK Balls and send their photos to me for the BBQ Grail. (For a history of MOINK Balls click here)

One special note. “Official” MOINK Balls are made with pre-made frozen 100% beef meatballs.

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For The Love of MOINK!

It wasn’t all that long ago that it took quite a bit of luck to become an internet phenom. Today it just takes a funny or inspiring video and one or two well placed emails and you can suddenly find yourself all over the internet. Be it good or be it bad…there you are. And

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FoodBuzz 24, 24, 24: My Heritage In Bacon!

When people see my surname I am often confused for someone who subscribes to a particular neopagan religion that worships Gaia or Mother Earth.  But that couldn’t be further from the truth.  My last name GAIAN is only two generations old.  If my great grandmother had not gotten mad at my great grandfather many

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Bacon makes everything better?

I had forgotten about these pictures from a BBQ Brethren Bash awhile ago.  What do you do when you’re sitting around all day visiting and cooking and someone breaks out the Oreos and puts them down next to a little leftover bacon.

Bacon wrapped Oreos of course.

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