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Smokey D’s: Great BBQ and Cornbread Crack!

If you’ve read this blog for very long you know that good reviews of BBQ restaurants are few and far between.  As an official “BBQ Snob” I just don’t come across restaurants that warrant praise very often.  This weekend I’m in Des Moines, Iowa for the 14th Annual Niman Ranch Hog Farmer Appreciation Dinner

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Good Chicken Can Be Easy Peasy

The term Easy Peasy comes from a 1970′s british TV commercial for Lemon Squeezy detergent. They were with a little girl who points out dirty greasy dishes to an adult (mom or relative) and then this adult produces Lemon Squeezy and they clean the dishes quickly. At the end of the commercial the girl says

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Powdered BBQ Sauce? You Bet!

Skeptical.  That’s the word I’d use to describe my entire thought process about reviewing Shirley J’s BBQ Sauce Mix.  I mean really, powdered BBQ sauce that you just add water to.  How good could that possibly be?  And did I want to really invest some meat in testing this stuff.   I’ve sat on this stuff

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A Great iPad App For The Backyard Griller

One of the fun aspects of getting an iPad has been exploring the variety of applications available that weren’t available or practical for use with my iPhone.  I came across the “On The House – Great Backyard Grilling” application recently and have enjoyed using it for a week or so. At only $3.99 it provides

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Subway! You Owe Pigs An Apology

Note To My Readers: My wife calls me a BBQ snob.  And I have to admit that I am, to some extent.  Many of you know of my Twitter rants against cooks calling dishes BBQ when it’s cooked in the oven or crock pot and drowned in BBQ sauce.  It’s not the crock

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Product Review: A Budget BBQ Cover (Part 1)

“How come you don’t use covers on your barbecues?”

This blog post started with that simple question, at the dinner table, from my son.  I explained that covers were either far to expensive or so cheap they fell apart to easily.  It’s quite interesting at times how coincidental life can get at times because two

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The GrillStar App! Best 99¢ Grilling Tool There Is

One of the great benefits of writing The BBQ Grail is the offers I get to try new BBQ tools/accessories.  You wouldn’t believe some of the things people introduce on the market.  Because I don’t write, for the most part, negative product reviews the readers of this blog don’t ever find out about them.

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