On The BBQ Brethren Forum each week we have a Throwdown. Each member who wants to participates uses the “theme” for that week to cook something. Their entry is then posted and the membership votes. It seems each week the Throwdowns are getting more and more outrageous. This weeks theme is bacon and some of the entries are just plain crazy. Great stuff, but crazy. I decided the best course of action was to take it “down” a notice with a simple Bacon, Avocado, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich. Nothing spectacular, just simple comfort food.
I stopped at The Fatted Calf yesterday on my way through Napa to pick up a little bacon. The Fatted Calf produces some of the most amazing cured meat products in Northern California. Their slab bacon is simply…amazing.
Continue reading A Little Bacon, Avocado, Lettuce & Tomato Sandwich
Mrs. Grail (Celeste) is usually responsible for our side dishes. I asked her to come up with a new pasta salad to go with some grilled turkey we had for dinner. She came up with a real winner. The Bacon Tomato Pasta Salad!
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Let me just cut to the chase. Jim ‘N Nick’s was everything, and I do mean everything, I want in a restaurant. Great atmosphere, great service and most importantly outstanding food. And what is most astounding is that this is a chain restaurant. The meal we ate last night more than made up for the nightmare of a meal we had the previous evening.
The meal came with with baskets of these cheese biscuits/rolls. Eating one of these was impossible so we inhaled a couple baskets of them. Eating one of these biscuits made the meal better than the previous nights whole meal.
Continue reading Memphis In May #5: Jim ‘N Nick’s Is What I Needed
I love to smoke ribs with peach wood. So when Baxter’s Original offered to send me out some chunks of of Georgia peach wood to try out I jumped at the chance.
But how does a person review wood? Well, let’s see…
Continue reading Got Wood? Baxter’s Original
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…
