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Pork Loin Tacos with Avocado Slaw and Black Beans (Part 1)

I love to cook and I love to eat. And for the past couple decades eating healthy has not always been a priority. As I’ve gotten older, and hopefully a little wiser, I’m starting to realize that I need to put more emphasis on healthier eating.

For those of you who have enjoyed all

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Salmon Candy

Getting ready for the brine

A few years ago Celeste and I visited the wonderful city of Vancouver, Canada. During out stay we stopped by Granville Island and came across a smokehouse selling Salmon Candy, I’m don’t remember what they called it, but it reminded me a Pig Candy, so I called it Salmon

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Let’s have some deep fried turkey!

In our home we have four cooking techniques to choose from for our Thanksgiving turkey.

Oven: This is the traditional roasted turkey method done in the oven. Both my wife and I grew up with this method. It’s the tried and true method. Sometimes I wish we did this method, because in my opinion it yields

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BBQ Grail's Smokey Pepper Poultry Brine

Mrs Grail doesn’t always appreciate “smoke” as much as I do. So last night when it came time to prepare the chicken she requested she requested it be grilled. I didn’t want to just do the normal grilled chicken with just a seasoning one it so I decided to brine it.

We don’t shop on

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The BBQ Grail Get’s A Little Publicity

The Sioux City Journal does a great job of promoting BBQ with online videos. Here’s the most recent video and The BBQ Grail gets a mention for the Rosemary Garlic Poultry Brine recently posted.

Rosemary Garlic Poultry Brine

Last night I posted a review of the Char-Broil Big Easy Oil-less Fryer. The chicken came out fabulous. It is close to the best piece of chicken I have ever cooked. Certainly the Big Easy was a huge part of the process. But the brine I used also produced an incredible flavor and helped to

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