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Meatless Monday: Grilled Portabello Mushroom Quesadillas

If you’ve read The BBQ Grail blog you know I’m a huge meat fan. When my wife and I decided we (well actually mostly me) needed to eat more vegetables we decided to try cutting out meat one day a week. I saw a reference to Meatless Monday on the internet and decided to give

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Quesadilla Throwdown

Decided to enter the BBQ Brethren Quesadilla Throwdown this week. Competition is steep so I had to come up with some just a little different in hopes of pulling off the win.

Here’s my entry:

Started with the usual ingredients:

Decided to use a little lemon juice, lime juice, cilantro and garlic

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Smoked Chicken Faux Pate

I needed something “new” for an event this weekend so after a few conversations with other bbq enthusiasts and reading a couple of recipes I came up with the following:

I smoked a bunch of chicken thighs rubbed with DDog’s “Apple Rub.” After the thighs cooled I removed the skin and pulled the meat off

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A New Pastrami Appetizer

Favorite sandwich: Pastrami with jalapeno pepper jack cheese.

Favorite bbq appetizer: ABTs (Atomic Buffalo Turds)

I was sitting around last week trying to come up with a new appetizer for a church dinner next weekend when I had the thought of combining a pastrami and pepper jack cheese sammie with an ABT. This is

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