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Memphis In May #5: Jim 'N Nick's Is What I Needed

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

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My New Char-Broil RED Infrared Grill (Part 2)

First cook on the new Char-Broil RED Grill was 60 chicken wing drumettes for a review of some BBQ sauces. The grill performed great. I was amazed at how fast it got hot. I even tackled some smoking during the first cook.

Used one of the Wild Cherry wood "pucks" from Appalachia Smokers. The

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Smoked and Fried Chicken Wings

I love chicken wings. They are small bite sized morsels of poultry goodness. I’ve smoked wings lots of time and wanted to give something a little different.

I cranked up one of the Weber Smokey Mountain smokers with some avocado wood. Avocado wood is a somewhat hard wood that goes great with chicken and pork.

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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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Product Review: Char-Broil Big Easy Oil-less Fryer

When Char-Broil first introduced the the The Big Easy Oil-Less Infrared Turkey Fryer I have to admit I was skeptical that you could fry things without oil. I’ve see many “low fat” recipes that call for “oven frying.” And have never been all that fond of any frying technique that didn’t include some type of

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Phubar’s Sweet & Hot Pear Sauce

One advantage of being a member of a close knit BBQ community on the internet is I get to meet people from all over the world. I recently found an international package on my door step from a good BBQ friend in Utrecht,The Netherlands. “Phubar,” his BBQ Brethren screen name had sent me a bottle

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