On Our Grills: Short Ribs Are Just Peachy

This month’s challenge wasn’t all that much of a “challenge.”  After a few crazy months, with crazy ingredients this month was almost like a cooking vacation.  Not all the bloggers in our little group of BBQ enthusiasts  may think this was simple, but for me it allowed me to fine tune a few flavor profiles

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A Man And His Pork Chop!

It’s time for this month’s “4 Ingredient Challenge.”  Last month a few of my fellow BBQ bloggers started this monthly feature where we take four randomly selected ingredients and come up with a whole meal based on them.  This months ingredients were:  pork chops, rice, zucchini and raspberries.  The only real rule is that the

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Dirty Chicken with Tomatillo Cilantro Cream Sauce on Chipotle Pasta

I made a trip to Seattle recently which included a stop at Pikes Public Market.  There are so many amazing foods to try Pikes.  This trip I picked up some Pappardelles Chipotle Fettucine.  Pappardelles one of the premier makers of artisanal pastas.  They make over 100 different handcrafted dried pastas and raviolis.   One of the

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Mrs. Grail's B.T.P. Salad

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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Bigmista’s Smoke Spaghetti

(Photo Courtesy of The Survival Gourmet)

Check out this fantastic meal from Bigmista at The Survival Gourmet.  I’ll be giving this recipe a try just as soon as I can get me some smoked chicken and fatties on hand.

Great job Mista!