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Porchetta With An Asian Flare

Rolled and ready for the grill

I remember the first time I ever laid my eyes on a porchetta.  I had stopped at the Fatted Calf in Napa for some sausages and there in the case of this beautiful piece of meat art.  What exactly is porchetta?

According to Wikipedia a Porchetta is a savory,

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Wordless Wednesday 12/29/2010

It’s Confession Time! Habanero Fail Alert!

The original “tag line” for The BBQ Grail Blog, when it started in 2007, was “It’s About Truth In BBQ.”  And now it’s time for some truth. ..

I watch a lot of cooking shows on television.  Whenever you watch a cooking show the on air personality will always taste their creations and exclaim to the

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Mission Impossible: Repurpose The McRib

“Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to repurpose the incredibily popular McRib that has reappeared in restaurants across the Country. As always, should any member of the BBQ Grail Force become incompassitated or captured the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions…”

There may not be a fast food item

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Green Pork Chili: Take 1

Disclaimer:  This recipe is based on a Green Chili recipe from the blog Playing With Fire and Smoke.  The recipe here is my first take on Thirdeye’s recipe.  Although my version was good you should probably following the original right now.  I’m going to do this again with some changes.  Stay tuned.

Green Pork

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2010 BBQ Brethren Bash Photos

Today we held the a BBQ get together with a bunch of friends from the BBQ Brethren.  A great time was held by all. 

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Check out the bark on this brisket from Phat Matt’s

Slicing the brisket

Galbi Beef Short Ribs

“No Excuses BBQ” enjoying the Galbi Beef Short Ribs

“Old Smoke” enjoying the Galbi Ribs

The most amazing Tri-tip chili

Fried cheese curds

A nine foot long sausage

Grilled veggies made an appearance

The famous Crock-A-Que

Zydecopaws with his friend

“No Excuses BBQ” when they weren’t so friendly

Lobster on the Crock-A-Que

A case of oysters waiting for the grill

Oysters on the grill

Home made “sticky pickles.” Sweet pickles with lots of garlic and jalapenos

Pork Loins on a pellet fired ugly drum smoker

Searing a tri-tip before hitting the smoker

We hads lots of ribs to munch on.

MOINK Balls and ribs

Warming up some duck for fajitas

Warming up the tortillas for the duck fajitas right on the firebox

Duck fajitas ready for some eating

Chicken almost ready for the smoker

Beer Can chicken off the smoker

Don’t Just Dust Your Pig

It all started with a simple tweet about a blog post I wrote on some ways to keep your rubs from clumping.  Shortly after publishing the blog post I got a tweet from Willie’s Hog Dust informing me that if you had a good quality product you didn’t have to worry about clumping.

After a

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