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Grilled Honey Garlic Eggplant

Ingredients: 2 baby eggplants 1 tablespoon honey 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 cloves garlic, mashed 1/4 teaspoon Sriracha sauce 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar Salt and Pepper to taste Directions:

Pre-heat your grill to high.

With a potato peel remove strips of skin off the eggplant.  Slice the eggplant, long ways, into 1/2 inch slices.  Arrange

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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.

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BBQ Tip#1: Excess Salt Removal

You can use peeled potatoes to remove excess salt from your food while cooking.

I use this tip most often when getting ready to smoked cured meats.  When smoking corned beef for pastrami or cured pork shoulders for Buckboard Bacon it’s important to remove as much of the curing salts from the meat before smoking. 

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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: Bacon Salt

“Bacon! You want to know how good it is? To improve other food they wrap it in bacon.”

Jim Gaffigan makes the statement above during his hilarious stand-up routine about bacon. I know it’s comedy but it’s really true. Isn’t it?

But in today’s health conscious society how do

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