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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Childhood Memory Kicked Up A Notch!

My maternal ancestors grew up as somewhat poor country folk.  Whether it was the dust of the Red River basin in East Texas or the farms of Northern Alabama they were people who struggled to feed families through the 1800′s.  The simple comfort country foods they ate, to make ends meet, made their way to

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MOINK Balls on Fox40 Live Morning Show

I made my TV debut this morning on Fox40 Live Show.  What a treat it was to make MOINK Balls for Sacramento icon Paul Robbins. Here is the Original MOINK Ball Recipe.

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Wordless Wednesday 4/14/2010

Meatless Monday: Grilled Pound Cake With Peaches & Simply Marvelous Ice Cream

For my birthday my son bought me a copy of Andrea Chesman’s  The New Vegetarian Grill, Revised Edition: 250 Flame-Kissed Recipes for Fresh, Inspired Meals and I’m going to be using this book for several upcoming Meatless Monday posts.

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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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Simply Marvelous Thanksgiving Eve Burgers

It was our opportunity to feed the full time Missionaries dinner tonight.  With all the work going on preparing for the big Thanksgiving Feast tomorrow we decided some simple burgers and fries would be the easiest meal to fix.

Fresh ground hamburger seasoned with Simply Marvelous Season-All.I love 1,000 Island Dressing on my burgers,

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