Something New

did something I never dreamed of doing thanks to Sue. She has been saving up for a yard sale for ever and one of our customers said she would get Sue a table at the flea market under the shed right by her for 6 bucks and that would be the way to go. I delivered the truck to the table and unloaded it for her and headed to the office for some QB's catching up.. At 1 I went back and she sold 43 bucks worth of stuff we didn't want but spent 3 bucks on some detergent from the guy next door. I told her not to get too excited cuz at this rate we'd have to go every week for a year to get rid of all that junk. Next stop is the dump, but we're 34 dollars ahead, just hope they don't charge at the dump.

A Good Feeling Of Accomplishment

Amazing how starting your day with a round of golf and shooting a 2 over par 74 with 2 penalty strokes and finishing the last hole with a long birdie, breezing by work and getting a few things done, then going home early and get the big ol yard mowed, and finally ending up with a Ground Brisket Burger can do for you.


Here's something I doubt very many know how good it is simply because they never tried it before. If you like Fried Green Tomatoes or Fried Okra either one, your bound to like em mixed. We cut the maters to a size about the same as the okra. Served these as you can see with Kraut & Weinners. The Kraut was homemade by my showoff bro n law.

Fresh Ground Brisket Steaks

I did something that will probably be repeated at as many future contest as possible and that was to trim my briskets at home and grind the trimmings to take to the contest for burgers, etc. We wound up eating out at the contest and bringing the 3+ lbs of ground brisket back home for these Gr Brisket Steaks last night and boy were these babies good. Had planned on making a bunch of small sliders using some good English Muffins at the contest...still got some left, so we might just do that later.

Pigs n Peaches BBQ Contest

You just never know what scores to expect judges to give you and this was a contest that stands above all others in being a huge disappointment in where we wound up. I make it a habit to never predict how well I think I might do prior to the scores being announced but I definitely was thinking we were in great shape and was looking for a few calls at awards but it was not to be. Not only did we not get those few calls, we fell down below average. So, I'm just going to hold onto the fact that I am still proud of how well I managed the cook without my cooking partner this weekend and try a little harder next time. Congrates to Craig Cardell and wife of The Right Stuff bbq team that won this contest using my old Backwoods Fatboy cooker (I knew I shouldn't have sold that smoker), and a big congrates to Charles from SC for 2nd place and to all the other teams that got called to the stage.

Smoked Pot Roast

I really like the way the thin cut bone in Chuck Roast cooks for a Pot Roast. This one was cooked in my Primo ceramic cooker which is seldom used anymore. All my other cookers were loaded up in the trailer for the Kennesaw Pigs n Peaches contest this coming weekend and I really wanted to test some new food and pitt probes on my Stoker. The little Primo did a great job and the Stoker held the temp about as steady as your kitchen stove. I kept this simple and only used a little kosher salt, fresh ground blk pepper, and garlic powder for the seasoning on the meat and 0 smoking wood in the cooker. After the meat hit 170 or so I transfered it to the water pan below and added the carrots, onions, celery, and tiny potatoes. Good food and one of my fav meals.

LOOKING OUT MY BACK DOOR IN DILLARD, GA

We now have our first BBQ Contest under our belt “no pun intended”, and this is one of our favorite contest. We always liked this one as it is only a few miles from Clayton which is where we’ve spent several nice weekends at Kingwood Golf Club & Resort. Sue would let me get in an early morning round of golf and I’d tag along with her to all those Gift shops and antique stores they have.

The first pic is looking right out of my pop up cook site behind me and you can see Wooley Booley BBQ Mafia, his team did very well with a 16th overall finish (2 better than my own - there were 65 teams).



The folks you see here in the second pic were right next to us and the head cook is the one bent over his cooker.



This pic is of Big Bob Gibson and Chris Lilly was cooking and had a couple guys helping him. Chris was 5th overall and I’m betting he knew up front he would face a tough field and probably left pretty happy with that finish.




This is Wicked Q’s site and he just had not put up his Team Banner yet. You also get a better look at Big Bob Gibson’s big old rotisserie cookers. Wicked Q finished 7th overall and is in the top on about all contest he cooks.



The trailer on the left that you can’t read the entire team name is Firehouse BBQ Team and they finished 17th overall. The other one is Southern Paradise and I really like their banner and logo. Also in the background and to the right you see The Best Of British BBQ and they must have really wanted to cook this contest to have came from so far away and they sure got a lot of attention all weekend.




The City Hall building is where we were served one of the finest breakfasts you could ask for. The white truck in the foreground belongs to Jeff of Primo Ceramic Grills and I tried to find out if the rack was for snow skiing in Aspen with all the money he must make selling those cookers but I never did find out for sure.





Looking out the main entrance - this contest is very successful and a lot of people went through those gates and paid to visit this festival with it’s Blue Grass music and other attractions such as our BBQ.




Fatboyz, Wild Bunch Butt Burners, and of course Bad Byron and his Buttrub.com team are all pictured here. Wild Bunch was 4th overall just behind Joe and Voncile of Smoky Mountain Smokers all of which we count as friends out there.



This big guy working at the red checkered table is Sam Grogan from McDonough, Ga and he and his wife Dianne are the Jus-Fer-Fun cooking team and they too are friends to us when we are out there and we are praying for Diane to pull through her battle with cancer.

Pulled Pork and Brisket Tostadas

We had just a lil bit of meat from our big birthday party Saturday decided to make Tostadas with it. I keep inching closer to hitting that magic formulation in the homemade Salsa Rojo with the smoky flavor and the thing I think helped on this yesterday was using about 3 kinds of dried peppers. I heated both meats up with a little bit of this sauce and the pork mixture got some potatoes added while the beef did not. Both got a first layer of refried beans.

Zucchini & Chicken Parmesan

Like a man on a mission my goal it seems lately is to use every zucchini out of our garden no matter what I have to come up with recipe wise to do it. Eggplant and not zucchini was suppose to be in this recipe but I'm satisfied how the little switch turned out. Let's see here, it has a large zuke that I sliced in 1/4 inch rounds and oiled both side and seasoned with salt and pepper then baked on a sheet pan till browned, turning once. Single layer of the baked zukes in bottom of baking dish, layer of tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, parmesan, fresh whole basil leaves, and boneless skinless breast that had been browned on each side and sliced. A second layer of the same and then ending with a third layer without the chicken. I was out of garlic but this recipe did not call for garlic and I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't miss it at all - this dish taste great. I did have one little glitch making this - I thought it would be a good idea to take the stick blender to a jar of tomatoes and that stick got away from me and made tomato juice before I knew what happened and I went ahead and made the dish with the juice and wound up having to dip some out at the end.

Too Much Learning To Do

When I bought my Blackberry I thought about the 30-year business I ran
with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes
videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed
up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their
spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me
in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as
Twitter with only 140 characters of space.

That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree,
Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and
something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other
program within the texting world.

My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything
except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not
ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf
bag.

The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get
lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I
keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red]
phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was
standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife and everyone in
the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid
out to use it, and I got a little loud.

I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady
inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into
in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say,
"Re-calc-ul-ating." You would think that she could be nicer. It was
like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh
and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then if I made a
right turn instead…well, it was not a good relationship.

When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the
cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as
Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.

To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the
cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still
haven't figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have
run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the
dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings.

The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up
every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle
on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time
I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth
reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take
them in with me.

Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or Plastic?" I
just say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their
turn to stare at me with a blank look.

I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do toot a lot."

PS I know some of you are not over 50. I sent it to you to allow you
to forward it to those who are.
PPS This is not entirely factual as pertaining to me personally but is pretty dang funny.

Herb Omelet

Not a big omelet fan but I guess they will do in a pinch. Fresh thyme, basil, cilantro, onions, garlic makes it better. Thick sliced Wrights bacon don't hurt either. Add a piece of hard toast and I ain't complaining.