We’ve added a second mobile smoker to our catering menagerie. We named this big guy after the man who built and sold him to us. Both the rig and man worked with Armadillo BBQ for ages, and we liked the fact that this smoker had good BBQ provenance. We broke in Big Jim on a […]

Boy am I behind. I have all kinds of posts in the pike, but this month has been so full of barbecue and grilling activities, I haven’t had time to write: I’m too busy doing! It’s a little like catching water in motion. Coming up is about our Barbecue 101 class, Brisket with Friends, Vegas […]

A surprise package came from Char-broil a few weeks ago – this cool new grill brush. It’s to be used on a cold grill before you turn on the grill, or after it’s been cool for awhile. I normally brush my grill hot before and after a cook, but sometimes the after gets forgotten when […]

I was recently challenged by the folks at Char-broil to smoke a brisket on my TRU-Infrared gas grill. They know I am a habitual charcoal and stick burner gal, but that I also love grilling on the Quantum two-burner they sent me to try out. I blog for them so it’s important to get to […]

Here is a fun program I just wanted to share. My kids and I can’t get enough of Picassohead! It gives you the same satisfaction of wasting time that Solitaire does, but with much better results. Obviously it’s been around for ages, but oddly there are no others that have saved to the gallery since […]