Barbecue Observation

If you don’t get BBQ sauce all over your face and hands...you’re doing it all wrong.

Cooking with Beer

No experienced chef will deny the importance of beer as a culinary ingredient, yet the various types of beer must be understood if one is to properly utilize them.

The efforts taken to master the characteristics of beer when cooking will greatly be rewarded in your cooking endeavors.

Here are a few articles that will have you cooking with beer in no time.

• Introduction to Cooking with Beer
• The Cook's Guide to Beer

Taco Flavored Wings

If you're a chicken wing freak, you'll love this recipe. I cooked up a batch as an appetizer for my Halloween party. It's been a while since I've made them and had totally forgotten how good they really are. And yes, they really do taste like tacos.

Get the recipe...Here.

Barbecue Tip

A meat marinade makes an excellent basting sauce. It not only keeps the meat moist while grilling, but it also adds additional flavor.

If your marinade was used on raw meat, be sure to place it in a sauce pan and bring to boil. Reduce heat and allow to simmer for five minutes. This will kill any bad things.

Review of D-Dog's Apple Meat Rub

If you're a serious griller or barbecuer, you're well aware of the importance of a meat rub. Although I make many of my own, you just can't beat some of the fine quality rubs that are being produced by people who share the same passion for meat as I do.
A case in point is D-Dog's BBQ. It wasn't difficult for me to spot his Apple Rub, since I am a freak on anything apple. Apple wood is my primary choice for smoking and I even have an apple tree in my backyard. So you know, I had to have some!

What's this stuff going to taste like, I wondered. The post office couldn't work fast enough for me!

Grilled Caribbean Flank Steak

The smokey flavors from the grill blend naturally with the tropical flavors of the Caribbean. Marinated in fruit juice, the ginger and citrus flavors give this flank steak an abundance of flavor.

This steak goes quite well with Tropical fruit and rice. So sit back with an umbrella style drink and get ready to enjoy the flavors of the islands!

The Barbecue Song

This explains what is and isn't barbecue.

Recent Barbecue Observation

If it weren't for grilling, I'd have no use for a back yard.