Earlier this season I put a fire pit in my back yard. Actually, that was the first thing I put in my backyard. A firepit, surrounded by dirt on all sides. Eventually we got around to putting in some grass and some stone work to gussy it up a bit, but the first effort was [...]
Tag Archives: BBQ
The Season of the Goat: Farm to Table Goat & The Joy of Open Pit, Whole Beast BBQ
Posted in Beer, Event, Grilling, Health, Recipes, Review Also tagged Brains, Brooklyn Sorachi Ace, Farm to Table, Goat, open pit, sala, Sensory Training, Siebel Institute, Stillwater, The Bruery, Zack the Chef Leave a comment
Hit a Local Chicago Butcher and Let The Grilling Begin
As I walked out of work last Wednesday I felt something that I wasn’t sure I would ever feel again, something so entirely foreign and pleasant I was certain I was hallucinating. It was warmth. Where I would usually rush manically, head down and cursing, to my car. I now crossed in a slow walk, [...]
Posted in Grilling, Instructional, Review, Smoking Also tagged Abdullah the Butcher, Butcher and Larder, Butchers, Chicago Game and Gourmet, Chicago Magazine, Meat, Summer, Time out Chicago Leave a comment
Smoking Hot Ribs
This here’s my Dad, Jim Shirley, just retired VP of The American Angus Association and man of many meats. He’s been a good father and as such made sure that our table was never hurting for delicious cuts. To show our appreciation and congratulate him on his retirement we recently bought him a Char-Griller – [...]
Posted in Gear, Grilling, Instructional, Recipes, Smoking Also tagged Angus, BBQ Sauce, Captain Curt's Boss Sauce, Char griller, Jim Shirley, Ribs, Smoking 1 Comment
Better BBQing Through Chemistry
Science News has a great piece on the American Chemical Society’s chem-themed cook out and it appears that eating your meats properly cooked, that is medium and rarer cuts your carcinogenic intake by, at times, 88%. “Unfortunately, if you ask the [food] safety people they’ll tell you to cremate everything,” said Shirley Corriher, a food [...]