Shrimp and Grits is a southern favorite and generally a crowd-pleaser. Since moving to the Carolinas I’ve enjoyed learning to make this dish, and I’ve done it several ways with some variations. Fresh, stone ground grits from a local mill are essential, as is excellent Andouille sausage! I like Costco’s Andouille sausage a lot, it’s …
Category: Main Course
Sweet Pulled Pork BBQ
My favorite way to cook pulled pork on my backyard wood pellet smoker Usually a 12 to 13 hour cook, depending on the eize of your pork butt.
Finger Lickin’ Chicken
Thanks to my friend and teaching colleague, Jill Rumbaugh, I learned about the amazing “Kickin’ Chicken Finger Lickin” seasoning rub several years ago, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a simple recipe for cooking chicken quarters, but you can use this spice rub on any type of chicken. Chicken thighs (bone-in or boneless) and chicken …
Brisket Burnt Ends
Brisket burnt ends were one of my mom’s favorite barbecue meats. I love Texas-style barbecue brisket so much, however, it’s not often I make burnt ends. They are always popular when I do, however, and they never last long. In the attached cook video, I tried preparing two different varieties of burnt ends. Next time, …
Chicken and Broccoli Casserole
This is a long-time favorite comfort food for our family. Sarah actually requested it today, and since her days living with us in North Carolina are numbered now, I’m trying to cook all her special requests. This is a recipe I grew up eating in my mom’s kitchen. For some reason, frozen broccoli tastes better …
Log: Cabbage Tomato Soup
This evening we dined on some homemade cabbage tomato soup, which was a riff off the “Cabbage Roll Soup” recipe from Dinner at the Zoo. It’s quite similar to the full recipe I wrote up in May 2022 before leaving Oklahoma City, for “Beef Cabbage Soup,” except this version leaves out the green peppers and …
Log: Smoked Chicken and Asparagus
Tonight’s dinner wasn’t really anything special but boy did it ever taste GREAT to me! After watching the Netflix series “Chef’s Table” on BBQ, featuring Tootsie from Snow’s BBQ in Texas, I’ve enjoyed cooking chicken leg quarters more than ever. They are VERY inexpensive (sadly because of our inhumane factory farming methods) and messier than …
Log: Thanksgiving Dinner 2022
We had a lovely Thanksgiving day and dinner yesterday here in Matthews, North Carolina. This was the second year I’ve smoked our turkey outside on my RecTeq RT-700 Bull smoker. In this post, I’ll document the recipes and cooking techniques I used which yielded yummy results I’d love to replicate again! If you try any …
Log: Pulled Pork with Stubbs Smokey Mesquite
Today’s pulled pork turned out delicious. Nine hours on the smoke, started at 6:30 AM. Forgot to mix molasses with yellow mustard as my standard binder. Cooked the 5 pound pork shoulder initially (naked without a wrap) longer than I normally would have, so it only cooked in foil a couple hours. Removed from the …
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Beef Cabbage Soup
This recipe was an invention for a rainy and cool day today, and it turned out delicious. I had some beef stew meat from ButcherBox in our freezer that we needed to eat, and this turned out to be a great way to do that! Be careful not to add the cabbage too soon, because …
