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Chocolate Jack Daniels Cupcakes

Chocolate Jack Daniels Cupcakes

Looking for a more manly way to satisfy your sweet tooth? With Vanilla, Coffee and Jack Daniel’s Flavors, these cupcakes are sure to get your party started right. Chocolate Jack Daniel’s Cupcakes (adapted from piratecupcake on Bakespace) Makes 12 cupcakes 1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 c. brewed coffee 1/2 c. Jack Daniel’s 1 sticks of [...]

Grill Guide: Fueling Your Fire

Grill Guide: Fueling Your Fire

One of the most important aspects of slow cooking barbeque is the fuels used to produce the heat and smoke. Many times I have seen people use low quality charcoal or green wood in their cooking chambers, resulting in poor tasting barbeque and/or cookers dripping something similar to the blob escaping from the movie theater [...]

Introduction to Grilled Vegetables

Introduction to Grilled Vegetables

Many times we forget to grill our vegetables. You can grill vegetables on any type of cooker and produce a surprisingly tasty alternative which can be served with your entrees. Most vegetables are grilled over a medium hot fire (350 to 375ºF). Vegetables are obviously the healthy choice when cooking. Gather up a few bbq [...]

BBQ Roasters

BBQ Roasters

Barbeque poultry includes whole chickens, chicken cuts, whole turkey, turkey cuts and all game birds. It is very important to know what type of cuts and sizes to purchase and which type are best suited to the recipe that you’ll be using. Spring chickens are 1 to 1 ½ pounds and are about 35 days [...]

Tenderloin: The Prized Part of the Pig

Tenderloin: The Prized Part of the Pig

Barbecuing or grilling pork can be a tricky business. For the most part people have always abided by the fact that if the internal temperature of the pork is 180ºF then it is done. Well that is very true. However it has always been thought that 180ºF would represent the temperature needed to kill bacteria [...]

Beautiful Brisket

Beautiful Brisket

There is nothing like cooking a brisket. A good brisket that is both flavorful and tender is a work of art. Most of the time people tend to cook briskets that are overly smoked, bitter, and tough. As a matter of fact, every time I cook a brisket I remember one specific incident I would [...]