by zydecopaws on June 28, 2011

No, don’t queue the Monty Python music, this isn’t that sort of quest. No killer rabbits (but perhaps some killer Welsh rarebit, if we’re lucky), no Spam (except what shows up everyday in my Akismet queue), and (unfortunately) no juicy food porn pictures tonight. Tonight is about waxing philosophic about things BBQ (and helping out a friend)…
by zydecopaws on May 25, 2011

I’m going to ramble a bit while you gaze upon the chicken I had for dinner. This wasn’t NSFW chicken, but a variant that used Simply Marvelous Pecan rub and Big Butz Original sauce. This was as good as the NSFW chicken, but I couldn’t come up with a catchy name for it. It was served with a fresh rosemary version of trashbag potatoes that didn’t turn out quite as I expected…
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by zydecopaws on December 7, 2010

It appears someone actually reads this blog (or at least looks at the pictures) and feels it is good enough to be included on a “Best of” list. In this case, , someone at the Guide to Culinary Schools has included us on their “list of 50 of the most tender, finger-licking, good-to-the-bone barbecue blogs out there”…
by zydecopaws on October 27, 2010
The BBQ Vacation is over, but there are still stories to be told. I’m not sure how we managed it, but the BBQ Brethren in attendance were all rounded up and posed for the group shot above. As you can see from the big smiles and droopy eyelids, most of us were well into a [...]
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by zydecopaws on October 22, 2010

Tonight a bunch of us got together for a pre-Bash meal at Phat Matt’s BBQ in Oakland. The California version of Oakland, not the Oregon version. For those that don’t remember, Phat Matt’s sets the standard that other BBQ restaurants should aspire to. Great food, good prices, fantastic service, great people, and tonight was no exception…
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by zydecopaws on October 19, 2010

Ok, before anyone thinks that I’m taking a vacation from barbecuing, let me go on record as saying nothing could be further from the truth. This week I am taking a vacation from my day job, abandoning the well-armed wife, kids, and vicious big-eared guard dog to spend some time in the Bay Area of California. I know, the Bay Area isn’t exactly known as a BBQ Mecca (or even a hot bed of BBQ, for that matter), but it is host to a BBQ Brethren Bash this coming Saturday and happens to be home to some fellow outdoor-cooking bloggers and other buddies that are into the BBQ scene. And lets face it, the Bay Area has lots of other great food besides BBQ, and I fully intend to take advantage of it.
So I loaded the CrockaQue and a couple of the Pyromids in the Honda and set out for California…
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