This & That...

Not much going on right now. Just wind and rain...

This should be an interesting year, (weather wise) that is. It's already started out weird.

Should be interesting...

B.D.

Simply Tuesday...

Right now...it is raining like hell. Needless to say, no grilling tonight. The last batch of sauce, was right on the money. It took awhile, but it was worth the effort.

I never give up on a recipe. Persistence and trial and error will always prevail. That makes us Weekend Warriors...human.

The above picture is my new play toy.

I bought it in a yard sale...(GGG)

B.D.

Update...

This is a picture Jeff (my partner and my manager and VP of sales) sent to me of the sauce applied to some chicken. Nice shot of some good lookin' grub.

Jeff said this: Four thumbs up on the finished product; my wife and kids loved it and I'm taking the remainder to the neighbors this afternoon. If you've improved on the sauce already then I'll be placing an advanced order.



I did some grilled hot wings with just the rub (no marinade this time) but made the same hot sauce recipe to coat them in and I grilled some rib tips with the rub, basted with the new barbecue sauce recipe.

Julie said she really liked the sauce. Yeah...eat THAT! Bull's-Eye bbq sauce.

Who's your daddy , it's your birthday, ride the pony...(doing my little happy dance)

You go Doctor Pyro...

Woo-Hoo!!!

B.D.

Weekend Report...

I made some sauce (with tomato sauce as the base) Thursday and gave it to the boys at work Friday to take home and try. Last night, I made a sauce using ketchup as the base and used hot chili powder instead of regular.

It made the sauce darker, but I can't tell any difference as far as taste. Neither one, comes close to a bottled sauce. But...that's not my main objective in creating a sauce from scratch. The objective is to have it complement the rub and the meat.

I don't want it spicy or hot. I want it to be used as a finishing sauce or a dipping sauce, whichever way you want to use it. I'll wait and see what the boys say before I proceed any farther with that recipe base.

In this case of being (my alter ego) Doctor Pyro, Julie is not much help.

She likes Bull's-Eye bbq sauce. Something is missing and I don't know what it is...




I don't want to copy Bull's-Eye bbq sauce or copy Carey's Peg Leg sauce. I want my own signature sauce that says this is my barbecue, my stuff. A good cook or a great cook will learn from others, that's only natural, but they would never take credit for hard work someone else did and call it their own...

Good and great recipes are born with trial and error, luck, and persistence of a final goal in mind. Make it work...

A recipe must work. If it doesn't, what good is it?

Just to have bragging rights?

If it doesn't work, there won't be much to brag about Jethro, because in a nut shell, it will suck...period.

How hard can making a recipe for a barbecue sauce be?

Well, it's not that complicated, but it's not that easy neither. It's all about taste, that's the key to any recipe...taste. Especially barbecue.

I've eaten some good 'Q' and I've eaten some bad 'Q'

Was it the meat or the sauce?

Both...

A vinegar sauce is almost impossible to screw up, but a tomato based sauce can go south in a hurry. As far as mine goes, I have a very good foundation I can build on. I just have to find the right building blocks to add to it.

That's the hard part...

Enjoy your day!!!



B.D.

Simply Thursday...

B.D.

Cheap Sunglasses...

Does your head feel like an elephant sat on it? Bleary eyed?
Do you feel like you're the toilet seat's best friend this morning?
Sunglasses just can't filter out the blazing morning sun light?

Welcome to the New Year my friend...

How do I feel today? Just lovely...I didn't get stupid last night, in fact, I worked on the bbq sauce again. I used a different brand tomato sauce and measured every single thing and wrote it all down this time. This is the best sauce to date. I am ever so close. And this should be the recipe. I just need to work on the twang just a tad. It's still not quite there yet, but when the smoke hits it, it should fall right in there.

I would smoke some more rib tips today, but it's going to be windy all day and COLD, so forget that...

This coming weekend should be better weather, so I'll just wait until then.



I have to go back to work tomorrow (yeah) but having the sauce that close to end product is spirit lifting to say the least, so I can survive work.

So anyway...that's it. Happy New Year!

And... if it seems that I typed too loudly on the keyboard writing this post, making your head pound and making that elephant even heavier...

That's just your brain trying to kick your...

Enjoy your day!!!
B.D.