Labor Day Weekend...

I just got through cooking 6 racks of ribs dusted with my rub and I smoked a gallon of baked beans for tomorrow.

I'll get up early in the morning and do some grilled wings for my famous grilled hot wings.

I got elected last week to be Grill Master at this shindig at our friends house, so I'm doing most of it here tonight on my equipment.

That way I can relax tomorrow and have some brews and watch the babes play in the pool...all of my girls will be there as well. Lucky me...

Be safe this weekend, enjoy the food and drink one for me...

I'll post the Weekend Report sometime after the the party.

B.D.

Simply Thursday...

Carey, sent me some info on where he has his rub made and bottled. I will have to check this out, because we have hit a brick wall trying to find bottles around here.

What we have found on line is no help.

They want an arm and a leg for shipping. The cost would be figured into the product and make it very costly. I had hopes of doing this myself, but with that kind of cost, it don't look so good.

Unless...

You don't mind buying it in a zip-lock bag... Then I'm your man.

Jeff, has done the label design and it looks great and I have a great product so, we're not giving up on this by any means...we just hit a pothole in the road and may have to change lanes for a smoother ride.

I'll have to call Memphis and see what they can do for me and see how much it will cost, then let Jeff run the numbers and see, is it worth it to me to go this route.

Or...

Stay with Mr. Zip-Lock and just put a label on it and keep the overhead cost very low and pass the savings on to the customers.

We'll see...

B.D.

Wordless Wednesday...

B.D.

Simply Tuesday...

B.D.

Weekend Report...

Well, I'm glad some folks finally got some rain last night...

You didn't B.D.?

Nope, not a drop. I hate to see this months water & electric bills...
I'll have to get two jobs to pay these bad boys, anyway...

B.D. what's with the ego thing posted below?


Well it's like this Jethro...

It's just that some people have an ego problem when it comes to cooking or for anything else for that matter. They have to be in the spot light.
(and I'm not talking about any of the guys on the team or Julie or any of my friends.)

I don't have an ego, if I need help I'll ask for it. I love to cook, I want people to give me their honest opinion about what the food tastes like, do they like it or not.

I tried something someone fixed a while back and didn't really care for it, so that's all I said. By that response, made by me, their ego kicked into high gear.

You would think I'd called their momma a few choice names or something.

"Well I guess you think you're the only one who can cook around here!" I'll have you know that I...yak...yak...yak...

( I didn't say that and you'd better back up off me or you will need your momma.)

Some people, just can't handle the truth, that's why I'm talking about ego.

I don't have one when it come to cooking, I do the best that I can and if I think I can do it better... I'll try. If I screw up, I don't get my feelings hurt, I try again.

That's why I experiment a lot and if you don't like it, I've got the balls to ask you what you think it needs to improve it, or 86 it altogether and start over...that's not ego. That's thinking on your feet and getting the job done.


"I'll have you know that I can...yak...yak...yak..."

Yak all you want, I still didn't like it...

B.D.

Simply Friday...

First off...

I got to see all of my girls again last night at Tusculum Lanes bowling alley.

During this visit...I got drafted to grill for the crew next weekend at Marcia's & Hal's house.

No problem...You know the saying, it's not the equipment, it's the cook. (God help me)

I'm supposed to cook for about 20 folks... again no problem. I do what I do and I'm good at what I do.

That's about how many we have when I cook for the whole family.

But some of these folks might be my toughest critics. They do not know my cooking at all. Only word of mouth has put me in this position.

That's cool...I always like a challenge.


On another note...

I... first off have to say a big "Thank you" to Jeff, my head engineer at work.

Jeff is a math machine.

Jeff, has taken the ball and ran with it.

He has helped me more on this mission of getting the rib rub off the ground than anybody. He has broken everything down, crunched the numbers, done research, done the math, showed me figures and he has even designed a label for me.

So I made Jeff, my Chief Officer, my Chief Research Officer, my Head Logo Designer and my most Trusted Adviser and my body guard.

B.D. what about Carey and Pat?

Carey got to try some of the rub and he gave the thumbs up award. Pat hasn't gotten any yet. ( I don't get to see Pat much)

Carey, has his own rub and sauce, which is very good. Pat has his own stuff as well, which is also good.

I wanted my own stuff. In no way would I compete with Carey or Pat. There is no ego on my part involved here. That is just the way it is in the world of barbecue.

Everybody has a signature something, be it rub or sauce. These guys are just a few steps ahead of me.

I came into barbecue late in life. I'm just trying to better myself and my cooking skills and my recipe making skills.

Do I think I'm better than Carey or Pat?

No way...these guys are years ahead of me when it comes to barbecue, but they would do anything to help me out on this journey. That's what I respect about them.

I'm climbing up that barbecue ladder quick and I would never develop an ego when it comes to cooking, it's all about the food... not ego.

I wasn't raised that way...
I was born to cook...
That's what I do...

B.D.