A Tagine or Tajine is a North African dish and is also the name of the pot it is cooked in. I first discovered Tagine dishes, believe it or not, in St. Paul, Minnesota at a small restaurant there. They are rich, delicious comfort food dishes with spices, vegetables, chicken, lamb, fish, or […]

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While making Sweet Potato Muffins from the Cooking with Jack cookbook, I thought about Jack Daniels and cornbread. It makes so much sense. Jack Daniels is a corn mash whiskey. A couple of tablespoons Jack Daniels whiskey made a normal cornbread something special.

Two boxes of Jiffy cornbread mix call for 1/3 cup […]

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This recipe is from the Cooking with Jack cookbook that I picked up while in Lynchburg, TN last year. Randy and I took a road trip to last April to Mike and Debbie Davis’ Lotta Bull BBQ class. It was the first time either of us had been to Lynchburg, TN. Not […]

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The annual KCBS banquet was held this last weekend.  KCBS and Kookers Kare hold raffles during the banquet.  Kookers Kare is a charitable organization of BBQ cooks feeding and supporting local food pantries.  Kookers Kare raised a couple of thousand dollars during this raffle.  The money will purchase the 8000 pounds of pork that will […]

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I’ve been mentioning the new Big Green Egg in my posts recently, but I’ve not done a story on it yet.  The weekend before Christmas, we visited a hardware store going out of business.  They had a new, large Egg priced as a medium, AND 30% off.  It worked out that I got a large […]

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Round two of burgers on the Big Green Egg with pouch potatoes and onions. Cooking with foil pouches is great. You can steam and brown potatoes, peppers, veggies, and shrimp quickly and easily.

Sweet onion and yellow potatoes were diced in large pieces. Then seasoned with fresh ground black pepper, santa maria seasoning, and olive […]

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After more than a week of not using the Big Green Egg, we broke it out tonight.  Our boys’ favorite meal is barbecued chicken.  The using four hickory chunks and lump charcoal, I preheated the Egg to 325 degrees.  The chicken was seasoned with River City Smokehouse rub and sauced with Carribean Queen sauce.
The side […]

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Two of my favorite foods in the world are not barbecue. Surprised? Second to ice cream, good cookies are hard to beat. If they have chocolate in them, even better. As a child, my mother’s favorites to make were oatmeal chocolate chip. Fortunately, they are my favorite to eat. But, can they be done on […]

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As I stared at my 13 pound prime rib roast on Christmas day, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to trim my own personal steaks. Knowing that I had a new grill sitting in the garage eager to be fired up, probably had something to do with it. With a healthy dose of Kosher […]

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Growing up in NW Iowa and SE South Dakota, barbecue meant something very different to me than it does now. BBQ was Kingsford charcoal, a Weber kettle grill, and some kind of grilled meat slathered in BBQ sauce, which I can still smell burning over the coals. I remember my father’s red Weber […]

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