BBQ and the RIDERS!!!!......Like Pilsner and Clam....

For those who are full bore stick burners....or the backyard amateur griller like me.....and in addition....are die hard RIDER FANS!!!!

Spiff up ur grill and git on over to Taylor field to watch the Riders vrs BC on the big screen. While they are on the road they are having a little 'ol BBQ competition around the stadium...

....check here for further details....Good Luck!!

http://www.pileofbonesbbq.com/

Smoking Ribs and Jerky

Finally had to unload the camara of over 600 pics from early July....

Found a couple of pics of my sisters Ribs and my Jerky in Dads Smokehouse. As previously posted below they went well for the first smoke by us.

Pork Ribs.....Low and Slow?

Sobeys had some pork ribs on sale with breast attached. Bought 2 large bulk paks and a pack of Maple Leaf back ribs as well.

I rubbed 3 of them Friday nite and did them with indirect heat on the VC natural gas grill. Added a stick of Black Alder for flavour. They took the full 3hrs. Last 20 min I put some heat under them just to take them through to the end and brushed them with some Sugar Ray BBQ Sauce.

I thought they were an improvement from before same as the wife said. She wanted a bit more sweetness to them then I remembered I forgot to add some Maple Syrup to the BBQ sauce. Since I saved one slab for tonite. I am going to slow heat it with the sauce for supper.

For texture.....they were just right....I read somewhere that the meat should just be slightly hanging on the bone....and not falling off. This is what these were.

So slowly....little by little improvement. The rub......I think is good....if anything a slight tweeking.

The BBQ Bible....

I would proly say that most every guy or gal that is semi serious into good Q knows who Steven Reichel is.....

....thus.....when the wife and I took a trip to Minot this week I snatched his book "BBQ Bible" off the shelf of Barns and Noble.

With over 500 recipies...I should be good for a while.....

Smoking Good Time.............

Well was back home to parents last week and first thing I did was pick up a couple of roasts to make jerky out of. I had to test the new Smoke House out as Dad had already done some bacon.

The Jerky turned out okay.....(no thanks to mom who's pantry was out of certain essential jerky spices). My sister was their and now she is into BBQ too in Calgary....she purchased some baby back ribs and she put a rub and we smoked them a bit then put to freeze to bring out on the Q in Calgary.

Overall the Smoke house worked great....Dad says he has to make air holes a little bigger but it held right at 160 for my Jerky for a good 3hrs.

NEW WALK-IN SMOKEHOUSE

My dad.....closing in on 80yrs old missed his smoked bacon and sausage too much since selling their acerage and the old smokehouse along with it.

This spring he started construction on a new one and this past weekend I took a trip back home to help him finish it off. All steel construction consisting of steel studs and sheeting. Sheet metal wrapped door and a new wood burner fire box.

Dad can't wait to get his famous bacon cure going again....

TWO CHICKENS.....One Half Empty Coors Lite Can

Okay.....went for the old staple of BBQ today....BEER CAN CHICKEN....plus for comparison one whole chicken on the grill indirect heat.

Long and short.....Beer Can chick was "slightly"....more moist. In the end it was a waste of a beer for me.....next time....I will drink the whole beer and keep with the indirect method for doing chicken.

They were on for about an hour and 20 minutes. Lathered on a mix of Bulls Eye Hickory BBQ Sauce and good ol' Canadian Maple Syrup for the last 15 minutes. Very very good skin. Almost to the fall off the bones state.

Now tomorrow is ribs......