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Linda's Corner
Gosh can you believe it is mid April? Many of you have been on the contest trail since New Years (I speak of our Florida BBQ friends). Here in Michigan we sit waiting for the weather to warm. Don’t get me wrong my man has been working with his smokers all winter long. I think someone should organize a contest in the NORTH in the WINTER and see who can come up with perfect BBQ. Let me tell you it isn’t as easy as you would think.
It is that time of year when The BBQ Guy puts in front of me different sauces, spices, textures, and cuts. My head is all a spin and sometimes I tell him that I like something that I didn’t like the weekend before, which doesn’t sit very well with the chief cook. HELP!!! I like it sweet, he likes it spicy, I like the tomato sauce he likes the vinegar it goes on and on and on and really all I get is confused.
Apparently I am in training for better box garnish. As much as I hate it, I have been informed that it could make or break our finishing spot. GREAT!! He has now officially put all our bad KCBS finishes off on ME. Wasn’t that smart of him? A few weeks ago I had to look at pictures of all our boxes along with what place we scored...not exactly my idea of a relaxing Saturday afternoon. Just to let you on a little secret, I can’t say that I figured out how to better place lettuce and parsley in a box, but I think I did figure out one secret to success. From what I remembered and from the pictures, I reasoned that on every category that we did well in, The BBQ Guy and I had some kind of BBQ disaster or a BBQ argument.
Let me define some of our BBQ disasters for those who are new to our website. Once, the BBQ Guy was trying to get the fire hotter and he blew on it and all the ashes drifted up onto our just sauced chicken. Then there was the time when the wind blew over the table and broke all our turn in boxes, which we didn’t figure out until he was turning in chicken. Let’s not forget the time that we used a commercial rub that had too much pepper in it, and our pork was almost inedible and it was so HOT that the only thing we could think to do was to add straight honey to it. The list could go on forever with tales of our crazy stunts.
The BBQ disaster comes from some force other than us. The BBQ fight usually starts with ME, the wife who has little patience (this is a surprise to family and friends who think I am a saint HA, HA). Sometimes the fight is about how he parked the trailer. One time it was because I didn’t want him to cook on the trailer gate, and then there is always the one that comes when he gets HOT. You see this hobby that centers around hot cookers and fire, often coincides with those blistering days of summer; and when they collide The BBQ Guy often complains. This is when I usually explode into a tirade about this being his hobby not mine and he needs to suck it up (that is my sisters favorite phrase for those who whine).
So I guess my strategy this year is to plan on one BBQ disaster and one BBQ fight per contest. If it doesn’t happen naturally, I might have to invent something to make sure our mini season is a success. So please, if you pass “THE BBQ GUY’S COOKING TEAM” and you see a crazy lady on a tirade, don’t think worse of me because I am basically just taking one for the team!!!
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