Smoked Pork Tenderloin is fantastic with a rich and flavorful Blackberry Bourbon Sauce drizzled over the top. Find out how to make this delicious meal! Pork tenderloin was one of those gateway meats that brought me back to the dark side — or rather, eased my transition from being a pseudo-vegetarian to a smoked-meat-loving carnivore….
Sauces and Rubs
Homemade Smoked Butter
Homemade Smoked Butter is an outstanding and delicious topping for your breads, holiday rolls, or to serve over grilled steak. It’s a bit over the top, but it’s so worth it! Sometimes we get bizarre ideas about smoking various foods and the flavor profile it will impart, things that you probably might not ever think to…
Traeger Pellet Grilled Chicken Thighs Recipe
Grilled Chicken Thighs are delicious cooked on a Pellet Grill. Find out how easy it is to cook perfect BBQ chicken on your Traeger grill or Pellet smoker. One of the recipes we practiced over, and over, and over again for our first BBQ competition was chicken thighs. We learned a ton about smoking thighs….
Smoked Tri-Tip Sandwich with Chimichurri Sauce
An easy smoked tri-tip sandwich recipe topped with our awesome Chimichurri Sauce, onions, and a ciabatta roll. Don’t have a smoker? That’s fine, you can grill or roast it in the oven. Tri-tip, where have you been all my life. We serve this cut at catering events and in our house. And when we have…
Pinot Noir BBQ Sauce
Pinot Noir BBQ Sauce is what happens when the combination of the delicate flavors of Pinot Noir wine and the bold flavors of BBQ sauce collide. Shortly after we got The Beast (aka our commercial smoker) we started a catering company. At the time, my husband/partner was still working his day job, and he had never worked…
Different Styles of BBQ Sauces
A rundown of the major styles of BBQ and regional sauces and what they are good for. I love being asked what my style of BBQ is, for a couple reasons. I find it an opportunity to gauge how much that person really understands styles, and why it matters (or doesn’t). To be candid, if…
How to make a Grilled and Glazed Chicken
How to make Grilled and Glazed Chicken. I must admit a few years ago I was so uninspired when grilling chicken (but my wife requested it several times a week!). Frankly, I just felt that the flavor was bland and half the time it was either too charred or not cooked enough, meaning it would…
For Mother’s Day – My Mama’s Basic Red Chile Sauce
My mother loves to cook. More than this she loves cooking for people. She will intentionally make enough of any dish for an army, just so she can bring some to co-workers or friends the next day. It is how she expresses her love to people. She has no secrets in her kitchen, and is…
