Grits are fine, but let's talk bbq....

[Hokiemill]

CosmoPack's "Wish me luck" thread got me thinking about good bbq.  Now I know this is a very subjective issue and bbq-beauty is in the eye of the beholder (much like cole slaw), and I know there are many different definitions for bbq from different regions, but I'd still like to hear about where you've had some of the best bbq to ever pass your gums.  This is something the northerners can actively take part in as opposed to bemoaning your disdain for that spectacular southern treat otherwise known as grits.

My personal favorite comes from the 3 years I lived down in northern Alabama.  There's a small restaurant north of Scottsboro and just outside of Hollywood ("the real Hollywood" as they like to call it) called Mud Creek BBQ.  Sits on one of the fingers of the tennesse river.  They smoke their own pork and serve it in a big pile cut into ice-cube-sized chunks (not shredded).  Every table has a squirt bottle of vinegar based sauce that you liberally, very liberally, soak the pork in.  The platter also comes with fries and a full ring of pinapple with a squirt of mayonnaise in the middle (I never understood that).  Best darn BBQ I've ever had.  We'll often drop by there and pick up some to take home as we pass through to Huntsville.  Man, my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

[WH_Conley]

Hokiemill, you shouldn't have started this thread, now I have to go out in the cold wearing a bib to keep my coat dry. ;)

[jjmk98k]

Real BBQ, something you just can't get around Philadelphia....

When I do it, its on a well used iron grill, lots of charcoal and some cold beer to keep me going as it takes a while for me to cook ribs the way I like them.

I mix up a homemade BBq sauce of Brown sugar, maple syrup, "franks "red hot" sauce and a smidgen of liquid smoke..... mmm mmm mmm... I make it a nice thick sauce! sweet and tangy...but not to overpower the tatse of the charcoal.  And ther is NOTHING like burned BBQ pork fat.... oh my, my heart hates it, but it's the best!

Let the ribs sit in that for a day, then slow grill them over hot charcoal for two hours or so. Keeping them wet by brushing on fresh sauce when they start to get that "glazed over" look.

  Add some side dishes of corn on the cob with REAL butter, some fried spuds and a sweet potato pie.....

Is it summer yet?

When I was stationed in Tucson there was a little place, I think it was called "Jacks BBQ" just outside of the airbase..... Best dang BBQ around and sweet potato pie that just melted in your mouth...

thinking of that makes my memory water! that was good eatuns!

[MemphisLogger]

Best BBQ in the country--without a doubt--is in Memphis, TN  ;D

That's why FedEx put their main hub here--so they could overnight the best BBQ to anywhere in the world.   ;)

Of course, the best of the best is smoked with Pecan or Black Cherry slabs from the Midtown Logging and Lumber Company!  8)   

Now there is some debate as to whether Memphis dry rub is better than Memphis wet but that's strictly a matter of personal preference. 

[tnlogger]

now scott ya got me wanting to ride to memphis  :D ans yer shore are right it is the BBQ capital
of the world. i just hope them texas boys dont take this wrong

[Engineer]

Best BBQ I've ever had comes from my own back deck.  I got this thing called a Kamado, it's a ceramic grill/smoker that turns out the best BBQ brisket, pulled pork and ribs you can eat.  Baby back ribs are my favorite - slather the ribs with yellow mustard, coat heavy with a homemade spicy dry rub, and slow smoke at 250 degrees for five hours.  The bones just fall out.   I haven't found a restaurant anywhere that comes close - always too chewy and sauce not so good.  Sometimes I sauce, sometimes I eat 'em right off the smoker.

Also BBQ/smoke things like chicken, whole turkey, seafood, veggies, and even pizza; and it will grill pretty good too.  Nothing like slapping on a thick ribeye when the grill's at 700 degrees, flip it quick, let it rest for three or four minutes, and serve.  Everything over natural lump charcoal with apple and hickory wood chunks for flavor.

Now I gotta go eat - I'm makin' myself hungry.   

[Texas Ranger]

Y'all come to Texas.  All questions will be answered, in most any town or city. 8)

[tnlogger]

 Texas Ranger  I had some of that texas BBQ a few years back when going thew Midland and i got to say it was some mighty fine eating.    Now we might need to gets a taste tester and sends dem a little bit of each to get a comparison.
any volunteers[/color] :D :D

[WH_Conley]

tnlogger, you know I'll do my part to help as I am an expert on bbq, and about every other food too. My waist line shows it.

Here to serve, Bill ;D

[Curlywoods]

Well I live in Texas, never been to Memphis (yet!), but to me Kansas City BBQ is still king in my book :-)  Smokehouse Baked Beans can't be beat either...........man my mouth is watering right now

[Bibbyman]

Now you've done it!  I was hungry enough already!   >:(

I've ate some mighty fine BBQ in my time and intend to eat a lot more. 

Some of the best I've had come from a place called "The County Line" somewhere way out from Auston,TX.    They raise, butcher, age hanging, smoke and then BBQ their own meets.  Then they serve it Family Style.  They just keep bringin' it on with all the side dishes until you need help getting up from the table!

[MemphisLogger]

now scott ya got me wanting to ride to memphis  :D ans yer shore are right it is the BBQ capital
of the world. i just hope them texas boys dont take this wrong

We got the high cholesterol and heart attack rates to prove it too!  ;)

Come on down and get ya some--BBQ that is  ;D :D

[MemphisLogger]

I hope we're not comparing Texas BEEF BBQ to Memphis PORK BBQ . . .

Them's apples and oranges 

[Roxie]

thanks a lot.........I'm starving!   :D

[Hokiemill]

You just gotta love the fact that there are so many variations - dry rub, vinegar-based sauces, tomato-based sauces, mustard sauces, pork, beef, bird, smoked.  Like so many foods, I think it often comes down to who you're eating it with.  Two of my many other favorite meals really are related to the environment:  nothing better than brats on the grill with peppers and onions while sitting in a parking lot, drinking brewskis and throwing a football, tailgating before the game.  I also grew up with newspapers on a table, beer, and a bushel of steamed crabs - picking, drinking, talking and eating.  Now back to BBQ.....

[Cedarman]

Road Trip

[jjmk98k]

Oh come on guys,

Don't make me have to run to the butcher tonight and get the grill fired up at  32 degrees outside....

( not like I have not done that before)

How's about those Grits!

[tnlogger]

now jim ya knows dem GRITS goes with anything  :D :D

[Captain]

Well, I gotta admit, you Rebels got us beat on this subject.  Nothing but failed attempts to copy it up here in Yankee land. :-[

Captain

[Weekend_Sawyer]

    mmmmmmmmmmm... barbequed gritz... ahhhhhhhh!

[jjmk98k]

when talking of grits, I dont get hungry... I like them, but it doesnt make my mouth water....


now when we're talking BBQ ..... I get ready to start eating my keyboard.....

( kinda resembles a rack of ribs, minus the bones) ;)

[Texas Ranger]

UrbanLogger, in Texas, if it walks, swims, crawls, flys, or just lays there, we gonna bar-b-q- it!!!!!!!!!!

Dove or quail breast with a jalepeno in the middle and a wrap of bacon around the outside on a mesquit grill.

Steak, shrimp, pineapple, squash, and tomatoes on a grill. (Try to think mesquit when I say grill.)  Followed by peaches from the grill.

Any fish that isn't bony, and the bony ones you smoke till the meat falls off the bones.

Rattlesnake shishkabob, tastes like chicken.  onion and peppers between chunks.

Beef ribs, pork ribs, pork loin, any steak, and lamb.  Ladies and gents, if you haven't had lamb off a grill, y'all aint et.

Only think I ever tried that was absolutely terrible was a groundhog up in Missouri when I was in forestry school.  Coulda ate a tire better.

And of course, a cold Shiner Bock to cut the smoke in your lungs.

[J_T]

Here we got bq grills on two axle triallers 8)

[tnlogger]

 right you are jim we have two of them things that set up here in sparta every week. :D

[J_T]

Yum Yum 8) 8) Gunna have to come down that way one these days 8)