Smoked Chicken Thighs {Award Winning Competition Recipe with Brine!}

In seven years of competing, I’ve placed in the top 10 a dozen times with these smoked chicken thighs. Before competing, I don’t think I made thighs a single time…

A Look At The Greatest BBQ Competition: Memphis in May 2016

It’s time. The Superbowl of Swine. The World Championship Cooking Contest. But why try to wax poetics, when my good friend, Neil Gallagher from Too Sauced to Pork, has already…

2014 BBQ Bash!

It’s that time of year again – it’s time for the Wilwood BBQ Bash, sponsored by St. Louis Home Fires! For me, this event is tied with Memphis in May…

The Superbowl of Swine 2014

By the time you read this, I will be down in Memphis brushing elbows with some of the biggest names in BBQ at the Memphis in May World Championship BBQ…

Extraordinary Success!

In the St. Louis area, the BBQ Bash in Wildwood sponsored by St. Louis Home Fires is the premier BBQ event of the year.  There’s not even a close second. …