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Featuring tales of outdoor barbecue cooking. This category includes cooking methods, experiments, recipes, and stories from the patio.

Smoking Turkey Checklist

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LAN’s newest blogger, Alyssa, posted a great recipe for smoking turkey.  Here’s a quick checklist on the gear you’ll need to complete the task (in no particular order): Bourbon.  This is only for emergencies but you’ll want it close to make it through in-law encounters in case they flare up during the day. A roasting [...]

Cooking Turkey: A Smoked Turkey Recipe

Smoked Turkey recipe

Before you wander away to the traditional oven-roasted turkey recipes, or tempt yourself with the potentially dangerous, and somewhat backwoods method of deep-frying a big bird, consider the possibility of a smoked turkey recipe. Cooking turkey should not be dangerous, nor should it be a fretful scenario in which you sweat over a hot oven, [...]

Breaking with Tradition

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There’s a mantra in my house. I mess it up and Brian, my better half, cleans it up. It’s a pretty good arrangement considering I was raised in a traditional southern household where the roles were reversed. Women did the cooking and the cleaning. Women were sequestered indoors; men got fresh air, sunshine and got [...]

Buttin’ Down a Memorial Weekend

Boston Butts Smoking in Smoker

Remembering our heroes and testing technique with two Boston Butts. Fire and prep are being experimented with to validate previous methods…

Cheeseburgers in ParaLAN

With Memorial Day upon us and all this talk of burgers, we provide the “Daddy Burger”. From memory, just like Dad made. Cheers…

Tracey’s Hot…

Here’s Tracey’s chili and grill cheese recipes. It’s really the bread and cheese, and technique that makes the sandwiches. Kick up the spice in the chili to taste…