Anything & Everything BBQ!

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

Thats awesome. I am a big time BBQ carnivore and the family as well.
This weekend just-so happens to be our BBQ 'Pit Wars' on the river festival called the Roman Roast. We will have the King of BBQ Myron Mixon attending again and do a live taping.
Friday was Wings night and Saturday is the main event.
BTW, i am a Nascar fan too! but i have never attended a sanctioned event, just a local dirt track we have. There been a few times i came close, but hanging around a bunch of beer drinking all day is not fun for me i guess, Rv have a 5yr waiting list at Dega from what i hear, tho sleeping in a van or truck be more feasable i guess.
Here is the website of the BBQ: http://www.rfpra.com/RomanRoastontheRiverteams.html
Smoking Guns:
Atlanta, Georgia: Smoking Gun BBQ
The Rust Nail employs a giant 18-ft. long pistol-shaped barbecue grill, visible on a trailer in the parking lot. Smoke comes out of the barrel. - See more at: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/2....Fo4l6flR.dpuf

That Roman Roast looks like an awesome event, hope you got a chance to enjoy the featured meats & eats. The pistol smoker is ridiculous, but would be a huge hit here at the Ellensburg Rodeo.

Glad to meet a fellow NASCAR gearhead on net54. In the Pacific Northwest it's dirt tracks and 1/2 mile ovals. I visited the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte last year. Totally agree about Dega/Daytona infields, but I'd love to go to Martinsville for $2 dogs and minor league hockey-like action on the track. Good times.

Go to Memphis-style rub:
½ cup paprika
¼ cup garlic powder
¼ cup chili powder
3 tbsp sea salt
3 tbsp black pepper
2 tbsp onion powder
2 tbsp celery seed
1 ½ tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp oregano
1 tbsp thyme
3 tsp cumin
2 tsp dry mustard
2 tsp coriander
2 tsp allspice

Great on meat & poultry without the need of BBQ sauce. Increase heat with more black pepper or substitute hotter chili powder variations or with cayenne.

[pawpawdiv9]

I like the Memphis rub stuff too! What wood do you smoke with? Hickory, Cherry?
I am more of a sweet bbq person. Love the sticky fingers sauces. Lately i become more into that mustard sauces, espceially for seafood and chicken.
I am bar far not into that vinegar flavor, tho some folks down here like it. I dont know why, i think it kills it. In all reality, you should not need any sauce, if the meat is tender and juicy. I kinda like the bark, and you have to ask for that. so much flavor there.

I tivo'ed the race, and of coure the rain delay 2hrs+ caused it not to tape it. So i dont know how the hell JJ won the race especially him and JG sucked at the beginning.
Must of been one of those no pit or no tire calls?? i'm guessing here.
Hope the rain didnt ruin your visit as much.
I will try one day to use that recipe and see how it goes. +1

Do you collect any nascar stuff? I used to back in the early 2000 around before Sr. died. Then i just stopped shrotly after that. Since i collected everything Sr, Jr, and some Gordon. My brother also did some stuff as well, some Tony and vinatge guys.

They're tearing up apple orchards right and left in the Yakima valley to replace them with vineyards, so apple wood is abundant and cheap (usually free for hauling it away).

There was only one BBQ sauce I thought was ever worth a darn, but sadly he's recently closed up shop . Bark is always delicious, adds a little bite to the tender BBQ.

Race recap: Harvick and Truex had the cars to beat after the long rain delay. Stenhouse spun with 9 to go for the caution. Junior and JJ gas-n-go pit-stops put them out front while other drivers grabbed two tires. The Hendrick cars steadily improved all day, and blocked Harvick until he wobbled and lost the draft. Truex was mired behind Kurt Busch on the inside and finished ninth. Almost a formality JJ took the checkers, though Harvick rallied to pass Jr. on the final lap. Good, not great racing.

I collect local racing memorabilia; Sunny-Grand, Yakima Speedway, Three Lakes (Wenatchee), etc. from 1950-70's. Here's a 1962 program from the Central Washington Jalopy Racing Association:

[pawpawdiv9]

Thanks for the recap of the race. I figured as much.
We also had a shop close up too that was very good, due to the land owner not keeping up with the restaraunt. I tried to see where and if they re-open elsewhere.
I got a couple of Nascar racing programs, some with many autographs.
1984 firecracker, signed by maybe 40 drivers
1992 Petty farewell signed
and of course the 2004 Daytona, signed by over 40 drivers, which i been trying to sell.
I think, besides the diecst and such, my favorite piece is actually my Looney toons artwork with the late Sr in it. And a close 2nd is one i keep on my nightstand with Sr in a older race suit wearing a shirt saying "damn i'm good'
I been slowly and i mean slowly trying to sell some items to fund my baseball cards nowadays.
That photo of the poster takes me back to my brothers collection of vintage cars he has. Like fireball roberts and bud baker and yarborough and etc.

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

We also had a shop close up too that was very good, due to the land owner not keeping up with the restaraunt. I tried to see where and if they re-open elsewhere.

I visited the Sticky Fingers Sauce site. Intriguing, do you have any recommendations?

Or mustard sauce recipes you might be willing to share. Tried honey mustard chicken breast a month or so ago, and it was too mild a mustard taste for my pallet. I thought maybe some Beavers hot horseradish in the mustard/honey/lemon juice marinade might kick it up a notch. Any suggestions?

[timzcardz]

What is this BBQ thing of which you speak?

I may have a little experience to share. Here I am with my 3rd place trophy for ribs from a 65 team competition last June . . .



And these are our first place ribs from a competition a couple of years ago. We took 1st in ribs in back to back competitions that year.




And here I am with my niece from the second of those 1st Place Rib wins.

[pawpawdiv9]

@Tim: Awesome! and i love the t-shirt and company.
@Ty: Dont have any mustard one off-hand. I know within the past year i stopped by a curb side that had boiled p-nuts and had a mustard sauce and picked it up. Cant remember the name of it, but it did have a spicy kick to it.

I have tried this before and thought it was good:
Louisiana Wing Sauce (original & honey Mustard)
As for sticky fingers: They are all good, some may be looser/thinner than compared to a Masterpieces, it has a thick glaze for ribs. I have also used that Guy Fieri, which is a loose sauce, but has bold flavor.