Whether you call it Barbecue, Barbeque, BBQ, Bar-B-Que, Barbie, churrasco, grilling or smoking, cooking food outdoors is a great way to get back to a simpler way of life when there was only a fire to cook meat and people got together in groups to enjoy it.
Though the origin of the word 'barbeque' is not really known, the myth of French visitors to the Caribbean seeing a pig being cooked whole and called the method 'barbe à queue', meaning 'from beard to tail' has become popular.
May 27
Making barbeque, specifically barbequed ribs at home can be as complex or simple as you wish to make the process. Not all of us have the space, time or equipment to plate succulent, falling off the bone, sweet, tangy, spicy, smoked barbeque ribs. Most of us can replicate the sweet, tangy and spicy elements, but …
Mar 01
An American (or maybe just Texan thing) that I have whole-heatedly embraced is using a dry rub when grilling meat, whether in the broiler (grill) or the barbecue. Dry rubs are spice mixtures that are rubbed onto raw meat before cooking to impart flavour and caramelisation, however unlike marinades they don’t tenderise. To begin with …
Feb 29
By “What’s your beef”, I don’t mean the complaint, but your favourite steak. In todays sanitised supermarket aisles we are persuaded that the best steak, must be the most expensive, because they are more tender. However given that the ‘choice’ cuts i.e. the loins and rib account for such a small part of the overall …
Feb 28
The next best thing to drinking tequila is cooking with it. It wasn’t until I got to Texas I realised how many varieties of tequila there were, unlike the UK where we a limited to one brand that comes with a little red sombrero lid and I’m sure is just tequila flavour. This recipe for …
Feb 25
Corky’s Ribs & Barbeque in Memphis, TN is good barbeque. Maybe there are places in Memphis that are better and there probably is, but to me there is nothing to complain about this establishment. Corky’s has been around for years and has 12 locations in 6 states (Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Jersey, Mississippi and Indiana). …
