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Saturday, February 12th, 2011Barbeque Ribs on the Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker
Sunday, January 30th, 2011Barbeque Ribs on the Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker – there are few things better! We cook ours on a 22.5 inch Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker with a heavy duty rib rack – it lets us cook 4 BBQ ribs on each level – we cook dry using All American Spice Rub.
Best Mac and Cheese – Fog City Diner Mac and Cheese
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Best Mac and Cheese! We had chance to stop at Fog City Diner in San Francisco and try their smoked three cheese Mac and cheese – let’s just say it did not come from a box of Kraft macaroni and cheese!
Tofurky, TX or Barbecue, TX? You Decide!
Thursday, November 18th, 2010In response to the open letter from PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman calling on Turkey, Texas to change its name to Tofurky, Texas co-founders of Pork Barrel BBQ, the nation’s fastest-growing barbecue sauce company, have presented Pat Carson, the Mayor of Turkey, Texas with an appetizing offer to temporarily change the town’s name to “Barbecue, Texas.”
Heath Hall and Brett Thompson, widely recognized for creating the award-winning all-American BBQ sauce and spice rub company and their reality TV show appearances on ABC’s Shark Tank, are offering to fork over $1,000 immediately and $5 from every Picnic Pack or Party Pack sold on its website from November 18th through December 10th in exchange for the town changing its name to “Barbecue, Texas” for 16 hours – split evenly between three Turkey, Texas Charities:
1) Bob Wills Foundation (providing scholarships to local students)
2) Turkey Restoration Project (restoring Turkey, Texas school)
3) Turkey All Volunteer Ambulance and Fire Department
Americans – carnivores and vegetarians alike – can cast a vote in support of Turkey, Texas temporarily changing its name to either Barbecue, Texas or Tofurky, Texas in an online poll at http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/vote or on Twitter by tweeting #TofurkyTX or #BarbecueTX to @peta and @porkbarrelbbq.
Pumpkin Seeds – How to Cook Pumpkin Seeds
Saturday, October 16th, 2010Pumpkin seeds are often overlooked when carving your Halloween pumpkins. They are a fantastic healthy treat – and very easy to make. At Pork Barrel BBQ, we are always trying new recipes, and here is our version of how to cook them. Its about as easy as it gets!
First step – carve your pumpkin! We recommend that you make it look like our Pork Barrel BBQ pig!
Pig Jack-O-Lantern
1. Set you oven to 350 degrees.
2. Place seeds on cookie sheet, mix with vegetable oil, and sprinkle with Pork Barrel BBQ All American Spice Rub.
Pumpkin Seeds waiting for Pork Barrel BBQ All American Spice Rub
3. Cook for 20 minutes, flipping once during cooking.
4. DONE! Amazing BBQ Pumpkin Seeds with the perfect smokin’ kick!
American Royal Scrapbook # 1 – Intro and Johnny Trigg!
Monday, October 4th, 2010Baseball and BBQ — both are favorite American past times with celebrated World Series championships. Pork Barrel BBQ just participated in our first “World Series of BBQ” competition at the American Royal in Kansas City, Missouri. This marks the 31st year the best of the best in competition BBQ have made their way to the old stockyards of Kansas City to compete for the title of Grand Champion. Over 500 teams compete in the three-day BBQ competition and this year over 100,000 fans and fellow BBQ lovers came out to show their support, making this the largest and most attended BBQ event of the year!
We caught up with some famous BBQ Pitmasters, like Rod Gray of Pellet Envy and Tuffy Stone of Cool Smoke. And we even had a BBQ cookoff showdown starring our very own Heath Hall and the “Godfather of BBQ,” Johnny Trigg. The crowd enjoyed watching the Kansas City Barbecue Society’s All-American Grill Master Series Competition cookoff as Heath Hall and Johnny Trigg battled it out in friendly “iron chef” grilling competition on stage.
You can check out our behind-the-scenes video footage on Pork Barrel BBQ’s YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PorkBarrelBBQ
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Pork Barrel BBQ Meets Food and Hospitality Author Barbara Lang
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010The awesome thing about doing food shows is getting to meet new friends! We had the great pleasure of meeting renowned author Barbara Lang at the VA Food and Beverage Expo. Barbara sure knows her stuff – serving 10 years as a culinary director at a Napa Valley winery; a former co-owner of a successful restaurant in Ithaca, NY; 17 years as a lecturer at Cornell’s Hotel School and is the author of From Restaurant to Retail, a Handbook for Food Professionals – check out her website here, or visit http://www.restauranttoretail.com/index.html. We had a great time hanging out and learning from her experience – we hope we can hang out again soon – thanks Barbara!
Pork Barrel BBQ's Brett Thompson and Heath Hall with Author Barbara Lang
Invitation for Pork Barrel BBQ Open House, Wed, March 31st at 7:00 pm – Mt. Vernon Rec Center
Friday, March 26th, 2010Pork Barrel BBQ invites the neighborhood to an Open House this Wednesday, March 31st at 7:00 pm to share some exciting updates about the Del Ray BBQ company, discuss plans for the upcoming Pork Barrel BBQ restaurant, The Sushi Bar & Asian Fusion restaurant, and hold a listening and answer session.
The Open House will be held at the Mt. Vernon Recreation Center at 2701 Commonwealth Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22301 and we invite anyone in the community interested to attend!
Pork Barrel BBQ invites the neighborhood to an Open House this Wednesday, March 31st at 7:00 pm to share some exciting updates about the Del Ray BBQ company, discuss plans for the upcoming Pork Barrel BBQ restaurant, The Sushi Bar & Asian Fusion restaurant, and hold a listening and answer session.
The Open House will be held at the Mt. Vernon Recreation Center at 2701 Commonwealth Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22301 and we invite anyone in the community interested to attend!
Men’s Health Magazine Names Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce One of the 125 Best Foods for Men
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
In recent months Men’s Health magazine (http://www.menshealth.com/bestfoods/at-the-grocery.php#tab387) magazine has been searching grocery store shelves across the country in pursuit of a healthy shopping list comprised of the healthiest and tastiest foods for men. After comparing nutrition labels and conducting head-to-head taste tests among top BBQ sauce brands, Men’s Health magazine selected Pork Barrel BBQ (http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com) Original BBQ Sauce as one of “The 125 Best Foods for Men.” and their 2010 Best BBQ Sauce in their November 2010 issue.
