Name: Midwood Smokehouse  Location: Charlotte, NC Price: $$ - $6-$34 (that's for the Pig Out) Hours: Sun - Wed • 11am - 10pm T...

Cooking with Fire! This year I had some t-shirts made for the blog by Kong Screen Printing  in Austin, TX, and stickers done at Contag...

This week I had the privilege to take my wife to the 17th Annual  Taste of the Nation Charlotte  which is part of Share our Strength . Tha...

I'm looking forward to this weekend. Saturday I plan to get up around seven, start a fire in the cooker and cook some pork butts and chi...

This past weekend one of our friends asked me to cook for their sons b-day. He wanted butts, slaw and potato salad. I did four butts and a...

This week is our ASC fund raiser at work. One of the annual traditions for it is a chili cook off. Last year I entered and won . So, of cou...

This weekend I was asked by Lakeshore Christian Fellowship to smoke 280 lbs of pork for a youth fund raiser. I personally don't own a s...

This weekend was a first for me. I smoked a goat for about 60 people. A scary prospect as I had never done this before. I searched the Inter...

This is a recipe I came up with after smoking some pork one weekend and we needed to eat up the left overs so they wouldn’t go bad. It was a...

This weekend I smoked some pork and a brisket. It was the first time I smoked a brisket so I had a bit of fear going into it. I really didn...

I grill and I BBQ. Aren’t they the same thing? No. Don’t you fire up the BBQ for burgers and hot dogs? No. Grilling and BBQ are two differen...