Recipe: Apple Pie Sopapillas

I wanted a dessert after grilling some food and came up with this. We had just bought apples and I wanted an apple pie something. I pulled out my pan and cooked up some apples and toasted the tortillas on the grill and I had something yummy.

Cooking with Fire! - Contest

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 Contagious Graphics in Charlotte, NC. Both are great printers and easy to work with. Because I have a couple extra t-shirts and lots of stickers I'm going to run my first contest.

Head over to facebook.com/bbq4fun, like my page and post your best picture of summer grilling or BBQ. There needs to be food in the picture that has been cooked with fire. There will be two winners; the photo with the most likes and the photo that my esteemed panel of judges (my wife and girls)  like the best. The winners will receive a Q4Fun t-shirt (sizes are limited), a Q4Fun sticker and a baggie of my rub. The contest will run until August 17, 2013 and is only for those in the continental US.

The t-shirt.

The sticker.

The Q Rub

Recipe: Quick Pork Tacos

Here's a quick recipe I did this past Saturday using Meyer's Eligin 3 Mistake Chili Seasoning and Tabeñaro Hot Sauce. I needed something quick for lunch that was easy and filling. So I made this taco with salsa and pork.

Ingredients
For the taco

• 4 thin cut pork chops
• Half an onion
• Pork fat (or some other oil for sauteing)
• 2 tbls 3 Mistake Chili seasoning
• 1/4 NC BBQ sauce (vinegar base)
• Tortillas

For the salsa (This is what we had from our garden so it's what I used.)

• Cucumber
• Garlic
• Tomato
• Cilantro
• Tabeñaro Hot Sauce

Directions
Slice up the onion. Cut the pork chops into strips. Heat up a pan with the pork fat in it. Add the onions, the pork and the Chili Seasoning. Let it cook until the meat is browned and cooked all the way through. Add the BBQ sauce and let it all cook together.

Dice the cucumber, tomato, cilantro and garlic. Mix them all together in a bowl. You can add the Tabeñaro sauce to this to the heat you like or after you make the taco add it to the taco.

Put some of the meat mixture on to the tortilla, add the salsa on top and some Tabeñaro sauce and enjoy.

Kofta Kebabs

A couple weeks a go my wife and I tried a Mediterranean restaurant in the area called Troy. It was very good and had a nice sampling of various Mediterranean foods; kebabs, falafel, shawarma (Avengers has done more for the sales of shawarma in the US then any advertising), tabouli and baklava. One of the kebabs they served was a kofta kebab. It was odd looking but had great flavor. I figured it wouldn't be hard to make and I could grill it so I decided to give it a try.

Homemade BACON!

I don't know why I have never tried this until this year. It is so easy and so good. Making your own bacon. It takes about a week and a couple hours to smoke it. You can season it with a variety of spices and smoke it with different types of woods to vary the flavor but it is all good.