EASTER SUNDAY HAM

Easter Sunday was full of work for me especially after a very busy restaurant week.The bright side is my family came to the restaurant for brunch and had some ham that I smoked for the brunch actually 2 fresh hams.Also i just received Dr.BBQ's new book and there are some pretty good recipes in there.Also 4 more days until teams find out about harpoon I can't wait I hope we get in. Here are some photo's of the ham being smoked and ribs I cooked at work for the staff .

WOW

Wow i cant believe a month has passed.I guess i have been to busy with the new restaurant(photo's coming soon) and the new J&R grill cooks like a dream .......powered by humphrey's charcoal of course.MSD would like to say congrats to all the teams at the snowshoe .Also the new smoker construction should begin soon thanks to Chad and Nicole for that for both .We are starting to practice for our 1st contest of this year which will be the rock-n-ribfest in Merrimack new Hampshire i know its in June but it will be here quick.Also look for us in the suicide food blog soon for our review.

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The new grill

GRILL

Well the new J&R wood grill arrived today hopefully it will be installed monday so i can get a few photo's of it to post ....it is huge.The new restaurant should be open for Superbowl weekend which is exciting and thanks to Chad &Nicole Humphrey who will be supplying the restaurant with charcoal and wood.Talking to chad today to find out how the new smoker is progressing hope to have that ready for the spring which if that happens my backwoods competitor will be up for sale.

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I built this for alan for christmas

BIG COMPETITIONS

well I think we are going to compete at the royal this year.Hopefully our friends from SMOKIN HOGGZ and our sponsor Humphreys Charcoal go with us to Kansas it would be fun.Chad from humphreys also asked us about competing at Smoke on the water in march in Arkansas we'll see that would fun to especially with such a big 1st place finish.Ultimately we hope we can win a GC and go to the jack.I want to do all these comps just once....at least that's what i say now..

BBQ CULTURE

It seems to me that the bbq culture is one unto itself as this is more of a declaration of how i see this culture.First off Alan and myself are really newcomers to this sport competing 3 years ,the 1st year 1 event ,the 2nd year becoming certified judges and judging, 3rd year 3 events and next year 5 and hopefully 7.In that time we have made a couple of good friends namely Bill and his team from SMOKIN HOGGZ (by the way if you don't know Bill he would literaly give you the shirt off his back) and even though we are all competing against one another every one i met would do the same to any other team.It seemed most evident this past week as Mike from I SMELL SMOKE passed away .On my facebook page,Steve farrins and Charlie Pini pages there was alot of support from the bbq community as a whole.From all over the country from people who did not know Mike ,including myself other than to say hi, to show there respect and support
to someone who shared the same passion for bbq as they feel themselves.Also it was evident again when the show pitmasters on tlc started it went through the community almost as fast with blogs,facebook pages and websites dedicated to all things bbq.I find myself lucky to to have met and the people I have and will meet in the future who share the same love of bbq as Alan and myself.