The most expensive and tender cut of beef, beef tenderloin has a reputation for mild, melt in your mouth flavor that is easily enhanced by high quality seasonings. One of our favorite meats to do in our BBQ classes (we get to eat beef fillet for lunch!), here we’ll let you in on how simple [...]
Smoked brisket makes a wonderful meal for holiday guests, but it takes a bit of skill to get it just right! Use the following tips to get your brisket perfectly prepared and cooked to just the right temperature for meat that is full of flavor and not at all dried out! 1. You’ll want to [...]
Eat it plain, put it on a bun, mix it into baked beans or stuff jalapeno peppers with it…Pulled pork is easy to make, versatile and so delicious! Follow Jay’s steps for turning a pork butt into the most melt in your mouth pulled pork on the planet, and you’ll have a meal fit for [...]
One of the most popular ways to season a turkey is by injecting it with marinade. However, there’s a lot of misinformation about how to properly inject. The correct technique will create uniform flavor throughout your turkey meat! Follow these steps for a delicious injected Thanksgiving turkey: 1. You’ll need to choose a marinade and [...]
Recipe and photos by Jay Mathiesen View the photo guide for this recipe here! Jay combined Plowboy’s new Jamaican Jerk Rub with Dizzy Pig Pineapple Head Rub to create this incredible spicy-sweet grilled chicken. Top it off with Jay’s fresh Pineapple Mango Salsa, and you’ve got tropical flavor that will have you saying, “Kiss mi [...]
Thanks to the folks at Firebug for contributing this recipe! 1 lb. ground beef (lean is best) 1 c. vadalia onion, minced 2 cloves of garlic, minced 1 large red pepper, minced 1 ½ c. Firebug Grill’n Sauce-Hot 3 T. Tomato paste 1 T. Worcestershire sauce 1 t. salt Fresh ground pepper 8 whole wheat [...]
This smoky, spicy, reuben sandwich starts with a corned beef brisket slow smoked, sliced thin and piled onto thick slices of rye bread. Layered with from-scratch Smoky Thousand Island Dressing, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut., and then grilled to make the outside crisp and the inside melty and warm, this incredible reuben will be your new [...]
What’s on the menu for March Madness? How about slow smoked brisket mixed in to a spicy bean chili? Jay’s original Brisket Chili combines flavors of ancho and chipotle chiles with cloves, garlic, oregano and delicious smoked brisket. View the photo guide for this recipe here. Use the printer-friendly button at the top of this [...]
Love this recipe? Vote for it in the Foodista Cookbook Contest! Recipe by Jay Mathiesen Commentary by Beth Politsch View the Grilled Chicken Cordon Blue Photo Guide here! Jay makes the food, I shoot the pictures and sample the results of Jay’s hard work. (Pretty awesome job, huh?) That’s how we put together the recipes [...]
If you made it to our Holiday Open House, you may have had the pleasure of tasting Darin Cram’s delicious stuffed chicken thighs, and we had more than a few people request instructions. So here it is, Darin’s original recipe using spicy andouille sausage and delicious bacon. Ingredients: 6 deboned chicken thighs (can find in [...]
