In the mean time here are a bunch of food pictures from the past year that were on my phone. While they do not have the quality of my normal food shots, they show a little behind the scenes action.
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| Filming of this season's BBQ Pitmasters finale in Tryon, NC. |
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| I'm guessing this was the mise en place for some kind of soup. |
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| Smoked pickles, not nearly as bad as one might have thought. |
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| Breakfast for Trevor. |
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| Getting ready to smoke a single pork butt on my Egg. |
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| A test run on a sweet and sour pork recipe. Need to finish working on that one. |
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| Pork chops cooking on GrillGrate's on the gas grill. Yes, I actually use gas every now and then. |
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| Chicken pot pie |
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| Grilled chicken thighs on GrillGrates on the gasser. |
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| Prepping loin back ribs for the smoker. |
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| Making sweet and spicy pickles. |
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| Trying to smoke some beef ribs on a gas grill. |
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| BBQ quesadilla at Dead End BBQ |
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| Mac Attack sandwich from Dead End BBQ. |
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| Pork tacos from Chuy's. |
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| Quick burgers on the Egg. |
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| Practicing my huli huli chicken recipe. |
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| Flat top burner at Lowe's. I want to buy one of these. I swear it's my last one. |
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| Pork tenderloins of some sort. |
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| Pretzel buns for bratwursts. |
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| Blackened Shrimp Po Boy at Sunset Grille in Perdido Key, FL |
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| Grocery stores in TN can't sell wine so I snapped this picture in Florida. Dumbest law ever. |
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| Alexis and Trevor at Trigger's in Perdido Key. |
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| Reverse flow offset smoker at The Rib Shak in Gulf Shores/Orange Beach. |
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| Quicky jerked chicken wings. |
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| Chris Lilly cooking recipes for his new cookbook. |
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| Alcohol with abandonment issues. |
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| Ken Hess, Chris Lilly and Alexis Grove at the Rocky Top BBQ Cookoff |
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| Team Bent Elbow at Rocky Top Cookoff |
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| Some kind of salad at work made from leftovers. |
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| Chicken fajitas? |
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| Memphis In May - one of the team displays |
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| Grilled corn and pork tenderloins. |
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| Chicken thighs on the gasser |
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| First sous vide ribs experiment. Not very pleasant texture on this one. |
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| Flat tire on our way back to airport at the Meyer Ranch in Montana. |
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| Our favorite local BBQ place, Dead End BBQ. |
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| Server dropped ribs at Dead End BBQ. Notice the two dogs on the patio in the distance staring it down. |
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| A chile rubbed, cheese stuffed chicken breast recipe that never made it to the blog yet. |
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| More beef ribs. I love beef ribs. |
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| Bourbon and guns don't mix! PSA :) |
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| ABT's and turtle eggs on the smoker. |
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| Favorite local food truck. |
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| My white board in the kitchen. I keep my notes here as I develop recipes and smoke meats. |
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| Cooking on both Eggs. |
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| A butt and chub of bologna smoking. |
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| Pit Barrel Cooker freshly unpacked in the garage. |
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| Turkey on the Pit Barrel Cooker |















































