Friday Night Food Porn

Grilled Bananas


This Saturday Kris and I will be attending The NewEGGlandfest in Brentwood, NH. This event is geared for people who own, or cook on a Big Green Egg. We don't own one but I'm pretty sure its going to be about 200 people hanging around cooking, and talking BBQ. Yeah, we're there. Lots of friends from The Circuit will be there too, so it will be a great time to hang out without the stress of a competition. That was the plan anyway. But, one of those friends, Eric Mitchell, from Yabba Dabba Que, talked us into cooking this Saturday. I looked at the list of people going and what they planned on cooking. I noticed lots of meat and a few different sides; I can't wait to try everything. I also noticed no one was cooking a dessert (at least none were listed). So, that made our decision on what to cook real easy. Kris' grilled bananas. She came up with this recipe for the Rock 'N Ribfest in 2007 and took 1st place with it. Back then we cooked it for six judges...tomorrow we cook it for 200 people. Like I said...no stress :)

Try This Beer

Chimay Grande Reserve


People always ask me 'Mike, what's your favorite beer?' My answer usually takes about ten minutes, and I list about 15 beers. Not exactly what they wanted to know. When I'm done talking most people have a glazed over look in their eyes and they walk away from me. If people would just ask me 'Mike, what's your favorite style of beer?' That I could answer in about one minute. Belgian style. Belgium is home to more styles and varieties of beer than any other country in the world! So to be more specific I should say Belgian Strong, Belgian Triple, Belgian Abbey, or Belgian Trappist are some of my favorite styles of beers. See, I still can't pick just one!

Chimay Grande Reserve, or Chimay Bleue as its known, falls into the category as a Belgian Trappist beer. Trappist means the beer must be brewed by monks, and under strict conditions at one of the six monasteries in Belgium. The aroma of this beer hits me with lots of yeast. The first sip is very warming, due to the 9% alcohol. Then the roasted grains and slight caramel flavors stay on the palate until the next sip. It's just a perfect example of this style of beer. The benchmark in my opinion.

Rock 'n Ribfest Results

GC - I Smell Smoke!!!
RGC - Lakeside Smokers
3 - iQue
4 - Transformer BBQ
5 - ShareOurStrengthCharity

Chicken
1 - Sexy Gino's Bare Ass BBQ
2 - Transformer BBQ
3 - iQue
4 - I Smell Smoke!!!
5 - Q-Less

Ribs
1 - Lakeside Smokers
2 - Traveling Grillberries
3 - Purple Turtle Catering
4 - Yabba Dabba Que
5 - Q-Less

Pork
1 - I Smell Smoke!!!
2 - Black Sheep BBQ
3 - Transformer BBQ
4 - BS BBQ
5 - The Anchormen

Brisket
1 - iQue
2 - I Smell Smoke!!!
3 - Lakeside Smokers
4 - Two Fat Polocks
5 - ShareOurStrenthCharity

Friday Night Food Porn

Pan Seared Lamb Chops With an Herb Infused Reduction

Maggie and Priscilla

Peter's Pond Results

Overall

GC - I Smell Smoke!!!

RGC – Lakeside Smokers

3 – Eatin’ Smoke

4 – Porky’s Butt Burners

5 – Lunchmeat

Chicken

1 – I Smell Smoke!!!

2 – Smoke ’em if Ya Gott’em

3 – Eatin’ Smoke

4 – BS BBQ

5 – The Pokey Smokers

Ribs

1 – Porky’s Butt Burners

2 – Eatin’ Smoke

3 – Lakeside Smokers

4 – Que-Ball

5 – Lunchmeat

Pork

1 – I Smell Smoke!!!

2 – Lunchmeat

3 – Casual Smokers

4 – Lakeside Smokers

5 – Yabba Dabba Que

Brisket

1 – I Smell Smoke!!!

2 – The Pokey Smokers

3 – Lakeside Smokers

4 – Eatin’ Smoke

5 – Smoke ‘em if Ya Got ‘em

Shellfish

1 – Lakeside Smokers

2 – Purple Turtle Catering

3 – Eatin’ Smoke

4 – Uncle Jed’s BBQ

5 – Que-Ball

Friday Morning Food Porn

Pulled Pork Sandwich


We are leaving for Peter's Pond this morning so I will not be able to make a Friday Night Food Porn post. However, I found some time this morning to make a quick post. Since we're heading to a BBQ comp, and BBQ is all that I can seem to focus on lately, I figured a pulled pork sandwich was a good choice. The pork is on a simple slaw and served with Kris' balsamic dressed pasta salad.