This site is dedicated to sharing my experiences with food of all sorts, but especially smoked foods. There may be a heavy emphasis on my favorite, Texas Barbecue…
Probably not surprisingly, I'm not a big fan of chain BBQ joints. Typically they are too commercial and just don't produce high-quality flavorful smoked meat. Happily, however, I recently found an exception. And I hope it wasn't a one-time thing. A close relative works at Spring Creek Barbecue - so we had to visit. They …
I recently took a short road trip from south Tomball up to Egypt (yes, there really is a place named Egypt in Montgomery County south of Conroe and not far from Magnolia). My destination was a little roadside BBQ trailer that's been there for last 3 years or so, called D's Farm Road BBQ. The farm …
A couple weeks ago I finally got some time to do a spatchcocked chicken on my Traeger Texas Elite 34 pellet grill. I'm fortunate to get my chickens from the daughter of some good friends, who raises them for high school FFA. So they are really big, fat, raised without hormones, etc., and thus so …
Tejas Chocolate & Barbecue is really bringing a strong house-made sausage game! Very few barbecue places in Houston make their own sausage. And I think Tejas has nailed it. For years they have been serving a really nice jalapeno & cheddar sausage from Ruffino Meats in Bryan. They are now switching off of that delicious link …
Rackshack BBQ & Wings is a little strip mall BBQ shop in north Houston, at Spears Rd and TC Jester, not too far from the Greenspoint area (there was a previous bbq joint there called Sweet Sadie's BBQ. They are closed now, obviously.). I went there recently to see how their barbecue stacked up. I tried …
Xiaolongbao, or pork soup dumplings, are so delicious it's almost crazy!! I was first introduced to xiaolongbao on my first trip to Taiwan many years ago. We went to the preeminent chain restaurant for these kinds of dumplings, Din Tai Fung, in the shopping area at the base of the building that one point in …
Sometimes it is fun to enjoy some well-smoked meat but without a huge time commitment. That's what I needed a weekend or two ago. So I just grabbed a pork tenderloin (not to be confused with a pork loin). I covered it with a slather of extra virgin olive oil, fresh minced garlic, fresh chopped …
I was introduced to Allsup's burritos by my brother-in-law a couple decades ago when visiting my in-laws in southeastern New Mexico. Allsup's Convenience Stores is headquartered not far where my in-laws lived at the time. We slipped away for a few minutes, where he shared the magical, mystical, miraculous power of the Allsup's burrito. I …
It's been a few years now, but my last visit to City Market in downtown Luling, Texas was pretty enjoyable. A small group of us from two different companies were on a roadtrip from Houston to visit a key customer in San Antonio. Two of our travel companions were from out of town - way …
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