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…
On the west side of Interstate 35E on the south side of Dallas, there is a great East Texas barbecue joint. Smokey Joe's BBQ is an institution in this part of Dallas. They've been here since 1985, when they converted an old gas station into the restaurant and built the original brick pit. Just recently …
Over a year ago I came up with a wacky contraption that leveraged the smoke generated by my Traeger pellet grill to cold smoke cheese, bacon, etc. Since that time I spent a fair bit of time and discussion with good friends about ways to better dissipate the heat generated by the smoker, and thus …
Only about a mile from "The Original" Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse, and maybe two miles from Dallas Love Field, sits a classic Dallas-area barbecue joint called Big Al's Smokehouse BBQ. They've been there smoking meat over hickory wood since 1974. Given that history, and given some of their brisket cooking adjustments that Daniel Vaughn reported on …
Smoked Food Addict 