Thu Sep 2, 2010

Famous Dave's Texas Pit BBQ Sauce

Famous Dave's Texas Pit BBQ Sauce

Sauce Stats

Name
Texas Pit
Produced by
Famous Dave's
Ingredients
Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Tomato Paste, Distilled Vinegar, Sugar, Mustard, Worcestershire Sauce Concentrate, Salt, Spices, Modified Food Starch, Paprika, Chili Peppers, Dehydrated Onion, Lemon Juice Powder, Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sobrate, Citric Acid, Dehydrated Garlic, Xanthan Gum, Caramel Color
Color
Opaque orange-red
Meatwave Rating
3
out of 10
Only in a Pinch
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Tue Aug 31, 2010

The Meat Also Rises

The Meat Also Rises

Despite a distaste for making bread, my pursuits of grilling bread tend to be at least marginally successful. So I thought a Meatwave revolving around grilled bread would equal some good times and good eats.

When considering what type of meats to fill this bread, I came the the decision that an all out Greek feast would fit the bill quite nicely. I started researching how to make those soft pocketless Greek pitas, but the more I read, the more it sounded like they really needed to be made in the oven to get the correct consistency. Already excited about a menu of souvlaki, bifteki, and gyros, I decided to ditch the bread making and side with the meat—purchasing pitas to be filled an array of delicious grilled meats.

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Wed Aug 25, 2010

Frustration, Torment, and Pocket Pitas

Pocket Pitas

Grrrrrrr. Just thinking of working with dough elicits a deep visceral reaction of frustration and torment—"grrrrr" being one of the kinder phrases that comes to mind when trying to describe that feeling. I love bread, and so wish it came to me as naturally as working with meat. Why is proofing such a mystery, while seasoning so simple? Why is rising such a nail-bitter, while marinating is a walk in the park? Why is baking so perilous, while grilling so care free? All of those feelings should keep me a good distance away from any bread-making endeavors, but some perverse force seems to pull me into doughy situations that often result in the free flinging of expletives that, every once in a while, actually end with something that was worth the suffering, like these grilled pocket pitas.

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Thu Aug 19, 2010

Sauced: Bone Suckin' Sauce

Bone Suckin' Sauce

Sauce Stats

Name
Bone Suckin' Sauce
Produced by
Bone Suckin' Sauce
Cost
Ingredients
Tomato Paste, Apple Cider Vinegar, Honey, Molasses, Mustard, Horseradish, Lemon Juice, Onions, Garlic, Peppers, Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor, Natural Spices, Salt & Xanthan Gum
Color
Transparent light red
Meatwave Rating
9
out of 10
Doesn't Get Much Better Than This
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Tue Aug 17, 2010

Fried: Hush, Puppy

Carne-val

With all this North Carolina talk going on around these parts, it'd be a disservice not to have sides with that, and when I think North Carolina barbecue, hush puppies are right up there with slaw as a must have on each plate. As a kid growing up in suburban Virginia, hush puppies were exclusively found in seafood establishments, and were the only redeeming part of them in my mind. This led me to think of hush puppies as lone wolves—the only thing edible from our otherwise horrendous outings to Red Lobster and Long John Silver's. It wasn't until I had them next to some chopped pork that they were reinvented in my mind as one of the greatest barbecue sides out there.

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