

The McHopSmokeFire Burger
My eldest son, Raff, asked me the other day for a McDonald's (who hasn't actually had one yet, not out of principal, but he just hasn't)....


A Day Helping Tom Bray from Country Fire Kitchen
I spent today helping Tom Bray, the man at Country Fire Kitchen and Argentinian Cross, catering for an event of 160 people. Lamb was the...


Cherry Smoked Duck a l'Orange and Ember Roasted Vegetables
The basis for this meal was that I still haven't tried all of the Don Marco's rubs sent to me by Mac's BBQ, and I had some duck breast. ...


Planked Salmon With Dirty Vegetables.
My wife was away tonight, so I didn't think I'd be able to do dinner on the barbecue, what with the kids' dinner, bath, bedtime and lunch...


The Dirty Scotch Egg Meaten-Moinkburg...or something.
I did a barbecue last weekend for some family and visiting relatives from Texas, so there was little point trying to impress them with...


Smoked, parsley stuffed ham..a bit like stuffed chine.
My grandparents hail from the oft-passed less-stopped county of Lincolnshire. It's the second largest but least populated county in the...


Easter Lamb...BBQ food the way the UK does it.
As my Aunt-in-law (if that is such a term) invited us over for Easter Sunday I had to get my Easter cook in on Saturday. I started with...


The scotch eggs-periment.
I'd seen various scotch eggs being done well in various places including Country Wood Smoke (original and with the black pudding), The...


Learning to Barbecue, the Bunch of Swines way.
This weekend I was taken on an intense, smoke-fuelled journey of barbecue learning by Ed and Emma from the Bunch of Swines competition...


Barbecue Dino Turds...yes this is a thing...and yes it is epic!
I decided to take the opportunity to barbecue some vegetarian food. A pepper, some cream cheese, red leicester, chives and seasoning. ...