Cityhouse 2 year anniversary

Last night I went to the Cityhouse 2 year anniversary party. It was a great time. All of the Nashville Food Mafia was there...Jason McConnell, Pat Martin, Tyler Brown, Carey Bringle, Hal Holden Bache, Thomas Williams and of course Tandy Wilson, Owner and Chef. There were also several other great food faces there as well Drew from Park Cafe, Clayton from the Hermitage and too many others to mention. Check out the video....




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Smoke Like a Pro

It is about time for Christmas and the Only gift to give someone this year is the Peg Leg Porker Smoke Like a Pro kit. It has everything that you need to cook championship BBQ in your own back yard. A must for the aspiring Pit Master in your life. Check out my new commercial....



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This is Hillarious...Pat Martin and Peg Leg Porker

I went over to my buddy Pat Martin's one night and he was being interviewed by the newspaper while he was cooking a hog for the Belle Meade Plantation. This was the scene as his hog was being photographed......I thought I was going to crap my pants I was laughing so hard.




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Nashville Bacon Takedown 2009

Two weeks ago, Dudney and I competed in Nashville's first Bacon Takedown. We had a great time and Matt Timms did a great job with the event. Here is an interview with Matt about the event and his other chili takedown events.




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Music City BBQ Festival

We had a great time this last weekend at the Music City BBQ Festival. The organizers did a great job and we took home a 4th place ribs and #1 Nashville team in the MBN categories. We will definitely be back next year....Check out this video of our team.




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Big Apple BBQ from Alwayshungry.com

Here is a great clip from the boys at AlwaysHungry.com. They came by the Martin's BBQ booth and interviewed us about cooking whole hog. This clip also features two other great guys, Kenny Callahan and Chris Lilly.




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Big Apple BBQ and Block Party 2009

In June 2009, my friend and one of our Peg Leg Porker team members, Pat Martin, invited me to help him cook at the Big Apple BBQ and Block Party in NYC. We had a blast. Pat owns Martin's BBQ joint in Nolensville, TN and was asked to be one of this year's pitmasters for the event.

Robbie Lunday, Mitch and Chad Gallant and John Alderson were other Peg Leg Porkers that were there. Here is a video montage of the event.




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Rockin the Beer Gut

You gotta love this song.....It's my pick of the week.






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Smoker Build Video #8

Well, We finished the smoker and I forgot to film while I was cooking on it. I have used it several times. This video explains some of the things that I would do differently next time and answers some questions.



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A whole lotta BBQ stuff

Well, I have had a busy few months. We build two new cookers, one exploded at Memphis in May. We competed in Memphis in May. I released a new product, Smoke Like a Pro. I went on QVC. And this week, I am heading to the Big Apple BBQ with my good friend Pat Martin.

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I tried to post a video of the highlights of Memphis in May but it was too long. I am going to have to split it into two segments. I will try to do that tonight.

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Martin's BBQ

I would like to congratulate my good friend and Peg Leg Porker Team Member, Pat Martin for making Bon Appetit's top 10 new BBQ restaurant list in the July BBQ issue.


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Demolition of the old smoker

Well as many of you know, I burt down our old smoker last year. That is one reason I have been building a new smoker. Well, Memphis in May is fast approaching and so we have to demo the old smoker and get it off the trailer. It was sad to see her go.

That cooker was made from the old refridgerator of the place my friends and I grew up drinking in "The End Zone" RIP to the Smoker and the Bar



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Video Number 6 of the new smoker build

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Refridgerator Smoker Video Number 5

We got the firebox finished and just have a little more to go. Hopefully we will finish this week.





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Smoker Number 2

Well,
We are still working on the refridgerator smoker and should get more done this weekend. Hopefully I will post Video 5 by Sunday. In the mean time, I have another large cabinet in my driveway to make a smoker out of. It is actually an old Vulcan 4 Door warmer. I took the back doors off and will be putting it on a platform so basically it will be like the one we are building now. The difference in this smoker will be that I am going to have my metal fabricator do it. I took him plans today and so hopefully he will be able to get started in the next few days. Because I am paying them to do the work, hopefully they can complete it in about a week. I will post pictures when we are done.

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Building the New Smoker Part 4

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Building the new Smoker Part 3

Well, yesterday we worked on the new smoker again. It is coming along and I hope that we can have it finished in just a few more weeks. Dave Johnson, Steve Dresch , Patrick Julian and I had a few beers and got just a little further on the firebox.

Thanks to everyone who has watched and given me feedback. I know that I have always appreciated when others have posted pictures or videos of building smokers before. I have seen several good picture libraries for building gravity fed smokers.

I have some exciting news coming in the next few months so stay tuned....

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Building a new smoker part 2

This is part 2 of the making of our new smoker.

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Building a New Smoker Part 1

In my opinion, the best pitmasters can build a pit or at least tell someone how they want one built. That doesn't mean you have to be able to weld or need to be a mason. It means that you understand that a pit can be as simple as a stack of cinder blocks and a grate; it can be as beautiful as a brick pit; it can be an offset horizontal smoker or it can be a vertical or gravity fed smoker. Some pits are open, others are not. Some utilize temperature control units, some do not. In order to truly understand the art of true BBQ, you need to understand what makes these pits different and the qualities that each have.....good and bad. Over the years, I have had a chance to use and build many pits. I am always finding new qualities that I like about each different design. We are about to build two new vertical pits and then a new brick pit. I like em all and just can't seem to get enough.

As I mentioned, we are in the process of building a new vertical smoker from an old stainless steel refrigerator body. Here is the first video in a series of videos showing you how we will build it. Enjoy.....

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Porker Down

Well, it has been too long since my last post. A lot has happened and I hope to post more regularly these days. Since my last posting, I attended the Annual Symposium for the Southern Foodways Alliance in Oxford, MS. What a blast! I was invited as a guest of Nick Pihakis, owner of Jim and Nick's BBQ. My close friend, and fellow pitmaster, Pat Martin and I both went with Nick and several folks from the Jim N Nicks organization. We met some great chefs, foodies, writers and generally had a blast. Pat and Nick are both fun to travel with.

I ended up joining the SFA and attended another function last weekend at Blackberry Farms in East Tennessee. Pat, Nick, Dan Latham and I, once again, had a blast. But this time as I was about to leave, it happened.........Porker Down!

As you know if you read this blog, I have one leg. I don't wear my prosthesis in the shower so I generally hop. I am pretty used to it at home and have regular places that I hold to get in and out of the tub. Sunday morning, however, I was in an unfamiliar place in the cabin that we were renting. The threshold was low so I thought, no big deal. I can hop this with my eyes closed, after all, I had done it Saturday morning. The problem.......very slick shower pan. As I hopped into the shower, I felt my foot slide. It was quick and it was painful. I landed dead on the end of my cut off leg......$#&%. I think I saw Elvis..... He was right there sitting on the toilet laughing at me with that lip quivering. I have a full Femur on that leg and landed square on the end. If I were driving a nail, I would have sunk it with one swing of my stump hammer.

I managed to get home but not without a great deal of pain and suffering. Once home, I realized that I would not be able to wear my prosthesis for several days. After much coaxing from my wife and mother, I went to the orthopedic surgeon to get some Xrays. It turns out that I fractured my femur in two spots. One fracture on the end and one straight up the femur about 4 inches. Needless to say, I am still down after a week of leglessness but hope to get back on two feet in the next few days.

I will post again this week and have a new product and website coming out. Stay Tuned for more details.

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