The Best is Yet to Come

This past Sunday Hiroshi, The Wife, and I catered a party for 80+ people in Brooklyn. It was a birthday party for my cousin who is fighting Cervical Cancer. Friday was her birthday, and Monday she went back into the hospital for another 4-day Chemo treatment. We were happy to donate our time for her. She's a great kid and a cool musician, as well.

Large Marge had just gotten all her repairs done and she was ready to cook and smoke again. This was a great opportunity to see what she could do because we had a wide array of items to cook-- Salmon steaks, Spareribs, Babyback ribs, Beef ribs, white + dark meat chicken, baked beans, grilled vegetables, hamburgers and hotdogs.

It was great to have the grill fired up to have the option to finish the chicken and salmon with a glaze of sauce over higher heat while we were grilling the vegetables, hotdogs and hamburgers.

While we were cooking a few people tried to buy food from us, which was a great compliment (it really did smell great out there!). We also had a few people ask for business cards or just stop to ogle the bbq pit. It was cold, but the whole experience warmed our hearts.

Here are a few pictures-- didn't have time to get many.

Getting set up and warming up the pit:


Working on some vegetables while the grill heats up:


Cooking dogs and finishing some chicken:


UPDATE @ (1:10pm):
My man Hiroshi has some awesome cell phone pics from Sunday up on his brand swanky new blog, On The D/L so click anywhere on this text to stop by and see him. Tell him we said hi!

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Where Do The Children Play?: BBQ Plans and whatnot

Hello friends and readers-- here's another quick and brief update. I promise a more fullerer update to come soon with pictures and some "how to" information on how we made our smoke dried apple slices and stuff, but this week is super busy. Work has had my attention-- 9-5 work, ya know.

We have a birthday to cook for in Brooklyn this upcoming weekend, and Large Marge is in today to have repairs done on her trailer. Her coupler and jack were wounded after the Paul Kirk class in a gruesome jacknifing incident. For those that don't remember her, here's Marge in a svelt moment in the sun.
I miss cooking on Marge. Wubby usually gets all the attention. Marge only gets to eat fire when we need to cook food for a really big crowd-- 75 to 100 people or more. She's really a great cooker and I've barely gotten to know her, so I'm looking forward to giving her another chance to shine this weekend.

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