BBQ

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Discuss your favorite dishes, places, recipes, techniques etc.

I can’t use a grill on my balcony so I have to order out. Out here in DC you might think it impossible. Not so. We got some good ole boys doing their BBQ southern style around these parts.

There are a couple of chains around here, Famous Daves, Red Hot & Blue, which I don’t really find special. I think Ruby Tuesday’s babybacks are better.

Two local spots I’ve tried are Old Glory in Georgetown and Capital Q in Chinatown. Don’t bother with Old Glory. It may smell good outside, but everything is really bland and they do the multiple sauces from different area bottles on the table.

Capital Q however... small joint, no waiteresses, Texas BBQ, walk up get your order... I’m settling into a beef brisket slathered with spicy hot bbq sauce and baked bean buzz right now. I’ve had their pulled beef sandwich with the spicy hot, and the roll they put it on gets soaked soggy with beef juices and that bbq sauce... mmm.

They have a picture of Bush up on the wall, but otherwise...

All is right in the world.

[Edited on 11-5-2005 by Backlash]

[Brattt8525]

Oh Red Hot and Blue is awesome, love the pull dishes. I love to make a brisket with spices I get from Pendry's let them absorb for 24 hours in the fridge then smack it in the oven for 12 hours on 200. Yummy

[peam]

The girl and I went to a place called Pierce's in Williamsburg tonight.

It was freakin' delicious.

http://www.pierces.com/

[Edited on 11-6-2005 by emperor peam]

[Mistomeer]

You poor, deprived souls.

[Bobmuhthol]

It's not BBQ if it's not Big Buffalo QChicken.

[Gan]

Goode Co. BBQ in Houston is absolutely the best Texas style BBQ. Then you have Pappas Bros., Old Hickory Inn, and Luthers.

Living in Colorado for a year helped me realise that there are other styles of BBQ, but no match for Texas. KC style with different variants of sauces ranging from sweet to hot... and rubbed/dry rub style from the southeast. Interesting none the less, but Texas is where the heart rests when it comes to BBQ for me.

Give me a big plate of brisket (crispy end pieces too plz), some links, texas toast (jalapeno bread style) with some spicy rice with sausage in it and some baked beans. Add 10/15 onions, some dill pickle slices, and plenty of dark sauce and a huge glass of sweet tea. If thats not enough then you can always add a second plate of beer can chicken (Lone Star of course) and some potato salad. mmm,mmm,mmmmmm.

Try visiting the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo BBQ cookoff, where its a week long contest to see who can make the best BBQ from finalists of regional contests held all throughout Texas. The BBQ is excellent and the week long party is also worth a visit.

[Brattt8525]

Yes Texas is indeed the place for BBQ hands down. I love Pendry's for the rubs they have, nice little shop in FW and luckily they have a website because i hate the drive there.

[Hips]

You people are making me crave BBQ ribs. :(

[Jazuela]

Real barbequed steak:

Use a real grill, with real-wood charcoal (not briquettes) that require the use of a match and charcoal lighter fluid. Gas, kerosene, or electric don't count, and don't do justice to a proper steak.

Brush a rib-eye with olive oil. Rub in a couple pinches oregano, black pepper, red pepper, crushed garlic on both sides.

Toss on the grill while the coals are still fiery, just before the fire dies out and the coals are white-outside red-inside. Flip it over after you've seared the surface of the other side. By now the fire should be out, and the coals should be ready to cook.

Let the meat grill for around 5 minutes. Flip a second time, let it cook another couple of minutes.

Serve with grilled corn (smeared with butter and rolled up in tin foil, which has grilled 10 minutes every quarter-turn). You might have to put the steak on a warming plate until the corn's done, or have two piles of coal in your grill, so you can start the corn-side early and do the steak-side on the last turn of the corn.

[peam]

OMG GUYS SHE'S A BBQ QUEEN TOO!!!

[Jazuela]

We call it "reading the cooking directions on the package" in my country. Amazing how that works, huh?

:)

[Jolena]

Although I completely agree that TX has some of the best BBQ EVAR, however KC has the best hands down for me on BBQ joints. My family and I have been steadfast customers of a few joints there that most of the presidents and several celebrities have visited as well as they've been featured on several Food Network type specials. Yum Yum. (Gaines is one of them)

[Jorddyn]

Originally posted by Jolena
(Gaines is one of them)

Are you sure that's not Gates?

32nd and Main (There were a few - that's the one I frequented). Ugly neighborhood, great food.

Jorddyn

[Tromp]

Bistecca Toscana

Porthouse at least 1 inch thick. Drizzle good olive oil over it with good salt and fresh ground pepper.

Get your charcoal red hot (no gas) and cook for 8 minutes on one side and 7 minutes on the other for a perfect medium rare (anything else is criminal). Take off the fire. Squeeze 1/4 lemon on the steak to halt the cooking process and drizzle with top notch EVOO. Put salt and pepper on the table for others to add if needed.

You will thank me for this one if done right. Simple but so perfect. I like to serve with steamed rice and grilled asparagus.

<edited to change my extra virgin olive oil from OVOO to EVOO>

[Edited on 11-7-2005 by Tromp]

[Sean of the Thread]

Grilled asparagus after sitting in oil and red wine in the fridge for a bit. MMMMmmmm. fuck now I'm hungry.

[Terminator X]

The southern hemisphere of Nassau county is not known for its BBQ. Poo :bye:

- The Termite

[xtc]

and people wonder why America is the fattest nation on earth...lol

Seriously I do love BBQ but I don't have time to use wood charcoal. I use a Gas BBQ which I know is sacrilegious in parts of the US.

[Edited on 11-7-2005 by xtc]

[Daniel]

I just broil shit in my electric oven.

[Tromp]

Originally posted by Daniel
I just broil shit in my electric oven.

That sounds as about as appealing as that sentence reads.

$50 buy a Weber grill and a bag of charcoal!