Whole Lamb BBQ
   Holy Grail. Mount Everest. Superbowl. There are many metaphors that pitmasters use to describe cooking a whole animal.  The challenge of cooking a large carcass is the pinnacle...
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Kentucky Style Lamb BBQ
I don’t have many “Top Secret” recipes but this Kentucky Style Lamb BBQ is one of them. For the longest time, I had a fantasy that maybe, just maybe one...
Smoked Chicken with Alabama White Sauce
If you asked any of my friends or family to describe me with one word, they would probably say BBQ. Cooking and eating BBQ are two of my favorite things....
Sweet and Spicy Smoked Wings
I was a picky eater growing up. However, I LOVED me some BBQ. There was a local bbq shack that my family ate at pretty frequently. It was a stereotypical...
How to make Beef Ribs
When I was growing up Saturday morning cartoons were easily the highlight of my week. Scooby-Doo, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, they all started my weekend off on the right...
Spatchcock chicken
I’m not an overly organized person and my shopping list reflects that. I rarely go to the market with a recipe in mind. I simply throw cuts in the basket...
Smoked Turkey
As a kid, I hated the holidays. I was a picky eater, and my family members weren’t the best cooks when it came to meat. Most proteins were tortured to...
Homemade Bacon : Part 2 The Smoke
At the end of Part 1 we made sure we had our salt levels where we want them and our belly had dried uncovered in the fridge over night. Â Now...
Homemade Bacon : Part 1 The Cure
If bacon had it’s own Twitter account it would have more followers than Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, and Barack Obama combined. Everyone loves those slabs of salty goodness. Even those...
St. Louis spare ribs
For the first entry on ilovemeat.com I knew I wanted a real softball of a dish. Loft it up and hit it out of the park. Something barbecued was the...