Who are those guys? Competition BBQ Team: February 2008

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2008 Season

04/18/08
Pork in the Park
Salisbury, MD
83 Teams
49th chicken
22nd ribs
4th place pork
36th brisket
11th perdue chicken
46th anything butt
16th overall

05/16/08
Chesapeake Jubilee BBQ
Chesapeake, VA
29 teams
8th place chicken
28th ribs
20th pork
4th brisket
19th anything butt
14th overall

06/06/08
Beltway BBQ Showdown
Landover, MD
29 teams
17th chicken
16th ribs
4th pork
8th brisket
11th overall

07/25/08
Chesapeake Bay BBQ
Stevensville, MD
29 teams
2nd seafood
8th chicken
8th ribs
10th brisket
14th pork
6th overall

8/8/08
Bel Air BBQ Bash
Bel Air, MD
51 teams
40th chicken
15th ribs
5th pork
19th brisket
14th overall

08/22/08
New Holland Summerfest
New Holland, PA
71 teams
22nd chicken
1st ribs
24th pork
5th brisket
14th sausage
36th chefs choice
2nd overall

10/17/08
Diamond State BBQ Contest
Dover, DL
78 teams
13th chicken
14th ribs
14th pork
3rd brisket
2nd overall

2009 Results

April 17-18 2009
Pork in the Park
Salisbury, MD
http://www.porkinthepark.org/
92 teams
21st chicken
26th ribs
14th pork
3rd brisket
43rd anything butt
7th desert
5th overall

May 15-16 2009
Smoke in the Valley
Green Lane, PA
28 teams
7th chicken
6th ribs
7th pork
10th brisket
2nd overall

June 13-14 2009
Beltway BBQ Showdown
Upper Marlboro, MD
47 teams
4th place chicken
5th place pork ribs
15th place pork
9th place brisket
4th overall

August 14-15 2009
Bel Air BBQ Bash
Bel Air, MD
52 teams
9th place chicken
15th place pork ribs
15th place pork
13th brisket
7th place overall

August 28-29 2009
New Holland Summer Fest
New Holland, PA
72 teams
1st place chicken
67th place ribs
51st place pork
20th place brisket
3rd sausage
18th place chefs choice
31st place overall

October 2-3 2009
Keystone BBQ Classic
Harrisburg PA
20 teams
5th place chicken
2nd place ribs
2nd place pork
3rd place brisket
5th place seltzers bologna
1st place overall- Grand Champions

October 16-17 2009
Diamond State BBQ
Dover , DL
81 teams
44th place chicken
14th place pork ribs
22nd place pork
14th place brisket
16th place overall

about me

Someone asked me when my interest in cooking began. As I think back and ponder the question, I think I can attribute much of my early interest in my time spent with the Boy Scouts. The troop that I was a member of was a very loose run operation. The leaders let the scouts handle much of the planning for our weekend camping excursions.

Individual patrols, lead by a patrol leader, (an older scout), would be in charge of planning the menu and assuring that the groceries were purchased for the trip. As you can imagine, there was many meals of hot dogs, cold cereal and Dinty Moore beef stew. If the patrol did not plan a meal or forgot to go to the store, they usually went hungry. In todays politically correct and litigation crazy world that we live in, our troop could not exist.

If you ask me, that is a shame, because it was a great climate for which to learn. Believe me, you did not forget a meal very often, if you did, you took what you had and made something. Today, the parents would complain to Boy Scout Headquarters and probably sue. The troop leaders would be charged with child abuse for letting a child go hungry, it would be on the evening news. A shame.

I recall having a can of Dinty Moore for the umpteenth meal and looking over at the Senior Patrol. This was the group of the most senior scouts in the troop. They would be dining on hamburgers, corn on the cob, and campfire baked apples. I said right then, there must be a better way, and my interest in cooking was born.

I think this experience also helped with my organizational skills. When the time arrived that I became a patrol leader, I plotted out menus and made sure the items were purchased so that we would not end up eating from a can. It was a great learning experience.

My mother and Grandmother were very good cooks and the time that I spent with them in the family kitchen was another influence on my culinary interests. I remember after I moved into my own place calling my mother at least once a week to ask how to prepare a meal.

Much of my recent interest in cooking and BBQ is chronicled in the pages of my blog. I am a beginning BBQ cook and do not profess to be an expert. I am new to the KCBS circuit and am only telling the story of my limited experience on the BBQ trail. I have cooked and eaten a lot of good and bad food over the years, and believe me, I can still screw up a meal with the best of them. I am like the character in the Rodney Dangerfield movie “Easy Money”, just a regular guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fScy9BgPEs
A regular guy that likes to cook, unfortunately for my waistline, I also like to eat.

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