tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167391286990069132024-03-13T07:17:50.942-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Blog - Award Winning BBQ Sauce & Dry RubWhatever your political party, we can all agree on the value of great barbecue. We hope our products bring bipartisan flavor to your meals! Please try our Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce and All American Spice Rub!Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-6676284911854842122011-02-12T17:50:00.000-08:002011-02-12T17:51:39.805-08:00http://www.BBQBackyard.comBe sure to visit <a href="http://www.BBQBackyard.com">http://www.BBQBackyard.com</a> for all things bbq, barbeque recipes, tailgating and competition bbq.PorkBarrelBBQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15544115569929021889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-17468259848643259412009-10-27T11:04:00.000-07:002009-10-27T11:05:27.053-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Blog Has Moved to Its New Home - http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/blog/The Pork Barrel BBQ Blog Has Moved to Its New Home - please visit us at <a href="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/blog/">http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/blog/</a>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-74876394236906138662009-10-21T08:05:00.000-07:002009-10-21T08:28:43.205-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Shark Tank Follow-up<div>Pork Barrel BBQ was featured last night on ABC's Shark Tank - click on the video below to watch the clip!</div><div><br /></div><div><object width="410" height="237"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/uD8h2-jQImNLZZJQOvvr-A/837/939/i918"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/uD8h2-jQImNLZZJQOvvr-A/837/939/i930" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="410" height="237"></embed></object></div>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-43245853983176498092009-10-20T15:00:00.000-07:002009-10-20T14:32:02.926-07:00Welcome Shark Tank Visitors!<div style="text-align: left;">Welcome Shark Tank visitors to the <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ</a> blog! Looking to buy our award winning <a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/pork-barrel-bbq-sauce.html">Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce</a> and <a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/all-american-spice-rub.html">All American Spice Rub</a>? Visit our online store at <a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/index.html">http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com</a>! Be sure sign up for our mailing list or check back often for updates on our <a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.blogspot.com/2009/08/pork-barrel-bbq-restaurant-coming-to.html">Pork Barrel BBQ Restaurant</a> coming Spring 2010! Also, please follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/porkbarrelbbq">Twitter</a> at <a href="http://twitter.com/porkbarrelbbq">http://twitter.com/porkbarrelbbq</a>. Thanks for your support!</div><div><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 345px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sq0CZMlhUkI/AAAAAAAAAXU/ZHjbXAmZZRM/s400/BBQ+Sauce+Award.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380959761676194370" /></div>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-60527648191847907042009-10-13T20:49:00.000-07:002009-10-13T21:05:22.671-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ at a Harris Teeter Near You!<div>Looking to try some Pork Barrel BBQ? We're coming to a local Harris Teeter near you! Harris Teeter has been a huge supporter of our business and has given us the chance to sample our products in their stores in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Its an amazing experience to walk into a Harris Teeter and get to see our products on their shelves, and even more fun when we get to sample our products for their customers. We are going to be in four Virginia stores this weekend, and many more to come in coming weeks! Here are some photos from our product demos over the past few weeks - thanks to Harris Teeter for this tremendous opportunity!</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKq3XH8sI/AAAAAAAAAHI/QWnGMGYjcY4/s1600-h/downsized_0926091528-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKq3XH8sI/AAAAAAAAAHI/QWnGMGYjcY4/s400/downsized_0926091528-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392298229121938114" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Brett, Bill Blackburn and Ali in Alexandria store!</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKqUqp_dI/AAAAAAAAAHA/GZZTI_-EYKs/s1600-h/downsized_0905091604.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKqUqp_dI/AAAAAAAAAHA/GZZTI_-EYKs/s400/downsized_0905091604.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392298219808619986" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Heath at our first demo in the Tysons Corner store</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKqGa_jCI/AAAAAAAAAG4/j3GjykHPPWI/s1600-h/downsized_0905091734.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKqGa_jCI/AAAAAAAAAG4/j3GjykHPPWI/s400/downsized_0905091734.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392298215984827426" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Heath getting our award winning products cooking!</div></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKpj--4sI/AAAAAAAAAGw/bpARqMG2c0A/s1600-h/downsized_0906091834.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKpj--4sI/AAAAAAAAAGw/bpARqMG2c0A/s400/downsized_0906091834.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392298206740538050" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Always have fun to have friends read our Tweets and come visit us in DC!</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKoyjIZiI/AAAAAAAAAGo/gL8gx-imba0/s1600-h/downsized_0906091855.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/StVKoyjIZiI/AAAAAAAAAGo/gL8gx-imba0/s400/downsized_0906091855.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392298193470383650" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Everyone likes to see the cool pig trophy!</div>PorkBarrelBBQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15544115569929021889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-45961737370059655612009-10-11T06:35:00.000-07:002009-10-11T06:47:28.560-07:00The Del Ray BBQ Boys Celebrate Their New Restaurant (and a food writer inadvertently becomes part of the story)<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 51); font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><div class="post-headline"><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; font-weight: normal; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-transform: capitalize; font-size:2.05em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 51); text-transform: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here's an amazing post by Jordan Wright over at <a href="http://whiskandquill.com/?p=1039">whiskandquill.com</a>!</span></span></span></h1></div><div class="post-bodycopy clearfix" style="min-width: 0px; display: block; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande', Geneva, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Del Ray BBQ Boys Celebrate Their New Restaurant </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande', Geneva, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(and a food writer inadvertently becomes part of the story)</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande', Geneva, sans-serif;"></span>Jordan Wright</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">Whisk and Quill - <a href="http://whiskandquill.com/?p=1039">http://whiskandquill.com/?p=1039</a></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">October 2009<br /><img src="http://whiskandquill.com/http://whiskandquill.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pork-mangomike-donna2.png" alt="Investor "Mango" Mike and wife Donna with their Pork Barrel BBQ bus - photo by Jordan Wright" title="Investor "Mango" Mike and wife Donna with their Pork Barrel BBQ bus - photo by Jordan Wright" width="312" height="324" class="size-full wp-image-1057" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; max-width: 96%; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; height: auto; " /><br />I arrived early on Mount Vernon Avenue in Del Ray last week. Brett Thompson and Heath Hall, creators and owners of Pork Barrel BBQ were setting up the tables, pitching the tent and catching up with old friends and supporters in anticipation of the day’s groundbreaking ceremony for their new restaurant venture. In July I wrote about the “Del Ray BBQ Boys”, as I had nicknamed them, for localkicks.com after meeting them and sampling their delicious wares at National Harbor’s Food and Wine Festival. NBC News Washington had picked up my story and it had skyrocketed to tens of thousands more “eyes” on it.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">Thompson walked over and said, “This restaurant is all because of you and your story about us. We want to thank you.”</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">Stunned, I stammered, “What are you talking about?”</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">“Well, “Mango” Mike read your story on us,” he revealed. (“Mango” Mike, of the eponymous restaurant on Duke Street.) “He googled it up and that’s how he found out about us and offered to back us in this restaurant.”</p><div id="attachment_1053" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; max-width: 96%; height: auto; display: block; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); padding-top: 4px; -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; width: 393px; "><img src="http://whiskandquill.com/http://whiskandquill.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pork-ribboncut.png" alt="cut the ribbon with Mayor Bill Euille (center) - Photo Credit Jordan Wright" title="Heath Hall and Brett Thompson cut the ribbon with Mayor Bill Euille (center) - Photo Credit Jordan Wright" width="383" height="267" class="size-full wp-image-1053" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-color: initial !important; max-width: 96%; height: auto; " /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-left: 4px; display: block; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">cut the ribbon with Mayor Bill Euille (center) - Photo Credit Jordan Wright</p></div><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; "></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">Of course it was also because back in September they had appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank series and considerably more people had come to know them and their story as former Hill staffers and Virginia-based entrepreneurs.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">I looked around at their dream come true. On hand were Alexandria’s Mayor, Bill Euille, Vice Mayor, Kerry Donnelly, Councilman Frank Fannon and Linda and Steve Hubbard, dressed in their UPS chocolate brown and gold uniforms, who own the fulfillment center, where over 1,000 bottles and jars of Pork Barrel BBQ’s fabulous sauce and rub are shipped to eager customers around the country. Everyone came ready to cheer on the boys. Restaurant backers “Mango” Mike and Bill Blackburn, arriving in their massive gold touring bus, were doing the meet-and-greet, while pork smokers wafted waves of heavenly barbecue aroma over the crowd of supporters who milled around with neighborhood business owners and Del Ray’s artsy crowd.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; "></p><div id="attachment_1044" class="wp-caption alignright" style="float: right; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; max-width: 96%; height: auto; display: block; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); padding-top: 4px; -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; width: 439px; "><img src="http://whiskandquill.com/http://whiskandquill.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bbq-boys.png" alt="Breaking ground in Del Ray with ABC's Shark Hunt film crew - photo by Jordan Wright" title="Breaking ground in Del Ray with ABC's Shark Hunt film crew - photo by Jordan Wright" width="429" height="317" class="size-full wp-image-1044" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-color: initial !important; max-width: 96%; height: auto; " /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-left: 4px; display: block; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Breaking ground in Del Ray with ABC's Shark Hunt film crew - photo by Jordan Wright</p></div>A couple of local newspaper publishers doing their own event coverage added to the eclectic local crowd along with a “P-O-R-K” fan club made up of four skinny half-naked pig-snouted students from Bishop Ireton High School, all eager to be in on the celebration and tasting. It was the usual set up for a groundbreaking. Golden shovels and giant scissors gleamed in the warm September sun.<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; "></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">But one thing was different…stunningly noticeably different…from any other ribbon cutting in any other town in North America, or the world for that matter.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">Because, for this small groundbreaking ceremony for two nice guys in business for less than a year, taking place in a small suburb of Alexandria, Virginia across from the local farmers market held on Saturday mornings in a dentist’s parking lot, Hollywood was on site to cover it. Big time!</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; ">ABC’s Shark Tank film crew had shown up full tilt with cameraman, soundman and microphones to record the event for a later show in the boys continuing success saga; and invitees, who knew about the planned coverage in advance, were checking out the action…playing it cool for the cameras.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; "></p><div id="attachment_1055" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; max-width: 96%; height: auto; display: block; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); padding-top: 4px; -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; width: 252px; "><img src="http://whiskandquill.com/http://whiskandquill.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pork-boys1.png" alt="Pork Barrel BBQ Fan Club chows down - Photo Credit Jordan Wright" title="Pork Barrel BBQ Fan Club chows down - Photo Credit Jordan Wright" width="242" height="258" class="size-full wp-image-1055" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-color: initial !important; max-width: 96%; height: auto; " /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-left: 4px; display: block; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 13px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Pork Barrel BBQ Fan Club chows down - Photo Credit Jordan Wright</p></div></div></span>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-46909772137708926922009-10-04T17:49:00.000-07:002009-10-11T06:30:13.802-07:00Photos of Pork Barrel BBQ on Fox and Friends!<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Things have been a bit busy at </span><a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Pork Barrel BBQ</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> - but under the better late than never approach, we wanted to share some photos of our adventure to New York with the awesome folks at </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/foxfriends/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Fox & Friends</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">!</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SslC6J_OTTI/AAAAAAAAAXw/TgpOYxWdJbY/s1600-h/Fox+%26+Friends+Group.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SslC6J_OTTI/AAAAAAAAAXw/TgpOYxWdJbY/s400/Fox+%26+Friends+Group.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388911996006452530" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Here's the Pork Barrel BBQ team (Mango Mike, Bill Blackburn, our incredible distributor <a href="http://www.ashmanco.com">Tim Ashman</a>, Brett and Heath) with <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/foxfriends/">Fox & Friends</a> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Alisyn Camerota, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Clayton Morris, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dave Briggs and Rick Reichmuth !</span></span></span></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SslCz7Az5YI/AAAAAAAAAXo/RY15sKUeNz4/s1600-h/Filming.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SslCz7Az5YI/AAAAAAAAAXo/RY15sKUeNz4/s400/Filming.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388911888907363714" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Here we are filming one of our segments - they are trying our award winning Pork Barrel BBQ!</span></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SslCuFBx8II/AAAAAAAAAXg/nTZ1K8c9dZM/s1600-h/Group.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SslCuFBx8II/AAAAAAAAAXg/nTZ1K8c9dZM/s400/Group.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388911788516569218" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We arrived at midnight the evening before filming to check out Times Square - here's the Pork Barrel BBQ Restaurant group - Brett, Bill, Heath (is that a Pat Green shirt?) and Mango Mike!</span></div>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-60254556944732369122009-09-24T07:55:00.001-07:002009-09-24T07:58:45.421-07:00Former Senate staffers launch barbecue company - TheHill.com<a href="http://thehill.com/capital-living/cover-stories/60083-former-senate-staffers-launch-barbecue-company">Former Senate staffers launch barbecue company - TheHill.com</a><br /><br /><strong>Former Senate staffers launch barbecue company<br /></strong><br />By Kris Kitto - 09/23/09 06:49 PM ET<br /><br />It was 1 o’clock in the morning, and Heath Hall and Brett Thompson were in Russell Senate Office Building Room 493, watching yet another debate over pork-barrel spending.<br /><br />All they could think about was barbecue from their home state of Missouri.<br /><br />Sadly, they were eating Armand’s pizza — again — one of the few late-night options on Capitol Hill. As the lawmakers droned on, Hall and Thompson lamented the limited barbecue offerings in Washington.<br /><br />It was then that the pie-in-the-sky idea hit them. Pork Barrel BBQ — that would be a good name for a barbecue company!<br /><br />Three years later, Hall and Thompson, both 35, have guided their fledgling company on a path neither one imagined on that seminal night. They have won prestigious taste awards and appeared on national television on account of their barbecue rub and sauce, and are poised to expand their sales and open a restaurant in Alexandria.<br /><br />The duo got perhaps their biggest boost earlier this month when they appeared on ABC’s new show “Shark Tank,” which puts entrepreneurs before a panel of potential investors. Pork Barrel BBQ came away with a $50,000 investment from New York real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran (though Hall’s ego may have taken a loss, as Corcoran prefaced her offer by telling him, “I can’t look at you without picturing you in a pig costume”).<br /><br />Hall and Thompson’s barbecue dream has meant spending hundreds of dollars of their own money to buy spices for flavor experimentation, pulling pork at 3 a.m. to prepare for event tastings and working grocery-store sample tables on holidays — all while holding down full-time jobs.<br /><br />“I cooked, I calculated, a half-ton of pork over the last two and half months,” said Thompson, sitting with Hall last week at an Alexandria coffee shop just steps from the site of the restaurant. The two were headed to New York shortly thereafter for an appearance on the Saturday edition of Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” morning show.<br /><br />Thompson was Sen. Jim Talent’s (R-Mo.) legislative director in the Senate, Hall a legislative assistant.<br /><br />But the two lost their Senate jobs when Talent was defeated in 2006. Thompson now works as a lobbyist at IGR Group, and Hall is a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation.<br /><br />Though the food industry provides an unlikely segue for departing congressional staffers, both Thompson and Hall have personal histories that give sense to their latest move.<br /><br />“I was the kid that had the lemonade stand that would stay out after dark for the extra $5,” Thompson said. He went on to start two other small companies — a cake business in college that catered to parents looking for something sweet to send their homesick co-eds, and a music recording company he started after college.<br /><br />Hall, meanwhile, has always loved food. He comes from a family that enjoys cooking, and he once had an idea for a restaurant in high school after burning a pot while making his famed queso dip.<br />“My mom said something like, ‘You’ve got to come clean this scorched pot — you guys did it,’ ” he recalled. “And I was like, ‘Oh, “Scorched Pot,” ’ ” — though that restaurant never<br />materialized.<br /><br />Despite Thompson’s early entrepreneurship and Hall’s gastronomical interests — he at one point considered culinary school — they both pursed politics.<br /><br />Thompson met Talent as a high school sophomore and shortly thereafter began volunteering on his first campaign for a House seat. He worked for Talent through college and law school. When his boss landed in the Senate in 2002, he followed.<br /><br />Hall interned for John Ashcroft, then a Missouri senator, while in college and returned to Washington after law school, at which time he also won a spot in Talent’s Senate office.<br /><br />The senator quickly caught on to Hall’s love of food. Hall is known to grow several varieties of tomatoes outside his Washington home, and Talent once e-mailed him during a plane trip over a South Iraq tomato field to tell him he’d found a place where Hall could work after the Senate.<br /><br />Once they left the Senate, they began experimenting with spice rubs, inviting friends over for their “Kitchen Cabinet” tastings.<br /><br />Former Rep. Max Sandlin (D-Texas), with whom Thompson now works at IGR, was one of the early fans.<br /><br />“I’m from Texas, and I know barbecue,” Sandlin said in a phone interview. “It’s like politics in this way: You need a good product, hard work and a little love — and I think they have all three.”<br /><br />Sandlin has shown up so frequently at Pork Barrel BBQ’s tastings that Hall and Thompson have begun to refer to him jokingly as their international chairman. Sandlin has also been sending the rubs and sauces as gifts to friends and family.<br /><br />Apparently Talent is a fan, too. On the Pork Barrel BBQ website, one customer testimonial reads, “I used the All American Spice Rub to grill chicken for my teenage daughters — they said it was the best chicken I have ever made — I’m a customer for life!”<br /><br />The comment came courtesy of a Jim from St. Louis. Talent is from St. Louis and has two daughters. (Hall and Thompson laughed as they admitted that this was Talent.)<br /><br />Pork Barrel BBQ continues to ride its wave of success. It won the Taste of Del Ray (Alexandria) 2009 People’s Choice Award earlier this month and placed second in the Best BBQ Sauce category and fourth in the Pulled Pork category at the Safeway National Capital BBQ Battle in June. The products are now available online and in 65 stores in four states and Washington. And the Pork Barrel BBQ restaurant, being launched jointly with the owners of Alexandria’s Mango Mike’s restaurant, is set to open in spring 2010.<br /><br />Hall and Thompson have finally answered that question about good, local barbecue that they pondered as Senate staffers in 2006 — to the point that it has become their lives. Will they ever get sick of eating barbecue?<br /><br />Said Hall, “Never.”Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-31772154265329606562009-09-24T07:49:00.000-07:002009-09-24T07:53:31.146-07:00All Eyes On: Heath Hall - TruLife<a href="http://media.www.trumanindex.com/media/storage/paper607/news/2009/09/24/Trulife/All-Eyes.On.Heath.Hall-3781442.shtml#cp_article_tools">All Eyes On: Heath Hall - TruLife</a><br /><br />All Eyes On: Heath Hall<br /><br />By: Emma Mueller<br /><br />Posted: 9/24/09<br /><br />Oink. Oink. Oink. No, it isn't H1N1 that has people talking. Pork Barrel BBQ, co-founded by Truman alumnus Heath Hall, has been gaining quite the buzz lately.<br /><br />Hall, an employee of former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, created the company along with Brett Thompson in the winter of 2006. Not only will they open a restaurant in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, Va. this spring, but Pork Barrel BBQ also holds the No. 1 spot for barbecue on Twitter with 18,000 followers.<br /><br />Hall said the idea for the business resulted from a late night craving for some barbecue during a Senate budget debate.<br /><br />"While the Senate was debating pork-barrel spending projects and earmarks, we were debating what we were going to have for dinner that night," Hall said. "I had pizza for about four or five nights in a row and, coming from Missouri, I was like 'Man, wouldn't it be great if there were a barbecue restaurant somewhere in the neighborhood?' There wasn't anything good in the neighborhood, so we started thinking 'Pork barrel spending, pork-barrel barbecue.'"<br /><br />Hall turned his small glimmer of an idea into a successful establishment. Pork Barrel BBQ consists of two products: a barbecue sauce and an all-American spice rub. The products are made with all-natural ingredients and contain no preservatives or MSG. Hall doesn't classify Pork Barrel BBQ sauce as one particular style, but instead said it reflects his roots: politics.<br /><br />"We'll be able to bring a little bit of all the styles of barbecue to the restaurant," Hall said. "Obviously, Brett and I being from Missouri, we are kind of schooled in the Kansas City style, but we want to be able to hopefully let them [the customers] recall some memories of their favorite [barbecue] restaurant back home."<br /><br />The restaurant will feature sauces from all regions of the country, not just the Kansas City influence.<br /><br />"We're going to have Carolina vinegar sauce and a Carolina barbecue sauce," Hall said. "Our original sauce I would classify somewhere between the Kansas City and Texas style sauce. It's a smoky, tangy sauce. It's got a little bit of heat, but it's not super hot. We're going to be doing a hot sauce, a sweeter sauce and a mango-chipotle barbecue sauce."<br /><br />In addition to their brand new restaurant "Pork Barrel BBQ" opening this spring, Hall and Thompson were featured on the ABC show "Shark Tank," which allows entrepreneurs to pitch their idea in front of five investors in the hopes that their idea will be backed financially by one or more of the investors.<br /><br />"It was really a shock to us when we got an e-mail and a call from Mark Burnett Productions saying that they've been following our company," Hall said. "Three weeks later we finished about 50 pages of paperwork, a five-minute audition tape and got the call back from them that they were interested in us coming out. It was a pretty interesting experience.<br /><br />"The opportunity for this level of exposure was something Hall said he never thought he would achieve. Hall said not only did they have their very own Hollywood star trailer, complete with their names on the door, but he and Thompson also were sworn to secrecy for two months until the show aired.<br /><br />"Out of the five sharks, we ended up getting a deal with Barbara Corcoran, who is a real estate mogul from New York," Hall said. "She gave us $50,000 for a 50 percent stake in the company, and we're really excited to work with her. She's a real shark, a real go-getter. We're still trying to finalize everything, but we're sure it's going to be a great partnership.<br /><br />"Even with all the new opportunities that have resulted because of one late night idea, Hall always has had a love for food, especially barbecue.<br /><br />"My dad has always been known as the post office guy of barbecue," Hall said. "He's always barbecuing in rain, sleet, snow, summer, winter, fall, spring. It doesn't matter, he's always out there on the grill. So a lot of my love for barbecue came from him."Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-14257659547397936392009-09-19T17:57:00.000-07:002009-09-19T18:16:54.288-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ on FOX and Friends on Fox News Network!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fresh off their experience on </span></span><a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ABC's Shark Tank</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, the </span></span><a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pork Barrel BBQ</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Team traveled to New York City this morning to cook for the great folks at </span></span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/foxfriends/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">FOX and Friends</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Alisyn Camerota, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Clayton Morris, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dave Briggs and Rick Reichmuth were so much fun and huge thanks to Samantha and Toba for meeting us at 5 am to start cooking Pork Barrel BBQ! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We'll post photos and video from our adventure (including a trip on Mango Mike's Pork Barrel 1 bus!) in the coming days, but wanted to share the great clip here:</span></span><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://foxnews1.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/1/site/foxnews1-foxnews-pub01-live/current/videolandingpage/fncLargePlayer/client/embedded/embedded.swf" id="mediumFlashEmbedded" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" bgcolor="#000000" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" name="undefined" play="false" scale="noscale" menu="false" salign="LT" scriptaccess="always" wmode="false" height="275" width="305" flashvars="playerId=videolandingpage&playerTemplateId=fncLargePlayer&categoryTitle=&referralObject=9771147&referralPlaylistId=playlist"></embed></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Also, craziness ensued in the FOX and Friends After the Show Show:</span></span></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://foxnews1.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/1/site/foxnews1-foxnews-pub01-live/current/largeplayer011008/fncLargePlayer/client/embedded/embedded.swf" id="mediumFlashEmbedded" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" bgcolor="#000000" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" name="undefined" play="false" scale="noscale" menu="false" salign="LT" scriptaccess="always" wmode="false" height="275" width="305" flashvars="playerId=011008&playerTemplateId=fncLargePlayer&categoryTitle=&referralObject=9771367&referralPlaylistId=playlist"></embed></div></div><div><br /></div>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-41861277417181741162009-09-04T13:18:00.001-07:002009-09-04T14:34:24.042-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Wins the Taste of Del Ray 2009 Peoples Choice Award<div style="text-align: left;">We are proud to announce that last night <a href="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ</a> won the<a href="http://www.visitdelray.com/"> Del Ray Business Association's</a> Taste of Del Ray People's Choice Award. The Taste of Del Ray brings restaurants throughout the Del Ray Neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia, together to provide samples of their food - we gave out over 400 servings of our award winning pulled pork sandwiches and <a href="http://www.mangomikes.com/movie.htm">Mango Mike's</a> bourbon bread pudding. The <a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.blogspot.com/2009/08/pork-barrel-bbq-restaurant-coming-to.html">Pork Barrel BBQ Restaurant</a> is currently under construction and will open next spring on Mt. Vernon Avenue next to St. Elmo's Coffee Pub and The Dairy Godmother.</div><div><br /></div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/SqF6cTdIPII/AAAAAAAAAGM/4loIFxqpLd4/s400/Taste+of+Del+Ray.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 380px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377714056734456962" /><div>We'd like to give special thanks to the <a href="http://www.visitdelray.com/">Del Ray Business Association</a> and Gayle Reuter for hosting such a great evening, Mary Abraham and Eric Reid of <a href="http://www.delmereigrille.com/">Del Merei Grill</a> for organizing the event, Christie Hart and Executive Chef Will Artley from the <a href="http://www.eveningstarcafe.net/">Evening Star Cafe</a> for showing us the ropes (this was their 11th year!), and Sheriff Dana Lawhorne for keeping us all safe (see below)!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/SqF6woT2CHI/AAAAAAAAAGU/-UTq4pycm7s/s400/PORK+BARREL+022.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377714405930043506" /><br /><div><div style="text-align: left;">Mango Mike Anderson and Heath Hall survey the line outside the Pork Barrel BBQ booth!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/SqF665h6flI/AAAAAAAAAGc/4B5r1qEcPpU/s400/PORK+BARREL+013.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377714582351150674" /></div>PorkBarrelBBQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15544115569929021889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-64783340771254363752009-09-03T18:48:00.000-07:002009-09-03T18:55:07.692-07:00The Foodventure Blog Blogs on Pork Barrel BBQ - Check Them Out!!!Head over to our friend Katie's food blog - <a href="http://thefoodventure.com/2009/09/03/pork-barrel-bbq-restaurant-coming-to-del-ray-neighborhood-in-alexandria-virginia/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">The Foodventure</span></a> - and read her awesome blog on <a href="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Pork Barrel BBQ</span></a> opening its first restaurant in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, VA.<br /><br />After you've had a chance to read her post on Pork Barrel BBQ stick around and read her other great posts on food - it really is and should be an adventure for each of us. She's also got some really great food pictures on the site. Check it out - <a href="http://thefoodventure.com/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">The Foodventure</span></a>.Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-78817523720076596182009-09-02T01:00:00.000-07:002009-09-02T11:02:27.550-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ to Appear on ABC's Shark Tank - Sunday, September 13th at 9pm EST/8pm CST<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="justify">Be sure to watch <a href="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Pork Barrel <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">BBQ's</span></span></a> Heath Hall and Brett Thompson battle with the Sharks on <i>Shark Tank</i> on ABC Sunday, September 13<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">th</span> at 9pm EST/8pm CST! To learn more about Pork Barrel BBQ, visit <a href="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com</span></a>.<br /><br /></div><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376711141899576322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 345px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sp3qS-jPJAI/AAAAAAAAAXM/kmo3A7LOCOI/s400/BBQ+Sauce+Award.jpg" border="0" /><br />To learn more about <i>Shark Tank</i> visit <a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">abc</span>.com</span></a> or watch the following video: </p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><object id="W48bda4baaf82f1d14a9de92e82620b05" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="235" width="308" data="http://widgets.abc.go.com/o/48bda4baaf82f1d1/4a9de92e82620b05/48bda4baaf82f1d1/d6f64c4/-cpid/8d06a1319035454c"></object></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Be sure to check back often for updates about <a href="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Pork Barrel <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">BBQ's</span></span></a> <em>Shark Tank</em> experience!!</div>PorkBarrelBBQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15544115569929021889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-69866305871926464402009-08-31T11:15:00.000-07:002009-09-01T20:36:53.934-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Restaurant Coming to Del Ray Neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Pork Barrel BBQ Teams with Mango Mike’s Mike Anderson, and Bill Blackburn to Bring Award Winning BBQ to Washington, D.C. Region</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376194085870346770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SpwUCWvbohI/AAAAAAAAAWs/qhT1uV4c30w/s400/PORK+BARREL+006.jpg" border="0" /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><a href="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ</a> is pleased to announce that we have teamed with Mike Anderson and Bill Blackburn, two of the area’s top restaurateurs, to bring a Pork Barrel BBQ Restaurant to the Del Ray Neighborhood in </span><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Alexandria</span></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">, </span><st1:state st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Virginia</span></st1:state></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">. The restaurant, which is currently under construction, will be in the heart of Del Ray on </span><st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on"><st1:placetype st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Mt.</span></st1:placetype><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> Vernon Avenue near <a href="http://www.stelmoscoffeepub.com/">St. Elmo's Coffee Pub</a> and <a href="http://www.thedairygodmother.com/what-is-frozen-custard/">The Dairy Godmother</a></span></st1:address></st1:street><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">“We are honored to team with Mike Anderson and Bill Blackburn who have decades of success running restaurants and are leaders in the </span><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Alexandria</span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> community,” said Brett Thompson, CEO of Pork Barrel BBQ, and a Del Ray resident. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376195383635322626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SpwVN5StpwI/AAAAAAAAAXE/UoCtcAFtGpA/s400/PORK+BARREL+001.jpg" border="0" /> <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Heath Hall, Mike Anderson, Bill Blackburn and Brett Thompson at the site of the new Pork Barrel BBQ Restaurant in the Del Ray neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">“Heath and Brett know award winning BBQ, and Bill and I know how to run great restaurants – this is a perfect combination and we can’t wait for our Pork Barrel BBQ restaurant to open its doors next spring,” said Mike Anderson, founder of <a href="http://www.mangomikes.com/">Mango Mike’s</a>, which has been operating in </span><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Alexandria</span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> since 1996. “Del Ray has been waiting a long time for great BBQ, and we are excited to team with the Del Ray BBQ Boys in bringing Pork Barrel BBQ to the neighborhood,” said Bill Blackburn.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="center">"Brett and I are excited about the opportunity to bring Pork Barrel BBQ to Del Ray and we can't imagine better partners to do it with than Mike and Bill," said Heath Hall, President of Pork Barrel BBQ.</p>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-92036707068534332802009-08-27T09:46:00.000-07:002009-08-27T10:23:54.273-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Now Available in 65 Stores in 4 States and Washington, D.C.<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(180, 209, 152); font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">We are proud to announce that our </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/pork-barrel-bbq-sauce.html">Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/all-american-spice-rub.html">All American Spice Rub</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> are now available in 65 stores in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina and Florida. For pork, beef, poultry and fish, our </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/pork-barrel-bbq-sauce.html">Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/all-american-spice-rub.html">All American Spice Rub</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> is the perfect way to give your food a tangy, tasty flavor with a perfect smokin' kick! Click </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com">here</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> to order our award winning </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/pork-barrel-bbq-sauce.html">products</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com">Pork Barrel BBQ</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> is now available at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.harristeeter.com/">Harris Teeter</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.ukrops.com/">Ukrop's</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.balduccis.com/">Balducci's Food Lover's Market</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.wagshals.com/">Wagshals</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.letsmeatontheavenue.com/specials/news_events.php">Let's Meat on the Avenue</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.theorganicbutcher.com/mclean.html">The Organic Butcher of McLean</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">, and The Art of BBQ (in St. Augustine, Florida)! Here's a map and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=114949556798819303968.00047216255a122031ac4&z=6">link</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> to our retail locations:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><img name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.13" border="0" alt="Pork Barrel BBQ Retail Locations" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs003/1102532460692/img/13.jpg?a=1102683660482" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div align="left"><strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Buy Your Pork Barrel BBQ Picnic Pack for Your Labor Day BBQ</span></span></strong></div><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">If you want to try </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/pipajarofbbq.html">both</a></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> the Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce and All American Spice Rub - click </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/pipajarofbbq.html">here</a></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> to get the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/pipajarofbbq.html">Pork Barrel BBQ Picnic Pack</a></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> - a bottle of sauce and jar of rub for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://porkbarrelbbq.com/pipajarofbbq.html">ONLY $10</a></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">!</span></span></p><p align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><img height="384" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.14" border="0" width="256" alt="Pork Barrel BBQ Picnic Pack" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs003/1102532460692/img/14.jpg?a=1102683660482" /></span></p></span>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-55458510054657460572009-08-26T19:03:00.000-07:002009-08-26T19:10:56.127-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Now Available at Ukrop's Stores in Richmond and Tidewater Region<div>Travelling down to Richmond or Tidewater area of Virginia and forgot your <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com">Pork Barrel BBQ</a> Sauce? Don't worry - just head to you local <a href="http://www.ukrops.com/">Ukrop's super markets</a> and get a bottle of the <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com">Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce</a> or <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com">All American Spice Rub</a>! We are incredibly grateful that <a href="http://www.ukrops.com/">Ukrop's</a> would carry our products in 18 of their super markets - please be sure to visit and tell them thanks for supporting Pork Barrel BBQ!</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SpXqEo8dBeI/AAAAAAAAAWc/r_jCN2xq4b8/s1600-h/ukrops+front.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SpXqEo8dBeI/AAAAAAAAAWc/r_jCN2xq4b8/s400/ukrops+front.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374459095767909858" /></a>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-1915674811943249332009-08-22T16:45:00.000-07:002009-08-22T17:46:39.049-07:00Great Article - Kansas City barbecue, the art of the heartland<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 12px; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><h1 style=" ;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-size:12px;">I have to admit, I don't usually read, or think good things about the Los Angeles Times - but I have to give huge credit to Catharine Hamm, who really seems very wise. At Pork Barrel BBQ, as two guys from Missouri, we love Kansas City style BBQ - especially Oklahoma Joes, Arthur Bryant's. Gates and Jack Stacks - read this article to understand her brilliance!</span></h1><h1 style="font-size: 17px; "><br /></h1><h1 style="font-size: 17px; "><a href="http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-q28-2009jun28">Kansas City barbecue, the art of the heartland</a></h1><p class="byline" style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">By Catharine Hamm</p><p class="byline lastline" style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Los Angeles Times</p><div id="body-content" class="body-content" style="font-size: 12px; "><p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Please don't tell the family this, but they're not the only reason I return to Kansas City whenever I can. I love them, of course, but I can talk to them on the phone. We can e-mail. We can Twitter, for crying out loud.</p><p>But barbecue is something you have to do in person. And it is best done here in the heartland. Sorry, Santa Maria, Calif. No disrespect to your juicy tri-tip. Forgive me, Lexington, N.C. Your pulled pork is fabulous. And a tip of the hat to you, Memphis, Tenn. Ribs at the Rendezvous are always memorable.</p><p>But Kansas City has made an art of this science of slow-smoked meats. So when business brought me back for 36 hours, I knew I could partake at least five times - if I didn't mind barbecue for a late breakfast. And I didn't, mostly. But I'll explain that in a minute.</p><p>What I want to explain now is how Kansas City became a barbecue mecca and why you're not going to hear me talk extensively about Arthur Bryant's or Gates.</p><p>The barbecue legend started with Henry Perry, who is said to have opened a barbecue shack in the early 1900s in downtown Kansas City, Mo. Perry had an employee, Charlie Bryant, who eventually bought him out. Bryant had a brother, Arthur, who took over, opening what writer Calvin Trillin called the best restaurant in the world: the self-named barbecue apex that's been at 18th and Brooklyn for a half-century or so.</p><p>Bryant's has it all: the feel of a joint that's just this side of grubby, the ribs that are just this side of heaven, which is where Arthur Bryant (and his brother and his brother's former boss) now reside, I am certain. Taste the ribs or the sliced meats (or get them to go in the butcher paper) and you cannot help but believe.</p><p>Gates, meanwhile, traces its roots to George Gates, who also is said to have worked with Henry Perry. When you enter any Gates restaurant (there are six, including one up the street from Bryant's), you're greeted with, "Hi, may I help you?" which always unnerves me because I'm usually having a mental tussle: ribs? Burnt ends? Sliced beef sandwich?</p><p>There's really no wrong answer. In nearly 20 years of Gates-going, I have never had anything less than fabulous, smoky, rich, and tender.</p><p>So in this discussion of barbecue, let's put aside Bryant's and Gates, because you cannot top perfection.</p><p>But you can compete with it. And in this last trip (and two before it), I ate my approximate weight in barbecue just to see if I could find a contender or two.</p><p>If you're K.C.-bound this year - and you'll find plenty to love about it if you are, including that prices for these feasts often run less than $15 a plate - I offer these suggestions, old and new, fancy and not. My list is by no means complete, because there are said to be about 80 barbecue places here, although recent news reports suggest the economy may have finished off a few of them.</p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Fiorella's Jack Stack</span></p><p>If you're in the mood for Spanish Moorish architecture and many of the city's 200 fountains, choose the Jack Stack on the Country Club Plaza.</p><p>Up till this trip, I'd eaten at the Stack's at 95th Street and Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park, Kan., and I loved the food. But this time, I chose the Country Club Plaza location in Kansas City, Mo., for a dinner with my cousins and my adopted aunt.</p><p>For every meal on this trip, I ordered burnt ends, which are a tribute to Arthur Bryant, who is credited with figuring out that chopping off and serving the crispy parts of the brisket could delight the masses.</p><p>Burnt ends aren't incinerated the way a burger gets when it's too close to the flame. The best ones are tender in the right spots and chewy-charred in spots. Jack Stack's were right on. (The Poor Russ sandwich is made of burnt ends, and previous encounters with that gets my stamp of approval.)</p><p>Stack's also has ribs: pork and beef, of course, and also crown prime rib and lamb, which I've not tried. The sides are stupendous: The beans have a wonderful smoky flavor, and the cheesy corn bake side dish is so good I'd go just for that.</p><p>Stack's Plaza location is the kind of place you'd take out-of-town guests if you were trying to show them everything that's right with Kansas City. The decor is rich and warm and unobtrusive.</p><p>The Plaza is also close to my new favorite place to stay (next to Chez Cousin, of course). Southmoreland on the Plaza, 116 E. 46th St., 816-531-7979, <a href="http://www.southmoreland.com/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(50, 14, 0); ">www.southmoreland.com</a>, is a 12-room (plus Carriage House) B&B full of antiques.</p><p>I stayed in the Satchel Paige room. With a business rate of $109 and a breakfast worth getting out of bed for (great muffins, pastries and quiche), I found it more than satisfactory.</p><p> </p><h3 style="font-size: 12px; ">Danny Edwards</h3><p>I'd regret my full breakfast only slightly upon arriving at Danny Edwards a little after 11 a.m. Every one of the 70 or so seats was taken, and when a table opened, my college friend Cindy and I grabbed it.</p><p>This Southwest Boulevard location in Kansas City, Mo., is new for Danny Edwards, whose father, Jake, was a barbecue legend. Danny (also known as Lil Jake) moved out of an 18-seat downtown shop a couple of years ago to this exposed-beam spot where "Gary B!" and "Mike W!" ring out as heaping plates of ribs and sandwiches come pouring out.</p><p>A bite of the burnt ends explained why Gary B and Mike W and, on this day, Cindy M and I were crowding the place: They were crispy-chewy with just the right amount of sauce. I think I am in love. Again.</p><p> </p><h3 style="font-size: 12px; ">Brobecks Barbeque</h3><p>Please, purists, don't hurt me. I tried Brobecks in Johnson County, which opened in November 2007, and I liked it. A lot. The problem: Brobecks is not, strictly speaking, Kansas City barbecue. Instead, it relies on rubs, not sauces (although it has sauces too).</p><p>So I strayed off the farm and tried this Tennessee barbecue. I had the Tennessee Porker - pulled pork - and it was worth every guilty mouthful. But I also did the burnt-end dinner (served dry, without sauce) and found it delicious.</p><p>We also loved the steak fries and, most of all, the homemade potato chips, and Cindy noted that Brobecks gets extra credit because it offers dessert. We had to skip it because we were headed to our next stop.</p><p> </p><h3 style="font-size: 12px; ">Hayward's Pit Bar-B-Que</h3><p>Minutes before the clock struck 9 p.m., we walked into Hayward's, also in south Johnson County. I'm sure the folks would rather have stuck shards of glass in their eyes than serve one more customer, but we were on a mission, and they were gracious.</p><p>I've been a big Hayward's fan almost since it opened in 1972 about two miles north of where it is now. I've never had a bad bit of barbecue there, but that night wasn't the best I've ever had (though we did love the sweet potato fries). The 220-seat restaurant is not too jointy, not too snooty - you could take the in-laws and they'd feel comfortable.</p><p>We were near Gates (the Leawood location). I wanted to try it again. Or we could swing over to Oklahoma Joe's in Kansas City, Kan. Maybe we could make it to 85th Street and B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ in Kansas City, Mo., where the smoking pit is more than a half-century old. But I just couldn't. One more mouthful and I was sure I was going to drop dead.</p><p>At least I would have died happy.</p><p> </p><hr /><h4 style="font-size: 11px; ">Know Your Barbecue Styles</h4><p>The word "barbecue" is thought to have derived from the Taino and Carib peoples of the Caribbean and South America, who slowly roasted meats over a bed of coals called a <i>barbricot</i>, which the Spanish pronounced "barbacoa."</p><p>In his book <i>Savage Barbecue</i>, author Andrew Warnes theorizes that Europeans who encountered this way of cooking mixed the word "barbacoa" with "barbarian," and the word "barbecue" was born.</p><p>It's not always easy to say what barbecue is, but purists will say what it is not: It is not grilling meat over an open flame. Barbecue is a slow method of cooking - low heat, lots of time, lots of patience. Sauce may play a part, but might not be part of the cooking process.</p><p>Here's a look at some of the regional differences.</p><p><b>Kansas City Barbecue.</b> The sauce tends to be tomato-based, with molasses or brown sugar. It doesn't soak in; it sits on top. Meat may be beef, pork or poultry.</p><p><b>Texas Barbecue.</b> Beef brisket is king, and the sauce is spicier and thinner than the K.C. version.</p><p><b>South Carolina Barbecue.</b> This is pork (shredded or pulled), and the sauce might be yellow, because it's mustard-based. Coleslaw is part of the picture.</p><p><b>North Carolina Barbecue.</b> Sauce tends to be more vinegar-based, with pepper. In the western part of the state, it may have a hint of tomato.</p><p><b>Memphis Barbecue.</b> Relies on spiced rubs; sauce may be an afterthought.</p><p>Kansas City-Area Spots</p><p><b>Fiorella's Jack Stack</b><br />4747 Wyandotte St.<br />Kansas City, Mo.<br />816-531-7427<br /><a href="http://www.jackstackbbq.com/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(50, 14, 0); ">www.jackstackbbq.com</a></p><p><b>Other locations:</b></p><p>13441 Holmes Rd.<br />Kansas City, Mo.<br />816-942-9141</p><p>101 W. 22d St.<br />Kansas City, Mo.<br />816-472-7427</p><p>9520 Metcalf Ave.<br />Overland Park, Kan.<br />913-385-7427</p><p><b>Brobecks</b></p><p>4615 Indian Creek Parkway<br />Overland Park, Kan.<br />913-901-9700<br /><a href="http://www.brobecksbbq.com/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(50, 14, 0); ">www.brobecksbbq.com</a></p><p><b>Danny Edwards</b></p><p>2900 Southwest Blvd.<br />Kansas City, Mo.<br />816-283-0880</p><p><b>Haywards</b></p><p>11051 S. Antioch<br />Overland Park, Kan.<br />913-451-8080<br /><a href="http://www.haywardsbbq.com/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(50, 14, 0); ">www.haywardsbbq.com</a></p><p><b>Gates</b></p><p>1325 E. Emanuel Cleaver Blvd.<br />Kansas City, Mo.<br />816-531-7522<br /><a href="http://www.gatesbbq.com/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(50, 14, 0); ">www.gatesbbq.com</a></p><p><b>Other locations:</b></p><p>1221 Brooklyn Ave.<br />Kansas City, Mo.<br />816-483-3880</p><p>10440 E. 40 Highway<br />Independence, Mo.<br />x816-353-5880</p><p>3205 Main St.<br />Kansas City, Mo.<br />816-753-0828</p><p>201 W. 103d<br />(103d and State Line)<br />Leawood, Kan.<br />913-383-1752</p><p>1026 State Ave.<br />Kansas City, Kan.<br />913-621-1134</p><p><b>Arthur Bryant's</b></p><p>1727 Brooklyn Ave.<br />Kansas City, Mo.<br />816-231-1123<br /><a href="http://www.arthurbryantsbbq.com/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(50, 14, 0); ">www.arthurbryantsbbq.com</a></p><p><b>Other locations:</b></p><p>1702 Village West Parkway<br />Kansas City, Kan.<br />913-788-7500</p><p>3200 N. Ameristar Dr.<br />Kansas City, Mo.<br />816-414-7474</p></div></span>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-82797123165785884502009-08-21T12:05:00.000-07:002009-08-21T08:00:52.847-07:00My perfect sandwich - Prime Smoked Brisket at Wagshals<div><a href="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ</a> had the chance to taste perfection the other day - <a href="http://www.wagshals.com/">Wagshals</a> Prime Smoked Brisket sandwich. Bill Fuchs has spent the last two years of his life on a quest to perfect this recipe - the brisket cures for 55 days - and get this - he has done over 100 batches to test this recipe. I'm not even sure if they carry this on the menu (yet) - but be sure to stop by <a href="http://www.wagshals.com/">Wagshals</a> and ask when you can try this little bit of heaven!</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SoxOSV_Dk9I/AAAAAAAAAWU/85efodB-76w/s1600-h/IMG_3960.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SoxOSV_Dk9I/AAAAAAAAAWU/85efodB-76w/s400/IMG_3960.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371754532592391122" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-84711139095333928452009-08-19T19:03:00.000-07:002009-08-19T19:21:49.195-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Now Available at Harris Teeter Stores in Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland!<div style="text-align: left;">Looking for <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ</a> at a store near you? Visit your local <a href="http://www.harristeeter.com/">Harris Teeter</a> - and you can find both our <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce</a> and <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">All American Spice Rub</a> in Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland. Click <a href="http://www.harristeeter.com/other/store_locator/store_locator.aspx">here</a> for local <a href="http://www.harristeeter.com/default.aspx">Harris Teeter</a> locations near you!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/SoyvbDv8nTI/AAAAAAAAAFM/TU0M8T9ItEM/s400/IMG_4152.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371861334943898930" /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/SoywXcmgrrI/AAAAAAAAAFc/EP8TVmyGBOE/s1600-h/IMG_4154.JPG"></a><div>We will be visiting Harris Teeter stores throughout the Washington D.C. area over the next few weeks to give samples of our products - be sure to check here on the blog or on <a href="http://www.Twitter.com/porkbarrelbbq">Twitter</a> to find out our schedule. A BIG thanks to Harris Teeter for carrying our BBQ sauce and rub!</div><div><br /><img style="text-align: center;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 256px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VUtP91p3U3g/SoywXcmgrrI/AAAAAAAAAFc/EP8TVmyGBOE/s400/IMG_4154.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371862372407357106" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>PorkBarrelBBQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15544115569929021889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-6154748870108374952009-08-16T11:57:00.000-07:002009-08-16T12:17:17.150-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Now Available at Balducci's Food Lover's Market<div style="text-align: left;">We are proud to announce that <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce</a> and <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">All American Spice Rub</a> is now available at <a href="http://www.balduccis.com/">Balducci's Food Lover's Market</a> in Virginia and Maryland. They have amazing stores in Alexandria, McLean and Bethesda - to find their nearest location to pick up your <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ</a> products click <a href="http://www.balduccis.com/locations">here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SohW4h-U6lI/AAAAAAAAAVY/BY2Dd7doVOw/s400/IMG_4159.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370638084831767122" /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Also, be sure to check out their great website at <a href="http://www.balduccis.com/">http://www.balduccis.com/</a>. Here is our Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce on the shelves!</div><div><br /></div><div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SohYi4UUVkI/AAAAAAAAAVg/iEvPGkJR9j4/s400/IMG_4160.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370639911895717442" /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>And our All American Spice Rub!</div><div><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SohZasVtcYI/AAAAAAAAAVw/dLuSmFhaRQ0/s400/IMG_4162.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370640870753005954" /></div><div><br /></div><div>A HUGE thanks to <a href="http://www.balduccis.com/">Balducci's</a> for taking a chance on us and carrying Pork Barrel BBQ products - please be sure to visit their Virginia and Maryland locations!</div></div>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-46064303124764069092009-08-16T11:36:00.000-07:002009-08-16T11:39:02.800-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ CEO's Mom Gets a Weber Genesis 300 Series Gas BBQ Grill<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">While on vacation at his parents house in Florida, Pork Barrel BBQ CEO's Mom asked for a new grill. We picked her up a Weber Genesis 300 Series Gas Grill - here's a video on the easy set-up of this cool gas grill. Want more on bbq grills and bbq smokers? Visit <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 51, 204); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; ">http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com</a> or <a href="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.blogspot.com./" target="_blank" title="http://www.porkbarrelbbq.blogspot.com." rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 51, 204); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; ">http://www.porkbarrelbbq.blogspot.com.</a> Also be sure to visit Weber at <a href="http://www.weber.com./" target="_blank" title="http://www.weber.com." rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 51, 204); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; ">http://www.weber.com.</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RghmsbZXSjI&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RghmsbZXSjI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></span></div>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-46285623640417522502009-08-16T11:22:00.000-07:002009-08-16T11:29:28.321-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ's Secret Hamburger Soup Recipe with Video<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Here is an updated post of a family favorite - Pork Barrel BBQ's Secret Hamburger Soup Recipe - the entire family will love it - recipe below and a video on how to cook it!</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tSkx3TxC-ys&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tSkx3TxC-ys&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></span></div><div><br /></div>Ingredients<div>1 Yellow Onion</div><div>1 lb Bag Carrots</div><div>1 Stalk Celery</div><div>2 Cloves Garlic</div><div>1 Lb Ground GRASSFED Meat or Lamb (needed for flavor)</div><div>3 Cups Low Sodium Chicken Stock</div><div>1 Cup Short Grain Brown Rice</div><div>1 Tb Dried Ground Thyme</div><div>1 Tb Dried Organic</div><div>3 Tb Olive Oil</div><div>1 tsp Salt</div><div>2 tsp Pepper</div><div><br /></div><div>Instructions:</div><div><br /></div><div>Chop onion into small pieces, peel and cut carrots (small pieces), and peel and cut celery (small pieces) and dice garlic.</div><div><br /></div><div>Heat Olive Oil in Large Stock Pot.</div><div><br /></div><div>Add onions, carrots, celery and garlic to pan. Add salt and pepper. Cook at medium heat for 10 minutes until soft.</div><div><br /></div><div>Add Ground Beef or Lamb and cook until brown. Add 1/2 of Thyme and Oregano and stir.</div><div><br /></div><div>Add rice and chicken stock. Bring to boil, reduce heat to low and cook covered for 45 to 1 hour - until rice is tender.</div><div><br /></div><div>Once rice is tender, add remainder of Thyme and Oregano and stir.. Add salt and pepper to taste.</div><div><br /></div><div>Enjoy - and best of all - only one pot to clean up!</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><object width="560" height="340"></object></div></span>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-60607183710569049592009-08-14T22:26:00.000-07:002009-08-14T18:52:23.878-07:00Pork Barrel BBQ Now Available in Washington D.C. at Wagshal's Market and Deli<div><a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ</a> is proud to announce that <a href="http://www.wagshals.com/">Wagshal's</a>, the premiere Washington D.C. butcher, market, deli and caterer now carries our award winning <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce</a> and <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">All American Spice Rub</a>. We are very grateful and humbled that Bill, Brian and Aaron Fuchs, the owners of <a href="http://www.wagshals.com/">Wagshals</a>, would carry our products. We are pretty crazy about BBQ, but I can honestly say that I've never 'met people so committed to unique, high quality foods as the folks at <a href="http://www.wagshals.com/">Wagshal's</a>. They gave us a great tour, fed us smoked prime brisket sandwich (more on that in a future post), and sent us home with <a href="http://www.wagshals.com/ibericodeballota/">Iberico Pork</a> to cook (they are the only place in the United States to offer <a href="http://www.wagshals.com/ibericodeballota/">Iberico pork</a>). Here's a shot of their deli managed by Brian Fuchs and his team: </div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4you3iaUI/AAAAAAAAAVI/pC2OxsLpv9c/s1600-h/IMG_3957.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4you3iaUI/AAAAAAAAAVI/pC2OxsLpv9c/s400/IMG_3957.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367783481229338946" /></a><br /><div>Another shot of the deli:</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4yoIrOk3I/AAAAAAAAAVA/wW01YbebAZ0/s1600-h/IMG_3956.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4yoIrOk3I/AAAAAAAAAVA/wW01YbebAZ0/s400/IMG_3956.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367783470977160050" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Heath and Brian Fuchs looking at their special line of ready to eat gourmet foods:</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4yn9waCNI/AAAAAAAAAU4/YetZ5UU9dno/s1600-h/IMG_3955.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4yn9waCNI/AAAAAAAAAU4/YetZ5UU9dno/s400/IMG_3955.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367783468046092498" /></a>They also have a huge catering operation, and are especially great at catering upscale weddings:</div><div><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4ynSH00xI/AAAAAAAAAUo/CZ2TW5WaK-s/s400/IMG_3953.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367783456333157138" /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4ynpCeCLI/AAAAAAAAAUw/Po_wG4GxyFI/s1600-h/IMG_3954.JPG"></a></div><div>Here's a shot inside their catering kitchen - be sure to note Bill Fuchs' modified smoker in the corner (I was CRAZY jealous of it):</div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4ynpCeCLI/AAAAAAAAAUw/Po_wG4GxyFI/s1600-h/IMG_3954.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4ynpCeCLI/AAAAAAAAAUw/Po_wG4GxyFI/s400/IMG_3954.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367783462484707506" /></a><br />Oh, did I mention that they have some of the highest quality, unique cuts of meat in all of Washington D.C.? Here's Heath and Aaron Fuchs with some great dry aged beef:<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4wnfeKICI/AAAAAAAAAUg/72EqR0n6VE0/s1600-h/IMG_3952.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4wnfeKICI/AAAAAAAAAUg/72EqR0n6VE0/s400/IMG_3952.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367781260893233186" /></a><br /></div><div>What is happiness? Having a great meal at <a href="http://www.Wagshals.com/">Wagshal's</a> with Bill, Brian and Aaron Fuchs - be sure to visit them in Washington D.C. and learn all about them at <a href="http://www.Wagshals.com/">http://www.Wagshals.com</a> or visit them on twitter at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/wagshals">http://www.twitter.com/wagshals</a></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4wVfGJQTI/AAAAAAAAAUY/oS29TW-ILuM/s1600-h/IMG_3964.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/Sn4wVfGJQTI/AAAAAAAAAUY/oS29TW-ILuM/s400/IMG_3964.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367780951554867506" /></a><br /></div>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-31827212626942223392009-08-14T22:25:00.000-07:002009-08-14T18:50:44.206-07:00The Making of Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce!<div style="text-align: left;">How do you make BBQ sauce for thousands of people? Get to know Tim Ashman and <a href="http://www.ashmanco.com/">Ashman Manufacturing</a> in Virginia Beach, Virginia! Here's a video of Pork Barrel BBQ's trip down to take their award winning Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce and bottle it so you can have it in your home! Order your Pork Barrel BBQ sauce <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com/">here</a>!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oHGhVYMEc7o&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oHGhVYMEc7o&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16739128699006913.post-40361449220224636532009-08-14T18:22:00.000-07:002009-08-14T18:27:35.851-07:00What Pork Barrel BBQ is Eating - Beef Tenderloin, Rosemary Red Potatoes, Vegetable Ratatouille, and Corn on the Cob<div>I'm down on vacation in Florida with my parents, but somehow I still was pulled into cooking! We had a nice meal of beef tenderloin, rosemary red potatoes, vegetable ratatouille with <a href="http://www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com">All American Spice Rub</a> and corn on the cob. It was quite a feast - check it out below!</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SoYOSeN9RwI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/NsY6p2z12FA/s1600-h/IMG_4134.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xL4B3PXTY6Q/SoYOSeN9RwI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/NsY6p2z12FA/s400/IMG_4134.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369995316197934850" /></a>Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12515155328193297679noreply@blogger.com0