March Meat Madness Photo Slideshows

"Anything But"- Smoked Apple Crepes with Dulce de Leche Sauce. Learned that I need to include a knife on the tray.

Ribs

Tri Tip

Chicken

Sylvie's Flickr Set

Professor Salts Photos

Tim C's Photos

March Meat Madness

Four Q BBQ is Grand Champion, i.e. # 1 overall out of 10 teams competing in the March Madness Backyard BBQ Event. We are so happy to have achieved our first Grand Champiom (GC) award.

CBBQA Rocks.

Bummer- Rain Postpones Backyard BBQ

Call us Southern Californians a little wimpy when it comes to rain and I'd forgive you. The forecast this weekend has been for showers and more showers, slightly heavy at times. As a result our Backyard Super Que Saturday has been postponed until a later date probably in March.

Part of the fun of backyard events is the socializing with other teams, tasting site to site with a competitive spirit and all this outside with only an EZ Up for cover. With rain and wind added factors and cool temps (50ish), it all makes for a not so comfortable environment. Thus the decision to postpone.

Backyard At The Rocke III- Praticing My Ribs

Next weekend Four Q BBQ will be joining 14 other teams in a little get together where we all prepare three meats (chicken, tri tip and ribs) and an "anything but" category, get judged by official CBBQA judges, taste each others food, and just have a good time as one big BBQ family.

Sorry for the tease, but this one is not open to non-competitors. However, we have a number of open competitons coming up for 2008 which I will definitely keep you all informed of.

Anyway, you all know I am the pork butt queen. However, for this event, we switched things around and I will be doing the spare ribs. This is our opportunity to have constructive feedback and judging of varying prep techniques and seasonings.

Ribs with about another hour to go.


Ready to eat.



I am also going to prepare the "anything but" category. What is "anything but"? Well, just simply not ribs, not chicken and not tri tip. Could be meat, could be a dessert. To keep the other teams from stealing my idea, I can't post my practice run on this category yet, but I will say it is a "throw back" to a dessert popular in the 80's and experienciung a surge in popularity over the last year and no- it is not Fondu.

Kick the Tires and Light the Fires

Another successful backyard BBQ event was hosted by CRocke this past weekend. This event gave us Southern California BBQ teams a chance to receive feedback from some official KCBS judges and new teams a chance to get a taste of competition. Two of us from Four Q competed and what an experience.



Big Mista prepared the ribs

and chicken while I did the


tri tip

and "anything but" (Korean Short Ribs).


BigMista also prepared pig candy using apple cured bacon with brown sugar and cayenne smoked in the UDS (Ugly Drum Smoker).

A couple of weeks ago I posted about my attempts to perfect lemon squares/tarts for the anything but category. Well after looking at my practice results and considering who were the judges, I decidwd to drop the lemon stuff and go with Korean BBQ short ribs. Those who were there know I really didn't make a choice until the last mninute. I went from lemon sqaures/tarts to rose water creme brulee to lemon sour cream pound cake with marshmallows and lemon curd to the final choice of Korean short ribs. Yes I even had homemade marshmellows in the shape of pigs which I was going to plate with the lemon sour cream pound cake. I forgot to take pictures of the piglts but take my word, they were cute and tasty.

A number of folks took photos of the event. I have listed the links below:

Survival Gourmet
Sylvie's Flickr Photos
Leanza's photobucket

Results: Well, we got 2nd place in Tri Tip. I as well as most of the participants who tasted the chicken agreed that the chicken was also first class. We went out on a limb with presentation which seems to have not been a good thing with the judges.

For complete results see the CBBQA wiki site. Hope you all (non-members)can open this link.