Bakersfield BBQ Competition May 2011

This was the first competition I have done solo which means cooking all the four meats (chicken, ribs, pork shoulder and brisket) myself. Bakersfield's Biggest Baddest BBQ Championship 2011 proved to be a fantastic experience in that the judges scored me (Four Q) a 3rd in pork, 8th in chicken and a 10th in brisket for an overall 5th place out of 43 teams competing. (We won't talk about the ribs.)

3rd Place Pork trophy and certificates for 8th chicken and 10th brisket. Note the size of that 3rd place trophy -huge.

Cooking on two 18 in WSMs, one 22 in WSM and a Weber Kettle

Four Q Site

Shamless photo of me taken by me

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.

A Belated Happy New Year 2008

Happy New Year from Ziggy and me. With all the food I prepared and ate over the holidays, I just couldn't post another picture of food for at least a day.

2008 already is off to a very busy start. Four Q BBQ Team will be competing in a number of events this year including some fun get together backyard events. I'm looking forward to this and hopefully obtaining a Grand Championship or two or three along the way.

My day job- well work is work or better stated- so much work so little time and so few people to get an increasingly demanding job done.

I'm so proud of my kids. They are both doing well and making us proud. G, my hubby, loves his job and in between work and me, he amazingly balances the two. Life is good and we are blessed.

May you all have a prosperous, healthy and full of love year from family and friends. We had black eyed peas, collard greens, cornbread, rice and bbq ribs on the first so we started the year with the basis for a good year.

(Oh yes, I know, Ziggy needs a haircut.)