Join me Thursday, February 4th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Joe’s Crab Shack to support this year’s Freezin’ for a Reason Polar Dip. Download and print this flyer (pdf) and 10% of your check will go towards Camp Sunshine. We’ll also have an iPod Touch to raffle.
If you can’t make happy hour, but would like to support Camp Sunshine, please visit my pledge page to make a donation. We’re looking to raise $1,500 so we can help send a family to Camp Sunshine.
Joe’s Crab Shack is located at 12831 Fair Lakes Parkway, Fairfax, VA 22033.
A big thank you to Jerry!
In Gary Wiviott’s Low & Slow barbecue book, he recommends to follow the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid).
For the last year I’ve been trying to master the art of smoking on my off-set grill. I thought I knew what I was doing. After reading the first few chapters of Gary’s book, I realized I was working way to hard and I wasn’t really smoking our food. I was definitely smoking the food, but not truly cooking the food low and slow.
Gary’s instructions boil down to learning how to use your grill and then starting to experiment. I was looking for the silver bullet of grilling, a trick or shortcut. Cooking low and slow requires a lot of trial and error and patience.
Following Gary’s instructions of keeping it simple and experimenting, I think I grilled the best chicken I have ever grilled over Memorial weekend. From the way our friends devoured the chicken, I think they’d agree.
While experimenting with the grill, I started thinking about a lot of what I do and realized if I wanted to master the art of grilling and other interests in my life I really needed to start keeping things simple. I’ve made my life complicated. I have so many interests and spread my attention so thin, I’ve become a master of nothing. I’m realizing I need to follow my passions, learn more and start doing.
It’s scary and exiting. Stay tuned for what comes next.