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9 Unique Grilling Recipes For Memorial Day

2017-10-20

Memphis is home to famous Beale Street, a great place to go to listen to some great music. Memphis is also home to barbecue. Memphis style ribs are dry rubbed with spices , and there are also traditional ribs that drip with spicy, savory barbecue sauce beef brisket burger sing with flavor. Locals in the know will offer up their favorite barbecue restaurants, and it's smart to listen, because just like the city's great music, the food is simply wonderful.Saval Foods, a name I see when I drive the Capital Beltway on my drive home on the inner loop between Connecticut Avenue and route 29 on a road marker is seen more often at your favorite deli counter. What started with a quality corned beef in 1932 grew to the Saval deli line. I love their brisket slow cooker, no one does it better.Worried you won't know what to make in that big empty stoneware pot? I was when I first bought my slow cooker, so I didn't use it right away. But then I opened it up and found that my slow cooker had 20 recipes just waiting for me to try in the Owner's Guide! Also, many cook books include adjusted recipes for slow cookers, or a whole slow cooker section. Plus, the internet has 1000s of slow cooker bbq brisket out there for you at your fingertips!When barrels expire and are no longer useful for aging, they are oftentimes cut up and sold as smoking wood. Wine, whiskey, and even hot sauce are aged in these barrels. Made of oak, these barrels are impregnated with the flavor of the product that was aged in them, or are they? I've tried wine and whiskey barrel slow cooker bbq brisket smoking wood but not enough to say. That's the fun part of Quein', experiment! Go online and find a barrel smoking wood. You never know what you might discover.Kansas City Easter Parade at Zona Rosa (Town Square and the streets of Zona Rosa). March 30th from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM. In fitting with Kansas City tradition, the Easter Parade at Zona Rosa has invited the community each year, for a free, family friendly walking parade throughout the Town Center streets. This year, we're extending our invitation from last year to include any of those wishing to ride throughout the parade, providing you supply your own vehicle, in an effort to help raise awareness for your business, your non-profit community organization, a 2013 campaign, your school, dance studio, band and the list goes on. Motorized vehicles beefeater signature bbq parade floats are welcome!