Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
First Post
Hi everyone, and welcome to my blog. I guess at the moment "everyone" means just me, but it wouldn't be the first time I've talked to myself and it won't be the last!
I created this blog to talk about two things I love: food and beer. I became interested in cooking when I was 15 years old. Now that I think about it, my interest in beer came about at around the same time...shh, don't tell mom! My main focus is "home style" cooking. I'm not into fancy ingredients or plating food so it stands up in a pyramid just so. Give me a pile of pork ribs with sauce on the side and a cold Belgian beer and I'm happy as a lark. Add a piece of chocolate cake or carrot cake at the end and I'm in heaven.
My passion for barbeque led me to start a competition team this year called Insane Swine BBQ. We competed in two competions: a two-category "backyard" competition in Brookline, NH and a four-category "professional" competition in Harvard, MA. I was pretty nervous going into the Harvard competition and I had only two goals for the contest: 1) get all four categories turned in on time, and 2) don't finish last in any of the four categories. Luckily, I accomplished both of these things...although my pork butt tried its hardest to finish last! It was great fun, and I met a lot of wonderful people while competing.
One more thing for now. If you live in New England and like to cook and/or eat barbeque, I encourage you to look into joining the New England Barbeques Society: http://www.nebs.org/. There are some really nice people in the society and you can learn a lot from them.
That's it for now. More coming really soon. Play nice!
Jared
I created this blog to talk about two things I love: food and beer. I became interested in cooking when I was 15 years old. Now that I think about it, my interest in beer came about at around the same time...shh, don't tell mom! My main focus is "home style" cooking. I'm not into fancy ingredients or plating food so it stands up in a pyramid just so. Give me a pile of pork ribs with sauce on the side and a cold Belgian beer and I'm happy as a lark. Add a piece of chocolate cake or carrot cake at the end and I'm in heaven.
My passion for barbeque led me to start a competition team this year called Insane Swine BBQ. We competed in two competions: a two-category "backyard" competition in Brookline, NH and a four-category "professional" competition in Harvard, MA. I was pretty nervous going into the Harvard competition and I had only two goals for the contest: 1) get all four categories turned in on time, and 2) don't finish last in any of the four categories. Luckily, I accomplished both of these things...although my pork butt tried its hardest to finish last! It was great fun, and I met a lot of wonderful people while competing.
One more thing for now. If you live in New England and like to cook and/or eat barbeque, I encourage you to look into joining the New England Barbeques Society: http://www.nebs.org/. There are some really nice people in the society and you can learn a lot from them.
That's it for now. More coming really soon. Play nice!
Jared
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