Vince Gill Concert -Jammin to Beat the Blues

The Charcoal Cowboys catered the Vince Gill Concert at the Ryman Monday April 27th.

Storyline:

My wife is always volunteering me for different events. She has volunteer me to cook dinner for 8 people as fundraisers for School and Mental Health TN Association. These types of situations are very easy to accomplish even by myself by but a dinner for 50 - 75 people I had no idea what amount to cook for the event. She volunteer me on Monday before the event so I had really no time to get ready. All I could do was build a schedule because I was already cooking for the Block Party at Page's. We started Friday night at 6:00pm to set-up our cook site in the field behind Page's house. We loaded the Weber at 10:00 with the Guru controlling the heat. I left and went home to sleep. Page slept in the tent watching the Guru all night. I arrived back at 5:00 am and help prepare the other Webers and we started chicken. We finished our first round of chicken at 10:00am and tested the chicken with a couple different BBQ sauces. We feel we have found a great BBQ mix for our chicken. We really expect to score better with Chicken. We started the next round of chicken and ribs at 11:00 am. I left to buy all the food for the Vince Gill dinner at Sam's. I arrived back to Page's at 3:00 with the meat and start brining the Chicken and Pork for the VG dinner. Page had tried a new process of saucing the Brisket at foiling and he sauced one of the Pork butts at foiling. This will be something we will be doing during contest. So, we finished cooking for Page's block party at 5:30. We partied for the next couple hours and at 10:00 pm started the Weber again with the Guru and loaded the Pork Butts again. I left and Page slept in the house. We returned to the site at Sunday at 7:00 am and started the chicken and foiled the pork. I started chopping onions,peppers, potatoes, and boiling eggs for all the sides Monday night. We finished cooking and cleaning up the site at Page's on Sunday at 6:30 pm. I returned home and made all of the sides which I finished around 10:00pm

Menu:
Pulled Pork - 4 pans
Pulled Chicken - 3 pans
Cole Slaw - 12 quarts
Potato Salad- 18 quarts
Green Salad - 12 quarts
Baked beans - 4 quarts

This amount as we found out would feed around 150 people. Any way it was a great event and we were able to accomplish something we had no idea if we could do it.

Everyone invited

If you read this Blog you are invited to a BBQ party on Saturday April 25th

2009 BBQ ON BRIMSTEAD

Date: Saturday, April 25^th, 2009

Time: We will plan on having the BBQ ready around 5:30pm, but come anytime in the afternoon

Where: 3148 Brimstead Drive, Franklin, TN 37064

In the Backyard (come on around back)

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Pig Roast Easter

The pig roast is something I really look forward to each year. We have a great cinder block pit and we burn down hickory to coals before adding to the pit. I really think the process we use creates great tasting meat in a old school method. After doing this twice I can see why the legends of bbq had such a following. Working the pit is a art.

I bought a 60 lbs pig this year from Publix and I took the pig to the site on Saturday. Set-up the site with tents and clean the pit and start the fires. We also cleaned the Pig and Chicken and brined both of them over night. I used salt, sugar and Butt Rub for the brining Chicken and used salt,sugar, and my seasoning on the Pig.

We started the fire at 4:00 on Sunday morning and added Pig to the pit at 5:00 am on Sunday morning. Then I started fire for chicken and started dutch oven to cook biscuits and started a fire for sausage and bacon. What a great morning watching the sun come up on the horizon and smell of bacon in the air with hickory.

I had issues with the pig --the hind legs were bigger then the front and I had 70 degrees difference. So I had to burn the pig trying the keep temp right. I burnt the skin but the meat was fine. I pulled the pig at 2:00 and it never go to pulled pork temp.

See pictures on Facebook link

Winchester contest

The charcoal cowboys are out for winchester. Best of luck to ulika and pig smokers in paradise. The next two cooking events are whole hog for easter in springfield and block party in franklin.