The $2.77 Pork Chops

When you walk down the protein aisle at the Wallingford QFC there is a small section near the end with a bunch of those Styrofoam meat trays filled with an assortment of meaty goodies all marked “reduced”. What this means is that everything in the bin has to sell today or they have to [...]

Pre-Season in Indianola

There isn’t a place in Washington State that makes me feel like I’m in Hawaii… except for Indianola. Now I want to make it clear that I don’t go around Washington trying to rate how each place measures up to Hawaii because really, I love this state that I live in and Hawaii’s got [...]

Spring Training 3

Luau Tables Are Not Round

While cleaning out the shed I discovered a great piece of tongue and groove paneling about 4×7 feet in dimension. I thought that if I cut it in half it would make a great pair of table tops and I could use them during some of these barbecues. Of [...]

The Flour Girl

Shannon here – The Flour Girl is the name of the wedding cake shop I daydream about someday opening. This weekend my good friend Lindsay Hass gave me the wonderful opportunity to turn a tiny slice of this daydream into a reality.

After The Hass wedding I have now officially made and served my first [...]

Pimp My BBQ

Please HGTV… Pimp my BBQ.  I had a habit of leaving my grill outside all winter and now it needs some TLC.  It has been missing a hubcap for about a year and the wheel kept falling off, which allowed one of the legs to come loose.  At that point it would spew ash like Mt. St. [...]

The Sixteen Dollar Pork Chops

I’m at the University District Farmer’s Market buying pork from Wooly Pigs. I had $14 in my hand while the salesperson put a package of two frozen pork chops on the scale and told me “Sixteen Dollars”, about 1.3lbs worth. I pulled out the VISA card and bought them. I needed to [...]

Spring Training 2

Part of my my grill woes is due to the fact that I didn’t store it properly. I left it out in the cold harsh Seattle weather for three straight years and now It just sits there like a really old dog, a sad look on it’s lid, anguishing in it’s own decrepitude. [...]

Spring Training 1

The Ballard Farmer’s Market

A successful season begins with good preparation. I figured that getting familiar with the products available at the Sunday Ballard Farmer’s Market would be a good place to start training. I had never been there before, Shannon and I strolled down there this past Sunday and here’s the scoop.
Parking was [...]

Leme Leme Upgrill

After 3 season’s of barbecuing, my once new Weber charcoal grill is struggling to hang on.
I thought for a while one of the legs was missing but I have since recovered it. One of the hub caps that hold the wheels onto the axle is lost, so the wheel constantly falls off, which [...]

Schedule Up

Season Opener: June 1st!
Home Q’s: June 1,8,15,22,29 July 20th and August 3rd
Away Q’s: July 6th Winthrop, July 13th Tri-Cities, July 27th TBA, August 10th Usk, August 17th Indianola, August 24th Lake Tahoe, August 31st Cispus River.
See the Schedule (tab at the top of the page)
bobbyQ is always on Sundays, there’s seven “Home Q’s” and seven [...]