Making some barbecue sauce!

Tomato paste-based: most of the usual suspects involved as well, with the odd exception of bay leaves (the recipe I grabbed largely at random called for it). We’re now at the ‘let it simmer for an hour’ stage: I’ll be using it tonight to glaze some boneless chicken thighs I picked up. Have that with some corn and maybe roasted potatoes, and it’ll be a thing.

Still trying to decide what to do with the boneless pork ribs I also grabbed. Slow-cooking them in the sauce will not find favor with my wife, and it’s a little early to start up the grill (I’m not so hot at grilling things anyway). Thoughts?

Moe Lane

The (liberal) Austin, Texas City Council’s War on Barbecue.

(H/T Reason): Yikes.

If you live on the outskirts of Austin, your suburb might be the new target for barbecue joints looking to open in Travis County. That is if prospective restaurateurs see a new resolution from the Austin City Council as too onerous. It requires that barbecue smokers (and other wood-fired cooking devices) be placed at least 100 feet from adjacent residential property lines, or that they “mitigate the impact of smoke emissions” on their neighbors.

And, yeah, this is serious: Continue reading The (liberal) Austin, Texas City Council’s War on Barbecue.