Another great giveaway! Win a $60.00 gift certificate!

Coming back from vacation always leaves me exhausted, not being rested or relaxed as I should be, I’ll blame that on my boys. We went to the O.C. Fair where I did three days of demo’s and then we followed up with two days of LegoLand! Now you know why this was so exhausting, on top of the 6 plus hours of driving time, multiple food and restroom stops, “when are we there?’ questions and so on….

So …. I need a little excitement and all of my readers are going to provide it!

I was approached by CSN stores with another opportunity to give you a chance to win a $60.00 gift certificate to their 200+ stores!

CSN Stores has over 200 online stores where you can find everything from cookware to cribs to dining room sets and dog beds! CSN Stores are huge, they have everything you can imagine and more, just check out their Outdoor Cooking store!

Suppose you’ll want to know how to win this $60.00 gift certificate? I am going to make this easy but you will have to put some thought into it as well. Ready, set, go:

“What do you want me to teach you next?”

For the past three years I have been teaching the “Cooking Everything Outdoors” philosophy based on my own whims and tastes but I have probably skipped over a ton of information that you are looking for. So now is your chance to let me know what you are looking for from me. There are thousands of readers out there and you all are eligible to enter!

Just enter a comment with your idea of “What do you want me to teach you next?” and you will be entered and if you have multiple ideas then you can enter multiple times; though I can only choose one winner.

Simple rules:

  1. You must make a comment with a suggestion.
  2. You may make multiple comments.
  3. You cannot mention this contest on the CSN stores Facebook page.
  4. Twittering this: “Hurry and enter to win the newest @CookingOutdoors contest! http://bit.ly/a9y9J1 You could win a $60.00 gift certificate to CSNstores.com” (without the quotes) will get you extra entries (only if you make a comment here first).
  5. This contest ends on Jul 31, 2010 at 11.59pm
  6. Winner will be contacted by CSN Stores.
  7. You must include your name and email with your comment (Please do not insert it in the comment).

That’s it!

Good luck!

Disclosure: CSN Stores has not provided me any compensation for this promotion.

“Get out of the kitchen! Light the fire! Start cooking outdoors”
fire052 Another great giveaway! Win a $60.00 gift certificate!



Where does the word BBQ come from?

Have you noticed that “barbeque” has been spelled in many different ways? “BBQ,” “barbeque,” ”bar-b-q” or “barbecue”. Whatever the spelling may be, millions of people will attest to the goodness of BBQ’s aroma and taste. It is very popular and almost everybody is trying to innovate something new with it.

According to the website Red, Hot & Blue BBQ, the word barbecue devolves from Taino, a pre-Columbian Caribbean language, the native method described by the word — the slow drying of sliced, spiced meat, over a low, smoky fire — seems to have been fairly widespread in the eastern Caribbean at the time of European contact, being practiced in what would become Brazil as well as in what would become Virginia. But it was in Virginia and in the Carolinas that barbecue as we know it would begin to evolve. In Virginia, British colonists observed the Native American method of drying meat on a grill of green sticks over a smoking fire and soon married this method to their own interest in spit-cooking hogs and other small animals. The British introduced their own native practices; including basting — either with butter or with vinegar — keep meats from drying while cooking.

And the rest they say is history ….

Whatever you call it, BBQ, Barbecue, Barbeque? I call it plan good eatin!

“Get out of the kitchen! Light the fire! Start cooking outdoors”
fire052 Where does the word BBQ come from?



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