Open for The Season-ing

                Tropic-Al's: Almost Surfside Dining

Tropic-Al's is open for the season and BBQing has begun. Going to have a lot of Q's outside this season. The invitation is open! looking forward to the new garden as well. Turns out a spinning wheel I bought at an auction this weekend is way too big for our colonial re-do of the living room. So the 48" diameter wheel will be come my "BBQ Garden" and the main 4x4 from the 1800's that was the frame for the whole thing is a perfect fit for our fireplace mantel!



                               Tropic-Al's: A Banana Republic in The Catskills

Superb BBQ in Utah!

BANDIT'S GRILL AND BAR

PARK CITY, UTAH

Bandits BBQ indeed is the best in the west as the sign concurs. Excellent nachos, outstanding brisket BBQ sandwich and good beer.Located about 45 minutes outside Salt Lake City in Park City Utah. Stay there if you need to go to the Salt Lake Area. Salt Lake City SUCKS



Tropic-Al's: A Banana Republic in The Catskills

Revolutionary Picnic and Carnivale a Success

Tropic-Al's: Almost Surfside Dining

We started "cooking " Friday night the third of July for our big shindig an Saturday. I spent three and one half hours formulating my famous BBQ sauce, grilling eggplant slices, making salsa, grilling the sausage for the stuffed peppers and, finishing the menu.

Saturday at 6AM I began cutting the veggies, cleaning the grill and making sure the weather would hold up. Well the morons at the weather desk got it wrong again. While the sun shown brightly the wind whipped about all day scattering napkins and tortillas all over the island.

The 4 pound pork shoulder I had on the charcoal pit should have taken only three hours to cook. The wind prevented the inside of the grill from heating up enough and the internal temp of Porky the Pigs' shoulder was stuck at 130* for over an hour!


To remedy I added a layer of coals on the opposite side of my Smokenator 1000 and that fixed the problem. Two forks tore into perfect pork and pulled it apart into thousands of perfectory pieces that were then soaked down with "Partial Eclipse" BBQ sauce. The final product was devoured by the guests leaving me with only two fork fulls!!!! So much for "Kiss the Cook". Ended up taking almost fiver hours!

Also on the menu: Tortillas with spices and cheese, fajitas with all the fixins, eggplant with capressa, corn on the cob, spaghetti squash, sausage IN peppers, shrimp, shark, clams, scallops, garlic bread. NOT ONE HOT DOG OR HAMBURGER WAS GRILLED!!!!

This was gourmet 'Cue devoured by 20 guests. The guests left the island just after 9PM. We then sailed down wind and watched the fireworks from a high point and felt good seeing more than a dozen other islands scattered about celebrating Tropic-Al's "Revolutionary Picnic and Carnivale"

Tropic-Al's: A Banana Republic in The Catskills