A Little Comedy For the New Year

Hard to grill with two feet of snow in the way. However this combination of two Hallmark Xmas ornaments and a menu from the Weber Grill Restaurant in Chicago light up my day

Tropic-Al's: Almost Surfside Dining 

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

New Year, New Attitude

 Tropic-Al's has not posted much this year. 2011 will be different. More on Q ad on Time



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

Perfect Smoke Ring

Excellent pink smoke ring on this pork butt (look at lower part of photograph)  just before it got shredded and mixed  with a batch of homemade BBQ sauce.

This three pound butt was cued over hardwood charcoal for 3/12 hours. Alongside to keep company were fresh from the garden taters (potatoes to the liberal artsy crowd) and umyuns (onions to you elistist snobs)

The sauce in keeping with the Tropic-Al's theme was island inspired. Tomato base, crushed plums, allspice, nutmeg, clove and a good dose of RUM along with several other secret ingredients