Cookin' some meat

I saw an offer on Travelzoo weekly deals for a half price BBQ cooking class through a caterer near us.  I bought us two passes and found a random little Sunday in February to take advantage of it.

It was nothing really at all like I had expected.  I thought we'd be a small group in some guy's kitchen - cooking, hands on, tasting, taking home the leftovers.  Nope.  It was in a Barbecue's Galore (a retail store that sells barbecues and was open for business) and there were about 40 people in the class.

 Big Jim teaching the rookies

It was definitely just demonstration, although there was lots of eating eventually:  brisket, pulled pork, salad, coleslaw, potato salad, chicken, sausage, asparagus, pineapple, tri tip, steelhead (fish), ribs, ribeye.  All the food was appreciated since the class was 5 1/2 hours long!!

Overall, Big Jim was realllllly full of himself.  He looooved to talk about his competition cooking (no one here wants to cook competitive BBQ, really!) and didn't really have his teaching skills honed.  We definitely had some take home points - but it was a long 5 1/2 hours. 

The top secret recipe that we were specifically told NOT to put on the internet

All the recipes were for slow cooking (read 12 hours long), and large cuts of meat.  So if anyone wants to come over, we'll test out our new barbecue skills on ya!

So #97: LivingSocial item #2 - Check!!