Monday, August 1, 2011

Life is to short for ordinary food. ~ unknown

    Imagine this: 13 Traegers (smokers), 13 teams of people cooking... and 12 of the teams are fire fighters.  Yes, girls you read that right. 12 teams of fire fighters.  So who was the odd team? Me and my friend Stacy (and our mascot, Kenzie).  The annual Traegerfest is put on by one of our Captains and you must be an employee of the fire district in order to compete.  Stacy and I work for the fire district thus making us eligible to compete.
 
  

I hate to cook.  However, there is a difference however between cooking and BBQing.  Usually Matt does all the BBQing, but since last weekend was a duty weekend for the air base here, that left me to compete in the annual Traegerfest.  Me and Stacy that is (and kenzie).


    This year there was no "theme" and we were open to cook (smoke) whatever we wanted! We chose to do wings!

During practice (into the wee hours of the morning) it took us 3 hours to make these little beauties... however, when the temperature is tipping into the 90 degrees during the middle of the day, this apparently makes these tiny wonderful meaty greatness cook a little faster... like 2 hours faster! oops.  They were a little dry, but they still packed a pretty good punch... besides we were there for the best dressed anyways....did you see our half naked fire fighter aprons? hee hee.
we didn't win (meatloaf did), however from what we understand, we placed in the top 5!!! not too shabby for a couple of girls competing against a bunch of fire fighters - who should know their smoke...get it? smoke? fire fighters? ha! I kill me.  





What's a good blog post without a cute photo of Kenzie?