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Take a tip from an old timer who knows. Trash the hatchet and get a regular axe. Hatchets are inherently dangerous. Axes usually require 2 hands to use instead of one. I came this - close to losing a thumb once. Still have the scar to prove it.
Stan
I tasted my first BBQ about 1950. When I was a boy they had an association meeting under a huge grove of pecan trees in our neighboring county. Usually had attendance of 500 or so. A few days before the meeting men dug a pit about 4 ft. deep, 6 ft. wide, and probably 40 feet long. They filled it...
Great Idea! I don't know why I hadn't thought of it. I don't use my peppermill much due to my arthritic wrist, but believe me that peppermill is about to go to work.
Stan
Here's the straight dope, original-real-Texas Chili:
8 lbs. coarse ground meat (the best is from around the neck bones.)
3 lbs. suet ( Beef fat)
4 pods dried red chili peppers
6 cloves garlic
1 tsp. cumin seed
10 pods dried chili petines
1 tsp. black pepper
1 Tablespoon salt
Method: Place meat...
This is Bull. Someone abandoned him in a trash barrel in a city park. It was a cold rainy night in February. My daughter lives across the street from the park and heard him crying. She took him to her house, warmed him up and gave him something to eat. She couldn't keep him, so I took him...
Here is a sure fire way to clean cast iron. Put it in a fire. I mean a campfire or barbecue pit with enough fire to get the skillet red hot all over. Don't remove it from the fire. Just let it stay there until the next day when the fire has gone out and it is cool. You will find that the rust...
IRON SKILLET POTATOES
1/4 cup bacon fat
4 cups thinly sliced raw potatoes
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
1 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. black pepper
1/2 tsp. leaf sage
1 tsp. chopped parsley
Heat bacon fat in skillet over low heat; add potatoes, onion and seasonings.
Cover and cook about 15 minutes. Turn...
The late Walter Jetton who catered barbecues for President Johnson at the LBJ ranch had this to say in the book he wrote:
"It may be a surprise, but you can make a real dingwilly of a dish of plain old bologna by pepping it up on the grill. Take the casing off whatever size chunk you want to...