June and July Happenings

Well, June was pretty busy with two contests in the month as well as all of the other hectic stuff that comes with the Summer months.

June 12th and 13th found us in Haleyville, AL for the 911 Festival. This is a great contest with organizers who go out of their way for the cooks. We were hoping for a dry contest as it seems that the Tour de Egg is becoming The EGG Ark tour as it has rained more than we have ever seen. Well, this weekend proved no different, however you have to throw in 78 mph straight line winds into it. We were fortunate and did not take much damage, but we can't say that about everyone as it looked like an EX-UP graveyard around the dumpsters on Saturday morning. We had a pretty decent showing with a 3rd place call in chicken and a 1st in pork. Congrats to Mike and Debbie of Lotta Bull and Scott and Suzi of SouthPork on their Grand and Reserve wins!

Two weeks later we were back in Lawrenceburg, TN. This has always seemed to be the hottest weekend of the year and this year was no different. Thursday night's Red Beans and Rice dinner was fantastic as was the Saturday breakfast. We were cooking this weekend with a Master Judge Candidate which was a lot of fun. Hopefully he learned something as I know we did. Thanks Sydney for helping out! We found ourselves making one call to the stage for Pork with a 9th place finish which we were proud of.

The EGGseQuetive Council will be taking July and August off to get ready for the beginning of the Fall 09 semester at UNA as well as take our summer PhD. course at Colorado State University. We are hoping to get rolling again in September. We know for sure that we will be in Florence for the ABA contest at McFarland Park (a palce both Tammy and I think will be one of the best spots in the country for a contest).

That's all for now....see you down the trail!

Are you kidding me??

Has it really been since January that I last updated the Blog? I must appologize to the loyal reader (snicker) who has visited us on a daily basis to check up on the happenings of the EGGseQuetive Council....yes, we have been in EGGseQuetive Session, so I am not at liberty to discuss what was going on. But I can give you a brief rundown of the last few months lin the lives of the EGGseQuetive Council.

Started off the season in Mississippi...Columbus to be exact, home of the Mississippi University for Women (they are co-ed however). We had a fair showing for our first event. Beautiful location, a transformer blew in the middle of prep, no lights, no generator......wait it out.

Headed to Auburn, AL for a first time event. I did not take shop in High School, so building the Ark was out of the question as it was really needed. Take the weather out of the picture and this might be one of the top contests in the country in the future! Had some good calls in Pork and Brisket.

Winchester, TN was next on the Tour de Egg. This was the first time in four years that Kevin did not compete with Team Bobby-Q.....might want to rethink that decision in the future as we have seen better days for sure.

The 4th contest of the year saw Kevin cooking solo, well without Tammy. He did cook with a Master Judge Candidate that weekend in Athens, AL. Turned out to be a good event as the EGGseQuetive Council took their first GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP of the year.....boy was that exciting!!!

Huntsville, AL....Tammy's hometown was next. Interesting contest.........we will leave it at that.

Pulaski, TN....home of Sundrop Soda....mmmmmmmm....was our 6th contest of the year. We had some really soft ground and a not so hot finish...we will be back though as it was a very well run contest and it was nice visiting all of our friends.

On top of all of this, we both finished six more credit hours towards our PhD from Colorado State. Lots of writing, reading and time on the phone.

We have had a great time so far this year and hope to continue on with it. We appreciate all the support we get from our Sponsors and friends both on the circuit and off.

Hopefully, I can update this a little more often and share some more great times with you all!

-Kevin

New Sponsor!

The EGGseQuetive Council is excited to announce that the Madhava Honey Company will be on board with us this year as a product sponsor.  Tammy and I discovered their honey this past summer while in school in Colorado.  We bought a few bottles of their Ambrosia - a honey made at an altitude of 10,000 feet in the Colorado Mountains.  This 100% Pure unfiltered honey is the best tasting honey we have ever tasted and we now use it exclusively on our BBQ.  Pay them a visit and see what all they have to offer, and if you run into us at a contest, we should have some samples for you to try!

2009 Schedule

Well after talking with Tammy, the following is what our 2009 is looking like.  We are hoping to keep true to this schedule although there may be times where Kevin is flying solo.  So if we are in a town near you, please stop by and say hi!

2009

01/24/09 to 01/25/09      KCBS Awards Banquet     Nashville, TN

03/20/09 to 03/21/09      Grilling on the River    Columbus, MS

03/27/09 to 03/29/09      Bodagettabbq    Auburn, AL

04/17/09 to 04/18/09      Winchester High on the Hog    Winchester, TN

04/24/09 to 04/25/09      Best Buckin' Bull BBQ     Athens, AL

05/01/09 to 05/02/09      Whistle Stop Festival     Huntsville, AL

05/08/09 to 05/09/09      Sundrop BBQ     Pulaski, TN

05/15/09 to 05/22/09      Family Vacation

06/12/09 to 06/13/09      Haleyville 9-1-1 BBQ Cookoff      Haleyville, AL

06/26/09 to 06/27/09      AT&T State BBQ Championship   Lawrenceburg, TN

07/06/09 to 07/14/09     Time off for Doctoral Class Work

07/15/09 to 07/19/09     Gateway Canyons Resort  Big Green Egg Cooking Class     Grand Junction, CO

08/08                             Time off for Beginning of School Year at UNA!

09/11/09 to 09/12/09     Benton County Fair & BBQ     Ashland, MS

09/18/09 to 09/19/09     Riverfest     Decatur, AL

10/15/09 to 10/18/09     Eggtoberfest

Something Cool

If you take the time to explore this website you may find something pretty cool!

www.gatewaycanyons.com

-Kevin

Decatur, AL

This is the 4th year that Kevin has cooked in Decatur, and the third team name he has cooked under. The first year was with some local guys from the Shoals, the following two was with our old team and this year marked the FIRST year as the EGGseQuetive Council. Well, I think we finally hit on something as Decatur has been really rough to Kevin in the past. This contest also had a little kink in our normal schedule as Tammy and Kevin had to go back to Madison at noon on Friday for their class phone call. We did not get back to Decatur til after 7pm which already had us 1 hour behind our normal schedule.

We had some great neighbors as our friends Jiggy Piggy, Lotta Bull BBQ and the Haleyville Super Smokers were right across from us. Let me tell you, the slaw dogs that Jiggy Piggy had on Friday evening were awesome, Tammy and I have been making them for lunch quite often. 74 Teams turned out for this awesome event at Ingalls Harbor in Decatur. In the end, we had a pretty good weekend, taking a 4th in Pork, 2nd in Brisket (Boy that Culinary Prep is working well now!) and 4th overall. We were really excited with the outcomes for Decatur. We are already planning our upcoming season and it should be fun. We are going to be missing this for a few months but we will be back soon!

Ashland, MS

We have been to Ashland before with our old team, however this marked the first time we went to the Fall contest. Tammy and I pulled in early Friday morning to find that we had choice of sites.....so naturally we picked the one with the only 30 Amp plug :) After getting things set up and the air going in the trailer, Tammy used her spare time to get caught up on reading and Kevin decided to get caugt up on some sleep. (Side note, if you have never slept in an enclosed trailer with air conditioning, it is like a cave, a very nice, cold, dark cave). We decided to bring our Schnauze Sydney along on the trip with us this time and she had a blast saying hi to everyone around.

The contest was a lot of fun. Our friends Piggin and Grinin' LLC were there as well as Candy from BBQrs Delight who won Grand that weekend (Congrats Candy!!). The contest was held in conjunction with the Benton County Fair which had all of the fair goods AND a rodeo. Well, being from Michigan, I do not know what a rodeo is and had to check it out. Bull Riding, calf roping and rodeo clowns and all...it was an experience.

In the end, we finished 5th in Chicken, 4th in Ribs and 2nd in Brisket (Our FIRST Brisket call of the year!!!!) and 3rd overall. It was a good contest and we had a lot of fun.