Get ready to celebrate Texas Twinkie Day October 16

 

https://www.royhutchinsbbq.com/

Both versions of Hutchins BBQ will be celebrating Texas Twinkie Day on October 16.  Roy Hutchins is offering buy 2, get one free (while supplies last) at their Trophy Club location.  Plus, they are holding a raffle for one year of free twinkies for 3 lucky winners.

https://hutchinsbbq.com/

Hutchins BBQ in McKinney and Frisco will also be celebrating.  They will have $4 twinkies with a limit of 4 and will be raffling off a bunch of goodies between 5 and 8:30 pm.   T-shirts, cowboys tickets, boots, and Hutchins gift certificates will be in the raffle.

Get it While You Can

https://www.greenstexasbbq.com/

 sampled 9/27/25 about 11:10 am

With Green's Texas BBQ closing in just 3 months, I'll be getting it while I can.  I got there about 10:15 and was second in line.  He opened early, about 10:50 am, and there were already 20 people cued up behind us.  Everything was outstanding, as always, and I'll be heating up the rest for dinner this week.

Green's is closing!!

 

Oh no!  Don Green has announced on his Facebook page that he is retiring from BBQ after December 6, 2025.  No more "All N 1", brisket biscuits, or pork belly bites.  Wah!!!!  I shall endeavour to get as many as I can between now and then!  Wah!!!!

Roy Hutchins Original BBQ, Trophy Club

 

https://www.royhutchinsbbq.com/

sampled 8/19/25 about 1:30 pm

Scott was having BBQ withdrawal symptoms so we met up at Roy's to cure his shakes.  I got my usual brisket, ribs, twinkie, and pork belly burnt ends.  Everything was up to snuff except for the ribs.  They were tough and chewy.   

We were almost the only customers in the dining room at 2:30 pm, so there's a clue for future visits.

Smoked Salmon redux, 7/29/25

 

Oops we did it again.  Another 8.4 lbs of salmon went into our little bullet smoker and came out like this.  Scrumptious stuff.  The Hatch chili peppers arrived home a bit late, so they get their own little smoke session after we pulled the fish.  The fish came off much easier with my big brisket shovel.  That contented sigh you hear every evening about dinner time will be coming from our kitchen.

BBQ Grill Mitts

 

My wife's nephew brought me a pair of these to use with our smoker.  I think they will work fine with brisket, ribs, sausage, steaks, veggies, burgers, and most of the stuff we smoke or grill.  What they do not work well with is fish.  My first attempt to use these was on some big salmon filets and they were just too tender to pick up.  I got them all up, but we lost some of that great salmon because it was just falling apart tender.  Still, it is an interesting idea and I will use these on other stuff in the future.

Basically, they are like two big rubber tortillas with handles on the back.  

smoked salmon, 7/26/25

 

So my Mrs. found salmon for what passes as a sale these days, $5.97/lb, and snapped up a couple of fresh filets.  About 8 1/2 pounds worth.  That's all that will fit on our little smoker.  She may go back and grab a couple more before it goes off sale on Tuesday and we'll do a repeat.  Fresh Hatch peppers were also in, so she grabbed a few of those to go in with the salmon.  Yeah, I know, THAT'S NOT BBQ!, but it sure is good.  2 hours on the smoker and we'll be smiling.