Drive in to learn about the start of my journey of LJBBQ!
I am Mitch, and I am the head Pitmaster here at Lovely Jubbly BBQ. I want to use this opportunity to welcome you and introduce myself a little bit. I also want to take the opportunity to tell you the purpose behind my blog and my goals for it as well.
I have always loved grilling and during the ever popular Covid era I asked my awesome wife, Dani, if I could by my first smoker for my birthday. I found the Pit Boss Classic while shopping online and having very little experience with smokers at the time, I based my decision off the online reviews I saw and bought it that day.
My first weekend I had it all set up I cooked every day and did my first every pork butt, brisket flat and some chicken. The pork butt turned out fantastic, and the brisket flat did not, but from that moment on, I was hooked.
I was then asked to cook for my step dad’s birthday in Monticello, MN on the first weekend in May and naturally, if you are looking to cook for many people, a small cooker isn’t going to get the job done. This lead me to buying the Pit Boss Sportsman 1100, which was more than twice the size of the Classic and able to feed the masses. I ordered it to be sent right to their home so I would only have to travel with it once, but it never showed. I ended up doing the entire party on a gas grill; pulled pork and all. Amazingly the pulled pork turned out well enough to be eaten, but the brisket flat was burnt to a crisp.
2 weeks late(r) the new one arrived and my horizons opened up even more with 2 cookers. Since then, I have acquired a Masterbuilt 1050 Vertical Charcoal Smoker, 2 Weber 22″ Kettles, an Oklahoma Joes Bronco Drum Smoker and a custom built (by the previous owner) Rotisserie pig roaster trailer. In this seemingly long 4 years, I have spent a lot of time and effort creating my own line of BBQ rubs and sauces (on sale soon), multiple BBQ competitions with many more to come, and a lot of fun trying to come up with my own recipes that I will be sharing with you over time.
With this blog, I plan on sharing a new recipe every week and offering my insights on the recipe itself and I hope to encourage you to make it yourself for your own friends and family. In addition, to the recipe of the week, I also want to do a wing recipe of the month because I love wings, especially during football season. Every blog post will be cross-posted to my Lovely Jubbly BBQ Facebook page and I hope that it will generate some conversation as well. My goal is that if you have any questions, comment on the link for the post and I am always happy to answer anything that comes up, and I would hope that if you know the answer, that you would respectfully jump in and help! I know how social media can be, and bullying and rude comments will not be tolerated.
Given that this week is the introductory post, I will not be sharing a recipe, but you can look forward to my whole hog follow-up from this past weekend.
As always, Keep cookin’, and Lovely Jubbly!
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