Summer Greetings & my Pampered Chef Adventure!

I don't know about you all but my 2017 is going by soooo fast!  I am shocked that it has been so long since I posted...apologies!

Lots of changes for me...good over all for sure!  The one I really want to share with you all is my adventure as a Pampered Chef person.  I have been a fan of Pampered Chef for over 20 years...which is crazy that I am old enough to use numbers like that...LOL!  I think that stuff sneaks up on a person for sure.

My children are both off to college and I was ready for a new adventure plus like a said I just love their stuff.  What really, really sold me was their amazing spiralizer!  I have been trying to incorporate much more veggies in my diet and I love spring rolls...total win, win with this amazing tool.

When doing spring rolls I have learned it is all about the prep...so I get all my veggies spiralized, the carrot, english cucumber or zucchini, poach my shrimp in lime juice with minced garlic, julienne some cabbage or iceburg lettuce, sweet red peppers & sweet onions, make lime wedges and have fresh basil and yummy slices of avocado on hand.  I simply put the strands of rice vermicelli into very hot tap water and put a lid on the container right when I start my prep.

Then you just quickly dip your wrapper into a bowl of room temp water, lay it on your plate and start assembling & wrapping your rolls.  My favorite dipping sauce, by far, is a mixture of 2 parts Lighthouse Ginger Sesame dressing, 1 part soy sauce with a dollop each of Garlic Chili Sauce and Sesame Oil - so yummy!  I use this also on any leftover veggies or vermicelli threads as a cool sauce...tasty with just a little kick to keep you alert!

I hope you have enjoyed this little tutorial.  My plan is to try and share a product I love and how I use it each week.  So many things have me excited...next week is the cold brew coffee maker and how I do iced summer coffee...very refreshing!

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will enjoy these little tutorials...it is a bit out of my comfort zone but 2017 is all about learning new things for me!  Enjoy your weekend!

BBQ Buckwild Giveaway!

Jump on over to the BBQ Buckwild site to win some cool swag in celebration of May being National BBQ Month!  Plus, please be sure to like us on Facebook!

Crushing on our friends at Fillmore Container

We just love our buddies at Fillmore, excellent products, excellent customer service, excellent pricing.  BBQ Buckwild and the Cayuse Cowgirl salute their quality products!

8oz & 4oz Jars and one piece lids from Fillmore Container

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What a Summer! & Announcing our Recipes Page

Happy Almost August Friends!

This has been such a busy summer...I used to think my days were busy until BBQ Buckwild came into our lives.  The Mastermind and I are still working our day jobs so it makes for a Summer Marathon with all the events that we have done since we got our professional smoker this spring.  She came April 27th (please note my last post!) and we have been running ever since.  This is her below:

Since then we have done  the BBQ Buckaroo Challenge (her second week with us-placed 2nd!), two weddings, two concessions booths( one for baseball one for a car show), a half dozen + tastings with local wineries, a class reunion, a graduation, the Pendleton Relay for Life Survivors Dinner, an FFA Function plus multiple private dinners on top of that - Wowsers!

The Mastermind loves this smoker, she has even made him enjoy cooking chicken...a miracle in itself!  His smoked chicken breasts make amazing chicken salad! For the Holidays we are planning on smoking turkeys with our seasonal Spicy Cranberry Sauce...so yummy!

We are happily providing sauce to over 20 locations now!  Truly this has been just an amazing summer.    Our children are our right hands...our son is the Mastermind's main helper when it comes to smokes and making sauce and our daughter helps out with this as well plus helps me do our amazing Candied Jalapenos on top of her other jobs!

We have had many requests for recipes from our customers and we are happy to announce the launch of the BBQ Buckwild Recipes Page!   We will update regularly so if you come across one you like be sure to copy it that day as they will change with each update.

We just want to say again how blessed we feel at all the positive feedback and encouragement we have received.  We are a work in progress and your feedback and support mean a lot - Thank You!


PS If you are interested in where we got this beauty...she was a custom build from Lonestar Grillz out of TX.  Chris & Amber are terrific people and make a truly quality product!

Appetizer Turns Meal...

 

This is a wonderful addition to your holiday bounty.  So much cheaper to make than to purchase in those little jars!  If you are not a fan of Velveeta you can substitute 2 cups shredded colby cheese but I love the super smooth consistancy of Velveeta. Enjoy!