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The Surprising Backyard Dish for This Autumn’s Grilling Season: Grilled Cabbage Wedges

Break out from the old, routine grill fare this weekend and get ready to greet your family and friends with some real, culinary pizzazz!

Okay! It’s Friday morning. The weekend is just around the corner, and you’re already anticipating time at the grill, cooking something truly memorable for your family and friends. This weekend, you want to surprise them with something totally terrific and completely unexpected! When most people think about backyard cooking, burgers, ribs, or possibly even some perfectly grilled steaks come to…

The Surprising Backyard Dish for This Autumn’s Grilling Season: Grilled Cabbage Wedges

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Step Up Your Outdoor Cooking with a Chuck Box: 3 Reasons Why

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. — 1 Cor 10:31 IN THE BEGINNING “Chuck Boxes! They’re just for campers! They’re not for Bubba Chefs!” That’s what a lot of backyard culinary artists are saying these days. If you’re in that group, we’d like to say, give it another thought—please. While chuck boxes are definitely not in the Bible, we’re…

Step Up Your Outdoor Cooking with a Chuck Box: 3 Reasons Why

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Create Culinary Magic: 3 Game-Changing Gadgets for Your Backyard Bistro

Fellow Bubba Chefs, gather ‘round. We have a story to tell and a picture to paint for you: It’s a balmy early evening. The smell of your secret sauce is wafting through the air. And your family and friends are drooling over what you’re about to throw on the grill. But hold on!  Is your Backyard Bistro really up to snuff? Is it at the level that equals what the zealots who are your culinary fans…

Create Culinary Magic: 3 Game-Changing Gadgets for Your Backyard Bistro

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Grilled Cornbread: Master the Art with a Cast Iron Skillet

Our latest culinary escapade started like so many others—with a spark of curiosity and a burning question from a friend. “Opa,” he asked, his eyes gleaming with anticipation, “can I really bake cornbread in my backyard on a grill?” “You bet you can,” I replied confidently. “But there’s a trick or two you need to know to make it work like a charm.” And then, I extended my usual…

Grilled Cornbread: Master the Art with a Cast Iron Skillet

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The Three Most Important Tools for a Backyard Bistro (And Why They Might Surprise You!)

When you think about setting up your backyard bistro, the usual suspects come to mind: a grill, some trusty tongs, and maybe a cooler full of frosty beverages. But what if we told you the three most important tools are ones you didn’t even consider? Whether you’re a seasoned Bubba Chef or just getting started, these unexpected essentials will elevate your outdoor cooking game like never…

The Three Most Important Tools for a Backyard Bistro (And Why They Might Surprise You!)

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Get Fired Up! Keeping Your Cast Iron Cookware in Tip-Top Shape

Unless you’re firing up your cast iron every night, you might not be familiar with all the tricks to keeping it in prime cooking condition. Don’t sweat it—we’ve got you covered! We’re diving into the essential steps for seasoning your new cast iron, cleaning it up after a big cookout, and even rescuing it from the rust graveyard if it’s been neglected for a while. Cast Iron Kitchen Staples Cast…

Get Fired Up! Keeping Your Cast Iron Cookware in Tip-Top Shape

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Unlocking Bubba’s Secrets: 50 Ingredients That’ll Transform Your Cooking

Ever had that one dish—maybe it’s pound cake, lasagna, or something else—that someone makes so perfectly, it’s like a little slice of heaven? You ask for the recipe, certain that with a little effort, you can recreate the magic at home. So, you get the recipe, sometimes scrawled on a piece of paper, in the unmistakable handwriting of a seasoned cook. You rush home, gather the ingredients, follow…

Unlocking Bubba’s Secrets: 50 Ingredients That’ll Transform Your Cooking

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Why 25 Recipes? It’s About More Than Just Good Cooking!

Some of our friends have begun asking, “Why do you put 25 recipes in each of your cookbooks? What’s so special about that number?” It’s a fair question, and we’re happy to answer. First Things First There’s nothing magical about the number 25. It’s simply a number that felt right to us. After all, when you’re putting together a cookbook, you need enough recipes to make it worth the reader’s…

Why 25 Recipes? It’s About More Than Just Good Cooking!

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Bubba’s Bistro Cookbook: The Redneck Ingredient Makes The Difference

“Redneck” is one of those rare words that nearly everyone thinks they know what it means, but few people can actually define it. Some cultural and media elitists have described a redneck as: ”…a working-class white person, especially a politically reactionary one from a rural area” — Oxford Language and Google We have a different idea about rednecks, especially when food is involved. Let’s…

Bubba’s Bistro Cookbook: The Redneck Ingredient Makes The Difference

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Tiny Houses

Well, they’re not the most popular style of living in the Palmetto State, but we are seeing more and more of them as we travel. When we can, we try to connect with the owner, builder, or creator to see what’s inside. Some of them are pretty stunning. BIG COMFORT Here are three pictures we recently got. We’ve named each one for our blog based on their general location. Of course, a tiny house…

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Love doesn’t get old like our bodies do. It just keeps on growing. Where there is love, there is life. Life is good because of love!

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Near the swamps of the Palmetto State, they call it “rolling prayer.” That’s when a biker spends his day praying for people as he rides the backroads. He might not know where he is when he pulls over at the end of the day to build a campfire, but he knows he’s not the one who is lost. And he prays for those who are lost and don’t even know it.

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A man doesn’t know what kind of a fool he has been until he gets too old to change any of that. Fortunately, his granddaughters still think he is something special. And a wise, old man doesn’t do anything to change her mind.

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There’s nothing quite like a good campfire and a beautiful moon when you get done with a long day of riding. It’s okay to be alone with your thoughts — sometimes it’s even preferred.

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Old friends! They’re not always the “best friends,” but they are the ones who will stick with you for a lifetime. And sometimes, we still ride with our old friends.

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There’s nothing quite like an old story teller sitting on his porch after the sun sets. The stories aren’t lies, but there not quite the truth either. Folks in the Lowcountry just call them “almost true stories.”

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Folks in the Bull Swamp, not far from the Lowcountry, know how to get away and enjoy nature and the peace that can be found far from the cities. The place in this picture is reminiscent of a place we know of as “The Shabby.” It sits far back from the roads on a quiet pond that shows off the moon very well.