Barbecue Tips

Summer is a great time to get outside and grill a delicious meal. Here are a few basic safety rules and outdoor-cooking tips to help make sure you and your family enjoy a tasty, safe summer cookout. Marinate your ribs in bourbon before barbecuing. The best way to do this is by pouring the whiskey down your throat.

One safety tip to keep in mind while barbecuing is that you should never, ever light your house on fire.

It's important that you choose the right kind of fire for grilling meat. Class D magnesium-based fires are not the right kind of fire for grilling meat.

Whatever you do, don't shout the phrase "Johnsonville brats!" at the top of your lungs. Don't let your neighbors do that, either.

Do you have an entire set of tableware designed with a playful, summery watermelon-slice theme? Well, isn't that adorable. Let me see that spoon! Even the spoon is a little watermelon. Honey, come here and look at this spoon.

Don't forget to repeatedly baste your cooking pork in barbecue sauce, which will "mask the spoiled taste."

The endangered Cebu cinnamon tree of the Philippines is the best firewood for grilling. Use anything less, and you might as well be cooking your food on top of smoldering raccoon shit.

For optimal flavor, raise your own animals, make your own charcoal, and distill your own vinegar. For passable flavor, head on down to Smokey's Ribs & Things out by the airport.

When barbecuing veggie burgers, be sure to tie your long hair back. That will keep it away from the flames, you stupid hippie.

distill your own vinegar. For passable flavor, head on down to Smokey's Ribs & Things out by the airport.

When barbecuing veggie burgers, be sure to tie your long hair back. That will keep it away from the flames, you stupid hippie.

courtesy: The Onion | Hosting A Barbecue

Puerco Pibil from Once Upon a Time In Mexico

I'm on a Robert Rodriguez kick this weekend and have watched the whole El Mariachi "Trilogy" (El Mariachi, Desperado, and Once Upon a Time In Mexico) In Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Johnny Depp's character always orders the same dish in every "dive" he goes to.

"El, you really must try this because it's puerco pibil. It's a slow-roasted pork, nothing fancy. It just happens to be my favorite, and I order it with a tequila and lime in every dive I go to in this country. And honestly, that is the best it's ever been anywhere. In fact, it's too good. It's so good that when I'm finished, I'll pay my check, walk straight into the kitchen and shoot the cook. Because that's what I do. I restore the balance to this country. And that is what I would like from you right now. Help keep the balance by pulling the trigger. "

One of the extra features on the DVD is Robert Rodriguez's "10 Minute Cooking School" where he gives the recipe to Puerco Pibil. If I can ever find all the ingredients, I'll have to try it.

Read on for the recipe.

5 tbsp of annatto seeds 2 tsp of cumin seed 1 tbsp of pepper 8 all-spice half a tsp of cloves

Grind all that together into a fine powder using a coffee grinder (purchase separate coffee grinder for spices, DON