Ingredients: Fresh Tomatoes – 2 or 3 medium sized, chopped Red onion – about half, sliced up Garlic – 2-6 cloves, chopped White wine – Hey, red works, too Olive oil, Worcestershire, Cholula Herbs – fresh if you can: basil and oregano Green onion – 2, chopped Pasta – whatever kind you like, about 3/4 [...]

Ingredients: 2 links smoked Kielbasa – chopped 8 (or so) medium sweet potatoes – diced medium (1/2 in.) 1 big red onion, chopped 1 red pepper – chopped garlic – as much as you like (4-6 cloves) stock – chicken or beef, 8-10 cups Worcestershire Cholula wine – whatever you’re drinking while you cook Salt, [...]

Double the Food in Half the Time! The last Handyman event was a rousing success. Roscoe and the Pitmaster put out around 350 sandwiches in about four hours. But this time… well, we thought we were prepared for a bigger turnout. It Was A Little Slow At First Prepping at 9:30, all was well. The [...]

They Said It Couldn’t Be Done The high expectations were so surpassed at the last Ace Hardware Handyman Remote Broadcast that they closed the book, thinking it could never happen again. Never Say Never Not when you’re talking about Roscoe and the Pitmaster. With these two, there are no boundaries. And when the Handyman steps [...]

Cave Men Were A Surly Bunch No surprise there. They didn’t have much to be happy about, since almost nothing had been invented yet. Nothing that we think of that usually makes a guy happy. No cars, no sports, no TV, no beer. It’s a wonder Cave Dudes didn’t just jump off a cliff to [...]

Ingredients: Rib meat – off the bone Cole slaw BBQ sauce Mustard – yellow, brown, or both Good Rolls Pickle You don’t Have To Wait For Leftovers Like that’ll ever happen. You can’t say “ribs” and “leftovers” in the same sentence, unless you’re in some parallel universe. So you’d better make the sandwich when they [...]

Carnitas Means Pork Okay, you knew that. And you also know how to roast or smoke (for those of you who have smokers) a pork butt and turn it into that most delicious and succulent dish we call PULLED PORK. And when it’s done, and you’ve pulled it and sauced it to perfection, and certainly [...]

The First Official Long Weekend History tells us that Labor Day originated in New York in 1882 to create a day off for the working citizens, and they installed it on Mondays. This became so popular (duh) that it was made a federal holiday a few years later, 1894. The End of the Summer That’s [...]