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The Charcoal Doesn’t Fall Far From The BBQ Grill

Dana HillisDana “Big Papa” Hillis

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    I have memories of my dad cooking burgers on the grill when we were kids but his turkey cooking was one of my fondest memories. He had a system for putting his bird on a grill and had an old-fashioned baster and basted that turkey the whole time it cooked. A cold beer in one hand and a baster in the other was the proper way to cook a turkey!
  My son Cadin grew up running around the country with his mom and dad cooking bbq competitions and developed his own cooking skills and won many trophies cooking kids ques. He cooked with me at the triple crown contest and I turned in one set of boxes and he turned in his own set of boxes and we both scored very well. One day he will head out to a competition and I know he will do well.
  Paul and Vonn never got the bbq bug, but I am sure it will come one day. Paul spent 6 years on a submarine and they did not bbq much under water. Vonn builds golf carts and if we ever installed a grill on the back of a golf cart that would be his new sales feature! Jana is the baker of the family and makes cakes at the restaurant she works at. Her cakes are world famous. Santa brought Jana a flat top griddle for Christmas and her husband Mikey is learning to be quite the griddle chef.
    Shane has 3 kids and a wife that loves to cook. Coleen went to the world food championships with me and she competed in the bacon category and if not for dropping a turn in sample she would have made the finals. The trip she took with me was one of my favorite trips ever.
  Shane considers himself a pretty good grill master and we have actually had a big steak cookoff at my house. He brought his little weber grill and all his rubs and secrets. We cooked some ribeyes and had a large group of professional judges. The list of judges included my wife Janet, Shanes 2 sons Koda and Kael, his wife Coleen, my son Cadin and a couple of others. Shane won by a close vote with his 2 sons making the deciding votes! I tasted his steak and he truly deserved to win!
  For Christmas Santa brought Shane a Green Mountain pellet grill. It has a wifi feature and had an app for recording recipes and cooking procedures. He has learned to cook on this grill and we have a bbq monster on our hands. Recently over the 4th of July Shane cooked some chicken wings on the chicken flipper, he had some bacon wrapped stuffed jalapenos cooking on the Weber grill and cooked a smoked injected pork loin on his Green Mountain. When the pork loin was finished he made a fruit infused cobbler on his Green Mountain. The crust on the cobbler was golden brown and the fruit was bubbling up the side, and this was a beautiful site. It was delicious and so was all the other items he cooked. Coleen was thrilled to death because he did all the cooking!. The pork loin was so tender and was delicious. Several people from Shanes work were over with there families and there were not many leftovers.
    The other day Shane cooked a pork butt and sent me pictures. He smothered it in onions and peppers and it looked delicious. They shredded the pork and made tacos and Coleen sent me a message telling me she likes his cooker more then Shane does!
  Shane cooked ribs on his GMG and got approval from Koda. Koda is my number one rib fan and he definitely knows good ribs. One time Koda was with his family at a strawberry festival and was wearing a Big Papa shirt. They walked past a bbq vendor and the vendor asked Koda about where he got his big papa shirt. Koda told him Big Papa was his grandpa. The gentleman asked Koda if he would sample one of his ribs and let him know what he thought. Koda told him it was almost as good as his Grandpa’s! The gentleman got excited because Koda gave him the thumbs up and he began telling everyone that Big Papas grandson liked his ribs! He said that made his day.
    All I have to do now is get Shane to cook just a little extra of whatever recipes he is working on so he can deliver some over to our house. I may have to bring him an extra grill or two to practice on. It is a real blast for me watching my kids cook and especially when they are BBQing and grilling. One of these days I am going to load up my kids and grandkids and cook a contest. That is a bucket list item for me.
    Good smoking luck and see everyone at a contest soon!
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