By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on March 12th, 2012%
I have been to many BBQ shows and events across Ontario and also down the US East coast from North Carolina to Florida but there is something special about RibFests here in Ontario. Just imagine crowds of over 100,000 people filling a park over a 3 or 4 day week-end enjoying endless Musical entertainment while [...] . . . → Read More: 2012 RibFest Schedule for Ontario Canada – Get your BBQ fix
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on March 9th, 2012%
Yesterday was a great day! I visited an old friend in Hospital in Guelph that recovering from a very serious illness that I had not seen in almost 20 years and after a huge scare it look like a recovery in well within reach. My best wishes go out to Mike. After that I drove [...] . . . → Read More: Dinner from the Lancaster Smokehouse in Kitchener, Ontario – Hog Tails Bar B Que’s newest location
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on December 5th, 2011%
Thanks to my buddy Joe Simeunovich for giving me a call a few nights ago to tell me about a TV show on the Food Network here in Canada called Recipe to Riches. The premise of the show being that people submit their recipes and the judges pick the top three in seven different categories and [...] . . . → Read More: We try and review the Slow & Low Pulled Pork from President’s Choice Recipe to Riches Show on Food Network (Frozen Food)
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on November 25th, 2011%
I was sent a message from Samantha Mccallum-Reichert who together with her husband Kevin own Primitive Cuisine a new BBQ restaurant in Trenton, Ontario Canada which is home to one of Canada’s Air Force bases about 2 hours East of Toronto. Samantha contacted me through Facebook and invited me to visit their BBQ Joint that opened [...] . . . → Read More: BBQ Joint Review of Primitive Cuisine Trenton, Ontario Canada
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on November 6th, 2011%
I was asked to review a hot sauce from Cholula for their National Chili Garlic Week which was the week of October 24th so they were kind enough to send me a couple of bottles to try. I had the pleasure of spending a weekend with a few friends in beautiful Bancroft, Ontario at a [...] . . . → Read More: Review of Cholula’s Chili Garlic Hot Sauce… Great on Pulled Pork Sliders in Bancroft
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on September 25th, 2011%
Looking for something really tasty that will put to shame your ordinary burger? Here is a deal that you can not pass up!!! You have seen my reviews of The Players Bench Sports Bar & Grill located at the south west corner of Simcoe & Taunton Roads in Oshawa, a great sports bar that not [...] . . . → Read More: Tuesdays are Special at the Players Bench in Oshawa, Featuring Horn Dawgs Smokin BBQ Pulled Pork & Ribs!
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on August 9th, 2011%
One day while surfing the web I found a blog Go Ask Mom written By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall that was profiling Jan Campana a Mom from Raleigh, North Carolina that developed her own BBQ Sauce called Dimples. Also in that blog post was a link to a site called The National BBQ News that had the results of [...] . . . → Read More: Dimples BBQ Sauce Review on a great Pulled Pork with Smoked Cabbage
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on July 23rd, 2011%
A while back Joe and I reviewed the Bull & Boar BBQ Smokehouse in Belleville, Ontario and in that review I mentioned that we saw another BBQ Joint just down the street from there and that we would check them out the next time we had business in Belleville, so here we are at 300 [...] . . . → Read More: BBQ Joint Review – Smokehouse Blues Belleville, Ontario Canada
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on July 16th, 2011%
In 2010 I really enjoyed the Uxbridge Ribfest that was held in a beautiful park which also included a car show on the Sunday and it was a huge hit. They had 5 Ribbers and it was in Uxbridge that I first met the Horn Dawgs Smokin’ BBQ Team. I also wrote about the 2010 [...] . . . → Read More: Review of the Uxbridge Summerfest – Keeping the Ribfest alive though small scale
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on June 29th, 2011%
Pizza Pizza in Toronto has announced that they are now offering Pulled Pork with Chipotle sauce on a Pizza at the almost 400 locations across Canada. Click to go to the Pizza Pizza Press Announcement I have said it before but many restaurants are jumping on to the BBQ bandwagon, I will need to stop [...] . . . → Read More: Pulled Pork Continues to get more popular in Canada now at Pizza Pizza
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on June 19th, 2011%
This past week-end we had a local Ribfest in Bowmanville which is two towns east of Oshawa just North of Hwy 401. Bowmanville Rockin’ Rotary Ribfest is not the largest of shows but I always have a blast going to this one, I have been to all four of the annual Rockin Rotary Ribfests. I [...] . . . → Read More: Review of the 2011 Bowmanville Rockin Rotary Ribfest… Is it for the Birds?
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on June 8th, 2011%
Quiznos has found out what many other people have discovered… and that is that BBQ has really been getting more and more popular of late. It was announced this week that Quiznos will be adding a Southern BBQ Pulled Pork Sub to the menu. Here in Ontario more and more BBQ Joints have been opening [...] . . . → Read More: Quiznos introduces…. The Southern BBQ Pulled Pork Sub…. Sorry not impressed!
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on May 25th, 2011%
Click here to go to the 2012 Rib Fest Schedule!!! What a great year 2011 was for Ribfests in Ontario! I was fortunate to have attended 14 Ribfests in 2011 out of the over 40 that are listed below. For the most part the weather was great this year and attendance was super. I can [...] . . . → Read More: 2011 RibFest Schedule for Ontario Canada
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on May 5th, 2011%
On Monday I had to make an emergency service call on a computer out by Chatham, Ontario which is about 60 miles (100 kms) east of Detroit and 4 hours west of Oshawa. At km marker 186 in London , Ontario I got off of Highway 401 and went North 3 km and on [...] . . . → Read More: Review of Smoke-n-Bones BBQ Smokehouse in London, Ontario Canada
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on April 6th, 2011%
On Friday April 1st 2011 it was Opening day at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Our Blue Jays were starting a new season tied for first place and there was an air of hope and optimism in the air. But do you know what else was in the air?…. The smell of BBQ! My sister [...] . . . → Read More: Review of Hadley’s BBQ Smokehouse College Street Toronto – More than Ribs!
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on March 31st, 2011%
I enjoy my hobby. I get to taste different types of Barbecue Sauces, Rubs and Seasonings from all over North America and tell people about it all over the world. This time around I am reviewing a sauce from a local maker here in Canada but with a Carolina flair to it. Recently I submitted [...] . . . → Read More: Hank Daddy’s Vinegar Barbecue Sauce on Pulled Pork – Review
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on March 24th, 2011%
Before I left for my Southern Expedition in January to pick up the Masterbuilt Electric Smokehouse that I had won in a blog contest, I was in a local grocer and they had NY Whole Pork Shoulders on sale for 99 cents a pound and I bought a 17 pound’er and stuck it in my [...] . . . → Read More: Pulled Pork seasoned with Pig Pen’s Smoked on a Masterbuilt Smoker and pulled with a Roman Pork Puller
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on March 5th, 2011%
In my last post we saw the process I used to smoke a Pork shoulder on my Masterbuilt Electric Smoker to make Pulled Pork. But it did not end there, Oh no! I left you hanging on how it was served and some of the uses this Pulled Pork was made for. First things first [...] . . . → Read More: Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Wayners NC, Big Butz BBQ and Sam Dog Yellow Dog Sauces
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on March 5th, 2011%
During the summer months when RibFests are happening almost every week-end, one thing that I can not get enough of would have to be the Pulled Pork Sandwich. Of course I am also a fan of ribs too. There is nothing like it to sit at a table outside on a nice warm day enjoying [...] . . . → Read More: My first ever Pork Shoulder done on the Masterbuilt Electric Smokehouse with Hank Daddy’s BBQ Rub
By Wilfred Reinke aka @OshawaOgre, on February 2nd, 2011%
After my stay the night before with Michael and Stephanie Baxter in Fitzgerald, Georgia I headed towards my Parents in Florida, but while still in Georgia I happened across …… you guessed it a BBQ Joint. This one is another chain of BBQ Restaurants called Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q. They boast to have 150 locations, [...] . . . → Read More: BBQ Joint Review – Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q Georgia
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