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Grate Grinds Kansas City BBQ

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Grate Grinds Kansas City BBQ

Kansas City style barbecue uses many styles of regional barbecuing and then adds that classic spicy sweet barbecue sauce to finish the flavor profile. Grind this rub on your beef, pork, chicken, turkey or full flavored fish for fun barbecue flavor experiences. It’s great on burgers too! 1) To use the Grate Grinds Kansas City BBQ Rub, evenly spray or rub, a little oil on all sides of your Beef, Pork, Chicken, Turkey, Lamb or strong flavored fish like Salmon, Swordfish, Mahi-Mahi or Red Snapper. Then grind the rub evenly on all sides of your meat, gently pressing it onto...

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Grate Grinds Baked Buffalo Wings

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Grate Grinds Baked Buffalo Wings

Buffalo wings were made famous by the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY. They are traditionally made by first baking the chicken wings to cook them and then deep frying them and tossing them in a vinegar based cayenne pepper hot sauce and butter. Since then, hundreds of variations have been made and even entire restaurant chains have sprung up focused on Buffalo wings. Our version is much healthier, as they are NOT FRIED. NOTE: If you would like to learn more about different types of foods to barbecue, grill or oven roast, please read the “Recommendations for selecting your Beef,...

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Grate Grinds Pan-Fried Catfish with Creole Seasoning

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Grate Grinds Pan-Fried Catfish with Creole Seasoning

This spice blend gives you food the essence of Creole Cuisine. It can be used on Fish, Chicken, Steaks, Vegetables and Rice. NOTE: To review and/or select the meat you wish to use, please refer to the “Recommendation Guide to selecting your beef, pork, chicken, turkey or seafood” PDF, located in the Recipe link in the heading at the top of the Home page. COOKING INSTRUCTIONS • To use the Creole Seasoning on fish, poultry or meat, spray or rub a lite coating of oil on all sides of the food, then grind an even coating of the Creole Seasoning...

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Grate Grinds Cincinnati Chili Recipe

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Grate Grinds Cincinnati Chili Recipe

  Cincinnati Chili is known as one of the quintessential American meals.  Grind this spice blend into your ground beef and follow the cooking directions to complete you batch of Cincinnati chili!  It’s really good and Oh so Americana!   Ingredients: 1 pound of ground beef 1 tablespoon of cooking oil 3 tablespoons of Cincinnati Chili Seasoning (ground or left in flake form) 1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce 1 tablespoon Cider Vinegar 1 ½ tablespoons Unsweetened Cocoa Powder 1 can crushed tomatoes (28 oz.) ¾ cup of water or beer (the better the beer the more flavor, but don’t use a...

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What Started Your Cooking Interest?

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What Started Your Cooking Interest?

A question from Mallory Reed. I was always adventurous with food even as a young child, even ordering lobster at Alioto’s restaurant in Fisherman’s Wharf  in San Francisco at a family dinner.  My father said: “If you want to order lobster, you better eat the lobster!”  How inspiring!  Well, I ate the lobster and loved it! I used to help my mother prepare food for dinner parties at our house when I was a child too. When I was an adult, I worked in the electronics industry for 10 years in silicon valley.  I used to come home from work and experiment with...

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