The Tulsa Food Blog

Here is your opportunity for a full steak dinner for $20 cooked by some of Oklahoma’s finest. The Oklahoma Championship Steak Cook-off and Car Show will be held Saturday August 28, 2010 in beautiful downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma (501 S. Cincinnati). Over 50 teams from across the Midwest will be competing this year, and you are [...]

There are a few entrances into my heart… one of them flows with BBQ sauce. It’s the one food that I think about more then hamburgers…maybe.  Last week I was on the south side of town with a friend of mine.  I knew we were gonna go have some lunch and was thinking to myself…A [...]

If you ever need a lesson on life’s essentials, plan yourself a camping trip. I quickly discovered that for me, the number one essential was food and it had to be grilled/smoked on my Hasty-Bake. Beautiful Oklahoma has numerous options when in comes to lake-side camping.  We decided to take our trip to Skiatook Lake’s [...]

This weekend you have an opportunity to sample championship quality BBQ and support one of Tulsa’s finest Children’s Hospitals. Come down to 41st and Yale to enjoy one of my favorite things about summer…. BBQ Competitions! More information below! Benefiting The Children’s Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis 100% of contributions raised from this event benefit [...]

4th of July is all about Family, Fun, Fireworks and Firing up the Grill all in the name of Independence.  If you are like me you will manage to get a lot of these into your weekend. Below is a list of ideas and links to help you have an awesome holiday weekend! Looking for [...]

Anyone who has ever been to a BBQ festival or competition knows what I am talking about when I say they are nothing short of awesome! The Hasty Bake BBQ Contest was unique since every competitor was required to use only Hasty-Bake Grills. Think about it, a competition using only America’s best grills and smokers… [...]

When the weather is sweltering in the mid 90′s or hotter the last thing I want to do is eat a heavy meal with a heavy-bodied wine. Amanda came home the other day with some fabulous veal chops. Normally we’d pair this with a Pinot Noir or Nebbiolo but we couldn’t face a red. So [...]

Tulsa is a great place where you will never have a lack of things to do! However, when it comes to Father’s Day weekend there is one place you HAVE to be! This weekend Hasty-Bake is hosting the 1st Annual Hasty Bake Owners BBQ Competition. This is one of the coolest, easiest and most fulfilling [...]

Ever since getting my new Hasty-Bake, there are a few things that I have realized about BBQ and grilling. First of all, its addictive. There’s something about being with nature on a beautiful summer day while cooking up some of the best food to eat and share. Lastly I’ve noticed that there are thousands of [...]

Used to be, back when politer people called the area Coloredtown, you could walk down around Apache from Dirty Butter Creek east and find stellar barbecue at every corner. Michael Wallis, bard of the Oklahoma highways, wrote that some of the finest pitmasters in the nation hailed from that part of town, but the names [...]

BBQ Lovers of the world Unite…No Really. There’s a new BBQ hot spot where not just BBQ lovers, but also Hasty-Bake lovers can come together to show, tell and ask everything and anything BBQ and Hasty-Bake. This place is the new Hasty-Bake Forum called MyHastyBake.com. Its simple to join and even easier to interact and [...]

May is one of the best foodie months of the year.  For me its the start of a barbecue festival season which lasts through summer.  If you happen to miss one BBQ event one weekend, you can be sure that there will be another food event the next.  If there’s one thing I love more [...]

Barbecue and Hasty-Bake lovers of the world…UNITE.  Let us introduce to you the 1st Annual Hasty-Bake BBQ Contest.  This is definitely one that you want to be at.  The event is next month and right now the event is open for both spectators and BBQ competitors.  So if you think that you’ve got what it [...]

Sign up today! Classes are filling up fast. We only take 25 guests per class. You must register prior to coming to the class to make sure that enough food will be prepared for everyone. Hasty-Bake 101 Cooking Class (Charcoal Grill) Adam Myers will instruct the class on grill care, starting a charcoal fire, food [...]

Tulsa area, home of the BBQ lover, including myself…home of the BBQ joint which now includes Jake’s Place BBQ. Moving to Tulsa for me meant a lot of things: beautiful rolling hills, nice people and of course the wet, sticky-icky BBQ. I have eaten at a lot of Tulsa staples, many of them being very [...]

There is nothing like the taste that a good ol’ seasoned grill will give you on a good cut of meat. After this week, we are believers when saying that there is nothing like the taste of cooked meat from a grill that has been perfected over the last 62 years. If you are looking [...]

At Jake’s Place BBQ in Bixby Oklahoma Pigs do fly and when pigs ply interesting things go down. For instance, the pictured “Pig Wings” are like nothing you’ve ever experienced. Pig Wings are just one of the delectable BBQ items on their menu… I recommend the BBQ sampler. Jake’s Place BBQ Pig Wings are cut [...]

I don’t know about you, but I am excited about this weekend. You know…springing ahead. For all of you that don’t know, on Sunday we will be springing ahead 1 hour. For instance, On the second Sunday in March (This Sunday), clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes [...]

It’s obvious that there are a lot of options for Valentine’s Day, so since Valentine’s Day is all about touching the human heart, this year why don’t you consider touching the heart of Oklahoma. In the heart of Oklahoma lies great BBQ. Rib Crib’s Valentine’s Day “Love Fest,” is coming fast. The two special items [...]

I never really expect to find a hidden treasure inside of a grocery store, but my perception changed this past week when I got invited to a business meeting in a very unusual place. When I first got the phone call to have a lunch meeting at Reasor’s grocery store in Jenks I thought to [...]

Recently, after being out with the swine flu, I decided to follow the old adage and seek a cure by finding the hair of the dog that bit me, or in this case pig (admittedly, I should have sought out the gentleman who was next to me on that flight from Dallas to New York [...]

Some of Tulsa’s best BBQ is adding an Express location to South Tulsa / Bixby. Next time you drive down Memorial past the Spirit Bank Event Center you might notice that the old Copper Town Coffee drive-through is being transformed into an Elmer’s BBQ Express. So what exactly does that mean? That means that the [...]