Vote for your favorite She-Smoke contest video!

Help me pick the winners. The She-Smoke Virtual Barbecue contest ended Tuesday and we have 5 entries. The categories are....Best Video, Most Appetizing 'Cue, Most Interesting Smoker, Best Party, and Grand Champion. The Grand Champion will win a $400 Traeger. Other winners will win a signed copy of the book. Entrants may win more than one category.

The rules state that they must say what barbecue means to them and show us what they are cooking in a 1-3 minute video. Click here to view the contest entries. Vote for your favorite and tell me what you like about it!

I will announce the winners on Saturday at 2:30pm on the KXL radio show, Cooking Outdoors with Mr. Barbecue. Tune in or listen to it live on-line.

Stolen! Grilled Nan, Chicken Skewers, and Pork Chops

Well, not really. The grilled nan and chicken skewers were delicious and gobbled up. As were the thick cut pork chops with apple from a previous day. The pictures, however, that I uploaded to my laptop to post on the blog for a week of grilling recipes, were stolen along with my laptop and the picture card reader. Hence no posts this week. I was busy dealing with that theft, recovering from the 4th of July onslaught of orders, and gearing up for another busy weekend.

But we have good good things to write about. For one, Gourmet Girl wrote a wonderful review about She-Smoke here. Incidentally, Gourmet Girl is doing a Cupcake Crawl contest. You have to e-mail them first to get the rules. I'm hoping to enter. The deadline is July 15, so get to it!

The big news is that the She-Smoke contest ended on Tuesday, the 7th. Some last-day entries came in and I will announce the winners on the KXL Portland radio show, "Cooking Outdoors with Mr. Barbecue" at 2:30pm. The Grand Prize winner will win a $400 Traeger Grill! All of the entries are impressive. It will be a difficult decision. Perhaps you would like to give me your opinion? Right after this I will post a link to the entries. Feel free to vote for your favorite.

She-Smoke Contest Update -We have a Grand Prize from Traeger Grills!

Great news! , Bruce Bjorkman, aka Mr. Barbecue, called me from Traeger Grills. They are donating a Junior Traeger Pellet Grill for the She-Smoke Virtual Barbecue Contest Grand Prize! Valued at $399, this grill is perfect for the home barbecuer. Thank you Traeger!

It's been quite a first full day of the contest. Greg Rempe mentioned the contest on his Barbecue Central radio show tonight and earlier booked me for an interview on June 16. More details about that later. Former PI Food Writer Rebekah Denn and I will be talking on Friday for her wonderful blog Eat All About It.

Heifer International is jazzed about the support and aims to spread the word to their supporters. If you haven't read about the contest and fundraiser, see below or click here. Don't forget - even if you aren't ready to enter yet, post comments and rate the trailer. It all helps getting visibility on YouTube. And most of all...tell your friends. Think beyond borders because a virtual barbecue can happen anywhere. We are hoping to cross as many borders as possible.