Welcome to my world of real southern BBQ

Here we go on my first ever attempt at blogging. If you have some ideas or suggestions on what I should be doing, please don't hesitate to comment. I feel like a transplanted Texas up here in the beautiful pacific northwest where I was actually raised. I did spend 12 years in the great state of Texas where I fell in love with really slow cooked bbq. Brisket fastly became my favorite but anything cooked that way just melted in my mouth. My smoking experience started with a Big Chief smoker than was thrown away. I quickly grabbed it out of the dumpster, cleaned it up and started smoking salmon and jerky. But it wasn't enough to do everyting else I wanted to try. So my wife bought be a Masterbuilt electric smoker with a thermostat. I began my love affair cooking any kind of bbq I could in that. I graduated to charcoal and wood with a Bandera offset vertical smoker and began learning everything I could about how to make the perfect smoked ribs, brisket and pulled pork. Over the next couple of years, I have worked on rub and sauce recipes to enhance the wonderful smoked meats I was able to make in this unit. I have since added a Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker which will do a dozen racks of ribs at one time. I feel now that I have perfected brisket, pulled pork, ribs and pulled chicken. I still try some new rub recipes, mustard slathers and different sauce recipes to make my bbq the best in the northwest. And every time I smoke something, that is what I hear from everyone who tries it. My quest now is to open a weekend bbq food cart that can really sell the best bbq in Portland. This will show my journey, although slow as it may be, into joining the food cart industry. Thanks for reading my blog and I hope to be able to show my results from testing and keep you informed in my progress.