jalepeno poppers

[tch4fn]

One of my favorite snacks are Jalepeno Poppers. First, I half them take out the seeds and then fill with a little cream cheese. Wrap with bacon and bake or grill. Very delicious!

[GuyK]

I have started hanging out in the competitive barbecue world, where these "poppers" are also known as ABTs (atomic buffalo turds). There seems to be endless variations of them. My teammate makes a similar version stuffed with cream cheese and shrimp. Other guys will stuff them with pulled pork and cheese, and I once made some stuffing based on an Emeril recipe: breakfast sausage, diced onion and hot peppers (stuffed inside a jalapeno!), cheddar and cream cheese.

The barbecue world has some really fun snackage, based on the idea that you have to snack on something while waiting for a pork shoulder or a brisket to cook. They all have funny names, like Piggles and Moink Balls. And fatties -- the original fatty was just a roll of breakfast sausage thrown directly on a smoker. After awhile, guys learned to stuff them with something. Endless variations here, too. The funniest is something called the Bacon Explosion. Google it sometime.

[GuyK]

By the way, my Pitmaster and I are competing next weekend, and this last weekend I spent eating brisket and pulled pork that he'd done on a new smoker he bought.