Fun With A Couple Dozen Eggs...Big Green Eggs!

The Eggulance

This past Saturday was Eggtober Fest at Stone Mountain Park!

Egg-heads from all over the country came together for the cook off of the year. Everything from Candied Salmon with Gouda Grits to Jerk Andouille Sliders to Sausage Puffs to Bananas Foster was roasted, baked and broiled in about 75 Big Green Eggs from 9:30am to 3pm. 

Big Green Craig and The Meat Church had 4 Eggs going at once!
The tag line on the Meat Church's sign: And on the 7th Day the Lord said, let the meat rest at 250. 

So we were invited to this festival by this guy.
Not sure if you all remember the 3 lb bacon wrapped meatloaf cooking on a Himalayan Salt Brick that I posted on Facebook- but this is the genius behind that daring piece of cooking! Donald Barbour made Sausage Puffs for breakfast at the Fest...about 200 sausage puffs!

They were delicious!

 All of the cooks provided the food for their recipes. Festival goers got to vote on their favorites. Winner's prizes are small...its really for the bragging rights!

Donald's team bravely cooked Haggis!

Traditional Haggis- not the touristy stuff you now
find in Scotland.

This Haggis Recipe consisted of: lamb heart, lamb kidney, ground lamb, country style bacon, onion, garlic, oats, chipotle pepper salt, cayenne, cumin and a summer casing for stuffing in all ground contents. And yes- I ate it!

Throughout the day, as the team brought new food out, a bagpiper played to alert those around to food change.
They changed from sausage balls to crab cakes to steak fajitas to haggis and finally, cookies. 

One clever team was dressed in Cat in the Hat hats. Their team was...Green Eggs & Ham!

Hollowed out potato with peppers, sausage, cheese
and onion.

Le Cordon Bleu was on hand using the Big Green Egg.
Delicious BBQ!

The day was complete when the Hubs and I saw...Eggzilla! This XXL Egg even has its own cedar nest.

So why is this the Ultimate Cooking Experience (which just happens to be their slogan)?

This little gem bakes better than an oven, cooks more evenly than your grill, and smokes lower and slower than any traditional smoker.

Is it worth the $$$? 

I would say so. But I think that the Big Green Egg is more than just a cooking tool in your tool belt. It is kind of a culture. When your an Egghead- it becomes an art, an adventure...you name your Egg...for some- they show up in the family pictures. It's a hobby, a love! 

We really enjoyed our first Eggtober Fest! 

For more info on how to get your own Egg...http://www.biggreenegg.com/

Tune in later this week for the perfect fall meal (pumpkin soup and apple cheddar mini meatloafs), and see how I made my own Halloween wreath!

La Bonne Vie Y'all!

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