One-Year Anniversary, and Barbecue Giveaway!

July is the one-year anniversary of Little Scarlet!! It’s been quite a year, with some really wonderful experiences – from participating in Foodbuzz’s 24-24-24 program to attending the NASFT Summer Fancy Food Show to becoming a KCBS Certified Barbecue Judge, the last twelve months have been so exciting.

And to commemorate this first year of blogging, Stubb’s Bar-B-Q is sponsoring a giveaway for Little Scarlet!

C.B. “Stubb” Stubblefield, the founder of Stubb’s Bar-B-Q, turned a simple barbecue restaurant in Texas into a nation-wide attraction. He served his legendary barbecue to hungry folks from all over, including musicians like Joe Ely, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson, who would come to Stubb’s Bar-B-Q for its great food and weekly jam sessions. In 1989, Stubb’s friends finally convinced him to bottle and sell his sauce for restaurant patrons to buy as gifts – and home-cooked barbecue hasn’t been the same since!

Stubb once said, “Barbecue is eternal, like the Mississippi River. It’s big and it’s simple and it takes its own sweet time.” This is certainly true of any barbecue worth its salt (or worth its smoke!), but Stubb’s sauces can turn even that boring chicken dinner into something that tastes like it spent hours cooking in the Deep South’s barbecue belt.

The package that Stubb’s put together for one of Little Scarlet’s lucky readers to win contains a jar of Bar-B-Q Spice Rub, Original & Smokey Mesquite Bar-B-Q sauces, and a bottle of Moppin’ Sauce. It also contains the Stubb’s Bar-B-Q cookbook. I read this cover-to-cover when I got it, and it’s full of great stories about Stubb and the people who loved him and his cooking. Reading this book, I wish I had had the chance to meet Mr. Stubblefield while he was alive, but his memory is well served by the recipes in this book.

Want to seem like a barbecue pro? Start with the spice rub (for a little extra kick), baste with the moppin’ sauce while cooking (to keep the meat moist), and load up on Bar-B-Q sauce near the end (for final Stubb-worthy flavor).

So how can you win this fabulous barbecue set? The contest runs through Friday, July 23 (only open to the 48 contiguous United States, sorry!), and here are the different ways you can enter!

• Leave a Comment on this post about how much you love barbecue, your favorite barbecue restaurant… anything you want, so long as your barbecue enthusiasm comes through!

But that’s not all! For each eligible comment you leave, you get another chance to win, so try these additional *one-time bonus entries* for a higher chance of winning:

• Follow @Little_Scarlet on Twitter. Come back and leave a new Comment on this post saying that you’ve done so.
• Become a fan of Little Scarlet on Facebook. Come back and leave another new Comment on this post saying that you’ve done so.
• Follow Little Scarlet’s RSS feeds in Google Reader, or the RSS feed site of your choosing. Again, just come back to this post and leave a new Comment saying you’ve done so.
• “Buzz” this post (and Little Scarlet!) on Foodbuzz, by clicking here or here (and then click the “buzz it!”/“buzz'em” icon). Aaaand, then come back and Comment about it!

And if you’re feeling really ambitious, you can give yourself even better odds of winning with these additional *once-daily bonus entries*:

• Leave barbecue-related Comments on this post
• Re-Tweet this post and leave a Comment here with the link to that Twitter status (limit 1 eligible RT daily). To make it easy, you can either RT from our initial tweet (here) – or you can just copy and paste this: “@Little_Scarlet Stubb’s Bar-B-Q giveaway! visit http://bit.ly/9z1Dkd to win awesome bar-b-q sauces, rubs, & the Stubb’s cookbook!”

The contest will close at 11:59 pm, Friday, July 23. The winner will be chosen at random by Random.org, and will be announced at noon on Saturday, July 24. *Note: The winner will have to contact me by e-mail with their info by 10 pm Sunday, July 26 in order to claim their prize (littlescarlet (dot) blog (at) gmail (dot) com) – otherwise, a new winner will be selected.


Good luck, everyone!!!