The Western Canadian BBQ Association

Over the weekend my dad let me know that the Calgary Autism society is planning to have a car show in may. Now he knows I'm in to BBQ and want to eventually open my own BBQ shack, so he has offered to give me a spot at this car show to cook and sell some Q. I would either sell for profit or sell with proceeds going to the society,that would be worked out later as the event is not until may. Now I have a few questions for everyone here.

1. What should I cook up?
2. Is it possible to cook something the day before and then reheat using my wsm? Transporting a live cooker is not an option and since this is Calgary I don't feel safe spending all night in some shopping mall parking lot all night.

Any thoughts would be of great help.

where is it and when will it be. What do you have for a smoker now. How many are you looking at attending. Your best bet would be to do pulled pork.

I would agree with with doing the pulled pork

is that only because we are lazy bastards

all good questions.

where and when is it? All I know is a mall parking lot not sure which one as the person looking after that is being lazy and has not finallized it, even though it's suppose to be in may. I believe dad said the deerfoot mall.

What do I have to cook with? My 22.5 WSM is the only thing I have.

I am not 100% sure I will do this event as it is not too far away and I'm not sure of the legal and health board issues that might be required. And also the fact that I have not even fired up the smoker to test smoking and my recipies.

I was also thinking the pulled pork but the question still is do I just cooking the shoulder off the day before and pull and wrap. then reheat on site? I do get the whole cooking for compitions side but this thing would fall under the catering/restraunt side of BBQ and that I'm feeling a bit shaky on smoking, holding and serving.

If you are not approved by the health dept/region, you cannot serve food to the public, is my understanding. You best find somoene with an approved vending trailer and go about it that way, if you can.

You will definitely need some one with a license to serve food to the public. You can get in lots of trouble with the new food board that are shutting restaurants down all over the province to set an example that they mean business. Good luck

I am pretty sure that cooked off-site is strictly forbidden here in the States.

That would be correct