Hard Boiled Eggs

Simple Tips for the Kitchen - add baking soda to the water when hard boiling eggs and the shell will come right off.

Thanksgiving Turkeys

Time to order your Honey Bear's Thanksgiving Smoked Turkey! Limited number will be offered this year, so don't miss out... must be pre-ordered by November 12, 2012.

When times get tough...

It’s been said that when times get tough, you find out who your true friends are. They’re the ones that stick by you and do what they can to see you through. You quickly learn whom you can rely on, and who’s just in it for convenience or selfish reasons of their own. When we needed them today, the family came through - shredded some meat, made some sauce, cut some potatoes, wash some dishes, scrub some tables & floors, made deliveries... It was a really busy day but it was nice having the kids pitch in!

Game Day Text Message SPECIAL

Have you signed up yet for our text messaging SPECIALS? For great deals & specials DIAL 411-247 and text one of the following 2 codes: HBVANBUREN or HBCENTRAL - If you've missed today's special (see picture), DON'T MISS THE NEXT ONE!

STOP Melting Ice Cream

Simple Tips for the Kitchen - stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice cream drips.

Meatballs Time Saver

Simple Tips for the Kitchen - Next time you make meatballs, try this tip: roll meat mixture into a log then slice off even sized meatballs. Time saver!

Storing Bananas

Simple Tips for the Kitchen - Don’t store your bananas in a bunch or in a fruit bowl with other fruits. Separate your bananas and place each in a different location. Bananas release gases which cause fruits (including other bananas) to ripen quickly. Separating them will keep them fresh longer.

Coffee Beans

Simple Tips for the Kitchen - Coffee Beans: Fresh coffee beans can also absorb nasty odors from your hands.

Cake Cooling Tip

Simple Tips for the Kitchen - Cake Cooling Tip: When cooling cake layers, place bread slices on top to keep the cake layers soft and moist while the bread becomes hard as a rock and to keep the cake from cracking in the middle too! What a fun fact!

Jefferson Street Clean Up

These are pictures of the guys cleaning up around Jefferson street... I had them move the old Honey Bear's box truck that has all flat tires and doesn't run to a different spot in the yard. Then they had to move some of the grills and line them up in a neat row. I am pretty sure they have labeled me as the "slave driver" but just wait until they see the list of things I have lined up for them next week.

Barbecued Van

Early morning fire at Honey Bear's BBQ on Central... well if you missed the news this morning or have been hearing the word fire used in reference to Honey Bear's, it wasn't because we were barbecuing meat at 1:30am this morning, at least not this time. Nope, it appears that we were barbecuing one of our delivery vans. The battery sparked causing an electrical fire and the rest, like the van is history.

Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies

 

Simple Tips for the Kitchen - Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies: For perfect crisscross patterns on top of your peanut butter cookies, first wet the prongs of a table fork with milk. Then dip the fork in white sugar and press into the dough twice, forming a cross design.

East Valley Store CLOSED

After an 8 year presence in the East Valley, with a heavy heart we regret to announce that we have closed our Tempe location. HOWEVER, we will still be delivering GREAT BBQ to the East Valley. Beginning immediately (for the E Valley) our minimum purchase will now be $25 within a 5 mile radius from the Tempe location... Delivery charges will apply & will be based on distance from that store. STILL DOING BUSINESS AS USUAL: 2 Phoenix locations, Delivery, Catering, Shipping & Special Events.

BBQ Joints of the Pac-12

Photo Essay: BBQ joints of the Pac-12.  On the yearly trip around the conference, KVAL Sports decided to seek out the best barbeque joints around the Pac-12. http://www.kval.com/sports/Photos-BBQ-joints-of-the-Pac-12-168203186.html?tab=gallery&c=y&img=16

Honey Bears BBQ Chicken Sandwich & Fries

"The best fries of any of the joints we visited are at Honey Bears BBQ in Phoenix. Great dipped in their Tennessee-style sauce."

Instant Gift!

Simple Tips for the Kitchen - Instant Gift! Attach brewing instructions to a jarful of cappuccino mix and give as a gift to a friend!