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Couple cooks up barbecue contest win
Tri-tip recipe perfected by cooking for high school football team
Winning grill entries
Overall and beef division winner: Smokin’ Hot & Saucy (Mike and Deannie
Simon)
Mike’s Tri-tip
Ingredients: tri-tip, Spade L Ranch Beef Marinade & Seasoning.
Trim fat from tri-tip. Rub with seasoning. Smoke at 225 degrees for two hours.
By SEAN HART
Staff Writer
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Fairgoers sample the entries
in the Umatilla County Fair
Backyard BBQ Contest
Wednesday. Hermiston
residents Mike and Deannie
Simon, team Smokin’ Hot
& Saucy, won the overall
competition.
Grilled Lamb Meatballs
Ingredients: one pound ground lamb, two tablespoons dry bulgur, two cloves
minced garlic, one small onion grated and drained, one tablespoon kosher salt, one-
half teaspoon pepper, one egg beaten, one teaspoon cumin, one teaspoon paprika,
two tablespoons chopped parsley, two tablespoons olive oil.
Mix everything but olive oil. Make into patties and coat with olive oil. Grill on
medium high fi ve minutes per side.
Sauce: one-half cup Greek yogurt, one teaspoon cumin, one-half teaspoon
cayenne pepper, one-eighth teaspoon sea salt.
Mix and chill.
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Mike Simon cuts up the tri-tip that won the beef division and
helped propel team Smokin’ Hot & Saucy to the overall victory in
the Umatilla County Fair Backyard BBQ Contest Wednesday. He
has had a lot of practice cooking the dish, grilling hundreds of
tri-tips for the Hermiston High School football team.
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Bacon Cheddar Potato Tart
Ingredients: bacon, thin sliced potatoes, whipping cream, shredded sharp cheddar
cheese, sliced provolone cheese, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder.
Line pan with bacon. Layer potatoes, cheeses and a bit of cream. Sprinkle each
layer with salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder. Wrap bacon over top. Bake
at 375 degrees for two to three hours until potatoes are soft. Slice and serve.
BBQ Onion
Ingredients: onion, slice of bacon, barbecue sauce.
Cut top off onion. Peel and cut out core. Wrap strip of bacon around onion and
secure with a toothpick. Fill onion with barbecue sauce. Bake at 375 degrees for two
hours. Continue to coat with barbecue sauce. Cover with foil for last hour.
Lamb division winner: Conestoga (Jeff and Denise Marks)
Lamb Kabob
Ingredients: lamb, Greek yogurt, red onion, green peppers, yellow peppers, red
peppers.
Marinate lamb in Greek yogurt. Skewer lamb, onion and peppers. Grill kabob.
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Jeff Marks checks on his lamb
kabobs that won the lamb
division at the Umatilla County
Fair Backyard BBQ Contest
Wednesday. Team Conestoga,
comprised of Jeff and Denise
Marks, placed in all four
divisions in the contest but
came in six points behind
overall winners Mike and
Deannie Simon.
Potato division and onion division winner: Die Hard BBQ (Tim Watts, Bob Crow
and Corey Ashbeck)
Scalloped Potatoes with Bacon and Chipotle Cream
Copyrighted recipe available at www.traegergrills.com/recipes/print/270.
Smoked Bacon Wrapped Onion Rings
Copyrighted recipe available at grilling24x7.com/smoked-bacon-wrapped-onion-
rings.
Irrigon woman sews up Morrow County Fair quilting award
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Fair’s quilts
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department,
shows off the
judges choice.
The quilt was
entered by Cheryl
Hobbs of Irrigon.
The fair kicks off
today and runs
through Saturday
in Heppner.
Admission is $3
or $1 for youths
ages 6-12. For
a complete
schedule, visit
www.morrow
countyoregon.
com.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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