When: Saturday September 4
Where: 1758 County Highway 41 Roxbury
Time: Noon – 7pm or we run out of food
Pre-order your BBQ: 607.326.6222

Come & enjoy all the BBQ pursuits of 2010 as we wrap up the season with a Labor Day weekend Picnic! in our usual location – 1758 County Highway 41 Roxbury. We’ll be staying open late & cooking extra racks of ribs for your holiday weekend Q needs. As we expect things to be fairly busy on the 4th, we suggest you call in your order as early as possible to guarantee your BBQ fix.

On Saturday August 28, we’re putting the spotlight on locally produced meat & vegetables with a special menu. In addition to our usual BBQ menu, we’ll be featuring menu items made with meat from Sap Bush Hollow & sides created with produce from local farms including Madeline & Tovey’s organic farm in Roxbury & Shaul Farm in Fultonham. We will also be staying open later – until 8pm unless the food sells out – to serve your dinner needs.

As each of these local specials are limited, we suggest calling in advance & we’ll reserve your order.

Loco Local! Picnic! Specials

Sap Bush Hollow Pasture Raised Pork Loin Sammie ………………..13.00
Pork loin coated in our Cha Cha Dust BBQ Rub, smoked over local hardwood, sliced to order & served with your choice of toppings made from local produce.

Sap Bush Hollow Grass Fed Beef Short Ribs ……………………….. 12.00
1/2 lb of chunky beef rib goodness coated in our Cha Cha Java Cinnamon Dust & smoked over local hardwood. Served with your choice of slaw made from local produce.

Sap Bush Hollow Handmade French Garlic Sausage …………….. 10.00
A French sausage made with pork, fresh garlic & red wine. It’s smoked then quickly grilled to crisp it up. Served on a crusty roll with caramelized local onions & a side of slaw made from local produce.

Sap Bush Hollow Grass Fed Beef Tacos …………………………… 10.00
Two tacos made with seasoned steak – grilled & sliced thin – served on flour tortillas with your choice of toppings made from local produce.

SIDES ………………………..small 3.00 / large 5.00
For this special Picnic! – all of our usual sides will be using local produce. We’re also featuring a few special sides for this event:

Cukelear Salad
Here’s a wicked version of a Cucumber Salad. Rather than just a plain old vinegar dressing, we let these cukes marinate in our North Carolina Vinegar Sauces for a few days. The result? A thermocukelear salad. Not for the timid.

Firecracker Slaw
Take our Sweet & Sour Slaw – add some heat in the form of local peppers & hot sauce – the result is the return of Firecracker Slaw. For those who like a little heat in their slaw. Tangy spicy.

Cha Cha Pepper Salad
Think Pico de gallo or salsa fresca or – as one friend of the Hut calls it – “Salsa for Grown Ups”. A fresh chunky mix of tomatoes, peppers, onions & spices. Great as a topping or just eat it as a side. Mildly spicy.

Southern Dill Potato Salad
It’s the return of one of our most popular salads – this time with a completely local produce twist. Red potatoes, sweet onions & celery in a sour cream & dill dressing. A cool side for our hot BBQ. Not spicy.

Sauce of the Moment: Shopsin Facemelter
We’re bringing back this popular Sauce of the Moment for the last two Picnic! events. A blazing hot sauce based concoction with black pepper & cider vinegar. Definitely not for the timid & certainly not for kids. Just plain hot.

HOMEMADE ICE CREAM …………………….. 2.00
(small batch 4 oz servings)

Cinnamon
Made with Vietnamese Cinnamon. Earthy with a small amount of bite.

Better Than Sex
Made using the Better Than Sex tea from Tay Tea in Andes. “A sinfully delicious rooibos blend with bits of Belgian dark chocolate and peppermint. A must for chocoholics, more often than not, this tea deserves it’s name!” The ice cream picks up on the best of these flavors.

Do not forget! We’re also serving our usual BBQ menu as well as these local specials.

On Saturday August 21, we’re back at the usual Picnic! locale – 1758 County Hwy 41 Roxbury (1/2 mile past the Roxbury Motel) – with an expanded menu. We’ve added BBQ combo plates back in for the remainder of the Picnic! schedule. Plus we’re cooking up 12 racks of ribs this weekend for all you rib lovers out there. If that were not enough, we’re extending our hours to 7pm to accommodate dinner orders.

As always, if you want to be guaranteed a BBQ fix, we recommend calling your order in early. We’ll have it ready when you get here.

Coming August 28: Loco Local! - our usual BBQ menu with specials made from local meat & produce. Details & menu coming this weekend.

Just got back from Sap Bush Hollow & finalized the MEAT for the Loco Local! Picnic! on August 28th. We’re planning to serve:

Grass Fed Beef Short Ribs: coated in our Cha Cha Java Cinnamon Dust & smoked over local hardwood

Pasture Raised Pork Loin: coated in our Cha Cha Dust BBQ Rub, smoked over local hardwood, sliced to order & served with your choice of toppings made from local produce.

Grass Fed Beef Tacos: seasoned London Broil grilled & sliced thin served on flour tortillas with your choice of toppings made from local produce.

French Garlic Sausage en baguette: Yeah – it’s a sausage on a roll but it’s a FRENCH sausage made with fresh garlic & red wine on a CRUSTY roll. Steamed then grilled & topped with local onions & peppers.

As we head into the final three Picnic! events for the 2010 season, we’ve added a few new items to the menu. These are trial runs for our new menu when we re-open this Fall. As usual, all comments & suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Have a look at the expanded menu

If you have any suggestions or thought, drop us a line via the Food Tour Contact area.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Picnic! on the road in Andes. You helped make t our biggest Picnic! so far & our biggest day ever. Basically sold out of everything in about 3 hours. Great to see so many folks eating BBQ in Hogan’s General Store & on the porch. We’re also discussing bringing Picnic! back to Andes on September 11 for the Andes Town Lawn Sale.

Picnic! returns to it’s usual location – 1758 County Highway 41, Roxbury – on September 21. Our full Picnic! menu plus we’re cooking 12 racks of ribs. That 4 racks more than usual! Be sure to call ahead if you want to guarantee getting food. Looking forward to seeing the BBQ faithful next weekend.

This Saturday – August 14th – we’re taking Picnic! on the road again. This time we’re heading to our new location - Andes, NY. We’ll be setting up our tent in front of Hogan’s General Store (our new location coming this Fall) & selling sandwiches & sides starting at 11am.

There will be no ribs or BBQ feasts this Saturday!

As we will have no phone on Saturday, if you wish to pre-order, please call or email before 6pm on Friday August 13th.

Our menu will be:
Pulled Pork sandwich
Beef Brisket sandwich
Smoked Turkey sandwich
Pig Wings (bite size pieces of porky goodness)
Smoked Mac & Cheese
BBQ Beans
Mustard Slaw
Sweet & Sour Slaw

We’ll keep serving until we run out of food. We look forward to seeing everyone out for a day of fun & BBQ in Andes.

On August 28th, we’re pulling out all the stops for this Picnic! In addition to our usual menu of BBQ, we’ll be bringing out the grills & cooking an array of locally produced meats & sides. Plus we’ll be staying open later to serve dinner orders.

The meat is from a variety of local producers including Sap Bush Hollow with produce from local farms including Madeline & Tovey’s organic farm in Roxbury, Shaul Farm in Fultonham & Lucky Dog in Hamden. We’re also looking at using ingredients from Harpersfield Cheese in Jefferson, Tea Thyme Herb in Roxbury & Barber’s Farm in Middleburgh.

Above are pictures of a few of the recent menu tests. Current plan is for the following local meat items:

Sap Bush Hollow grass fed Beef Short Ribs: coated in our Java Cinnamon Dust & smoked over oak & maple.

Grass Fed Flatiron Steak Tacos: marinated in our Tex Mex Marinade & grilled to order over oak & maple. Topped with locally grown greens, onions & tomatoes.

Local Pork Loin Sliders: coated in our Cha Cha Dust & smoked over maple & oak. Piled on a slider bun & topped with a choice of slaws made from local cabbage, carrots, onions & peppers. It’s the ultimate pork slider!

Sap Bush Hollow Sausage Grinders: fresh sausage – grill smoked – on a bun with local peppers & onions.

The summer is flying by & the number of Cha Cha Hut Picnic! events is quickly dwindling. Here is our schedule for the remainder of the summer:

August 14: Picnic! On The Road at Andes Community Day. We’ll be setting up in the parking lot of Hogan’s General Store (our future new location) & selling sandwiches, sides & pig wings. Stay tuned for details…

August 21: Picnic! at 1758 County Highway 41 Roxbury – 12pm until we run out of food

August 28: Picnic! at 1758 County Highway 41 Roxbury – this may be our final Picnic! of the summer so we’re considering a special evening grill/BBQ fest. Stay tuned for details…

September 4: Pork War – just a little idea we have. Might happen – might not. We’ll see…